Lovable Pricing in 2026: Plans as Printed Today, and What One Prompt Costs in Credits

Every Lovable pricing guide carries a date, and most of them are months old. This one was read from the pricing page in a browser on the date printed below, includes the Lite plan the page shows today and the full Pro credit ladder from the plan card's dropdown, quotes the credit rules from Lovable's documentation, and puts one number next to the price that nobody else has: what three prompts cost in credits in our own runs.

Updated 26 September 2026

Lovable pricing hero: the guide title beside a card listing the plans read from lovable.dev/pricing today, Lite with 5 daily credits, Pro with 100 monthly credits, Business with 100 credits, the Free grants, and the credits our three runs cost

What are Lovable's plans and prices today?

Read from lovable.dev/pricing on 26 September 2026, in a browser signed in to a personal account in the EU, which is why the page printed “incl. VAT” under each price. Three cards, a monthly and yearly toggle with “2 months free” on yearly, and no Free card: the Free plan lives in the docs and inside each paid card's “All Free features” line.

Lovable plans as printed on the pricing page on 26 September 2026
	Price	Credits	What the card lists
Free	$0	5 build credits a day, up to 30 a month, plus monthly Cloud and AI grants (docs)	Not a card on the page; described in the docs and in the paid cards' "All Free features" line.
Lite	$5 / month incl. VAT	5 daily credits	"Keep your projects running with essential features": custom domains, user roles, remove the Lovable badge.
Pro	$25 / month incl. VAT	100 Pro credits a month, ladder to 10,000	Credit rollovers, on-demand top-ups, per-member credit limits, design systems, email support.
Business	$50 / month incl. VAT	100 Business credits a month, same tier ladder	Team workspace, role-based access, internal publish, personal projects, SSO, security center, priority support.
Enterprise	Contact sales	Custom	Reached through the Security and compliance and Lovable for campus sections.

Lovable's pricing page with the Pro plan's monthly-credit dropdown open, listing tiers from 100 credits at $25 a month to 5,000 credits at $1,125 a month with discount badges, beside the Lite $5 and Business $50 cards — The pricing page on 26 September 2026 with the Pro credit ladder open. The Lite card reads Your current plan because the account used to read it is on Lite.

The Lite card is the one most guides miss. It is not a builder plan, it has 5 daily credits like Free, and its features are the ones a finished project needs to stay up looking professional: a custom domain, user roles and the badge removed. If an app is done and only needs hosting, Lite is the price of keeping it.

How does the Pro credit ladder price a credit?

The Pro card's dropdown lists eleven tiers. The first four are a flat $0.25 per credit; from 1,200 credits a discount appears and reaches 10% at 5,000, where it stays. The Business card carries the same tiers starting at $50 for 100 credits; we read only its first tier and do not print the rest.

Pro plan: monthly price by credit tier, US dollars

Pro plan: monthly price by credit tier, US dollars
Category	USD per month
100 credits	25 ($0.25 each)
200 credits	50 ($0.25 each)
400 credits	100 ($0.25 each)
800 credits	200 ($0.25 each)
1,200 credits	294 ($0.245 each)
2,000 credits	480 ($0.24 each)
3,000 credits	705 ($0.235 each)
4,000 credits	920 ($0.23 each)
5,000 credits	1125 ($0.225 each)
7,500 credits	1688 ($0.225 each)
10,000 credits	2250 ($0.225 each)

The Pro card's monthly-credit dropdown on lovable.dev/pricing, read 26 September 2026. Data in src/data/lovablePricing.ts.

The ladder is the price that matters for anyone building more than one product, because credits, not seats, are what Lovable meters: every plan has unlimited users. Per-member credit limits on Pro are the control for a team sharing one balance.

What is a credit, and what does one prompt cost?

The credits documentation defines build credits as “Plan mode and Build mode messages in the project chat, work a chat sends to a project, and the images and videos Lovable generates”, and Cloud credits as “hosting your app and running its built-in backend (Cloud), including database, network, storage, compute, and realtime usage”. What a message costs is not fixed: Build mode “cost depends on the complexity of the request and the work completed”, a chat message is “a fraction of a credit”, and per the Plan mode page“A Plan mode message costs one credit, plus the cost of any subagents Lovable starts to research your project while planning”.

So the only way to put a number on a prompt is to run one and read the balance. We did, three times, on prompts from this site's library, in a personal workspace:

Credits consumed by three library prompts, read from the workspace credits page before and after each run
	Date	Questions asked first	Credits	What came back
Landing page + email opt-in	2026-07-31	0	1.8	One round, all five priority features, inline success state, Cloud enabled
Empty states and skeletons	2026-09-26	2	9.5	Asked 2 questions, built a /states gallery and a task list, verified slow load, failure and retry
SaaS MVP with user auth	2026-09-26	4	10.4	Asked 4 questions, enabled Cloud, self-tested sign-up and invites, roles checked in the database
Built-in SEO review (chat)	2026-09-26	0	1.1	5 of 6 checks passing, one finding

At the Pro entry tier of 100 credits, that is about fifty landing pages, or nine SaaS foundations with auth and roles, or one product with a few dozen change prompts. The Lovable credits guide has the mechanics in depth, and the prompt examples page shows what each run produced.

What are the rules on rollover, expiry and running out?

Credit rules as printed on the pricing page and in the credits documentation on 26 September 2026
	What the page or docs say
Rollover	Pricing page: “Credits roll over for 1 month on monthly plans, or until one month after the end of your annual plan.” Docs: monthly plan credits roll over “as long as your subscription remains active”.
Grants	Daily build credits and the monthly Cloud and AI grants “do not roll over”.
Zero balance	“Building stops until credits are available”; chat continues on the daily allowance; “AI features in deployed apps stop working”; backend pauses with data kept.
Top-ups	On-demand credit top-ups are listed on the Pro card.
Seats	Unlimited users on every card; credits are the meter, with per-member limits on Pro.
Ownership	The page's FAQ carries “Who owns the projects and code?”; two-way GitHub sync is covered in the docs.

How does Lovable pricing compare with the alternatives?

On sticker price it sits with the field; on meter it is the credit model. Prices for the others were read on their own pages the same day and are compared in full on the Lovable alternatives page.

Entry paid price and meter, Lovable and three rivals, read 26 September 2026
	Entry paid price	Meter
Lovable	Pro $25/mo for 100 credits (Lite $5 for hosting-only needs)	Credits per message; build and run separate in reporting
Bolt.new	Free, Pro $25/mo, Teams $30/mo per member	Tokens
Replit	Core $20/mo ($18/mo billed annually), Pro $100/mo ($90/mo billed annually); no free plan is listed on the pricing page, which describes a Free Mode inside plans instead	Effort-based dollars per checkpoint
Cursor	Hobby free, Pro $20/mo, Pro Plus $60/mo, Ultra $200/mo, Teams Standard $40/user/mo, Teams Premium $120/user/mo	Included model usage, then API rates

What do the other pricing guides get wrong, and what did we leave out?

Dates. The three top-ranking guides on 26 September 2026 were checked in June and August 2026 by their own datelines; two show a $21 annual Pro price the page does not print as a number today (it prints a “2 months free” toggle), and none shows the Lite card.
Per-prompt costs. Every guide quotes illustrative examples such as a 0.5-credit button change. We print measured runs and say what the prompts were.
What we left out: the Business ladder beyond its first tier, which we did not read; prices excluding VAT, since the page showed VAT-inclusive figures to our account; Enterprise, which is contact-only.

Sources

All read on 26 September 2026. Plan and ladder data in src/data/lovablePricing.ts; run data in src/data/runs.ts.

Frequently asked

How much does Lovable cost?↓

On 26 September 2026 the pricing page printed three paid cards: Lite at $5 a month, Pro at $25 a month for 100 credits, and Business at $50 a month for 100 credits, each labelled incl. VAT as shown to an account in the EU, with a yearly toggle offering two months free. The Free plan, described in the docs, gives 5 build credits a day up to 30 a month. Pro's credit dropdown runs from 100 credits at $25 to 10,000 at $2,250. Prices move; the date is printed on this page for that reason.

What is a Lovable credit worth?↓

On Pro, $0.25 per credit up to 800 credits a month, then a discount that reaches 10% at 5,000 credits and stays there. What a credit buys is variable: the docs say Build mode cost depends on the complexity of the request and the work completed, Plan mode is one credit plus any subagent research, and a chat message is a fraction of a credit. Our own runs on this site's prompts came in at 1.8, 9.5 and 10.4 credits.

Is there a free Lovable plan?↓

Yes. The docs describe daily build credits of 5 per day up to 30 a month, a monthly grant of 20 Cloud credits and 4 AI credits, and a daily chat allowance. The pricing page today shows Lite at $5 as the lowest card and lists the Free plan's features inside the paid cards; the Free grants continue on every plan. Free is enough to run one library prompt and see the result: our landing page run cost 1.8 credits.

Do Lovable credits roll over?↓

Monthly plan credits do, while the subscription stays active: the pricing page says credits roll over for one month on monthly plans, or until one month after the end of an annual plan, and the docs say unused monthly plan credits roll over at the end of each billing cycle. The usage grants (daily build credits, monthly Cloud and AI grants) do not roll over.

What happens when Lovable credits run out?↓

Per the docs: building stops until credits are available; chat continues while the daily chat allowance lasts, because it is independent of the balance; AI features in deployed apps stop working; backend services pause, with data kept safe. A published static site stays up. Top-ups are on demand on Pro and above.

Is Lovable Pro worth $25 a month?↓

For 100 credits at our measured rates, it is between ten small builds and a handful of foundations: a landing page at 1.8 credits, a states system at 9.5, a SaaS foundation at 10.4. If your month is one product with a few dozen change prompts, Pro at 100 fits; if it is several products or long debugging sessions, the ladder matters more than the entry price, and the docs' advice to switch to Plan mode after a couple of failed fixes is the cheapest habit on the page.