Lovable pricing in 2026: credits, the free plan, and Pro vs Business

How much does Lovable cost in 2026?

Lovable publishes two prices and leaves the top tier to a quote. Pro is listed at $25 per month on monthly billing, and $21 per month with an annual commitment. Business is listed at $50 per month, or $42 per month billed yearly. Enterprise publishes neither a monthly nor an annual price. Prices are shown in US dollars.

One detail changes the math for a team: the price covers a workspace with unlimited members, not a seat. Three people and eight people pay the same subscription.

How do Lovable credits work?

You are not billed per app or per end user. You are billed per request you send to the tool. Every instruction you write consumes credits, and Lovable runs several counters side by side: build credits, Cloud credits (20 per month on the free plan and on Pro alike), and credits for the AI features inside the apps you build.

The hard part is that credit cost varies with the complexity of each request. Fixing a label and rewriting your login logic do not weigh the same, and Lovable does not publish a rate card per request type. That gap is why Stacknota gives the tool 4 out of 5 on features while scoring it 5 out of 5 on ease of use.

Paid plans list 100 credits per month with tiers climbing to 10,000. The advertised price is an entry point: past 100 credits, you move to a higher tier whose cost depends on the volume you pick.

What does the free plan actually get you?

Enough to use day to day, which is not common in this category, and Stacknota rates it 4.5 out of 5. Concretely: 5 build credits per day, 20 Cloud credits per month, and 4 credits for in-app AI features.

Read the monthly cap closely, because it is where the plan bites. The daily allowance stops at 30 build credits per month, so five a day does not compound across all thirty days: the monthly counter closes first. In our reading, the free plan is built for trying the tool and nudging a prototype forward in short sessions, not for running a project continuously for weeks. If you are still surveying the field, our roundup of tools that build an app from a description puts Lovable next to the other approaches.

Two things are missing from the free tier as well: custom domains and Lovable badge removal both sit in the Pro feature list. For anything client facing, you are looking at $21 or $25 per month.

Should you take Pro or Business?

The gap is $25 per month between the two monthly rates ($25 against $50), and $21 against $42 billed yearly. The listed monthly credits are identical: 100 per month, with the same tiers up to 10,000. You are not paying for Business to produce more. You are paying for enterprise controls.

What Business adds: SSO, internal publishing, the Lovable API, protected preview links, priority support, and your data excluded from model training by default. That last item is often the actual trigger in a small company handling customer records.

In our reading the decision splits three ways. If your apps are internal tools touching sensitive data, or your IT team requires SSO, Business earns its price. If you are building prototypes and project sites, Pro covers it. If procurement demands audit logs and SCIM provisioning, you are in Enterprise territory, where Lovable publishes no figure at all.

Where is your app data hosted?

Lovable advertises regional hosting in the European Union, the United States and Asia-Pacific, with data staying in the region you select by default. That matters for a UK or EU business handling customer data, and it feeds the 4.5 out of 5 that Stacknota gives on the GDPR criterion.

One caveat: the company does not specify which plans actually unlock that region choice. If regional hosting is a condition of your purchase, get it confirmed in writing before you subscribe, naming the plan you intend to buy. On the documentation side, the Lovable security page cites SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR requirements, with material for enterprise reviews, and a data processing agreement is published online.

What should you watch out for before paying?

Three things, and all three come back to credits. First, monthly credits expire after two months, so a stock built up during a quiet stretch will not wait around for you. Second, credits are non-refundable, which makes jumping to a high tier “just in case” an expensive bet. Third, because credit cost varies with request complexity, you cannot build a precise budget in advance.

The practical move: start on the base tier of Pro, measure what you actually burn across one full month of work, then adjust the tier. That is the reverse of the usual instinct, which is to buy headroom on day one.

Who is Lovable a good fit for?

For a founder, product manager or designer who wants a working web app or prototype by describing what they want, without writing code. That is exactly the ground where Lovable takes 5 out of 5 on ease of use at Stacknota, for an overall score of 4.4 out of 5.

For a small team, the unlimited member workspace is the real economic argument: at $21 per month billed yearly, Pro does not get more expensive as you add people. For a company with security requirements, Business at $42 per month billed yearly brings SSO and the exclusion of your data from model training.

If what you actually need is an internal tool with a database, authentication and hosting built in, compare against Base44 first, whose Starter plan is listed at $16 per month billed yearly: our Lovable and Base44 comparison breaks down the differences in credits and hosting. The full criterion by criterion scoring sits on the Lovable tool page.