Entry pricing is close enough to be noise — everything here is $20–25/month. The real cost difference shows up on teams and on how each one meters "credits," and that's where you should actually look before committing a project.
| Tool | Entry paid | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Bolt.new | $20/mo, 10M tokens | teams billed $30/user, tokens not shared |
| v0 | $20/mo, $20 in credits (free: $5/mo) | best fit only if you're on Next.js |
| Lovable | $25/mo, 250 credits (free: 5/day, 30/mo) | one account covers all users |
| Replit | subscription + usage | full IDE + Postgres + hosting, most infra |
The four aren't substitutes — they're for different stages of building something:
- v0 is for one-off UI components dropped into an existing Next.js codebase. It's not trying to build your whole app, and it's the wrong tool if you're not already on Next.js.
- Bolt.new is browser-based full-stack prototyping with no local setup — fast to throw something together, fine to throw it away after. Free-tier projects get hosting but wear Bolt branding.
- Lovable is the one to pay for if you're non-technical and want polish — it covers all your users on a single account rather than charging per seat with unshared tokens the way Bolt does, which makes it meaningfully cheaper for a small team.
- Replit is the hybrid: a real IDE where you write code alongside the AI rather than only prompting it, with built-in PostgreSQL, hosting and the most complete infrastructure of the four. The pick when "and then deploy it" needs to happen in the same place.
Rough guide: v0 for a component, Bolt for a throwaway prototype, Lovable to actually ship something as a non-developer, Replit when you want database, hosting and deploy under one roof.