Daily credits expire at the end of each day, so unused ones do not roll over. Lovable is an AI app builder where you describe a website or web app in chat and it writes the code, connects a backend and publishes it. The Free plan costs $0 and the pricing page says no credit card is needed. It gives a daily grant of 5 build credits (up to 30 a month), 20 Cloud credits a month, unlimited collaborators, 5 lovable.app domains and invite-only publishing. Pro is $25 a month for 100 credits on top of the daily grant, with custom domains and badge removal. G2 shows more than 400 reviews, with praise for ease of use and fast prototypes and one complaint repeated most: credit use that is hard to predict. Trustpilot reviewers also report repeated errors and credits running out before a project is finished.
Free tier quotas
Cost
$0 a month. The pricing page says no credit card is needed
Daily build credits
5 build credits a day, up to 30 a month. The daily grant expires at the end of each day and does not roll over
Cloud credits
20 Cloud credits a month, plus 4 credits for AI features inside the apps you build
Collaborators
Unlimited collaborators
Domains
5 lovable.app domains
Publishing
Invite-only publishing, with up to 10 invited people per project
Support
Community support
Ownership
The pricing FAQ says you own the code, apps and customer data you build
Not on Free
Custom domains, removing the Lovable badge and credit rollovers start on Pro
Last sniffed Oct 11, 2026. Always confirm on the official pricing page.
👍 Good boy
+The Free plan needs no credit card, per the pricing page, so you can build a first app before paying anything.
+G2 reviewers rate ease of use and speed highest. One non-technical founder wrote that Lovable let them turn 20 years of HR expertise into a working survey product.
+A G2 reviewer said their first app took 3 days to build and a near-identical second one took 1 day.
+Plan Mode costs a flat 1 credit per message per the pricing page, so you can discuss a change before the agent edits any code.
+The pricing FAQ lists example costs, from 0.5 credits to change a button colour to 1.7 for a landing page with generated images, and each message shows its cost in the history.
+You own the code and data you build, per the pricing FAQ, and a G2 reviewer said connecting it to VS Code is easy.
+A Trustpilot reviewer said it built their ecommerce store in an hour after a developer had quoted $600 and two weeks.
👎 Watch out
−Credit use is the top complaint. G2 shows 40 mentions of unclear credit usage, and a reviewer wrote that credits can be wasted while the AI fixes its own errors.
−The free grant is small. A Trustpilot reviewer wrote that 5 daily credits used to go a long way and now run out before anything is done.
−A G2 reviewer building a complex product said small requests can cause regressions in unrelated areas, so they now define scope explicitly and ask for regression checks.
−A r/lovable poster described burning 30 credits looping on one bug (a search excerpt, not the full thread).
−A G2 reviewer said generated code needs more review and cleanup as a project grows, and wanted more control over code structure and the backend.
−Free publishing is invite-only. Custom domains and badge removal start at Pro, $25 a month.
The catch
The free grant is a daily allowance, not a monthly pool. Five build credits a day, capped at 30 a month, expire at the end of each day. A message costs anywhere from 0.5 credits for a colour change to 1.7 for a landing page with images, so the free grant covers a handful of edits a day.
Free apps can only be published to people you invite. If you want a public site on your own domain you need Pro at $25 a month.
Credits are the recurring complaint across G2, Trustpilot and Reddit. Reviewers describe spending credits while the AI fixes its own mistakes, and a small request that breaks an unrelated part of the app. Use Plan Mode, which costs 1 credit per message, to settle the change before the agent writes code.
The pricing page does not say whether commercial use is limited on Free, so we left that as unknown.
What’s included
✓Chat-based app builder
✓Plan Mode at 1 credit per message
✓Cloud backend and database
✓Authentication and payments integrations
✓One-click publishing to lovable.app
✓Custom domains on Pro
✓GitHub and VS Code integration
✓Design systems on Pro
✓Unlimited collaborators
✓Per-member credit limits on Pro
Free tier value
Generosity
B
Estimated value
About 30 free build credits and 20 Cloud credits a month
Feature parity
Free: 5 daily build credits (30 a month at most) and 20 Cloud credits. Pro is $25.
Screenshots
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Paid plans
Pro, $25 per month
100 monthly credits plus the daily grant, credit rollovers for one month, on-demand top-ups, unlimited lovable.app domains, custom domains, roles and permissions, badge removal and email support.
Business, $50 per month
Everything in Pro with 100 Business credits, team workspace, role-based access, workspace publish for logged-in members only, SSO, security center and priority support.
Enterprise, custom
Volume-based pricing with SCIM, audit logs, scheduled security scans, EU inference, GitHub Enterprise support and a custom SLA.
Common questions
Is Lovable free?
Yes. The Free plan includes 5 build credits a day (up to 30 a month) and 20 Cloud credits a month. The pricing page says no credit card is needed.
Do I own the code?
The pricing FAQ says you own the apps, websites, code, customer data and AI output you create in Lovable, subject to third-party rights in the underlying models.
Do credits roll over?
On Free the daily grant expires each day. On paid plans, monthly credits roll over for one month, and top-up credits last 12 months.
Can I publish a public site on Free?
The Free plan lists invite-only publishing for up to 10 people per project. Public publishing on your own domain needs Pro.
How much does one message cost?
It varies by task. Plan Mode is 1 credit per message. The FAQ examples run from 0.5 credits for a colour change to 1.7 for a landing page with generated images.
Change history
Checked October 22, 2026
Plan limits and prices read from the Lovable pricing page. Review evidence from G2, Trustpilot and Reddit search excerpts. Commercial use left as unknown.
