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Bolt+60 Strong positive

GILD Review

GILD's call and the buying facts behind it.

From GILD research

Should we adopt Bolt?

Who owns a Bolt app once it outgrows the person who built it?

  1. 30-Second TakePick Bolt if product and design staff need a chat to become a running JavaScript or Expo app before engineering commits.
  2. Best fitWorking prototypes and small JavaScript apps built by product and design staff or founders who want code they can open and edit.GILD Review
  3. Consider another workflowIf the app needs a non-JavaScript backend or must join a large existing codebase, have engineers build it with a coding agent.GILD Review

Drawn from 88 sources and 2 operator insights

GILD analysis

Bolt Review

Buy Bolt Teams for product and design staff who need to turn a chat into a running JavaScript web or Expo mobile app. A terminal, a Bolt Cloud database, hosting, and GitHub sync come in one browser workspace. Each seat's tokens run down faster as a project gets bigger, so Bolt apps cost more as they grow.

  • AI App Builders
  • AI Adoption

The decision

Best fit
Working prototypes and small JavaScript apps built by product and design staff or founders who want code they can open and edit.
Consider another workflow
If the app needs a non-JavaScript backend or must join a large existing codebase, have engineers build it with a coding agent.
Adoption condition
Use a Teams or Enterprise workspace. Turn on GitHub sync, private site visibility, and integration controls. Give each member a token budget. Settle model training by contract or by each member's setting.

Basis: Bolt documentation and pricing, plus public accounts from builders and outside tests. In AfterQuery's App-Bench, two developers graded one-shot builds of six full-stack apps, and Bolt implemented 53.6% of required features against v0's 64.9%. Roger Wong's April 2025 checkout test scored Bolt 43 on a 100-point scale, and Aqua Voice's October 2025 Tumblr-clone test signed in but failed on the first post with a database error.

Buying & deployment factsWhat engineering leaders should verify before a broader rollout.
How you buy it

US$25

A month for Pro with 10M tokens, or US$18 billed yearly. Teams is US$30 a member.

Source 1, bolt.new, Pricing: PricingSource 5, support.bolt.new, Billing: BillingSource 6, support.bolt.new, Bolt Forge: Bolt Forge

Details

Free gives 1M tokens a month with a 300K daily cap. Lite, a US$9 monthly plan for Bolt Forge's open-source models, closed to new sign-ups on October 14, 2026, and its subscribers keep it at US$9. Pro starts at US$25 a month billed monthly, or US$216 a year billed yearly, which is US$18 a month, for 10M tokens, and higher Pro tiers include US$50 a month for 26M. Teams costs US$30 per member a month billed monthly, with yearly billing saving up to 28%, and each paid member gets their own tokens. Enterprise is a custom annual contract, billed by consumption.

Cost drivers

Project size

Most tokens go to reading the project's files, so bigger projects cost more per message.

Source 2, StackBlitz, Tokens: TokensSource 7, support.bolt.new, Choose an agent: Choose an agent

Details

Most tokens go to Bolt reading and syncing the project's files, so a larger project costs more per message, and Standard is the token-efficient agent, with Max on paid plans for deeper reasoning. Monthly tokens stay valid for two months from the start of the cycle they were issued in, and only while a paid plan is active. Reloads never expire, and their price per token depends on the plan.

Where it runs

Browser only

A JavaScript workspace in Chromium browsers, publishing to bolt.host, your domain, or Netlify.

Source 8, support.bolt.new, Supported technologies: Supported technologiesSource 9, support.bolt.new, Publish your project: Publish your projectSource 10, support.bolt.new, Netlify for hosting: Netlify for hostingSource 11, StackBlitz, Supabase for databases: Supabase for databasesSource 12, support.bolt.new, Version history and GitHub: Version history and GitHubSource 13, StackBlitz, Expo for mobile apps: Expo for mobile apps

Details

A browser workspace for JavaScript stacks only. Chromium browsers get the full workspace; in Safari, Code view is read-only. Sites publish to bolt.host, to a custom domain on paid plans, or to Netlify. Data lives in Bolt Database, or in Supabase on Pro and Teams. Code syncs to GitHub, and Expo publishes mobile apps to the stores.

What to verify

October 7, 2026

Training on by default for individual accounts outside the EU, UK, and Switzerland.

Source 4, StackBlitz, Model training setting: Model training settingSource 14, stackblitz.com, StackBlitz privacy policy: StackBlitz privacy policySource 1, bolt.new, Pricing: Pricing

Details

Since October 7, 2026, model training is on by default for individual accounts outside the EU, UK, and Switzerland until each user opts out, and the same content falls under Bolt's model-development and dataset-licensing terms. Accounts under a separate written agreement and organization-managed accounts are excluded. The pricing table lists SSO on Teams and Enterprise, so confirm SSO for your plan. Audit logs need Enterprise. Bolt holds SOC 2 Type II.