Freebuff vs Bolt.new: build every day for free vs tokens that can run out in three days
Bolt’s free plan is 1M tokens a month with a 300K daily cap, and bigger projects burn tokens faster because Bolt re-reads your files. Freebuff is free, every day.
In short
- Our verdict: Freebuff. We make Freebuff, so weigh that, but every claim below links to a source you can check.
- Bolt’s free plan is 1M tokens a month, with a 300K daily cap. Spend the daily cap a few times and the month is gone.
- Bigger projects cost more per message. Bolt says most token use comes from "reading, understanding, and syncing your project files", and fix loops spend tokens like real progress.
- Bolt scores 2.0 on Trustpilot, with 78% one-star reviews, many about tokens burned on errors and no refunds.
- Freebuff is free for a full day of building, every day. Unlimited messages in every hour-long session, a daily allowance with no monthly cap, and sign-in, a database and free publishing built in.
Bolt.new made in-browser app building feel like magic, and it still runs a full Node environment in your tab with nothing to install. But it meters every message in tokens, and the meter speeds up as your project grows. If you want to build without watching a token count, Freebuff is the better choice.
At a glance
| Feature | Freebuff | Bolt.new |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | A full day of building, every day | 1M tokens a month, max 300K a day |
| How usage is counted | Hour-long sessions with unlimited messages | Tokens per message, growing with project size |
| Monthly cap | None: the allowance refills every day | 1M tokens on Free |
| Cost of a failed fix | Nothing extra | More tokens |
| Sign-in and database | Built in | Built in; Supabase needs Pro |
| Free hosting | Preview URL and one-click deploy at no cost | bolt.host subdomain; over the limit, the site is offline for the rest of the month |
| Refunds | Nothing to refund | "Bolt subscriptions are non-refundable" |
What Bolt costs
Per Bolt’s pricing, the Free plan gives 1M tokens a month with a 300K daily cap, Bolt branding and a 10MB upload limit. Pro is $25 a month for 10M tokens, and Teams is $30 per member.
Bolt’s token docs say "Most of your token usage comes from Bolt reading, understanding, and syncing your project files", so each message costs more as your project grows. Free hosting on a bolt.host subdomain has a monthly limit; a free site that passes it goes offline for the rest of the month. And per Bolt’s billing docs, "Bolt subscriptions are non-refundable."
What Freebuff gives you for free
- Unlimited messages in every session. A session lasts an hour, and you can keep refining your site as much as you like inside it. A bigger project does not make each message cost more.
- A big daily allowance with no monthly cap. Up to 30 hours a day in the US, and 21 in countries such as Canada, the UK and Germany, refilled every day, every day of the month. Some models, such as Solar Mini 4 and Solar Pro 4, never use it.
- Sign-in, a database and publishing built in. The Website Builder turns an idea into a full-stack site with a live preview URL and one-click deploy at no cost, and you can export the code any time.
- A real coding agent too. The same account works in the CLI, the desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux, and apps for iOS and Android.
What Bolt users are saying
Bolt’s Trustpilot page scores 2.0 out of 5 from about 217 reviews, 78% of them one star. The recurring complaint is tokens spent without results:
- Tokens for planning, nothing delivered. October 2026: "Tokens were consumed just for planning and internal steps."
- Most of a day on one small change. Another October reviewer said about 212K of their 300K daily allowance went on one small change, and asked to "pay for the work they request — not for the AI’s mistakes".
- Fix loops. From June 2026: "most of my tokens were consumed trying to fix repeated issues." And in May: "burning through 1/4 of the monthly tokens to build an empty folder."
- No refunds, slow support. Reviewers report "No refunds, no help", a Pro user with "no response at all", and support that "took more than a month to reply".
- Lost work. A reviewer in October 2026 said Bolt "Constantly crashes" and "all progress is lost".
What Freebuff users are saying
I’ve tried Bolt, [...] and a handful of other builders over the years, but none of them come close to the speed, clarity, and overall polish Freebuff delivers.
Freebuff has genuinely saved me on multiple projects
Where Bolt is strong
Bolt runs a real Node environment in your browser with nothing to install, builds mobile apps through Expo, imports from Figma, and paid tokens roll over for two months. Some users love its speed. For building on a free plan, though, the token cap is the problem.
Our verdict
Pick Freebuff. Bolt’s free plan can run dry in about three days of real building, and every fix spends tokens whether it works or not. Freebuff gives you unlimited messages in every session, an allowance that refills every day, and free publishing with sign-in and a database built in.
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