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A designer, founder or product person who wants to prototype and publish a JavaScript web app quickly, with a token budget they control and a GitHub repository they can hand to a developer.

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AI app builder that runs in the browser, writes JavaScript web and mobile apps from prompts, and publishes them on Bolt Cloud hosting with a built-in database

Choose Bolt.new if

  • You want to see the idea on a screen today — the project runs in your browser as you prompt, and the Publish button puts it on a bolt.host address in about a minute, on the free plan too.
  • The code is yours from minute one — StackBlitz states it is yours for any legal purpose, GitHub sync commits every change, and Export gives you the whole project as a zip.
  • You are learning by doing, or iterating on a prototype, and a free plan with a daily token cap or Pro at US$25 a month is the right size of commitment.
  • You have a developer, or will soon, who can take the repository, publish it on Netlify or elsewhere, and claim the database into your own Supabase account.

Choose Idea to Production if

  • One named contact who built the application and will fix it — Bolt’s support is by email on weekdays for paid plans, and a policy on debugging the code in your project is not documented.
  • Backups with restores we have actually run, database included — Bolt’s version history restores project files and states it does not restore the database.
  • Monitoring that reaches a person, and capacity that follows demand rather than a bandwidth allowance or spending cap that pauses the site when it runs out.
  • Roles and permissions from day one, with SSO and audit logs for your app’s users ready when the first enterprise customer asks.

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What each one actually gives you

Not documented means we could not find it in Bolt.new's own material — it is not a claim that it is missing. Everything marked No links to the source that says so.

Capability Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Idea to Production
Who it is for Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Yes Anyone who wants to build a website, web app or mobile app by prompting, from a free plan with a daily token cap to Teams and Enterprise workspaces. Idea to Production Yes Founders and businesses whose application has to work in front of a paying customer.
How you build Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Yes You prompt a Standard or Max agent; Bolt writes a JavaScript project that runs in your browser in a WebContainer, previews it live and publishes it to Bolt Cloud. Source Idea to Production Yes You describe it in plain English; we build it and keep it running.
Time to a first working version Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Yes A first version publishes to a free bolt.host address from the Publish menu in about a minute on every plan; the free plan has a 300K daily token cap. Source Idea to Production Partly A first working version in days, not minutes — it has real accounts and real data from the start.
Pricing model Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Yes Free plan with 1 million tokens a month and a 300K daily cap; Pro from US$25 a month for 10 million tokens, with higher tiers; Teams US$30 a month per member; Enterprise by contract; hosting beyond the plan allowance is pay as you go on paid plans. Source Idea to Production Yes A licence plus the resources your application actually uses. No salary, no equity.
Code ownership and export Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Yes StackBlitz states the code you create is your own for any legal purpose; GitHub sync with automatic commits and branches, and Export gives the whole project as a zip. Source Idea to Production Yes The source is yours, handed over in a form your own team can pick up and continue.
Hosting and custom domain Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Partly Bolt Cloud hosting with a free bolt.host address on every plan, or Netlify for projects not yet published; custom domains with automatic HTTPS need a paid plan, and free-plan sites go offline for the month once they pass 10 GB or 333,333 requests. Source Idea to Production Yes Production and staging on your own domain with TLS, Canadian regions by default.
Accounts, roles and SSO Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Partly Email and password and Google sign-in for app users on the built-in database, with a user management pane and leaked-password protection; Bolt states you can create roles and permissions for different types of users, and SAML or OIDC sign-in for app users is not documented. Source Idea to Production Yes Real accounts, roles and permissions from day one; single sign-on switched on when you need it.
Database and tested backups Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Partly Built-in database on Supabase technology, unlimited on every plan, which you can claim into your own Supabase account; version history restores project files and not the database, and backups of a Bolt Database are not documented. Source Idea to Production Yes A backed-up database with restores tested, not assumed.
Monitoring, alerting to a person Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Partly Database, authentication and server-function logs, and hosting analytics on paid plans; uptime monitoring or alerting for the published app is not documented. Source Idea to Production Yes Watched from outside on a short interval, alerting to a person, not a dashboard.
Security patching and dependency updates Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Partly A security audit on paid plans reviews the project’s code and database, applies most fixes itself and lists the rest for you; scheduled dependency and security-advisory updates for the published app are not documented. Source Idea to Production Yes Dependencies and security advisories applied on a schedule, forever.
Compliance evidence Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Partly Bolt states SOC 2 Type 2 certification and GDPR and CCPA compliance for its platform, with annual third-party pen tests and a trust profile at trust.bolt.new; audit logs and compliance support are Enterprise plan features, and evidence for your app is not documented. Source Idea to Production Partly A written security overview and answered questionnaires today. SOC 2 Type II is in progress, not certified.
Payments, email, e-signature, support Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Partly Documented Stripe payments on Bolt Database or Supabase, email through Resend, Mailgun, Postmark or SendGrid from server functions, and MCP connectors that give the builder context from Notion, Linear, GitHub or a custom server; e-signature and support-desk integrations are not documented. Source Idea to Production Yes Thirteen categories built in — Stripe, Xero, Mailgun, Twilio, DocuSign, Intercom, Jira and more.
AI agents Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Partly Standard and Max agents build the app, with Plan mode and queued prompts; the built app can call AI APIs such as OpenAI from server functions with keys kept as secrets, and agents inside the app with their own credentials, limits and audit trail are not documented. Source Idea to Production Yes AI agents with credentials, limits, a schedule and an audit trail.
Who is responsible when it breaks Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Partly Email support on weekdays for paid plans and Discord community support on the free plan, with a dedicated account manager and 24/7 priority support on Enterprise; a policy on debugging the code in your project is not documented. Source Idea to Production Yes The people who built it. One named contact, not a ticket queue.
Scaling Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Partly Bolt states hosting grows automatically as your audience expands, within monthly allowances: 10 GB and 333,333 requests on Free with a hard stop, 30 GB and 1 million requests on Pro with pay-as-you-go traffic up to a cap you set, after which the site pauses. Source Idea to Production Yes Capacity follows demand and is measured; ten users or ten thousand on the same application.
Deployment into your own cloud Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Partly Hosting is Bolt Cloud or Netlify; the code lives in GitHub and can be published on another service you choose, the database can be claimed into your own Supabase account, and an Enterprise BYOK option runs Bolt inside your own AWS or Azure tenant. Source Idea to Production No Not yet — on the roadmap. Today the application runs on our infrastructure. Source

After the build

The part that decides whether it survives a customer

What Bolt.new provides once the app exists

Bolt publishes the app to Bolt Cloud on a bolt.host address, or on a custom domain with automatic HTTPS on a paid plan; new projects can go to Netlify instead. Hosting is metered per account: 10 GB and 333,333 requests a month on Free, after which the site goes offline until the cycle resets, and 30 GB and 1 million requests on Pro, then pay-as-you-go up to a cap you set. The built-in database, on Supabase technology, provides tables, sign-in by email or Google, file storage, server functions and logs, and can be claimed into your Supabase account. Version history restores project files, not the database. A security audit on paid plans reviews code and database. Support is by email on weekdays for paid plans, on Discord for free users.

What a real customer asks for that is not on that list

The first paying customer does not care which builder made the app. They want it up at two in the morning, and they want it to stay up on the busy day rather than pause at a bandwidth cap. They want a database restore that has been rehearsed, which version history does not offer. They want someone to have noticed an outage before they did; uptime monitoring and alerting for the published app are not documented. Their IT department wants roles, single sign-on with their own identity provider, an audit log and a security questionnaire answered by a person who can sign it. None of that is a feature you prompt for; it is a job someone has to hold, every week, for as long as the application earns money.

Every application we build inherits the same five guarantees: Secure, Compliant, Reliable, Scalable, Efficient.

Already built on Bolt.new?

We treat your prototype as the brief.

A working prototype is the best specification there is: it shows what you want rather than describing it. We start from what you have learned, not from its code, and you get a production application with real accounts, real data and somebody watching it.

Show us what you have

Questions people ask

Can you take over my Bolt.new app?

We treat it as the brief. A Bolt prototype is the clearest specification you can hand us — it shows exactly which screens and flows you want. We rebuild from it with real accounts, roles, a backed-up database and monitoring from the start, rather than inheriting generated code we did not write and cannot vouch for.

Is Bolt.new a bad choice?

No. It is a good way to see an idea on a screen in an afternoon, to test whether anyone wants it, and to learn by doing, with hosting and a database included from the first prompt. The code is yours, syncs to GitHub and downloads as a zip, so nothing is lost if you later move on. The question is only who runs it once someone is paying to use it.

Does Bolt host my app, and what does that cost?

Yes. Every plan can publish to a free bolt.host address; a custom domain needs a paid plan, from US$25 a month. Hosting allowances are per account: the free plan includes 10 GB of bandwidth and 333,333 requests a month and the site goes offline for the rest of the month once it passes them; Pro includes 30 GB and 1 million requests, with pay-as-you-go traffic beyond that up to a spending cap you set, after which the site pauses. Projects that have not yet been published can be sent to your own Netlify account instead.

Who is responsible for backups on Bolt?

Bolt’s version history and dated backups restore your project files and chat, and Bolt states they do not restore the database. Backups of a Bolt Database are not documented; if you claim the database into your own Supabase account, or connect a Supabase project, backups are yours to manage under your Supabase plan. Neither path documents a tested restore, and testing one is what turns a backup into a recovery.

Can my customers sign in with their company SSO on a Bolt app?

App users can sign in with email and password or with Google, configured in the database’s authentication settings with your own Google OAuth credentials. Sign-in with a SAML or OIDC identity provider for your app’s users is not documented; the SSO with Okta or Azure AD on Bolt’s Enterprise plan covers signing in to Bolt itself. Bolt states you can create roles and permissions for different types of users, so that is something to ask for and check in the built app.

What happens when my Bolt tokens or hosting limits run out?

Tokens and hosting are separate. On the free plan there is a 300K daily and 1 million monthly token cap, and building waits for the next reset; paid plans have no daily cap and unused tokens roll over for two months. Hosting is the one that affects your customers: a free-plan site stops serving once it passes its monthly bandwidth or request allowance, and a Pro site pauses once it reaches the spending cap you set. Idea to Production bills a licence plus the resources the application actually uses, and the application does not pause.

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Last verified 2026-09-12. Bolt.new changes; if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.

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