Comparison
Flitch vs Bolt
A full-stack AI app builder against a data app builder. Bolt meters tokens and builds anything. Flitch meters credits and brings the data layer with it.
Which should you choose?
Flitch is the better choice for reporting on business data: 63 analytics integrations, a semantic layer and scheduled refresh, with credit costs you can predict per action. Bolt reaches other systems through Supabase edge functions you write, so the pulling, storing and refreshing is yours. Bolt is the better choice for building a full-stack application, which it does well and Flitch cannot do at all.
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Flitch vs Bolt at a glance
| Flitch | Bolt | |
|---|---|---|
| What it builds | Dashboards, apps, reports and workflows on data you connect | Full-stack web apps of any kind |
| Entry price | Free tier, then $20/user/month | Free tier, then Pro $25/month |
| Team pricing | $20/user/month (Pro) | $30 per member per month (Teams) |
| How AI is metered | Credits at $0.10. The plan fee is the allowance: $20 buys $20 of AI | Tokens. 1M/month free, 10M/month on Pro, unused tokens roll over one month |
| Free tier | 40 credits/month, 100 dashboards, 10 integrations | 300K tokens/day and 1M/month, unlimited databases, hosting |
| What the integrations are for | Reading: pull structured data on a schedule, then chart it or run a workflow on it | Building and shipping: Figma, GitHub, Stripe, Netlify, Supabase |
| Reading existing business systems | 63 integrations, 18 databases and 3 warehouses, queried directly | Via Supabase edge functions you write, which can call Stripe, Notion, OpenAI and the rest |
| Connecting an existing database | Yes, 18 supported directly | Yes, an existing Supabase project, on Teams |
| Keeping that data current | Scheduled refresh, down to every minute | You build the sync |
| How the numbers are computed | Generated SQL, aggregated at the source, so the database does the work | Whatever you write. Aggregation, caching and correctness are yours |
| Semantic layer | Yes, relationships and calculations | No |
| Custom domain | Yes, on paid plans | Yes, on Pro |
| Costs beyond the sticker price | None. Credits are the whole bill | Hosting and database usage as the app runs |
| Workflows | Built in: triggered steps that transform data, then email it, post it to a webhook or save it. Sources stay read-only | Nothing in Bolt. Scheduled work is Supabase Cron and edge functions inside the app it generates |
| Enterprise | SSO and an exportable audit log on Business | SSO and audit logs on Enterprise |
Which is the more capable builder?
Bolt, and comfortably, if capability means range. It builds full-stack applications with databases, backends and deployment, supports private npm registries on Teams, and its free tier includes unlimited databases and hosting, which is more generous than most of the category. If your goal is to ship a working product, Bolt is designed for exactly that and Flitch cannot do it at all. Flitch builds dashboards, apps, reports and workflows, all on data you connect. The trade is depth in one shape against range across many.
How does token pricing compare to credits?
They meter different things, so compare carefully. Bolt is free with 300,000 tokens a day and 1 million a month, then Pro at $25 per month for 10 million tokens a month with no daily limit and rollover of unused tokens, Teams at $30 per member, and up to 28 per cent off yearly, against Flitch at $20 a seat monthly or $16 on a year. Tokens are consumed by the model as it works, so a heavy build session burns through them faster than a light one and the number is hard to reason about in advance. Flitch is free with 40 credits, then $20 per user per month for 200 credits at $0.10 each, and the plan fee is the credit allowance, so $20 of plan is $20 of AI against what the model actually does. Measured across real usage, a dashboard generation runs about 3 to 14 credits and typically 5, and an edit 1 to 4 and typically 2, which is easier to budget against. Neither is dearer overall; Bolt is easier to overspend without noticing.
What happens when the dashboard needs your business data?
You write it, as code. Bolt reaches other systems through Supabase edge functions, which can call Stripe, Notion, OpenAI, GitHub and anything else with an API, and on Teams you can connect an existing Supabase database including production. So the door is open. What is not there is the layer above it. Pulling Xero or MyGeotab into a dashboard means handling the OAuth, pagination and rate limits, deciding where the rows land, keeping up when a vendor changes an API, and building the refresh. That is a normal afternoon for a developer and then a permanent maintenance job. Flitch ships those 63 integrations, reads 18 databases and 3 warehouses directly, refreshes on a schedule down to every minute, and resolves the charts through a semantic layer. That layer is the entire reason to pick it over a general builder.
Is a generated dashboard from Bolt good enough?
For a prototype, often yes. Bolt will produce a clean, working dashboard interface quickly, and if the data is static or synthetic that may be all you need. It gets harder in the same places every time: aggregations that stay correct as data grows, date handling across time zones, filters that compose, and a refresh that runs without someone remembering to trigger it. Flitch generates against a semantic layer that holds your entities, relationships and calculations, so those parts are the product rather than something you specify prompt by prompt.
Which has the better free tier?
Bolt, straightforwardly, if you are building apps. 300,000 tokens a day, 1 million a month, unlimited databases and hosting is a lot to give away and you can build something real inside it. Flitch’s free tier is 40 credits a month, 100 dashboards and 10 integrations, which is enough to build several dashboards on your own data and publish them, but it is a smaller allowance. Judge them by what you want to make: Bolt’s is more generous, and it does not include any way to connect to your business systems.
Choose Bolt if
- You are building a full-stack application with its own backend, not something on existing data
- You want the most generous free tier in the category
- You need backends, auth and deployment in one place
- You are a developer, or have one, and integration code is not a barrier
- You need private npm registries or an existing Supabase database, both on Teams
- Token rollover suits how you work in bursts
Choose Flitch if
- The app is a dashboard, report or data-entry page on data that already exists
- You do not want to write and maintain integrations for Stripe, Xero or your database
- The dashboard must refresh on a schedule
- You want a semantic layer keeping metrics consistent
- You want credit costs you can predict: about 5 credits for a dashboard, 2 for an edit
- You want viewers to question the data with Ask AI
- The work should keep happening after the app is built: steps on a schedule that read the data and email or post the result, without standing up a cron job of your own
Flitch vs Bolt FAQ
Can Bolt connect to Stripe or my database?
Yes. Bolt integrates with Stripe directly, calls any API through Supabase edge functions, and on Teams can connect an existing Supabase database including production. What it does not do is turn that into reporting: the pagination, rate limits, storage and refresh are code you own. Flitch ships 63 integrations, refreshes them on a schedule and charts them through a semantic layer.
Which free tier is better?
Bolt for building apps: 300,000 tokens a day, 1 million a month, unlimited databases and hosting. Flitch gives 40 credits a month, 100 dashboards and 10 integrations, which is smaller but includes connecting to your own data.
Tokens or credits, which is easier to predict?
Credits, because they map to actions. Across real usage a Flitch dashboard generation is typically 5 credits and an edit 2, at $0.10 each, with a big multi-page build reaching about 14. Bolt meters raw model tokens, which vary with how much work a request takes and are harder to estimate before you spend them.
Can Flitch build a full-stack app?
No. Flitch builds dashboards, apps, reports and workflows on your data, with input tables for collecting entries. For backends, auth and general application logic, Bolt is the right tool.
Do both give you the code?
Yes. Both generate a real web app as editable code, which is what separates either of them from a traditional BI tool where you configure visuals on a fixed canvas.