Bolt.new
Summary
Spinning up a prototype is fast — until you need a backend, a database, and a deployment pipeline, and suddenly you're stitching together four different services before writing a line of product logic. Bolt collapses that setup into a single chat interface.
Built by StackBlitz, Bolt lets you describe a web app in plain language and get a running prototype with hosting, a database, and authentication included — no separate accounts required. The vendor states model routing picks the right LLM for each task, so you're not manually switching between agents. Design system imports from Figma or component libraries like Shadcn and Material UI let teams build on-brand without starting from scratch. The ceiling appears when projects grow past prototype fidelity: complex business logic, custom server-side workflows, or deep third-party integrations push you outside what a prompt-driven canvas can express. At that point, the generated code becomes the starting point for a hand-rolled codebase.
Bottom line: Bolt earns its place for a product manager who needs a clickable, hosted prototype by end of day — it breaks down when an engineering team needs fine-grained control over backend logic that can't be described in a chat prompt.
Pricing Plans
Subscription- Free Tier
- 300K tokens daily, 1M tokens per month, Bolt branding, 10MB file upload, 333k web requests
Free
Public and private projects, 300K tokens daily, 1M monthly, Bolt branding, 10MB upload, hosting, 333k requests, unlimited databases
- 300K daily tokens
- Bolt branding
- 10MB file limit
Pro
No daily limit, starts at 10M tokens/month, no branding, 100MB upload, 1M requests, custom domain, SEO, image editing with AI
- 10M+ tokens/month
- Custom domains
- No Bolt branding
Teams
Everything in Pro plus centralized billing, team access, admin controls, private NPM, design system prompts
- Team features
- Centralized billing
- Granular controls
Enterprise
Everything in Pro plus advanced security, SSO, audit logs, dedicated support, custom SLAs
- SSO and compliance
- 24/7 support
- Dedicated account manager
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Integrated hosting, database, and authentication ship with every project, so you avoid the setup tax of wiring together separate infrastructure services before the first prototype is testable.
- Automatic model routing selects the LLM matched to each task, which means you don't lose a sprint debugging why the wrong model was chosen for a code-generation step.
- Design system imports from Figma, Shadcn, Material UI, and others let teams generate on-brand output from the first prompt, avoiding the rework cycle of restyling generic scaffolding.
- Built-in context management handles larger project sizes than earlier generations of the tool, so complexity doesn't force you to restart or manually chunk your project.
- SEO configuration is included by default, which means a marketing or product team can ship a campaign page without a separate optimization pass.
Cons
Sign in to edit- Custom server-side logic — API middleware, complex authentication flows, background jobs — cannot be fully expressed through a chat prompt. Teams needing this level of control export the generated code and maintain it as a standard codebase, which means Bolt becomes a scaffolding tool rather than an ongoing build environment.
- There is no self-hosted deployment option and the codebase is not open-source, so teams operating under data residency or compliance constraints that require on-premise generation have no supported path and must switch to an open-source alternative like Dify or a self-hosted code generation pipeline.
- The Bolt Agent Max model — described on the page as the higher-intelligence routing tier — is a paid-only feature. Teams on the free tier are capped at standard model quality, which means the advertised error reduction and reasoning depth apply fully only after upgrading.
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- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-06-18T13:47:47.751Z
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Who it's for
- Individual developers and small teams
- Rapid website and app prototyping
- Users needing AI-assisted web building
What it does well
- Building websites from text descriptions
- Creating app prototypes
- Hosting web projects with databases
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- Bolt.new is a paid tool. No permanent free tier is offered.
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- No — Bolt.new is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
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Bolt is a prompt-to-web-app builder from StackBlitz that takes a text description and produces a deployed web application — hosting, database, and user authentication included. The core workflow is conversational: you describe what you want, Bolt generates code, tests it internally, and iterates. The vendor states error rates drop significantly because the system refactors and re-tests before surfacing output, so you spend fewer cycles debugging generated code.
The differentiating feature is the integrated backend layer. Where most AI builders generate frontend-only output you then have to connect to external services, Bolt’s Cloud layer bundles hosting with analytics, custom domains, database provisioning, and authentication into one environment. The vendor describes this as ‘enterprise-grade backend infrastructure’ — the practical effect is that a non-engineer can go from prompt to a live URL without touching a deployment dashboard.
Design system support is the other production-facing lever. Teams can import brand components — Shadcn, Material UI, Chakra, or proprietary systems like the Washington Post’s — so generated output matches existing visual standards rather than defaulting to generic scaffolding. This makes Bolt more viable for agency and product team workflows than a blank-canvas code generator.
The tool is a freemium product with no self-hosted option and no open-source codebase. The Bolt Agent Max tier, which the page identifies as Pro-only, unlocks higher-intelligence model routing. Teams with compliance requirements around where code is generated or stored have no self-hosting path.