Is Lovable AI Free? Yes and No — Here's Exactly What the Free Plan Gives You

Yes. Lovable AI is free to use, and it is free forever rather than a trial. The free plan gives you 5 daily credits (capped at about 30 a month), the full builder, unlimited collaborators, free hosting on a lovable.app subdomain with a Lovable badge, and real exportable code via GitHub sync. The narrow "no": projects are public, the badge stays, and you cannot publish to a custom domain from inside Lovable without a paid plan.

Is Lovable free to use forever?

Yes — there is no expiry date and no forced upgrade. Credits reset daily and your project stays live on its lovable.app address. You upgrade to Pro ($25/month, discounted annually) when you need 100 monthly credits, private projects, badge removal or one-click custom-domain publishing.

How Lovable AI credits work on the free plan

Lovable bills per prompt, not per website. Every message that changes your project consumes credits, whether the result is what you wanted or not. Ten small corrections cost up to ten credits; one well-written prompt that gets you 90% of the way may cost just a fraction. Writing one long opening prompt and batching edits makes roughly 30 credits a month enough for a complete four-page small business site.

What you can build for free

Free-plan output is indistinguishable from paid-plan output — the plan limits your prompt allowance, not design quality. Our resort, safari and luxury apartment sample sites were built to demonstrate exactly that; see more in the website design portfolio.

Lovable plans compared: free vs Pro

Free: $0, 5 daily credits capped at ~30/month, public projects, lovable.app subdomain with badge, GitHub sync, unlimited collaborators. Pro: $25/month, 100 monthly credits plus 5 daily, private projects, custom domains, badge removed, ZIP downloads, custom collaborator roles.

Can I use a custom domain on Lovable's free plan?

Not directly, but there is a completely free workaround. Sync your project to GitHub, import the repository into Netlify's free tier, set the build command to npm run build with a dist publish directory, add a public/_redirects file containing /* /index.html 200, buy your own externally purchased domain for about $25 a year, and point DNS at Netlify. You get your own domain, HTTPS, a CDN, automatic deploys and no Lovable badge with no monthly subscription. Our Lovable AI for Beginners Udemy course shows every step on screen.

Is Lovable good? What reviews say

After building nine real websites we rate it 4.5 out of 5 for marketing sites, portfolios, landing pages and small business sites. Read the full Lovable AI review, the detailed Lovable AI pricing breakdown, and how to build a website without coding.