2026-07-18 · playbook
Verified July-2026 pricing across Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Supabase, Vercel, and the LLM APIs, with four realistic monthly-burn scenarios.
Building is nearly free. Running is not. We verified current prices across the major builders, hosts and APIs for our cost calculator. The builder subscription is your floor: Lovable Pro $25/month, Bolt Pro $25, Replit Core $25, v0 Premium $20, Emergent $20, Base44 from $20. The backend is where bills surprise people: Supabase Pro is $25/month but real bills run $35 to $100 with compute add-ons; Vercel Pro is $20 per seat. A realistic chat interaction costs between $1.88 and $11 per thousand chats depending on the model. Four scenarios: weekend toy $0-30/month, real side project $15-80, growing SaaS $65-200, scale higher.