Bolt.new Pricing 2026: Plans, Tokens, Costs & Limits

Bolt.new pricing is easy to summarize at the top level and more nuanced once you model a real application. The main self-serve page currently lists Free at $0, Pro starting at $25 per month billed monthly, Teams at $30 per member per month billed monthly, and Enterprise with custom pricing. The harder part is estimating how quickly a project consumes AI tokens and whether hosting, domains or connected services add separate cost.

Bolt also advertises yearly billing with savings of up to 28%. We do not calculate an annual equivalent from that headline because the live public crawl does not expose every yearly price. In addition, September 2026 introduced Bolt Forge and a limited $9/month Bolt Lite offer, which is not presented as a normal generally available tier on the main pricing page. This guide therefore separates permanent self-serve plans from temporary or restricted offers.

Bolt.new pricing at a glance

The Free tier is not only a trial shell. It includes public and private projects, a 300,000-token daily limit, 1 million tokens per month, website hosting, unlimited databases and up to 333,000 web requests. The visible tradeoffs are Bolt branding, the daily token cap, a 10MB upload limit and lower application-usage allowances.

Pro starts at $25 per month and removes the daily token cap. The current pricing page starts Pro at 10 million monthly tokens and adds larger upload limits, higher web-request allowances, custom domains, private site sharing, SEO boosting, expanded database capacity and choice of database provider. Teams begins at $30 per paid member per month and adds administration, centralized billing, private package support and team-oriented controls. Enterprise is negotiated.

How Bolt.new tokens affect real cost

Bolt's token system is not equivalent to a fixed number of prompts. Bolt explains that much of the usage comes from synchronizing project files into the AI context. A small project can therefore support more interactions for the same token allowance than a large codebase. Complex changes, long chat history and repeated debugging can also consume materially more tokens than simple visual edits.

This is the single most important pricing concept to understand. A 10-million-token Pro allowance may be generous for one builder creating compact marketing sites and much less generous for another builder iterating on a larger authenticated application with several integrations. The right plan cannot be selected reliably from prompt count alone.

Paid subscription tokens roll over for one additional month. That means an allocation can remain available for up to two months while the subscription stays active. This is useful for uneven build cycles, but it is not indefinite banking. Free tokens follow their own monthly reset pattern, and ending a paid plan ends access to paid and rollover allocations.

Free plan: $0

The Free plan is the right place to evaluate Bolt's workflow before paying. Its 1 million monthly tokens are constrained by a 300,000-token daily cap, which prevents an intensive free build session from consuming the entire allowance at once. Free also includes hosting, unlimited databases and both public and private projects.

The limitations become visible when you want to publish a customer-facing product. Bolt branding remains on sites, upload size is limited to 10MB and the plan supports up to 333,000 web requests. For a prototype, internal demo or first experiment, these limits may be acceptable. For a commercial product, Pro is usually the more relevant comparison because custom domains, higher allowances and brand removal matter before token volume alone does.

Pro: starts at $25 per month

Pro is Bolt's mainstream individual paid plan. The published monthly starting price is $25, with 10 million monthly tokens and no daily token limit. Pro also removes Bolt branding, increases file uploads to 100MB, raises the web-request allowance to 1 million, adds custom domains and private sharing, and unlocks paid-plan token rollover.

The word starts is important. Bolt can offer larger token configurations than the entry Pro allowance, so a heavy builder may spend more than $25 even before external services are considered. We would not choose a higher configuration until a representative project shows its real monthly burn. AI app-builder usage varies too much for a generic recommendation.

Pro is also where Bolt's September 2026 Forge preview matters. Individual Pro users can opt into Bolt Forge, an open-model agent that currently offers a much larger temporary usage allocation through October 14, 2026. The benefit has a data tradeoff: opted-in Forge sessions can be de-identified and licensed in datasets for model development. Standard and Max usage are separate, and opting out of Forge avoids that program.

Teams: $30 per member per month

Teams includes Pro capabilities and adds centralized billing, team-level access management, granular administration, user provisioning, organizational sharing, private NPM registry support and design-system knowledge. The billing unit is per paid member, so a five-person team starts from a very different subscription baseline than a solo Pro user.

Each paid team member receives their own token allocation. Tokens are not shared across members. That can be a benefit when you want predictable per-user capacity, but it can also create unused capacity on light users while a heavy builder hits their own limit. A team evaluating Bolt should model both seats and actual build concentration, not only multiply $30 by headcount.

Enterprise: custom pricing

Enterprise adds SSO, audit logs, compliance support, dedicated account management, 24/7 priority support, custom workflows and SLAs, governance and retention controls, and more flexible procurement. Bolt's security material also describes deployment into a customer's AWS or Azure tenant for qualified BYOK scenarios. Those requirements are structurally different from buying more tokens on Pro, so Contact sales is the accurate price rather than an estimated per-seat figure.

Bolt Lite: limited $9/month Forge offer

Bolt announced Bolt Lite in September 2026 as a $9/month plan powered by Forge. At the time of this review, access is rolling out through a waitlist and does not appear as a normal self-serve tier on the main pricing page. We therefore would not compare Bolt Lite directly with Pro unless the buyer actually has access.

The Lite model also has a different tradeoff. Forge is built around open models and the program's data-sharing framework. Bolt's current terms specifically recognize Bolt Lite as a paid plan where Forge can be the only AI mode. A buyer considering it should read the Forge consent and data-use terms rather than treating it as simply a discounted Pro plan.

Monthly versus yearly billing

The live Bolt pricing page advertises yearly billing with savings of up to 28%, but the exact yearly equivalents are not consistently exposed in the current public crawl. One September Forge article also uses billing language for Pro that differs from the live pricing page. Because the pricing page is the transaction-oriented source, SearchSagar treats the live monthly figures as verified and leaves annual numeric equivalents unquoted until the checkout or yearly toggle clearly exposes them.

This is a case where avoiding false precision is more useful than calculating a theoretical discount. Before annual commitment, switch the live pricing page to Yearly, confirm the token tier, record the total annual charge and check what happens to rollover tokens if the subscription is canceled.

Hosting, databases and application usage

Bolt bundles hosting and databases into its current plans, which can make early projects cheaper than a stack assembled from separate services. Free includes up to 333,000 web requests and Pro up to 1 million according to the current pricing page. Pro also expands database capacity and lets users choose a database provider.

Those allowances are not the same as unlimited production cost. A high-traffic application can exceed plan allowances or rely on external providers. Teams using Supabase, Netlify or another backend option should include those vendors in the budget. Database growth, storage, outbound traffic and third-party API calls can matter more than the Bolt subscription once an application has real users.

Additional costs to model

• Higher AI usage: larger Pro configurations or additional capacity can raise the base subscription.
• Team seats: Teams is billed per paid member.
• Domains: registration or renewal is a separate domain cost.
• Payments: Stripe processing charges are separate from Bolt.
• External infrastructure: Supabase, Netlify and other providers can bill under their own plans.
• Third-party APIs: email, AI, analytics or business-service integrations can have their own usage charges.

Cancellation, renewals and refunds

Bolt's pricing page says users can cancel through the Stripe billing portal. StackBlitz's current terms state that paid plans are billed in advance on a monthly or annual basis, renew automatically unless canceled before renewal, and generally remain active through the end of the paid billing period after cancellation.

The current terms also state that, except where applicable law requires otherwise, subscription fees are non-refundable and consumed AI usage is non-refundable. There is an important timing nuance: StackBlitz published updated terms on September 14, 2026. They apply immediately to accounts created on or after that date, while accounts created earlier transition on October 7, 2026 or later depending on notice. Existing customers should therefore check which terms govern their account before relying on a refund or data-use assumption.

Which Bolt.new plan fits which buyer?

For most buyers, the decision is Free versus Pro first, not Pro versus Enterprise. Build one representative application on Free and observe how many tokens are consumed by initial generation, iteration and debugging. If the product concept is valid and Free limitations begin to affect deployment, move to Pro. Teams should be chosen because collaboration and governance are needed, not because it is assumed to have a cheaper shared token pool; it does not.

Who should avoid paying for Bolt.new?

Value compared with alternatives

Lovable also starts its mainstream paid plan at $25/month, but Lovable prices by workspace credits and supports unlimited members rather than charging per seat. Base44 separates message credits from integration credits and starts at $16/month on annual billing or $20 monthly. Replit Agent sits inside a broader developer platform, with Core at $20 monthly or $18/month billed annually and Pro at $100 monthly or $90/month billed annually.

Bolt's pricing value is strongest when you would otherwise pay for several setup layers or lose time moving between tools. Its pricing value is weaker when a large project consumes substantial AI context or when most of the production stack already exists elsewhere.

Questions to ask before upgrading

1. What exact yearly price applies to the token tier I need?
2. What happens to rollover tokens if I downgrade or cancel?
3. Are my expected web requests and database usage inside the included application limits?
4. Which third-party services will bill separately?
5. Does the team need shared governance enough to justify per-member Teams pricing?
6. If considering Forge or Bolt Lite, what data-sharing consent applies to the workspace and region?

Final pricing verdict

Bolt's headline pricing is competitive: a real Free tier, Pro from $25 and Teams from $30 per member. The plan table is not the difficult part. The difficult part is forecasting AI context usage and production dependencies. Buyers who track token burn and external services can make Bolt's pricing predictable enough; buyers who treat 10 million tokens as a fixed number of features are more likely to be surprised.

We would start free, connect GitHub early, and upgrade only after a representative app shows both its token profile and its hosting needs. Annual billing can reduce the effective cost, but the correct annual number should come from Bolt's live checkout rather than an inferred discount.

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