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Lovable cost: what you actually pay
The $25/$50 sticker is almost beside the point — Lovable bills everything in shared workspace credits (roughly 0.5-2+ per message), so one 'add authentication' request or a buggy multi-step build can chew through a meaningful chunk of the monthly allowance in minutes.
Public pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | monthly | 5 credits/day (30/month cap), 20 monthly Cloud credits + 4 AI credits, no rollover, no on-demand top-ups |
| Pro | $25 / mo$250/yr annual (~$20.83/mo effective); scales up to $2,250/mo (10,000 credits) at higher usage tiers | monthly or annual | 100 credits/mo (scalable to 10,000), code editor, custom domains, email support, user roles, monthly credit rollover |
| Business | $50 / mo$500/yr annual (~$41.67/mo effective); scales up to $4,300/mo (10,000 credits) at higher usage tiers | monthly or annual | Everything in Pro plus design templates, role-based access, SSO, security center |
| Enterprise | Custom | custom | Publishing controls, design systems governance, SCIM, audit logs, dedicated support |
Credits belong to the workspace, not individual seats — 'plans are priced by credits, not seats,' so every teammate draws from one shared pool. Per-message cost scales with complexity: roughly 0.5 credits for a trivial style tweak, 0.9 for removing an element, 1.2 for adding authentication, and 1.7-2.0+ for a full landing-page build with images. Monthly subscription credits roll over for one additional month (annual plans retain rollover through the full term); the small daily 5-credit free-tier allotment does not roll over. One-time top-ups (50-1,000 credits) and auto-top-up exist only on paid plans.
Last updated: 2026-07-22. Sourced from Lovable Pricing (official) ↗, Lovable Docs — Plans and Credits ↗.
Where the real Lovable cost hides
The sticker is the smallest part of the story. For Lovable, these are the line items that quietly inflate the bill:
- Free tier's 30 credits/month covers roughly 15-60 messages depending on complexity — one 'build a landing page with images' request alone can cost ~2 credits
- Credits are pooled per workspace, so on a multi-seat Pro/Business plan one heavy user can exhaust the whole team's monthly allowance
- 'Fix this' debugging loops are billed as ordinary messages, so a buggy generation multiplies spend well beyond the original build request
- Entry Pro/Business prices ($25/$50) are just the floor — production-scale usage reportedly climbs to $2,250-$4,300/mo for a 10,000-credit allotment
What an audit finds on Lovable
Agentic 'vibe coding' iteration (prompt, see broken output, re-prompt to fix) is billed as new messages/credits each time, so vague initial prompts or complex full-stack asks (auth, DB schema, multi-page builds) burn the shared workspace credit pool far faster than simple style tweaks.
Lovable pricing FAQ
Do credits belong to me or my whole team?
Credits belong to the workspace, not individual members — everyone shares one pool, and plans are priced by credit volume rather than seat count.
What happens to unused credits?
Monthly subscription credits roll over for one additional month (annual plans retain rollover through the term); the free plan's small daily credits expire unused each day.
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