GILD verdict
Choose Bolt when builders need a stack beyond Next.js, a mobile app, or hosting and a database from the builder itself.
Choose v0 when the team already ships on Vercel and wants every change to arrive as a pull request with its own branch deployment. Build the same prototype on both and compare spend, the fixes each needed, and how much of the code your engineers keep.
v0 wins when engineers will inherit a Next.js app on Vercel; Bolt wins for any other JavaScript framework or an Expo mobile app. Bolt builds inside a browser development environment and hosts on Bolt Cloud. v0 builds only React and Next.js and hosts on Vercel. Both turn a prompt into a working app with code you can edit and publish in one step.
Choosing between Bolt and v0
Choose Bolt if
- The app needs a framework other than Next.js, or a native mobile app through Expo.
- You want the database, sign-in, and hosting from the builder itself, without a separate hosting plan.
- Builders want a terminal and npm in the browser, and to edit files directly without spending tokens.
Choose v0 if
- Your team already ships on Vercel and wants branch deployments, pull requests, and CI checks on every working branch.
- You want to see and choose model prices per million tokens, from v0 Mini to v0 Max Fast.
- You need SAML SSO with v0 Builder, Creator, and Viewer roles through your Vercel Enterprise account.
Side by side
| Dimension | Bolt | v0 |
|---|---|---|
| Team priceList prices in US dollars. Bolt Teams costs US$27 per member a month billed yearly. A v0 plan is billed separately from the Vercel plan that hosts the app. | Teams US$30 per member a month, each paid member with their own tokens | Plus US$30 or Business US$100 per user a month, each with US$30 of monthly credits per user plus US$2 of daily login credits |
| How usage is metered | Tokens from the plan's allowance. Bolt picks the model behind its Standard and Max agents | Credits spent on tokens priced per model, from US$0.20 input and US$1.20 output per million on v0 Mini to US$10 and US$50 on v0 Max Fast. Chat history and source files count as input |
| Free tier | 1M tokens a month with a 300K daily cap | 7 messages a day; new users get US$5 of one-time credits |
| Stack | Any JavaScript framework with a Node.js backend, plus Expo for iOS and Android | React and Next.js |
| Backend | Bolt Database with sign-in, storage, server functions, and secrets, or Supabase on Pro and Teams | Next.js server code, with Supabase, Neon, Upstash, Vercel Blob, or Snowflake added through the Vercel Marketplace |
| Git | Two-way GitHub sync that commits each working change. Branches in Bolt, merges in GitHub | Working branches from a chosen base branch, each with a deployment, pull requests, and CI checks. Imports existing repositories |
| Hosting | Bolt Cloud on bolt.host or a custom domain on paid plans, or Netlify | Vercel, with a deployment per working branch and production on publish |
| Identity and admin | Teams has admin and member roles, integration controls, and deploy-provider and site-visibility settings. SSO on Teams per the pricing table, Enterprise only per the help center. Audit logs on Enterprise | Enterprise: SAML SSO, v0 Builder, Creator, and Viewer roles, and audit logs, managed in the Vercel account |
| Model training | On by default since October 7, 2026, for individual accounts outside the EU, UK, and Switzerland until each user opts out. Excluded under a written agreement | Opted out by default on Business; Enterprise content is never used |
| Audit | SOC 2 Type II | Included in Vercel's SOC 2 Type 2 attestation |
What practitioners report, side by side
Each product's figures come from its own practitioners, for the group you pick.
Overall signal
Bolt reads +60 and v0 +68, each from its own practitioners. Bolt: 14 positive, 2 negative of 20. v0: 19 positive, 2 negative of 24.
The score counts the authors from leaders and teams that take a side, one vote each with their latest view, and is how far positive votes lead negative ones, per 100 votes, so v0's +68 rests on votes split 17 positive, 3 mixed and 2 negative. Each of Bolt's authors wrote one source here, so each source is one vote.
A lead of a fifth of the votes reads positive and a lead of half strong positive, with the same lines below zero. The dots show each source, positive, mixed, negative. Run a pilot build to measure how much of the generated app ships without hand-written fixes.
Footprint on the Agentic Software Development stack
They differ on one of 12 layers. On Application security, Bolt supports it and v0 touches it. Coverage is each product's placement on this stack, as its product page shows it. Core is a job the product owns; Supports and Touches are jobs it helps with. Coverage says nothing about how well a product does them.
| Layer | Bolt | v0 |
|---|---|---|
| Validate | ||
| Application security | Supports | Touches |
The 11 layers where they match
| Layer | Bolt | v0 |
|---|---|---|
| Plan | ||
| Work planning | Supports | Supports |
| Build | ||
| Codebase context | Supports | Supports |
| Coding | Core | Core |
| Agent runtime | Core | Core |
| Tool execution | Supports | Supports |
| Validate | ||
| Debugging | Supports | Supports |
| Testing | Touches | Touches |
| Code review | Touches | Touches |
| Ship | ||
| Source control | Supports | Supports |
| CI/CD | Supports | Supports |
| Operate | ||
| Observability | Touches | Touches |
What practitioners praise
Among leaders and teams, Speed to a Working App reaches 5 sources from 3 authors only for Bolt, at 6 of 7. v0 needs a pilot on the same app brief before you choose on it. Prompt to Prototype reaches 5 sources from 3 authors only for v0, at 11 of 11. Bolt needs a pilot on the same app brief before you choose on it.
| Praised for | Bolt | v0 |
|---|---|---|
| Speed to a Working App | 6 of 7 | Not a theme in its sources |
| Prompt to Prototype | Not a theme in its sources | 11 of 11 |
Each count is the sources that praise a theme, or raise it as a concern, out of those that discuss it. A row pairs the two products when both carry a theme under the same or an equivalent name.
A count ending in "so far" has under 5 sources from 3 authors among leaders and teams. "Not a theme in its sources" means GILD found no theme of that name in that product's sources.
What practitioners raise as concerns
Among leaders and teams, Credits / Cost reaches 5 sources from 3 authors only for v0, at 3 of 5. Bolt needs a pilot on the same app brief before you choose on it.
| Raised as a concern | Bolt | v0 |
|---|---|---|
| Credits / Cost | Not a theme in its sources | 3 of 5 |
23 sources
- Bolt pricing
- Bolt Help Center: Tokens
- Bolt Help Center: Choose an agent
- Bolt Help Center: Teams plans, billing, tokens, and invoices
- Bolt Help Center: Team settings
- Bolt Help Center: Account settings (Model training)
- StackBlitz Privacy Policy (last updated Sep 22, 2026)
- Bolt: Security
- Bolt Help Center: Supported technologies
- Bolt Help Center: Database
- Bolt Help Center: GitHub for version control
- Bolt Help Center: Hosting
- Bolt Help Center: Netlify for hosting
- Bolt Help Center: Expo for mobile apps
- v0 pricing
- v0 docs: Pricing
- v0 docs: GitHub
- v0 docs: Deployments
- v0 docs: Databases
- v0 docs: Teams
- v0 docs: Enterprise
- v0 docs: Security
- Vercel pricing