Lovable pricing explained
Prompt-to-app builder metered in credits, with a separate usage bill for the apps you ship.
The plans
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | daily credit grant |
| Pro | $25/mo | price renders client-side — verify |
| Business | $50/mo | verify on pricing page |
Why the bill surprises people
Dual-layer billing surprises people: your subscription only covers building, while apps you deploy incur separate usage-based hosting and AI overage. Stopped or failed Build-mode requests are still charged for work completed so far.
How credits map to real token cost
Lovable spends credits per message — a flat 1 credit in Plan Mode, a variable 0.5–2.0+ in Build Mode by complexity — with no published token-to-credit ratio. Shipped apps add a second layer: deployed apps meter Cloud hosting and AI-gateway calls separately.
Lovable runs on Claude, GPT-5. To see what your actual prompts cost at the API level — and which model is cheapest for your workload — paste one into the calculator.
FAQ
- Why is my Lovable bill higher than expected?
- Dual-layer billing surprises people: your subscription only covers building, while apps you deploy incur separate usage-based hosting and AI overage. Stopped or failed Build-mode requests are still charged for work completed so far.
- How do credits translate to actual cost?
- Lovable spends credits per message — a flat 1 credit in Plan Mode, a variable 0.5–2.0+ in Build Mode by complexity — with no published token-to-credit ratio. Shipped apps add a second layer: deployed apps meter Cloud hosting and AI-gateway calls separately.
- Which models am I paying for on Lovable?
- Lovable runs on Claude, GPT-5. You can estimate the raw token cost of any prompt against those models in the tokenmath calculator.
Pricing sourced from Lovable’s official pricing as of 2026-06-23. Platform pricing changes often — verify before you commit.