Freebuff vs Lovable: build every day for free vs 30 credits a month
Lovable’s free plan caps you at 30 credits a month, every build message costs credits, and running out pauses your app’s database. 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.
- Lovable’s free plan stops at 30 credits a month. It grants 5 a day, but caps the month at 30: about six days of real building.
- Every build message costs credits, fixes included. Lovable’s low reviews are full of credits spent on "fixes" that did not fix the problem.
- Running out pauses your backend. Lovable’s own docs say its Cloud database pauses and "you cannot access or export it" until you add credits.
- 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.
Lovable is genuinely easy to use, and plenty of people love it: it scores well on Trustpilot and G2. But it charges credits for every build message, and the bill grows fastest exactly when things go wrong. If you want to build without rationing messages, Freebuff is the better choice.
At a glance
| Feature | Freebuff | Lovable |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | A full day of building, every day | 5 credits a day, capped at 30 a month |
| How usage is counted | Hour-long sessions with unlimited messages | Credits per message, by complexity |
| Monthly cap | None: the allowance refills every day | 30 credits on Free |
| Cost of a failed fix | Nothing extra | More credits |
| Sign-in and database | Built in | Built in (Lovable Cloud), paid from the same credits |
| When you run out | The allowance refills tomorrow; some models never use it | Building stops and the Cloud backend pauses |
| Publishing | Preview URL and one-click deploy at no cost | Free with an "Edit with Lovable" badge; custom domains paid |
What Lovable costs
Per Lovable’s plans docs, the Free plan gets 5 build credits a day, capped at 30 a month, plus small monthly grants for Cloud and AI features that Lovable labels temporary. Pro starts at $25 a month for 100 credits.
On the pricing page, a Plan-mode message costs 1 credit, and a Build message "varies with task complexity": 0.5 credits to make a button gray, 1.2 to add authentication. The same balance pays for your app’s database, storage and AI features, and when it runs out, Lovable’s docs say the Cloud backend pauses and "you cannot access or export it until the services run again".
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 bug that takes ten tries costs the same as one message.
- 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 Lovable users are saying
Lovable scores 4.2 out of 5 on Trustpilot from about 1,960 reviews, so plenty of users are happy. Its one-star reviews cluster around the same themes:
- Paying for fixes that do not fix. One reviewer in October 2026 said they spent about €2,195 over six months on "repeated ’fixes’ that did not fix the problem" and were refused refunds.
- Credits going faster. A November 2026 reviewer described "spending 100 credits in 2 hours approx."
- Use them or lose them. Reviewers note that daily credits do not roll over and plan credits expire: "if you don’t use them you lose them".
- Billing. Recent reviews describe a Pro refund refused with no Pro credits used, and a charge after closing an account.
- Sites taken down. Users in October and November 2026 reported live sites taken down without warning and support emails going unanswered.
- Security. In April 2026, a Lovable API flaw exposed source code and AI chat histories on older public projects; Lovable first said it had not suffered a data breach, then partly apologised.
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.
I just wanted to say thank ya’ll for making this amazing app. It allows people that aren’t made of money to use LLM in ways to create.
Where Lovable is strong
Lovable is easy to pick up, shows the cost of each message, syncs both ways with GitHub, and its built-in backend handles a database, sign-in and hosting. If you have a budget and want a polished builder, it is a good one.
Our verdict
Pick Freebuff. Lovable’s free plan runs out after about six days of building a month, and every fix after that costs credits. Freebuff gives you unlimited messages in every session, an allowance that refills every single day, and free publishing with sign-in and a database built in.
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