Lovable
by Lovable
Chat your way to a deployed full-stack app
Lovable is an AI app builder that turns a chat conversation into a working full-stack web application - interface, backend, database and authentication - and deploys it in one click. It targets founders, product teams and non-engineers who need a functioning product faster than a normal development cycle allows, and it hands back a real codebase they can sync to GitHub and own outright.
Lovable is a browser-based AI application builder that turns a natural-language conversation into a deployed full-stack web app - frontend, backend, database, authentication and integrations - without the user writing code. It was co-founded by Anton Osika, a physicist formerly at CERN, and Fabian Hedin, who each hold roughly 24% of the company, and it operates from offices in Stockholm, San Francisco, London and Boston. Its growth is the reason it matters commercially: Forbes reported that Lovable crossed $100 million in annualised revenue within eight months of launch, passed $400 million in ARR in February 2026, raised $330 million in December 2025 at a $6.6 billion valuation, and was in talks by June 2026 to raise again at roughly $12 billion. Around eight million people use it, including staff at Uber, HubSpot and Microsoft, but enterprise contracts account for only about $20 million of that ARR - the revenue base is overwhelmingly prosumer and small-team self-serve. Technically it generates a conventional codebase that syncs to your own GitHub repository, and it leans on managed backend services, notably Supabase, rather than running its own application runtime. That is simultaneously its speed advantage and the source of its best-documented failure mode, since generated row-level-security policies have twice been the root cause of public data exposures. On the enterprise side Lovable publishes SOC 2 and ISO 27001:2022 posture, GDPR compliance, SAML and OIDC single sign-on with Okta, Azure AD and Google, SCIM provisioning, server-side role-based access control, regional data residency in the EU, US and Australia, and a stated policy that customer prompts, code and workspace data are not used to train its models.
Product and growth teams that need internal tools and customer-facing prototypes shipped in days, and who can put an engineer on a security review before anything touches real user data.
A deployed, GitHub-syncable full-stack app out of a chat thread in hours instead of a sprint.
At a Glance
- Category
- No-Code Platform
- Pricing
- Freemium, Subscription, Usage-based
- Target Market
- Founders, Product Managers, Enterprise Developers, Marketing Teams, Operations Teams
- Deployment
- Cloud-only
- Headquarters
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Customers
- ~8 million users; enterprise contracts represent roughly $20M of ~$400M ARR (Forbes, June 2026)
Key Features
- ✓Chat-to-app generation
Describe the application in plain language and Lovable produces frontend, backend, database schema and authentication in one pass.
- ✓GitHub sync and code ownership
The generated codebase syncs to your own GitHub repository, so leaving the platform does not require a rewrite.
- ✓One-click deployment and custom domains
Apps publish straight from the editor onto Lovable Cloud hosting, with custom domains available on paid plans.
- ✓Plan Mode and Default Mode
Plan Mode charges one credit per message for scoping, while Default Mode prices each build by task complexity.
- ✓Enterprise identity controls
SAML and OIDC single sign-on, SCIM provisioning and role-based permissions enforced server-side across workspaces and projects.
- ✓Regional data residency
Workspace data can be pinned to EU, US or Australia hosting with no cross-region movement by default.
- ✓Automated security scanning
Basic scans run on every publish with deeper scans on demand, plus adaptive rate limiting per IP, user and workspace.
Capabilities
Use Cases
- •Internal tool replacement
Swap a spreadsheet-and-email process for a real database-backed app built by the team that actually uses it.
- •Investor and customer demos
Produce a working, clickable product in a day so validation happens on behaviour rather than on static mockups.
- •Campaign micro-sites
Marketing spins up a gated landing page with auth, a database and forms without filing an engineering request.
- •MVP before the first engineering hire
A founder ships a revenue-generating MVP and only recruits developers once the product has demonstrated demand.
- •Prototype-to-production handoff
Build the prototype in Lovable, sync it to GitHub, then let engineers harden it in their normal review workflow.
Ideal For
Best For
- ✓Building internal tools and admin dashboards without pulling engineers off the roadmap
- ✓Clickable, functional prototypes for customer validation and investor demos
- ✓Marketing landing pages and micro-sites that need real forms, auth and a database behind them
- ✓Non-engineers in ops, sales or finance shipping small workflow apps on a managed Supabase backend
- ✓Founders getting an MVP in front of paying users before hiring a development team
Not Ideal For
- ✗Regulated or PII-heavy production apps without an engineer to audit the generated Supabase row-level-security policies - CVE-2025-48757 and a separate 2026 authorization flaw both trace to exactly this gap
- ✗Backend-heavy systems: practitioners on Hacker News report the output skews frontend-first and struggles with independent Node.js APIs and third-party SDK integrations
- ✗Work inside a large existing codebase - Lovable builds apps from scratch rather than operating on an established repository
- ✗Buyers who need predictable flat-rate cost, since work is metered in credits that vary by task complexity and expire on a schedule
Deployment
Market & Ratings
~8 million users; enterprise contracts represent roughly $20M of ~$400M ARR (Forbes, June 2026)
Market Analysis
Pros
- ✓Genuinely fast - practitioners on Hacker News report a single day replacing four to five days of hand-coding
- ✓You keep the code: GitHub sync means there is no lock-in at the artifact level
- ✓Enterprise controls are actually available rather than promised - SSO, SCIM, RBAC, regional residency, SOC 2 and ISO 27001
- ✓Unlimited members on every plan removes the per-seat maths that makes most tools expensive to roll out broadly
Cons
- ✗Security defaults have failed publicly twice: CVE-2025-48757 exposed data across 170+ apps through missing Supabase row-level security, and an April 2026 broken-object-level-authorization flaw exposed source code, database credentials and over 18,000 user records including minors
- ✗Lovable's handling of the 2026 disclosure drew criticism - the report sat 48 days, was initially marked a duplicate on HackerOne, and the company's public line was 'we did not suffer a data breach'
- ✗Output skews frontend-heavy; Hacker News users report trouble writing independent Node.js APIs and wiring in third-party SDKs
- ✗There is a complexity ceiling - multiple practitioners describe the tool looping on circular fixes once a project passes a certain size
- ✗Credit metering makes spend hard to forecast, and unused credits expire
Pricing
Free
$0
- ✓5 build credits per day, capped at 30 per month
- ✓20 Cloud credits per month
- ✓4 credits for testing AI features in your app
- ✓Unlimited workspace members
Pro
From $25/mo
- ✓100 monthly credits plus up to 5 daily bonus credits
- ✓Custom domains
- ✓Full managed backend access
Business
From $50/mo
- ✓Single sign-on
- ✓Opt-out of data usage
- ✓Team and workspace governance features
Enterprise
Contact for pricing
- ✓Volume-based credit pricing
- ✓SCIM provisioning
- ✓Regional data residency
- ✓Audit-ready SOC 2 and ISO 27001 documentation
List pricing starts at $25/month for Pro and $50/month for Business, but the plan fee is not the real cost - all work is metered in credits whose price varies by task complexity (roughly 0.50 credits for a style change, 1.70 for a landing page, 1 per Plan Mode message), so a heavy build month runs well past the subscription. Members are unlimited on every plan, so spend scales with generation volume rather than headcount. Monthly credits expire after two months, annual credits one month after renewal, and top-up credits after twelve. Enterprise is volume-based credit pricing negotiated with sales; there is no published enterprise rate card.
Security & Compliance
Sources
This page was written from 7 sources, 4 on domains other than lovable.dev.
- 1.lovable.dev — pricingvendor
- 2.lovable.dev — securityvendor
- 3.lovable.dev — careersvendor
- 4.docs.lovable.dev — introduction
- 5.forbes.com — ai coding startup lovable in talks to raise funding at a 12
- 6.hn.algolia.com — hn.algolia.com
- 7.letsdatascience.com — lovable exposes user data after vibe coding flaw e942364b
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