Lovable Pricing (2026)
Lovable has a free plan with 5 daily credits and a Pro plan starting at $25 per month for 100 monthly credits plus 5 daily credits. Credits are complexity-weighted, so a simple styling change costs roughly half a credit while a complex feature like authentication costs more. Annual billing saves about 16 percent.
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What you need to know
What you actually pay for with Lovable
Lovable turns a natural-language description into a complete React, TypeScript, and Tailwind application backed by Lovable Cloud, which is built on Supabase. There is no code editor to learn. You describe what you want, Lovable builds it, and you can publish it. The pricing reflects this: you pay for the AI work that generates and edits your app, measured in credits.
As of mid-2026, the Free plan gives you 5 daily credits, which reset each day and do not roll over. It is enough to try the tool and build something small. The Pro plan starts at $25 per month and includes 100 monthly credits plus the 5 daily credits, for up to 150 in a day. Pro also unlocks custom domains, user roles, and the ability to remove Lovable branding. Higher Pro tiers scale the monthly credit allowance up for heavier builders. Annual billing saves roughly 16 percent over paying monthly.
Credits are complexity-weighted
The most important thing to understand about Lovable pricing is that not all messages cost the same. Lovable weights credits by complexity. A simple styling tweak costs around half a credit. A complex feature, such as wiring up authentication, costs more. This is fairer than a flat per-message charge because trivial edits are cheap, but it also means a single ambitious prompt can cost several credits at once. If you are building something with real backend logic, budget for the complex prompts to dominate your credit spend.
Daily credits add a useful wrinkle. Because you get 5 free credits every day on top of your monthly allowance, spreading work across several days stretches your effective budget. A builder who does a little each day gets more total credits per month than one who crams everything into a single session and exhausts the monthly pool.
What Pro unlocks beyond credits
The jump from Free to Pro is not only about more credits. Custom domains let you publish on your own URL rather than a Lovable subdomain, which matters the moment you share the app with a client. User roles and removing Lovable branding both make the app feel like a real product rather than a prototype. For anyone planning to put the app in front of paying users, Pro is effectively the entry point.
How to choose a tier
Start on Free to evaluate Lovable and build a first prototype. The 5 daily credits are enough to feel out whether the tool fits how you think. Move to Pro the moment you need a custom domain, want to remove branding, or find yourself rationing daily credits. If you are shipping a feature-heavy app and routinely hitting the 100-credit monthly ceiling, step up to a higher Pro tier rather than fighting the limit.
Reading the credit meter
As with any credit-based tool, the meter tells you something real. If a single feature is consuming credits in a debugging loop, that is the well-known "last 30 percent" problem, where the AI burns credits re-attempting a fix it cannot land cleanly. That is usually the point where the work needs a human, and it is also a signal about how production-ready the underlying code actually is.
What Lovable's plans include
| Plan | Price | What's included |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 |
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| Pro | from $25/mo |
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| Pro (higher tiers) | scales with credits |
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Free
$0- 5 daily credits (reset daily, no rollover)
- Build and preview full apps
- Lovable subdomain
Pro
from $25/mo- 100 monthly credits plus 5 daily credits
- Custom domains and user roles
- Remove Lovable branding
Pro (higher tiers)
scales with credits- Larger monthly credit allowances
- Everything in Pro
- For heavy, feature-dense builds
The production gap
Database tables ship with row-level security off by default
Tables created in Lovable's Supabase backend have row-level security disabled unless you turn it on. A 2026 disclosure found over 170 Lovable apps with tables readable by anyone holding the public key, exposing emails, payment details, and API keys. This is the single most common way a Lovable app leaks data.
The built-in security scan checks for policies, not whether they work
Lovable's security scanner confirms a row-level security policy exists, but a policy that allows everyone through still passes the scan. A green scan can hide a fully open table. Only a review of policy effectiveness, not just presence, tells you whether the data is actually protected.
The anon key is visible to anyone who opens the browser
Lovable apps query Supabase directly from the browser using a public anon key. Anyone can copy that key from devtools and query your database directly, bypassing your UI entirely. That is fine only if every table has correct ownership-based policies, which is exactly the step that is easy to miss.
What it really costs
Lovable's subscription cost is straightforward: free to start, $25 per month for Pro, scaling up with larger credit tiers. Because credits are complexity-weighted, a feature-heavy month costs more in practice than a month of small tweaks, so budget for the complex prompts.
The larger cost lives downstream. Making a Lovable app safe to share means closing the row-level security gap, hardening auth, and adding monitoring before real users arrive. Assembling that production stack yourself runs $24,000 to $60,000 per year in tools and specialist time once you account for security, monitoring, billing, and maintenance. Hiring a freelancer to audit and harden a single app is cheaper but still lands in the thousands of dollars, and it slows you down by turning every change into a handoff. Both fix readiness; both remove the speed that made Lovable attractive. BWORLDS handles the readiness step for the price of a tool plan instead of a hire. See our plans.
Your Lovable app works. Now make it safe to share.
- Catch open database tables and weak policies before anyone else can find them
- Harden auth and add monitoring without learning Supabase security from scratch
- A plain-English readiness report, not a scan that only checks the box.
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Frequently asked questions.
Lovable has a free plan with 5 daily credits and a Pro plan starting at $25 per month for 100 monthly credits plus the daily credits. Higher Pro tiers add more credits for heavier builds. Annual billing saves about 16 percent. Check lovable.dev/pricing for current figures.
Credits are complexity-weighted. A simple styling change costs around half a credit, while a complex feature like authentication costs more. You get 5 daily credits that reset each day plus your monthly allowance, so spreading work across days stretches your budget.
The free plan with 5 daily credits is enough to evaluate the tool and build a small prototype. To publish on a custom domain, remove branding, or build anything substantial, you need Pro. And regardless of plan, the app needs a security review before real users depend on it.