The best alternatives to Bolt.new
Bolt.new might not be the right fit: the price, a missing feature or a payment model you don't like. These are the closest alternatives in our catalog, ordered by rating, with the full review of each one.
Why look for a Bolt.new alternative
The entry price stays at $25 a month, confirmed today straight from the official page's raw HTML. What has changed is the engine: on 3 August Bolt retired the v1 Agent and Discussion Mode, auto-migrating every old project to the current agent without touching files or chat history, though the choice between the Standard and Max tiers still stands. Since 6 August an unresolved incident has left project publishing stuck.
What its own users repeat in the August 7, 2026 sweep:
- Token burn dominates the complaints: a good share goes into fixing the agent's own errors and the free daily cap runs out before a first build finishes (strong theme)
- Support is the second recurring complaint, with threads from paying accounts reporting days without a human reply, and email is reserved for paid plans with Monday to Friday cover (strong theme)
- On 3 August 2026 the v1 Agent (legacy) and Discussion Mode were retired: any project still using it was automatically switched to the current agent, with no way back. You can still pick between the Standard and Max tiers, but not the model behind them, and the StackBlitz export is still missing on new projects even though GitHub sync remains a way out (strong theme)
- On projects with many screens, a database and payments the cost climbs because every prompt reprocesses the whole context, and now the vendor's own docs say so (present theme)
- Rolled over tokens only exist while you keep paying, and cancelling wipes both the allowance and the leftovers when the cycle ends (present theme)
- Since 6 August 2026 there is an open incident on the official status page: publishing a project gets stuck on "Publishing your site, this will just take a moment" and never finishes, still unresolved as of this sweep (present theme)
Best alternatives to Bolt.new
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What the internet says about each alternative
v0 3.7/5 · Free + from $30
The entry price stays at $30 per user per month, confirmed today on the official page and its pricing docs. The changelog has nothing new since 31 July and Hacker News has not published a single story about v0 in the last two weeks. The only movement is a clarification from support itself, on 4 August, confirming that Free plan credits do not roll over month to month.
Where it wins: The fit with Vercel deployment and with external services has grown, and since 21 July 2026 the Shopify integration is open to every user Where it slips: The consumption credit system keeps generating threads on the official forum, with loops that eat the balance, credits expiring sooner than expected and unexpected charges
Replit 3.5/5 · Free + from $20
The entry price stays at $20 a month with annual billing, confirmed today from the Stripe data embedded in the page itself: the $25 shown struck through is the no-commitment monthly price, not a hike. What has genuinely dropped, since 1 August 2026, is the cost of cloud infrastructure: autoscale compute goes from $3.20 to $0.60 per million units and database storage from $1.50 to $0.35 per gigabyte a month, among other cuts reaching every plan. The underlying problem stays the same: the agent's effort-based billing hands you the bill after it is spent, and the public complaints record keeps piling up unanswered billing cases.
Where it wins: Everything in the browser with nothing to install: agent, design, database, publishing and domain in one place Where it slips: Effort-based billing means you learn what a request costs once it is already spent, and the public complaints record shows bills far above the contracted subscription
Lovable 3.4/5 · Free + from $25
No dated fact this week moves an axis. The price is still only readable via third-party sources: the official pricing page, checked byte by byte today, still has not one figure in the served HTML, and the sources that do cite one keep the entry plan at $25 a month, consistent with the catalogue. The official changelog brings new connectors but all dated between 25 and 31 July, already counted last week, and there is no entry between 1 and 6 August. Three minor infrastructure outages hit this week, none long or repeated enough to count as a sustained drop.
Where it wins: From idea to a deployed app in an afternoon, with database and deployment solved along the way, and with the code yours by their own terms Where it slips: The bill still cannot be forecast: it publishes example per-message costs, but a credit is not worth the same on every plan, it expires depending on the plan and is non-refundable, and the same balance pays for building the app and for keeping it running
Comparison table
| Tool | Price | Free trial | Platforms | Rating | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolt.new | Free + from $25 | No | Web | VisitBolt.new (opens in a new tab) | |
| v0 | Free + from $30 | No | Web | Visitv0 (opens in a new tab) | |
| Replit | Free + from $20 | No | Web, iOS, Android | VisitReplit (opens in a new tab) | |
| Lovable | Free + from $25 | No | Web | VisitLovable (opens in a new tab) |
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