Vibe coding cost calculator
Enter your weekly usage on Lovable, Bolt.new, or Cursor and see your monthly credit or token need, and whether the free plan covers it.
Which tool are you using?
Lovable bills every AI action in credits. Enter how many times a week you do each of these.
Small edit / week
e.g. change a button color: 0.50 credits
Medium edit / week
e.g. remove a section: 0.90 credits
New feature / week
e.g. add sign up and login: 1.20 credits
New page / week
e.g. an image-heavy landing page: 1.70 credits
Your estimated monthly credit need
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The free plan looks like enough for this: it gives up to 30 credits a month.
These costs are Lovable's own published example action costs. Real consumption varies with the AI model you pick and the task's complexity. Monthly-plan credits expire 2 months after they're issued, annual-plan credits expire 1 month after the annual period ends.
Lovable prices a small edit like "make the button gray" at 0.50 credits and a feature like "add sign up and login" at 1.20 credits, numbers straight from its own published examples. Bolt.new usage is measured in tokens: the free plan gives 1 million a month, 300 thousand a day. Cursor doesn't publish an exact request count at all, what you consume depends on the model you pick. This tool compares all three against their own published numbers, not an invented average.
Enter your weekly usage and you get a real credit total for Lovable, a comparison of your own token count against Bolt.new's free and Pro caps, and for Cursor a recommendation based on what you've actually noticed. Our handoff-focused comparison of Lovable and Bolt.new covers which one leaves less cleanup by task type.
Once the cost math is done, the real question is usually different: are you outgrowing the AI tool's limits, or do you still need to close security gaps before launch. For the second case, see the launch-readiness check. Once you've outgrown the tool, our AI project completion service picks up from there.
Frequently asked
Does this tool measure my actual usage, or connect to my account?
Neither. It doesn't read your code or connect to any account. It compares the weekly actions or token count you enter against the free plan limits each tool publishes itself.
How precise is the credit and token math?
For Lovable it's exact: the 0.50 to 1.70 credit figures are the tool's own published example action costs. For Bolt.new we compare the token count you enter against real plan caps (1 million free, 10 million on Pro). Cursor doesn't publish an exact request count, so that branch gives a recommendation based on your own observation instead of a computed number.
Why does the Cursor branch ask a question instead of computing a number?
Because Cursor's own pricing page doesn't publish a request count or a fixed dollar budget, what you consume depends on the model you pick. Instead of inventing a number, we use Cursor's own Pro, Pro+ (3x), and Ultra (20x) language.
How current are these numbers?
The dollar amounts and limits were pulled from all three tools' official pricing pages as of 2026-08-29. All three change pricing often, check the linked page for the current, exact figure.