Bolt vs Cursor vs Replit vs v0 by Vercel
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Bolt
AI app builder — prompt to a deployed full-stack app in your browser
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Cursor
AI-first VS Code fork — agentic, codebase-aware editing
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Replit
Browser IDE with an AI agent that codes, deploys, and hosts for you
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v0 by Vercel
Vercel's AI that generates React and Tailwind UI components from plain...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.9 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 | 7.7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | 1M tokens/month (300K daily cap) for app generation | Hobby plan — standing free tier (not just a trial), 2,000 completions / 50 slow premium requests per month, no card required | Free coding environment with limited compute | Free — $5/month in token-based credits |
| Paid from | $25/month (Pro, 10M tokens); $30/member/month (Teams) | $20/month (Pro); Pro+ $60/month; Ultra $200/month; Teams $40/user/month | $20/month (Core); $100/month (Pro, replaced the old Teams plan Feb 2026) | $20/month (Pro, $20/mo credits); Team $30/user/month |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 1m+ users | 1m+ developers | 30M+ users | 500k+ developers |
| Founded | 2024 | 2022 | 2016 | 2023 |
| Maker | StackBlitz | Anysphere | Amjad Masad, Haya Odeh, Faris Masad | Vercel |
| Verdict | Bolt turns a prompt into a running, deployable web app inside the browser, using StackBlitz's WebContainers so there's no local environment to set up — genuinely fast for prototypes and demos, and Claude Sonnet 4.6 now r... |
Cursor is the most polished AI-first code editor going — a VS Code fork that bakes model-aware autocomplete, multi-file agent edits and chat-with-your-codebase into the core editing loop. Tab completion and Composer are... |
Replit bundles a code editor, real-time multiplayer collaboration, instant hosting, and a built-in database into one browser tab, now built around the Replit Agent for AI-driven builds. It remains the default choice for... |
v0 turns plain-English prompts into deployable React/Tailwind/shadcn UI, and inside the Vercel/Next.js stack it remains one of the fastest prompt-to-shipped-page tools around — describe a screen, pick from several genera... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.