Pick Lovable if
founders and PMs who want a first hosted app without hiring a sprint.
Read the Lovable pageLovable vs Magic Patterns
Our take
Pick Lovable if founders and PMs who want a first hosted app without hiring a sprint. Pick Magic Patterns if pMs and designers who want a working prototype in the browser and will spend a monthly credit pool. Skip Lovable if teams that cannot send product specs to Lovable, or engineers who need a desktop agent (Cursor).
Best for
Lovable A web app from a sentence
Magic Patterns A clickable React prototype from a brief
Free plan
Lovable $0 · 5 build credits/day, capped at 30/month, plus monthly grants of 20 Cloud and 4 AI credits. After the cap, daily grants stop until 00:00 UTC on the 1st
Magic Patterns $0 · / month. Free monthly credits
Lowest paid
Lovable Top-ups $15
Magic Patterns On-demand $0.02
Next step up
Lovable Pro from $25/mo
Magic Patterns Starter $20/mo yearly
Coding agent
Lovable
Magic Patterns MCP
Runs where
Lovable Hosted
Magic Patterns Hosted
Watch out
Lovable Free is a 30-credit monthly bucket
Magic Patterns Credits scale with iterations
Last checked
Lovable 2026-10-19 · docs.lovable.dev/introduction/subscription-plans
Magic Patterns 2026-10-22 · magicpatterns.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Magic Patterns if
pMs and designers who want a working prototype in the browser and will spend a monthly credit pool.
Read the Magic Patterns page