Bolt.new

  • Bolt.new — Full Profile (English, 2026-08)

    1. One-line positioning

    Bolt.new = StackBlitz’s browser-native AI app builder that turns a natural-language prompt into a running full-stack web app (React/Next/Vue/Svelte/Vite/Express + Tailwind/Shadcn/MUI) by generating the files, npm-installing, booting a dev server, and live-previewing entirely inside one browser tab via WebContainers — then one-click deploying to Bolt Cloud/Netlify with built-in databases, auth, custom domains, SEO. Token-metered: Free 300K/day + 1M/mo (watermark, no rollover), Pro $25/mo ($18 ann) 10M/mo no daily cap + rollover 1 cycle, Teams $30/seat/mo ($27 ann) same 10M/seat + centralized billing/private NPM/design-system prompts, Enterprise custom (SSO/SAML/audit/BYOK). Agentic loop: on build error the agent reads the stack and self-heals before you ask. It is the “prompt→running app” bench, not a media tool (Veo/HeyGen), not a DB AI layer (Airtable AI), not a text-repurpose tool (Lumen5/Pictory/Opus).

    2. Core features

    Capability Free ($0) Pro ($25/mo · $18 ann) Teams ($30/seat · $27 ann) Enterprise (Custom)
    Tokens/mo 1M​ (300K/day hard cap) 10M​ (no daily cap) 10M/seat custom / unlimited
    Token rollover ❌ ✅ 1 cycle ✅ 1 cycle n/a
    Watermark on hosted sites ✅ ❌ ❌ ❌
    Web requests/mo 333K 1M 1M/seat custom
    File upload 10 MB 100 MB 100 MB custom
    Custom domain / SEO ❌ ✅ ✅ ✅
    Private site share ❌ ✅ ✅ ✅
    Databases (Bolt Cloud) unlimited unlimited + expanded cap unlimited + expanded custom
    AI image editing in chat ❌ ✅ ✅ ✅
    Figma import / Google Stitch 1-click ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
    Design-system knowledge (MUI/Shadcn/Porsche WP) ❌ ❌ ✅ per-package prompts ✅
    Private NPM registry ❌ ❌ ✅ ✅
    Centralized billing / SSO / audit ❌ ❌ ✅ billing/admin ✅ SAML/Okta/SCIM
    BYOK deploy (AWS/Azure) / HIPAA/FedRAMP ❌ ❌ ❌ ✅
    Models Claude Sonnet (managed) + frontier mix same same BYO key ok
    Agent self-heal on build error ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
    MCP Connectors (GitHub/Linear/Jira/Sentry) limited ✅ ✅ ✅

    Token burn: every prompt resends file tree + conversation + tool defs; a medium edit to a 5-file Next.js app = 30–60K tokens, so Free 300K/day ≈ 3–8 meaningful prompts/day, 1M/mo ≈ 20–30 sessions.

    3. Shopping/pricing — Freemium (daily-cap) + 3 paid

    • Free: $0, 300K tokens/day, 1M/mo, watermark .bolt.host, 10 MB upload, 333K requests, unlimited databases, public+private projects, no custom domain, no rollover, non-commercial-ok but branded. Eval/small demo only.
    • Pro: $25/mo monthly / $18/mo billed annually ($216/yr)​ — 10M tokens/mo, no daily cap, rollover 1 extra cycle, WM off, 100 MB, 1M requests, custom domain, SEO, private share, AI image edit, Bolt Cloud expanded DB. Solo builder floor.
    • Teams: $30/seat/mo monthly / $27/seat/mo annual​ — 10M/seat (not pooled), centralized billing, granular admin, private NPM, design-system prompts per package, org sharing. Classroom/agency.
    • Enterprise: custom, SSO/SAML, audit logs, SCIM, BYOK AWS/Azure, HIPAA/FedRAMP-ready, dedicated CSM, 24/7 SLA, custom token pools, data retention governance.
    • CPT: pricing_type = freemium, starting_price = $0, free_tier = "300K tokens/day + 1M/mo (daily hard cap), watermark .bolt.host, 10MB upload, 333K requests, unlimited DB, no rollover, no custom domain", note “paid $25/$18ann Pro, $30/$27ann Teams per seat, 10M tokens/seat, rollover 1 cycle; token burn includes full file-tree resend per msg; annual saves 28%”

    4. Access Type (v2 spec)

    • access_type: web-app, mobile
    • access_display: 🌐 Web App (Chrome/Edge; WebContainers needs cross-origin isolation, Firefox partial) · 📱 Mobile web (start/chat/publish only; Code View/DB controls need desktop)
    • No desktop client (unlike Airtable), no public REST API for generating apps (GitHub/MCP connectors are integrations, not a build API). bolt.diy is the OSS fork for self-host + any LLM.

    5. Who should use it

    1. Solo founders / indie hackers​ — idea→running Next.js+Supabase auth app in 60 min, no local Node
    2. Product managers / designers​ — Figma frame dropped in chat → working prototype, no eng queue
    3. Agencies doing client MVPs​ — Teams plan, private NPM, per-client design-system prompts
    4. Hackathon / edtech​ — Chromebook-only, zero setup, WebContainers boot in ms
    5. Internal tooling​ — admin panel / dashboard / CRUD app on Bolt Cloud DB + auth, skip Vercel+Supabase glue
    6. StackBlitz migrants​ — anyone already on StackBlitz IDE gets Bolt free

    6. Who should NOT use it

    1. Video/avatar/music/voice​ → Veo/Luma/Kling/HeyGen/Suno/Murf; Bolt generates zero media
    2. Structured-data AI inside existing records​ → Airtable AI; Bolt builds apps, doesn’t enrich your CRM rows
    3. Long-form fiction / ASR / TTS​ → Sudowrite/《Whisper》/Murf
    4. Native mobile (iOS/Android) or desktop apps​ — WebContainers can’t run Xcode/EAS/Docker; Expo web only
    5. Heavy Python data science / native Postgres / NumPy​ — Pyodide partial, no native PG; wrong runtime
    6. Free-tier shipping​ — 300K/day evaporates mid-session on a real app; watermark+no domain = not client-ready
    7. Complex production backend with custom infra​ — agent self-heal covers scaffolding, not distributed systems; you’ll export to GH+Render eventually
    8. Predictable flat $ AI cost​ — token burn scales with project size (bigger file tree = more per msg), 10M sounds big, isn’t for 50-file apps

     

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