Lovable pricing starts at $0 on the Free plan, and the paid plans begin at $25 a month for Pro or $50 a month for Business, each with 100 credits billed monthly. You buy credits, not seats; members share one pool. Annual billing charges ten months for twelve ($250 a year for Pro 100), and both paid plans scale in tiers from 100 up to 10,000 credits a month.
So five people on Pro 400 pay $100 a month billed monthly in total, not per person, and the price per credit only starts to fall at the 1,200 tier. Pro fits solo builders and small teams. Business earns its place only when you need SSO, role-based access or data kept out of model training by default, because each Business credit costs about twice as much.
Quick pricing answer
- Lovable Free: $0, no credit card; 5 build credits a day, capped at 30 a month, and no custom domain or code download.
- Lovable Pro: from $25 a month billed monthly, or $21 a month billed annually ($250 a year), for 100 credits; tiers run to 10,000 credits.
- Lovable Business: from $50 a month billed monthly, or $42 a month billed annually ($500 a year), for 100 credits plus SSO and governance.
- Enterprise: a platform fee plus volume-based credit pricing; contact sales.
- My pick for one builder: Pro 100. A team pays per workspace, not per seat.
- The caveat: a Business credit costs $0.50, double Pro’s $0.25. US list prices, checked Nov 2026.
In This Article (14 sections)
Lovable Pricing at a Glance
Lovable sells four plans: Free at $0, Pro from $25 a month and Business from $50 a month for 100 credits on monthly billing, and Enterprise by quote.
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing | Best for | Main limitation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | Trying Lovable and small projects | 5 build credits a day, 30 a month; no custom domain or code download; invite-only publishing for up to 10 people per project |
| Pro | From $25 a month for 100 credits | From $250 a year ($21 a month) for 100 credits | Solo builders and small teams shipping apps | No SSO; limits on outside collaborators start on Business |
| Business | From $50 a month for 100 credits | From $500 a year ($42 a month) for 100 credits | Teams that need SSO, limits on outside collaborators and a DPA | $0.50 per credit on the 100 tier, twice the Pro rate |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Contact sales | Large organizations that need SCIM, audit logs or EU inference | No daily build credits or monthly grants |
Sources: Lovable pricing page (Monthly and Yearly views) and Lovable subscription plans, checked Nov 2026.
Price history: At both checks (January 2026 and today), Pro cost $25 a month, billed annually. Earlier prices come from archived copies of Lovable’s pricing page, and my SaaS and AI price index tracks the same entry-plan prices across other tools.
These are US list prices in US dollars, charged per workspace, read in November 2026; Lovable mentions regional plans with a different daily-credit cap.
Lovable Pricing Plans Explained
Free is the ceiling test, Pro is the plan for shipping, Business adds governance at double the credit price, and Enterprise trades the free grants for a contract.
Free
Free grants 5 build credits a day, up to 30 a month, plus small monthly grants for hosting and in-app AI. Upgrade when you need a custom domain, the ability to edit or download your code, or more than 30 build credits in a month. Invite-only publishing reaches up to 10 people per project on Free and Pro alike, while Business and Enterprise list it without that cap, so a private app for a wider group points to Business.
Pro
Pro’s tiers run from 100 credits for $25 a month to 10,000 credits for $2,250 a month, both billed monthly. Over Free it adds custom domains, code editing and download, unlimited lovable.app domains, removal of the Lovable badge, user roles and permissions (including the admin role free plans lack), per-member credit limits, credit rollovers, top-ups and email support, and its 5 daily build credits come with no monthly cap.
On Pro the tier is the real decision, not the plan. An owner can set per-member credit limits so one person cannot drain the pool. Move up a tier when you keep running short before renewal, since repeated top-ups soon cost more than the next tier.
Business
Business charges $50 a month billed monthly for the same 100 credits, and every Business tier up to the 5,000 tier costs exactly twice its Pro twin. The extra money buys controls, not capacity: SSO, role-based access, a security center, workspace publish, design templates, the Lovable API, a Data Processing Agreement and priority support. Workspace data is also excluded from AI model training by default, while Pro users opt out per account.
Hosting and in-app AI cost the same dollars on both plans, so Business simply deducts fewer credits for that usage. That note covers running apps and AI features only; Build mode is priced by the complexity and work completed, so budget building at the full Business rate.
My take
I would pay the Business premium only when a security review or a customer contract requires SSO, a DPA or control over outside collaborators: Business lets owners and admins block them or cap their project role. A team that only needs admin and editor roles and a shared pool is better off on Pro, at half the price per credit.
Enterprise
Enterprise is quoted: Lovable lists a platform fee plus volume-based credit pricing and sends buyers to sales. It adds SCIM directory sync, audit logs, data exports, EU inference, a custom SLA and a named customer success manager.
It also drops every free grant, with no daily chat allowance, no daily build credits and no monthly Cloud or AI grants. If volume is the only reason to call sales, Pro’s largest published tier already covers 10,000 credits a month.
How Lovable Credits Work
One workspace balance pays for building, chatting with Lovable, hosting through Lovable Cloud and AI features inside your deployed apps. Lovable spends the free grants first, then the general credits closest to expiry. Each grant belongs to the workspace, not the member, so a team of five shares one set of 5 daily build credits.
| Grant | What it covers | Free | Pro and Business |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily build credits | Building, and chat once the chat allowance is gone | 5 a day, up to 30 a month | 5 a day, no monthly cap |
| Daily chat allowance | Chats and Chat mode | Included | Larger than Free |
| Monthly Cloud grant | Hosting and the built-in backend | 20 credits | 20 credits |
| Monthly AI grant | AI features in deployed apps | 4 credits | 4 credits |
| Monthly connector grant | Connectors billed through Lovable | 1 credit | 1 credit |
Sources: Lovable credits and usage, checked Nov 2026.
Don’t treat the grants as a budget floor: Lovable calls the monthly Cloud, AI and connector grants a temporary offering, subject to change.
What a message costs
A Plan mode message costs 1 credit, plus any subagent research Lovable runs while planning. Build mode is billed on the work done, and the pricing page’s examples run from 0.50 for “Make the button gray” to 1.70 for a landing page with 3 generated images. At those rates, 100 credits covers 100 / 0.50 = 200 button-sized edits.
Larger requests usually cost more than small, focused edits. Build mode charges rise with codebase exploration, verification, browser checks, web search and image or video generation, so splitting work into small, focused edits keeps the cost per message down. Two settings keep spending in view: Lovable pauses a Build mode message for your go-ahead when it crosses 20 credits by default (a notification threshold, not a hard cap), and on Pro or Business an owner can set per-member credit limits on the shared pool.
Each reply’s menu shows what it cost, so a week on Free is the cheapest way to learn your own rate before you pick a tier.
When credits expire and roll over
Unused plan credits roll over while the subscription stays active, but they expire 2 months after issue on monthly billing, or 1 month after the annual period ends on annual billing. Top-up credits last 12 months. Daily build credits expire at the end of each day, and no grant rolls over.
So on monthly billing, rollover rescues one slow month, not a quarter, while annual billing lets credits pile up across the year.
Pro and Business Credit Tiers: What Each Credit Costs
Pro costs $0.25 per credit on every tier from the 100 tier to the 800 tier and falls to $0.225 from the 5,000 tier ($1,125 / 5,000 = $0.225); Business runs from $0.50 down to $0.43 on the 10,000 tier ($4,300 / 10,000 = $0.43). Top-ups cost $0.30 per credit on Pro and $0.60 on Business.
| Monthly credits | Pro, billed monthly | Pro per credit | Business, billed monthly | Business per credit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | $25 | $25 / 100 = $0.25 | $50 | $50 / 100 = $0.50 |
| 200 | $50 | $50 / 200 = $0.25 | $100 | $100 / 200 = $0.50 |
| 400 | $100 | $100 / 400 = $0.25 | $200 | $200 / 400 = $0.50 |
| 800 | $200 | $200 / 800 = $0.25 | $400 | $400 / 800 = $0.50 |
| 1,200 | $294 | $294 / 1,200 = $0.245 | $588 | $588 / 1,200 = $0.49 |
| 2,000 | $480 | $480 / 2,000 = $0.24 | $960 | $960 / 2,000 = $0.48 |
| 3,000 | $705 | $705 / 3,000 = $0.235 | $1,410 | $1,410 / 3,000 = $0.47 |
| 4,000 | $920 | $920 / 4,000 = $0.23 | $1,840 | $1,840 / 4,000 = $0.46 |
| 5,000 | $1,125 | $1,125 / 5,000 = $0.225 | $2,250 | $2,250 / 5,000 = $0.45 |
| 7,500 | $1,688 | $1,688 / 7,500 = $0.225 | $3,300 | $3,300 / 7,500 = $0.44 |
| 10,000 | $2,250 | $2,250 / 10,000 = $0.225 | $4,300 | $4,300 / 10,000 = $0.43 |
Sources: Lovable subscription plans and Lovable credit top-ups, checked Nov 2026.
The volume discount is small and arrives late. Pro’s best rate is 10% under its entry rate ($0.225 against $0.25), and Business’s is 14% under ($0.43 against $0.50), so never buy a bigger tier for the discount alone. Annual billing cuts deeper: Pro 100 on a yearly plan buys 100 x 12 = 1,200 credits for $250, which is $250 / 1,200 = $0.21 per credit.
Pricing note
Business costs exactly twice Pro through the 5,000 tier, then slightly less: $3,300 against $1,688 at the 7,500 tier, and $4,300 against $2,250 at the 10,000 tier, both billed monthly.
The more useful number is where a top-up beats the next tier. On Pro 100, one 50-credit top-up costs $25 + $15 = $40 for 150 credits, less than the $50 Pro 200 charges for 200. A second top-up tips it: $25 + $15 x 2 = $55, $5 more than Pro 200. Business follows the same pattern at $30 per 50 credits.
The bigger your tier, the more overflow top-ups absorb before the next tier wins. Moving from Pro 400 to Pro 800 costs $100 more a month; six top-ups ($15 x 6 = $90) add 300 credits for less, and a seventh ($15 x 7 = $105) does not. Top-up credits also last 12 months, against 2 months for plan credits on monthly billing.
My take
I would top up for a one-off spike and move up a tier the second month in a row you run short. On Pro 400, up to six top-ups in a month still cost less than moving to Pro 800.
Does Lovable Have a Free Plan?
Yes. Lovable’s Free plan costs $0, needs no credit card, and grants 5 build credits a day capped at 30 a month, plus 20 Cloud, 4 AI and 1 connector credit a month. The cap shapes when you can build: in Lovable’s own example, Free workspaces receive daily build credits for the first 6 days of each month (6 x 5 = 30 credits), then none until the next month, and each day’s credits expire at midnight UTC.
Free also includes a daily chat allowance, unlimited collaborators, Git sync, 5 lovable.app domains and invite-only publishing for up to 10 people per project. It cannot edit or download code, connect a custom domain or buy top-ups. That covers a prototype and a first read of your credit use, not an app you plan to launch on your own domain.
Monthly vs Annual Lovable Pricing
Annual billing charges ten months for twelve. Pro 100 costs $25 x 12 = $300 a year on monthly billing against a $250 annual charge, a $50 saving; Business 100 saves $50 x 12 – $500 = $100.
| Tier | Monthly billing | Annual billing | Monthly equivalent | 12 months billed monthly | Saving per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pro 100 | $25 a month | $250 a year | $21 | $25 x 12 = $300 | $300 – $250 = $50 |
| Pro 400 | $100 a month | $1,000 a year | $84 | $100 x 12 = $1,200 | $1,200 – $1,000 = $200 |
| Pro 800 | $200 a month | $2,000 a year | $167 | $200 x 12 = $2,400 | $2,400 – $2,000 = $400 |
| Business 100 | $50 a month | $500 a year | $42 | $50 x 12 = $600 | $600 – $500 = $100 |
| Business 400 | $200 a month | $2,000 a year | $167 | $200 x 12 = $2,400 | $2,400 – $2,000 = $400 |
Sources: Lovable subscription plans, checked Nov 2026.
Annual billing is a prepayment: paid plans are billed in advance, renew automatically, and fees are non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise. In return, annual plan credits stay valid until 1 month after the year ends, so a quiet spring does not cost you those credits.
My take
I would stay on monthly billing while you are still finding your tier, then switch to annual once one tier has covered you for a few months. Annual is worth it when you are sure of twelve months of use.
Additional Lovable Costs to Consider
Usage beyond your plan credits runs on more credits: top-ups add them, while Cloud hosting past the grant, AI features in your app past the grant and connector requests billed through Lovable spend them.
| Cost type | When it applies | Pricing basis | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Credit top-ups | You run out before plan credits refill | $15 per 50 credits on Pro, $30 per 50 on Business | Valid 12 months; Pro and Business only |
| Lovable Cloud | Hosting and backend use beyond the 20-credit monthly grant | Credits for database, network, storage, compute and realtime use | Larger database instances use more credits |
| AI gateway | AI features in your deployed app beyond the 4-credit grant | Credits per model call, by model and work done | Grows with your app’s usage |
| Managed connectors | Requests through connectors such as Perplexity or Firecrawl beyond the 1-credit grant | Credits at the rate on each connector’s page | Cloud and AI grants do not cover it |
Sources: Lovable credits and usage and Lovable credit top-ups, checked Nov 2026.
For most smaller or new apps, Lovable says hosting is covered by the included grant; apps with significant traffic or size spend from the credit balance. A larger database instance uses more credits, and the Manage instance dialog shows an estimated monthly cost for each size. Budget a margin of credits for a live app with real users, not just for building it.
How Much Does Lovable Cost for Your Team?
Team size does not set Lovable’s price: members share one pool, so your bill follows the tier your work needs. Free and Pro cap owner, admin, or editor members at 200 (viewers and outside collaborators excluded); Business has no limit by default. A fifth invite speeds credit use, not the invoice.
Lovable credit cost calculator
This calculator needs JavaScript. The scenario table below gives the same estimate for typical workloads.
Enter what you need. The calculator prices it on every plan at list prices and names the cheapest plan that covers it.
- List prices in USD from Lovable’s official pricing pages, checked Nov 7, 2026. Tax and regional prices are not included.
- 12-month figures are 12 times the monthly cost at the billing you choose.
- A planning estimate at list prices, not a quote.
Enter your monthly Plan mode messages, three sizes of Build mode request, the days your team builds and whether you need a custom domain or SSO. The calculator shows every plan side by side and the cheapest one that covers the month, counting 5 daily build credits for each day you enter on Pro and Business. It leaves out tax, regional prices, top-up prices, and Cloud or AI usage beyond the grants.
Take three hypothetical workloads, invented for illustration: a lone trial of up to 30 credits a month, a solo founder, and a team that is the same in the last two rows.
The solo founder sends 20 planning messages, 60 small edits, 20 feature builds and 10 landing pages, so 20 x 1 + 60 x 0.5 + 20 x 1.2 + 10 x 1.7 = 91 credits, roughly 90 a month.
The team sends 80 planning messages, 200 small edits, 80 feature builds and 60 landing pages, so 80 x 1 + 200 x 0.5 + 80 x 1.2 + 60 x 1.7 = 378 credits, roughly 380 a month.
Each paid row fits inside the plan credits alone, so the 5 daily build credits Pro and Business add each day are spare headroom. The plan prices come from Lovable’s pricing page.
| Team size | Plan | Billing | Monthly cost | Annual total | Assumptions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trying Lovable alone: 1 person | Free | None | $0 | $0 x 12 = $0 | Free grants 30 build credits each month; no custom domain |
| Solo founder: 1 person | Pro 100 | Monthly | $25 | $25 x 12 = $300 | Pro 100 includes 100 plan credits a month; Free lacks the custom domain; $250 a year on annual billing |
| 5-person product team | Pro 400 | Monthly | $100 | $100 x 12 = $1,200 | Pro 400 includes 400 plan credits a month, shared by the workspace; $1,000 a year on annual billing |
| 10-person team that needs SSO | Business 400 | Monthly | $200 | $200 x 12 = $2,400 | Business 400 includes 400 plan credits a month; SSO starts on Business; $2,000 a year on annual billing |
Sources: Lovable subscription plans and Lovable pricing page, checked Nov 2026.
The last two rows carry the same work, so SSO alone costs the 10-person team $2,400 – $1,200 = $1,200 a year. These totals are estimates from list prices, not quotes.
Which Lovable Plan Should You Choose?
Pick the plan by the feature you cannot ship without, then pick the tier by your monthly credits.
| Your needs | Plan to consider | Why | Main limitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trying Lovable or a prototype for a few people | Free | $0, no card, and 30 build credits a month to learn your usage | No custom domain, code editing or download |
| One builder shipping one app | Pro 100, $25 a month or $250 a year | Custom domain, code download and rollover, with 5 daily build credits on top | 100 plan credits; heavy Build mode months need top-ups |
| A small team on one product | Pro 400 or Pro 800 | Members share one pool; per-member limits stop one person draining it | No SSO; limits on outside collaborators start on Business |
| SSO, limits on outside collaborators or training opt-out by default is required | Business at the tier your credits need | SSO, a DPA and the default opt-out start on Business | $0.50 per credit on the 100 tier, double the Pro rate |
| You run short in an occasional month | Stay on your tier and buy a top-up | $15 per 50 credits on Pro, valid 12 months | $0.30 per credit against the $0.25 tier rate |
| A verified student or teacher | Pro for Students | 50% off Pro 100 billed monthly for up to 12 months | Pro 100 on monthly billing only, once per person |
Sources: Lovable subscription plans and Lovable credit top-ups, checked Nov 2026.
My take
If you are unsure, my pick is Pro 100 on monthly billing. It is the cheapest plan that lets you ship on your own domain, and its first two months tell you which tier to buy next.
Is Lovable Worth Paying For?
On price, Lovable is worth paying for when a builder or small team ships a few apps and stays close to its tier, and poor value when the work turns into long Build mode sessions or a team buys Business for one feature. You pay for work done, so the bill follows how much Lovable has to explore, fix and verify.
A focused month suits the model. Pro 100 at $25 a month billed monthly buys 100 plan credits plus 5 daily build credits, enough for a few hundred edits the size of the pricing page’s 0.50 example. That budget shrinks fast when requests need codebase exploration, browser checks or generated images, which Lovable prices by the work completed.
A team that needs only SSO pays $200 a month for Business 400 against $100 for Pro 400, $1,200 more a year for one control: money well spent when a security review demands it, wasted when it does not. Whether the apps themselves justify any plan is a product question, and my Lovable review covers what its builds look like.
My take
I would pay for Lovable when a working app in days is worth more to you than the credits it burns. On price alone, skip it when your project needs weeks of iteration on a large codebase, where Build mode costs are hardest to predict.
Billing, Student Discount and Cancellation
Lovable publishes two discounts: annual billing, which gives two months free, and Pro for Students, which takes 50% off Pro 100 billed monthly for up to 12 months. Against Pro 100’s $25 a month billed monthly, the student plan works out to $25 x 0.5 = $12.50 a month, also billed monthly.
The student terms are narrow. Lovable checks your academic email domain on lovable.dev/students, you must verify while your workspace is still on Free, and the discount is a one-time offer per person. Higher Pro tiers and annual billing are excluded, top-ups cost the standard price, and the discount does not return after you cancel.
To get Lovable cheaper, use the levers Lovable publishes: annual billing for two months free, Pro for Students if you qualify, the smallest tier your plan credits need with a top-up for a spike month, and small, focused Build mode requests. On Lovable Cloud, pausing a project’s database you are not using saves credits too.
If you are budgeting a whole semester of software, my picks of AI tools students can pay for by term show what else fits that budget. Universities buy through Lovable for campus, which is priced by sales.
You cancel by downgrading to Free yourself from the plan card’s Manage menu; the paid plan stays active until the end of the billing period. After that, unexpired subscription credits are frozen on Free and return only if you subscribe again before they expire. Top-up and bonus credits stay usable, and published apps stay live.
Credits cannot be refunded or redeemed for cash, so spend down your plan credits before the period ends.
Sources: Change or cancel your subscription and Lovable terms, checked Nov 2026.
How I Verified Lovable Pricing
I checked Lovable’s pricing page, documentation and terms in November 2026. I read the pricing page in its Monthly and Yearly views, and the documentation on plans, credits, top-ups, cancellation and running out of credits. Every price is in US dollars, the currency Lovable’s plan documentation prints for every tier, and charged per workspace. Lovable mentions regional plans with a different daily-credit cap; this guide covers the standard US-dollar plans in the US pricing region only.
Twelve-month totals on monthly billing are the tier price x 12, annual totals are the yearly charges Lovable prints, and each price per credit divides a tier’s price by its credits. Scenario workloads are assumptions you can change in the calculator. Lovable does not publish Enterprise rates: its pricing page lists a platform fee with volume-based pricing and a demo booking. Database instance costs appear as estimates in the product’s Manage instance dialog.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there an unlimited Lovable plan?
No. The largest Pro and Business tier is 10,000 credits a month, at $2,250 on Pro or $4,300 on Business billed monthly. Beyond that, Enterprise uses volume-based credit pricing by contract. Lovable also sells one-time top-ups of up to 10,000 credits on Pro or Business, and top-up credits stay valid for 12 months.
What happens when my credits run out?
Building stops, AI features in your deployed apps stop, and apps that use Lovable Cloud pause their backend, but your published pages keep serving. Chats continue while the daily chat allowance lasts. Admins can top up on Pro or Business, upgrade from Free, or turn on auto top-up beforehand. See Lovable’s out-of-credits guide.
Final Pricing Verdict
Start on Free to see how many credits your work uses, then buy Pro at the tier your month needs: Pro 100 for one builder, Pro 400 or Pro 800 for a small team sharing one workspace. Buy Business only when SSO, role-based access or the training opt-out default is a requirement, because it about doubles the price of each credit.
Top up for a one-off spike, move up a tier when you run short two months running, and switch to annual billing once a tier has held for a few months.
- Skip it if:
- your project will need long, open-ended Build mode sessions every week, since that is where Lovable’s monthly bill is hardest to predict.
