Bolt vs Lovable
Prompt-to-app for non-coders: which one ships something you can keep? Scores from the RXed AI Periodic Table v1.0 — identical 20-element scale, deterministic overall. How we audit →
At a glance
Scope = elements of the AI stack in the tool’s stated scope (dashed = honestly out of scope, never a penalty). Quality = how well it scores on what it covers. No single number — both axes, always.
The verdict
Lovable (Scope 13/20 · Quality 6/10) beats Bolt (Scope 15/20 · Quality 6/10) where it matters for a small business: a stronger framework story (Fw 8 vs 6.5) and hosted Cloud/AI billing that takes the app from prototype to running product without you touching a server. Its catch is unchanged: every output is a first draft, and guardrails (Gr 4.5) plus evals (Ev 3.5) mean you budget a security review before real user data arrives. Bolt is the faster pure prototyper — browser-native, 1M free tokens a month — but token economics break at scale and the generated code is explicitly prototype-grade. Validating an idea this weekend → either. Keeping what you build → Lovable, plus a hardening pass.
Where the quality sits
Family mean over covered elements only — a dash means the family is honestly outside that tool’s scope.
| Bolt (Bolt.new) Scope 15/20 · Quality 6/10 audited 2026-07-12 | Lovable Scope 13/20 · Quality 6/10 audited 2026-07-10 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | StackBlitz, Inc. | Lovable |
| Origin | US | SE |
| Pricing | Free (1M tokens/mo, 300K/day cap) · Pro from ~€23/mo (10M tokens) · Teams ~€28/member/mo · Enterprise custom; token-based, annual saves up to 28% | Free (5 credits/day, max 30/mo) · Pro ~€23/mo ($25, 100 credits + 5/day, scalable to 10,000) · Business ~€46/mo ($50, adds SSO + Security Center) · Enterprise custom; PLUS usage-metered Lovable Cloud/AI billing on shipped apps ($25 Cloud + $1 AI monthly allowance included) |
| Pr Prompts | 8 | 7 |
| Em Embeddings | — | — |
| Cx Context | 6 | 7 |
| Tr Tracing | 4 | 6 |
| Lg LLM | 8 | 7 |
| Fc Function calling | 7 | 7 |
| Vx Vector store | — | — |
| Rg RAG | 6 | 6 |
| Gr Guardrails | 4 | 5 |
| Mm Multimodal | 5 | 6 |
| Ag Agents | 7 | 7 |
| Ft Fine-tuning | — | — |
| Fw Frameworks & harnesses | 7 | 8 |
| Ev Evaluations | 3 | 4 |
| Sm Small models | 6 | — |
| Ma Multi-agent | 3 | 6 |
| Sy Synthetic data | — | — |
| Pc Protocols | 7 | 8 |
| In Interpretability | — | — |
| Th Thinking models | 5 | — |
Hover any score for the written reason. Full detail: Bolt (Bolt.new) passport → · Lovable passport →