Side by side
The differences that change the decision
| Factor | Replit | Bolt |
|---|---|---|
| Product scope | Web and mobile apps, designs, slides, video, data visualizations and documents in shared projects. | Full-stack web apps and Expo-based mobile apps, built and run in a browser workspace. |
| Agent control | Plan Mode plus Lite, Economy and Power modes; Core can run two agents in parallel. | Discussion and build workflows with a Standard model on Free and additional model choices on paid plans. |
| Free building | Free daily Agent credits, with no fixed public daily figure on the pricing page. | 300,000 tokens per day and 1 million per month. |
| Free hosting | Publish one badged app; its link goes down after 30 days but can be republished. Starter also includes the built-in database. | Free bolt.host publishing with Bolt branding, 10 GB bandwidth and 333,333 monthly requests across the account. |
| Paid entry | Core is $20 a month billed annually with $25 of monthly credits and up to five collaborators. | Pro starts at $25 monthly with 10 million tokens, no daily token cap and custom-domain support. |
| Database | A built-in full-stack database is available from Starter, alongside development and production tooling. | Bolt Database can automatically add tables, authentication, storage, secrets and server functions. |
| Code and GitHub | A code editor, shell, Git pane and checkpoints live in the workspace. | GitHub sync provides history and an external path; projects can also be downloaded as ZIP files. |
- Software that mixes an app with data work, presentations, media or connected services
- Teams that want planning, code editing, infrastructure and several agents under one account
- A project whose next six months are harder to predict than its first six screens
- A founder building a conventional full-stack website or web app from a prompt
- A project that needs an explicit free allowance and simple bolt.host publishing
- A mobile idea that should begin with Expo from the first prompt
Replit is no longer just an online IDE
Replit Agent can now create several artifact types in one project and share a backend between them. It also plans work, connects to services, writes files, configures infrastructure and works through a full editor. That breadth is useful for a company treating Replit as a regular software environment.
Bolt is not a toy by comparison: its cloud includes databases, auth, functions and hosting, while its GitHub connection provides a route into conventional development. It simply draws the product boundary more tightly around building and publishing the app. For a small team, fewer adjacent tools can mean less ceremony.
Bolt publishes harder limits; Replit sells a flexible credit balance
Bolt's free quota is unusually concrete: 300,000 tokens per day and 1 million per month. Its quickstart says the sample app uses just under the daily allowance, which is a helpful warning about translating a large token number into finished work. Pro begins at $25 monthly for 10 million tokens.
Replit does not put a numeric daily Agent allowance on the public Starter card. Core is $20 monthly on annual billing and adds $25 of usage credit, while Agent and cloud use draw from the account under Replit's billing rules. Both products can charge more as building or operation grows; set spending controls before a production launch.
For mobile, Bolt has the simpler documented path; Replit has the broader project
Bolt tells users to name the mobile target in the very first prompt so it can establish an Expo project. Its documentation then covers device preview, TestFlight, Google Play and EAS. That makes the path legible, although Apple, Google and Expo accounts remain separate responsibilities.
Replit can build native mobile artifacts alongside web and other project outputs. Its advantage is keeping those artifacts and their backend together. Choose Bolt if the goal is a focused Expo build; choose Replit if mobile is one face of a product with several other deliverables.
Sources and fact checking
This comparison uses the companies' own pricing pages and documentation. We checked them on August 13, 2026; plans, allowances and product limits can change after that date.
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