Bolt
Prompt to a running, deployed web app, built inside your browser
Overview
Bolt (Bolt.new) is StackBlitz's AI app builder: describe an app and it writes, runs and deploys a full-stack web project inside the browser using WebContainers, with Standard and Max agents choosing the models. It includes hosting and a database, offers a free tier, and paid plans start at $25 a month, or $18 billed yearly.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 19 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Public and private projects
- Bolt branding on websites
- 10MB file upload limit
- Website hosting, up to 333k web requests
- Unlimited databases
- No daily token limit; unused tokens roll over
- No Bolt branding; share sites privately
- Custom domains and SEO boosting
- 100MB uploads; up to 1M web requests
- Choice of database provider; AI image editing
- Centralized billing
- Team-level access management
- Granular admin controls and user provisioning
- Private NPM registries
- Design System knowledge with per-package prompts
- SSO, audit logs and compliance support
- Dedicated account manager and 24/7 priority support
- Custom workflows, integrations and SLAs
- Data governance and retention policies
Use cases
What you can produce with Bolt
- A running full-stack web app generated from a text prompt, with no local setup
- In-browser editing, preview and code view on StackBlitz WebContainers
- One-click publishing to a bolt.host address or a custom domain on paid plans
- A built-in database, with Supabase as an option on paid plans
- Changes made by clicking on the app with visual edits, or by importing Figma frames
- Team workspaces with central billing, admin controls and private NPM registries
Bolt is one of the quickest routes from an idea to a running web app: everything happens in the browser, hosting and a database are built in, and Standard and Max agents handle model choice. Pricing is clear, from a free tier to $25 a month for Pro.
The weakness is what happens after the demo. Token use climbs with project size, and Trustpilot reviewers, scoring it 1.6 from 204 reviews, complain about drained tokens, crashes and bot-led support. Use it for prototypes and pitch demos, and plan a developer hand-off for anything that has to stay up.
What we found
Bolt, usually written Bolt.new, is StackBlitz's AI app builder. It launched in October 2024 and runs the whole development loop of install, build, preview and deploy inside the browser on WebContainers, StackBlitz's in-browser runtime, so there is nothing to set up locally. Chief executive Eric Simons has said publicly that it went from zero to $20 million in annual recurring revenue in its first two months; that is the company's own figure, not an audited one.
Users no longer pick a model. Bolt offers two agents, Standard and Max, and chooses the models behind them; Max is paid-only. Bolt Cloud supplies hosting and a built-in database, Supabase is an option on paid plans, and recent additions include visual edits, Figma import and prompt queueing. In September 2026 Bolt bought Dokai, a San Francisco start-up building enterprise agents, on undisclosed terms.
Pricing is published. The free plan gives 1 million tokens a month, capped at 300,000 a day, with Bolt branding. Pro is $25 a month, or $18 billed yearly, for 10 million tokens that roll over for a month, custom domains and no branding; Teams is $30 per member, or $27 yearly. Tokens go mostly on syncing the project to the AI, so larger projects cost more per message. A September experiment, the Bolt Forge agent on open models, gave Pro users extra usage until 14 October in exchange for opt-in, de-identified session data licensed to model developers; a $9 Lite plan built on Forge stopped taking sign-ups the same day.
The reviews are poor. On Trustpilot, read on 19 October 2026, Bolt scores 1.6 from 204 reviews, 83% of them one-star, and the site's own summary of 95 recent reviews cites token drain, crashes and support that answers with bots. It is fast for prototypes and pitch demos; budget for a developer before anything customer-facing or revenue-critical ships.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
Notable facts
- Bolt uses WebContainers — StackBlitz's in-browser Node.js runtime — meaning the entire development environment runs in your browser tab without any server or local installation.
- A startup founder built and launched a production SaaS product using only Bolt in 48 hours, generating the first paying customer before writing a single line of code manually.
- Bolt went from launch to 1 million users in 30 days — one of the fastest adoptions of any developer tool in history.
Frequently asked questions
About this listing
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