Pick Lovable if
founders and PMs who want a first hosted app without hiring a sprint.
Read the Lovable pageLovable vs Orchids
Our take
Pick Lovable if founders and PMs who want a first hosted app without hiring a sprint. Pick Orchids if builders who already pay for a frontier chat/code seat and want a deployable app canvas on top. 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
Orchids Prompt a web, mobile, or agent app and deploy it
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
Orchids No free plan
Lowest paid
Lovable Top-ups $15
Orchids Pro $25/mo yearly
Next step up
Lovable Pro from $25/mo
Orchids Annual savings on that table: $48 / $96 / $192 / $384. $48
Coding agent
Lovable
Orchids Claude Code (paid plans)
Runs where
Lovable Hosted
Orchids Web, mobile; hosted
Watch out
Lovable Free is a 30-credit monthly bucket
Orchids Credits scale with prompt, context, and model
Last checked
Lovable 2026-10-19 · docs.lovable.dev/introduction/subscription-plans
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