Lovable

Our verdict

More honest in its documentation than on its pricing page. Two things decide whether it suits you. Credits are consumed by the attempt rather than the result, and are explicitly non-refundable when the output is wrong and must be regenerated, so an awkward feature costs twice. And a deployed app on Lovable Cloud pauses when the balance reaches zero, which makes the credit balance an uptime dependency rather than just a bill. Read the credits documentation before the pricing page; only one of them tells you what you get.

Key features

  • Builds and deploys a working app from a prompt
  • Lovable Cloud for hosting and a built-in backend
  • Plan mode, which writes a reviewable plan before any code is written
  • Custom domains on paid plans
  • GitHub sync, API, MCP server and connectors
  • Workspace roles, per-member credit limits and usage alerts on paid plans
  • Design systems on Pro, design templates on Business

Strengths

  • You own the applications you build and the AI output, as between you and Lovable
  • The credit documentation is unusually honest: the daily cap, the expiry rules and the six-day arithmetic are all written down
  • Training opt-out is free and available on every plan, including Free
  • Per-member and per-project credit limits with alerts, so spend can be capped before it happens
  • EU inference and data residency on Enterprise

Limitations

  • Credits are spent per attempt, not per result, and are not refunded when the output is wrong and has to be regenerated
  • If the balance hits zero, deployed apps using the built-in backend pause, so a live app can go down over billing
  • On Free, the daily build credits stop after 30 in a month, which is six days of use, then nothing until the 1st
  • Daily grants expire at the end of the day and never roll over
  • The daily chat allowance is never quantified on any plan
  • Pro and Business both include 100 monthly credits, so the extra 25 dollars buys governance, not capacity
  • Free cannot publish publicly; publishing is invite-only
  • HIPAA data, payment card data, government identifiers and biometric data are not permitted without a separate agreement

Who should skip Lovable

Anyone who needs a live app to stay up independently of a credit balance. Anyone on the free tier expecting daily access, which in practice is six days a month. And anyone handling health, payment card, government identifier or biometric data without an enterprise agreement, which the standard terms prohibit.

Pricing details

Checked on the official pricing page on . Prices change often, so confirm before you buy.

What the free plan includes

  • Unlimited collaborators, 5 lovable.app domains, and publishing restricted to invite-only. The credit grants are not stated on the pricing page, which says only "Free grants"; the documentation gives them as 5 daily build credits capped at 30 a month, a 20-credit monthly Cloud grant and a 4-credit monthly AI grant. Lovable spells out what the cap means: "on Free, you receive daily build credits for the first 6 days each month (6 x 5 = 30), then none until the next month starts." No credit rollovers and no top-ups on Free.

Worth knowing

Pro is 25 and Business 50 dollars a month, both with 100 monthly credits, with annual billing advertised as two months free. The 25-dollar difference between them buys team workspace, role-based access, SSO, a security centre and priority support, not more capacity; Lovable's own FAQ carries a question titled "Why is the Business plan more expensive?". Students can get up to 50 percent off Pro with verification. Enterprise is a platform fee plus volume pricing. The figure that matters most is not on the pricing page at all: the free tier's "Free grants" resolve, in the documentation, to five build credits a day capped at thirty a month, which Lovable itself translates as six days of use per calendar month. Credits cover five different things from one balance, including hosting and the backend, so a deployed app consumes credits while it runs.

Commercial use

Allowed with conditions. Ownership is clear and in your favour: "As between us, you own your Customer Data, including the applications, websites, or other projects you build using the Services", and "you also own any AI Output generated for you through the Services" — with the qualifier "subject to any third-party rights in the underlying models, training data, or outputs", which is the usual carve-out for whatever the model reproduced. Lovable keeps all Usage Data and may use it for any business purpose. Three restrictions matter commercially. You may not use the Services, AI Output or prompts "to train, develop, or improve competing AI models". You may not use AI Output "without appropriate review in high-risk or sensitive contexts (including medical, legal, financial, or safety-critical uses)". And you may not "misrepresent AI Output as human-generated in contexts where it could cause harm or deception". On training, the default is broad — a "worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license" over your Customer Data expressly including "developing and training artificial intelligence and machine learning models" — but the opt-out is better than most: "You may tell us at any time that you do not want your Customer Data used for model training ... and we will honor that request for prospective use, free of charge and regardless of your plan." Prospective only, so it does not reach what has already been used. Terms last updated 28 August 2026.

Notable integrations

  • GitHub, including GitHub Enterprise on Enterprise plans
  • Lovable Cloud, the built-in backend and hosting
  • AI Gateway to third-party model providers
  • MCP server and workspace API keys
  • Slack and Telegram for chat
  • Connectors, with admin controls on paid plans

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