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By the toolist.ai editors. Researched from Bolt.new's own pages and hands-on tests published by others, not hands-on tested by toolist.ai. Updated October 9, 2026.

Bolt.new review: pricing, features and what testers found

Bolt.new is a browser-based AI builder from StackBlitz that turns a chat prompt into a working website, web app or mobile app, with hosting and databases built in. Pro plans start at $25 a month for 10 million tokens.

Our take

Bolt.new gets a prototype or small web app running fast, but testers found it less dependable as a build grows, and its token billing is hard to predict. Zapier's Miguel Rebelo found it the quickest of three vibe coding tools on low-to-medium tasks, while TechRadar found it slower than rivals and prone to adding things the prompt never asked for. Technically's tester saw it stray from its own build plan and gave up fixing a map after five rounds of prompts. Bigger projects use more tokens per message, subscriptions are non-refundable, and Trustpilot reviewers rate it 1.6 out of 5.

Based on Bolt.new's published plans and the hands-on tests linked below, not on a test of our own.

Good for

  • Prototypes, landing pages and small web apps you want live quickly
  • Hackathons and time-boxed builds, where Zapier found its short iteration loop pays off

Watch out for

  • Usage is counted in tokens, and most go to syncing your project files to the AI, so each message costs more as a project grows; Technically's tester found no way to see what one prompt cost.
  • Subscriptions are non-refundable, and an annual plan can only be downgraded at its yearly renewal.
  • Unused paid tokens roll over for one extra month only, and you lose them at the end of the billing cycle if you cancel; free tokens never roll over.
  • A $9-a-month Lite plan that builds only with Bolt Forge's open-source models takes new sign-ups until October 14, 2026; Forge sessions are de-identified and used to train open models, except from the EEA, UK and Switzerland.

What Bolt.new does

Price

Free plan: 1 million tokens a month, capped at 300,000 a day, with the Standard agent only; published sites show a Made in Bolt badge and go offline for the rest of the month past 333,333 web requests.

PlanBilled monthlyBilled yearly, per monthIncludesPrice per million tokens
Pro $25 $18 10M tokens a month with no daily cap, unused tokens roll over a month, Max agent, custom domains, no Bolt badge, up to 1M web requests $2.50
Pro 50 $50 $45 26M tokens a month; otherwise the same as Pro $1.92
Pro 100 $100 $90 55M tokens a month; Pro 200 and larger tiers are offered in the account's plan menu $1.82
Teams $30 $27 Price per member; each paid member gets their own 10M tokens a month (not shared), centralized billing, admin controls, private NPM registries $3.00
Enterprise not listed not listed Contact sales: SSO, audit logs, compliance support, a dedicated account manager, 24/7 priority support, custom SLAs –

Price per million tokens is our calculation: the monthly-billing price divided by what the plan includes, assuming you use all of it. It is not a measured cost.

Prices last checked: 2026-10-09 on Bolt.new's pricing page. Full breakdown: Bolt.new pricing.

Price history

No price change since we first recorded these prices on October 9, 2026. We re-check them every week and list each change here.

What hands-on testers found

We have not tested Bolt.new ourselves. These are the published tests we found that used it hands-on, newest first; follow the links for the full reviews.

Zapier · Miguel Rebelo · updated July 1, 2026

What they tested: Projects built in Lovable, Bolt and Replit, as a software tester and as a non-technical builder, including the same landing page with a scroll-triggered rocket animation in all three.

  • Bolt returned results fastest on low-to-medium tasks, but varied more and could be slower on big plan-mode prompts.
  • It left out the rocket animation that Lovable managed and chose a safer design.
  • Visual selection and file locking made targeted fixes quick.

TechRadar · Christian Cawley · July 1, 2026

What they tested: One prompt to build a live crypto price calculator for USD, EUR and GBP from a free API, then publishing it.

  • The build took a little over five minutes; other tools they tried took under 90 seconds.
  • It went off-script, adding more currencies than the three the prompt asked for.
  • Publishing took one click and the documentation was excellent, but the free 300K daily tokens were too few to explore revisions.

Their score: 3 out of 5

Technically · Justin · December 18, 2025

What they tested: The same three-view business app (a shipments database table, an analytics dashboard and a map) built in Replit, v0, Lovable and Bolt; the post was sponsored by Vercel, which makes v0.

  • Bolt drafted a detailed plan but first built only a read-only table, needing another round for the planned features.
  • The charts needed re-prompting, and he gave up on the map after five rounds of fixes.
  • There was no way to see how many tokens each prompt used.

What users say

Test result

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