Alternatives
Best Bolt alternatives
Bolt builds a full-stack app in the browser and meters it in tokens: 1 million a month free, 10 million on Pro at $25, with unused tokens rolling over a month. It is the most generous free tier in the category and the most developer-shaped tool in it. The backend is Supabase, so anything that reads another system is an edge function you write, and keeping that data current is yours too. Here are six alternatives, grouped by the job they suit.
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At a glance
| Tool | Best for | Entry price |
|---|---|---|
| Lovable | Building a web app from a description when there is no data to report on yet. | Free tier, then Pro from $25/month |
| Replit | Developers who want an AI builder inside a real IDE. | Free Mode, then Core $20/month |
| v0 | Front-end work that will ship on Vercel. | Free tier, then Plus $30/user/month |
| Flitch | Teams who want dashboards, reports, apps and workflows built from a description. | Free tier, then $20/month |
| Base44 | Internal tools put together by someone who is not an engineer. | Free tier, then Starter $16/month billed annually |
| Retool | Internal tools over a database, built by a team with some engineering in it. | Free up to 5 users, then $10/builder/month paid yearly |
App builders
Lovable
Free tier, then Pro from $25/month- Best for.
- Building a web app from a description when there is no data to report on yet.
- Where it wins.
- Quick from prompt to working app, with a lot of templates.
- What it costs you.
- It builds apps rather than reporting on data you already have.
Replit
Free Mode, then Core $20/month- Best for.
- Developers who want an AI builder inside a real IDE.
- Where it wins.
- Agent, editor, database and hosting in one browser tab.
- What it costs you.
- Core is $20 a month with $20 of model usage in it, and heavier work is billed on effort beyond that.
v0
Free tier, then Plus $30/user/month- Best for.
- Front-end work that will ship on Vercel.
- Where it wins.
- React output that looks finished, with GitHub sync and deploys attached.
- What it costs you.
- $30 per user a month on Plus, metered in tokens, and the free plan allows 7 messages a day.
Base44
Free tier, then Starter $16/month billed annually- Best for.
- Internal tools put together by someone who is not an engineer.
- Where it wins.
- Entities and auth are built in, so an internal app arrives fast.
- What it costs you.
- Reporting on data that already exists is not what it is for.
Retool
Free up to 5 users, then $10/builder/month paid yearly- Best for.
- Internal tools over a database, built by a team with some engineering in it.
- Where it wins.
- Components, workflows and database queries in one place, free up to 5 users.
- What it costs you.
- You assemble the app rather than describe it, and AI credits and agent hours meter separately.
Built around data you already have
Flitch
Free tier, then $20/month- Best for.
- Teams who want dashboards, reports, apps and workflows built from a description.
- Where it wins.
- AI on every plan including the free one, and every chart shows the dataset, columns and calculation behind it.
- What it costs you.
- SCIM and running it in your own cloud need an Enterprise agreement, and it does not build an app with its own auth and payments.
When to stay with Bolt
- You are building a full-stack application with its own backend.
- You have a developer, so integration code is not a barrier.
- Token rollover suits working in bursts.
- You need an existing Supabase project or a private npm registry, both on Teams.
Questions
Which alternative gives the most away free?
Bolt, on tokens: 300,000 a day and 1 million a month. After that, Base44 allows 5 apps and Retool is free up to 5 users. Flitch gives 40 credits a month with 100 dashboards and 10 integrations, and v0 allows 7 messages a day.
What is the difference between tokens and credits?
Tokens price what the model read and wrote. Credits price a unit of work. Bolt and v0 meter tokens, Lovable and Base44 charge credits per task, and Flitch charges in $0.10 increments against what the model actually did. Tokens reward short prompts, credits reward fewer and larger turns.
Can Bolt read my business systems?
Through Supabase edge functions you write, which can call Stripe, Notion or anything with an API. The pulling, the storing and the refreshing are yours. Flitch treats the same thing as a connection with a refresh schedule and a semantic layer over it.
Which alternatives suit an internal tool?
Retool, free up to 5 users and then $10 a builder a month paid yearly, is built for exactly that. Replit suits it if you want the IDE. Flitch suits the internal tool whose job is reporting on data you already hold, or collecting data through a form.
Do I keep the code?
Yes. Bolt, Replit, v0 and Lovable each hand you a project you can take away, and that is the honest argument for an app builder. The trade is that the data layer is yours to build and then keep running.