Pricing guide · billed in M tokens
Bolt.new pricing & tokens, explained (2026)
Short answer: Bolt Pro is $25/mo for 10 million tokens — $2.50 per million. The free tier gives you about 1M tokens a month, which is roughly one good afternoon.
Tokens are complexity-priced. A copy tweak barely registers; a full feature can eat a meaningful slice of a million. The number that ruins budgets isn't the feature — it's the loop you enter when the feature doesn't work.
Bolt.new plans
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | About 1M tokens per month. Enough to build a prototype and decide whether the tool suits you. |
| Pro | $25 per month | 10M tokens per month. The plan most solo builders land on. |
| Teams | About $30 per user per month | Per-seat token allowances — they are not pooled across the team (as of Aug 2026). |
We don't have a verified top-up rate for Bolt as of Aug 2026, so treat the monthly token allowance as a hard budget and plan the build inside it. If you're topping up twice, you're on the wrong plan.
How Bolt.new tokens actually work
Every prompt spends tokens on two things: what Bolt reads of your project, and what it writes back. The reading half grows as the project grows, so the same prompt costs more in week three than it did on day one.
There's no flat price per message. One request can cost a rounding error; another can cost a serious fraction of a million tokens, because the model decided it needed to look at more of your codebase to answer (as of Aug 2026).
This is why a token allowance feels generous right up until it doesn't. Watch the burn rate across a session rather than the price of any single prompt.
What features cost on Bolt.new
Base cost per feature in M tokens, before the iteration tax and debug surcharge. These are the ranges our estimator adds up.
| Line item | Cost in M tokens |
|---|---|
| Core app — simple | 1.2M tk–2.5M tk |
| Core app — standard | 2.5M tk–5.0M tk |
| Core app — complex | 4.0M tk–8.0M tk |
| User accounts & login | 0.7M tk–1.5M tk |
| Payments / subscriptions | 1.0M tk–2.0M tk |
| Admin panel | 0.8M tk–1.6M tk |
| File & image uploads | 0.5M tk–1.0M tk |
| AI features | 0.8M tk–1.8M tk |
| External API integrations | 0.7M tk–1.4M tk |
| Multi-user roles | 0.5M tk–1.0M tk |
Multiply by your prompting style (×1.2 to ×8), then add 40% for debugging. See the full formula →
The gotcha
Tokens are complexity-priced, and debugging loops are the killer — users have burned 2M+ tokens in a day fixing one bug.
Debugging loops are the classic Bolt budget killer. Each “still broken, here's the error” round re-reads a growing project and re-writes a chunk of it, so the fifth attempt costs more than the first.
Community reports of 2M+ tokens burned in a single day chasing one bug are not unusual, and single projects passing $1,000 have been documented.
The defence is boring and effective: stop the loop. After two failed fixes, revert, re-describe the problem from scratch, and narrow the prompt to one file.
Who Bolt.new is for
Builders who want a fast, full-stack scaffold in the browser and are comfortable reading the code when it goes sideways. Excellent first draft; the second draft is where the meter runs.
See real numbers
Printed receipts for three common builds on Bolt.new:
Get your build’s receipt
Pick what you’re building, pick how you prompt, and see the bill in Bolt.new tokens before you spend any.
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