Pick Bolt if
founders and front-end builders who want a first hosted app in the browser.
Read the Bolt pageBolt vs Orchids
Our take
Pick Bolt if founders and front-end builders who want a first hosted app in the browser. Pick Orchids if builders who already pay for a frontier chat/code seat and want a deployable app canvas on top. Skip Bolt if teams that cannot send prompts to StackBlitz, or engineers who need a desktop agent (Cursor) or a local repo.
Bolt
StackBlitz prompt-to-app composer. Free
Best for
Bolt A hosted web app from a sentence
Orchids Prompt a web, mobile, or agent app and deploy it
Free plan
Bolt $0 · /month. 1M tokens/month, 300K daily token limit, public/private projects, Bolt branding on published sites, hosting. No card required
Orchids No free plan
Lowest paid
Bolt Pro $18/mo yearly
Orchids Pro $25/mo yearly
Next step up
Bolt
Orchids Annual savings on that table: $48 / $96 / $192 / $384. $48
Coding agent
Bolt
Orchids Claude Code (paid plans)
Runs where
Bolt Hosted
Orchids Web, mobile; hosted
Watch out
Bolt Free is capped
Orchids Credits scale with prompt, context, and model
Last checked
Bolt 2026-10-20 · bolt.new/pricing
Orchids 2026-10-22 · docs.orchids.app/plans-and-token-usage
Which one, then?
Pick Orchids if
builders who already pay for a frontier chat/code seat and want a deployable app canvas on top.
Read the Orchids page