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Forge64, the other builders, and the stack in between
One matrix, and nothing hidden in it. What Forge64 gives you, what the other builders give you, and what the stack you would otherwise assemble costs — with the source and the date for every price.
Facts and prices checked .
Forge64 against the other builders
The rival columns are taken from the vendors' own published pricing and documentation. Where a vendor does not publish something, the cell says so rather than guessing.
| Capability | Forge64 | Lovable | Bolt.new | Replit | Base44 | v0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What the builder produces | A full-stack app with its own database, sign-in and payments wiring. | An AI app builder that generates React apps from chat, with a managed backend called Lovable Cloud. | StackBlitz's in-browser AI app builder, billed in tokens, with hosting and databases on its plans. | A cloud IDE with an AI agent. Apps are hosted with Replit Deployments, billed by usage from plan credits. | An AI app builder (owned by Wix) with a built-in backend, database and auth, hosted on its own infrastructure. | Vercel's AI builder for React/Next.js UIs and apps. Apps deploy to Vercel, which bills hosting separately. |
| Hosting | Built in. Always-on app slots on paid plans; the Free plan's app sleeps when idle. | IncludedIncluded via Lovable Cloud. Each plan gets 20 Cloud credits a month; heavier apps draw on your credit balance. | IncludedIncluded on all plans. The underlying host is not named on the pricing page. | Metered on top of the planBilled separately as Deployments, paid from plan credits first. Autoscale: $2/mo base + $0.60 per million compute units + $0.40 per million requests. Reserved VM from $15/mo. | IncludedIncluded on Base44's infrastructure. | Not included — a separate billNot included — Vercel bills it. Hobby is $0 but non-commercial only; Pro is $20/mo with $20 of usage credit. |
| Database | Built in. A dedicated Postgres database for each app. | Included in Lovable Cloud | Included (databases on Free and Pro) | Postgres billed by usage: $0.16 per active compute hour + $0.35/GiB-month storage | Included | Not included — a separate provider and bill |
| Sign-in and user accounts | Built in. No per-user fee on any plan. | Included in Lovable Cloud | Not confirmed on the pricing page | Replit Auth available; not confirmed on the pricing page | Included | Not included — add a provider such as Clerk or Auth0 |
| Payments | Built in. Checkout, subscriptions and a billing page, through Forge Payments. | Not confirmed on the pricing docs | Not confirmed on the pricing page | Not confirmed on the pricing page | Payments on Builder ($50/mo) and above, per secondary sources | Not included |
| Paying out to sellers | Built in. Onboarding and payouts to a bank account, with no separate payment account. | Not confirmed on the pricing docs | Not confirmed on the pricing page | Not confirmed on the pricing page | Not confirmed on the pricing page | Not included |
| Plan price (list) | $59 a month on Pro, billed monthly. | $25 ($21 billed yearly) | $18 billed yearly (≈$25 month-to-month, unverified) | $20 ($18 billed yearly), if usage fits the $20 credit | $20 ($16 billed yearly); Builder $50 ($40 yearly) for payments | $20 Vercel Pro + database + v0 plan ($0–30) while building |
| Accounts you still open | None. One account, one bill. | Your own payment provider account and integration; Seller payouts, if you run a marketplace | Your own payment provider account and integration; Seller payouts, if you run a marketplace | Metered Deployments and database usage to watch; Your own payment provider account and integration; Seller payouts, if you run a marketplace | Your own payment provider account (payments start on the Builder plan); Seller payouts, if you run a marketplace | A Vercel plan for commercial hosting; A database provider (Supabase, Neon); An auth provider (Clerk, Auth0); A payment provider integration, webhooks and, for marketplaces, seller payouts |
Each rival has its own page with the accounts you would still have to open: vs Lovable, vs Bolt.new, vs Replit, vs Base44, vs v0.
What Forge64 gives you
Every capability, marked with where it actually stands. Nothing here is claimed before it is built.
Every row was checked against the code in this repository on , and each one names the file that backs it. “Rolling out” means the code is built and covered by tests, and the last production step is still running. Where this table and the features registry disagree, this table follows the code and says so in the row.
What you get while you build
| What you get | What it is | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A full-stack app from one prompt | The app, its database schema and a live preview. | Available |
| Architecture playbooks | Your idea is matched to a reference architecture before any code is written. | Available |
| A quality gate on every build | A deterministic gate reads the generated files and sends blocking defects back for repair. | Available |
| A preview before you sign up | Describe an app on /try and see its screens and records first. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| An account-wide assistant | Questions about your apps, your usage and your settings. | Available |
| A published benchmark score | Coming soon: the harness runs on recorded data, but no score is published.The harness runs on recorded data. No score is published yet. | Coming soonNot available yet. |
The App Studio you work in
| What you get | What it is | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A Data tab over your app's real records | Every table your app declares, with row counts and a way to look at and fix a row. Reads and writes go through the app core, which re-checks your role. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| A Users tab | Who your app knows about and what each of them may do, read from the app's own rows, with invitations. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| User management for your app's users | Search, ban, unban and delete the people who signed up to your app, with a typed confirmation before a delete. The directory, the safety actions and the delete are on every plan; the admin console and the machine-key API sit above it. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| A Settings tab | The app's name, its public address, its backup file, the problems the validator found, the version history and the delete button. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Publish, with a live address and a rollback | One place publishes your app to a public address and rolls back to an earlier release. Your working copy stays on your device until you publish. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| A leak gate on every deploy | A secret literal in the app's spec or its public code fails the deploy. There is no override: the value belongs in the app's server-side vault, referenced by name. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Analytics for the apps you host | Traffic over time, requests and bandwidth, status codes, latency, top paths, referrers, countries, devices and uptime, counted without cookies. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| A panel per built-in service | Email, jobs, uploads, forms, search, content, flags, support, status, legal and admin each get their own panel next to the app. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
What the app gets
| What you get | What it is | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting, in the same account | Each app runs in its own container; paid plans keep apps always on. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Sleep and wake | Idle apps sleep and wake on the next visit. The app and its database stay. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Your own domain with automatic HTTPS | A DNS ownership check, then the certificate is issued for you. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| A Postgres database per app | Its own database and its own login roles, with privileged attributes switched off. | Available |
| Encrypted off-site backups | Weekly full and daily differential copies, with a scripted restore drill. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Sign-up and sign-in | In the app's own database, with no per-user fee. | Available |
| One-click Google and GitHub sign-in | Through a shared OAuth broker, so you do not register OAuth apps. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Authenticator-app two-factor | Encrypted at rest, with recovery codes and rate-limited code checks. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Passkeys | Coming soon: the plugin is not emitted into apps yet.The config can describe a passkey, but the plugin is not emitted into a generated app yet. | Coming soonNot available yet. |
| Checkout and subscriptions | A checkout flow, subscription plans and a billing page for your customers. | Available |
| Payments and payouts in one account | Verification and payouts to your bank account, with no separate payment account to set up. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| An AI API for your app | Chat-completions, messages and embeddings formats, with per-app keys and hard caps. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| First-party analytics | Cookieless page views, uptime and latency, stored by Forge64 with no third-party analytics account. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| First-party error tracking | It accepts the standard error-tracking SDK envelope, so there is no separate account. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| A video studio | A short promo video drafted for your app and rendered in your browser. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Posting to X and YouTube | After you connect the account. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| More social platforms | Coming soon: TikTok, Instagram and LinkedIn posting is not built yet.The provider list names them, but each one is marked as not implemented. | Coming soonNot available yet. |
| Captions, voice-over and brand kits | Word-timed captions, a free browser voice-over with an optional paid cloud voice, an editable brand kit and an automatic product-demo video pipeline.Code: render/captions.ts (captions), studio-voice.tsx and voice-api.ts (voice-over), brand/brand-client.ts (brand kit), worker/src/ai/auto-video/index.ts (product-demo pipeline). | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
The built-in services your app can call
| What you get | What it is | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Email from your app | Coming soon: the service is built and mounted, but sending from your app is paused by default, so an app that tries to send gets a clear refusal instead of a charge. Sign-up, password-reset and invitation email for your app's own users still works. | Coming soonNot available yet. |
| Jobs and cron | enqueue, schedule and retries behind one handler route, with a run history. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| File uploads | Presigned upload slots, completion, listing and signed file URLs. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Forms and waitlists | Form definitions, public submission endpoints and submission storage. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Search over your own data | Index documents and query them with highlights. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| A blog and a docs site | Content storage, a blog index, RSS and a docs site rendered from it. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Flags and experiments | Flags, variants and event tracking with a local evaluator. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Outgoing webhooks | Endpoints, HMAC signing, retries, a delivery log and SSRF protection. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Realtime channels and presence | Server publish, scoped browser tokens and a connect() client. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| A vector store | Collections, upserts and similarity search for your own retrieval. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| PDF generation | HTML to PDF on the server, with no browser bundled into your app. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Translation catalogs | A locale-negotiating scaffold with a catalog you push and pull. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| A support inbox and widget | Signed user identity and an embeddable support widget. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| A status page and changelog | Pages fed by Forge's incident data. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Privacy, terms and cookie pages | Generated from the app's own profile. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| An admin console | A policy-gated table browser and editor for your app's own data. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
The features page carries the same inventory with the review date of the registry behind it. Where the two differ, this table is the one that was checked against the code most recently.
Your code, your users, your way out
The controls that decide whether an app can be run as a real business, and whether you can leave.
| What you get | What it is | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Export anytime | Your source, your database rows and a manifest, without asking us. | Available |
| Import an existing project | From a Git repository or a zip file. | Available |
| A self-host kit in every export | A compose file, an environment template and setup instructions. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Guided imports from other platforms | Coming soon: the Move to Forge64 importer takes a Git repository; the platform-specific importers are not built yet.The importer reads a Git repository or a dump. There is no platform-specific importer yet. | Coming soonNot available yet. |
| Row-level security on user-data tables | The deploy audit blocks an app whose user-data table has it off. | Available |
| CSRF protection | Changes with no session or bearer credential are refused. | Available |
| Encrypted secrets | AES-256-GCM with per-tenant derived keys. Exports and logs carry names, never values. | Available |
| Hard spend caps | Per account, per app, per plan and platform-wide ceilings that refuse the work instead of charging more. | Available |
| Network isolation between app containers | Rules that stop one app reaching another, the metadata service or the scheduler ports.The rules are installed on the node; they have not been exercised on a live node yet. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Organizations, roles and invitations | Server-side membership checks on every request. | Available |
| A tamper-evident audit log | Hash-chained; verification detects an edited or removed entry. | Available |
| Single sign-on | OIDC and SAML 2.0, with verified email domains. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| SCIM provisioning | SCIM 2.0 user and group provisioning for an organization, behind a per-organization bearer token.The route is mounted at /api/scim/v2 and covered by the SCIM test suite. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| IP allowlists and session policy | Per-organization IP allowlists, session policy and a break-glass path.The policy store and the enforcement middleware are built and mounted. | Rolling outBuilt and tested; the last production step is still running. |
| Data residency | Coming soon: customer-selectable residency is not built yet. Audit export is built; the place the data is stored is not selectable.The audit export is built. There is no customer-selectable residency yet. | Coming soonNot available yet. |
The stack you would otherwise assemble
An AI builder is one line on the bill. To ship a paid app you also need hosting, a database, sign-in, email, file storage, analytics, error tracking and a payment account — about 9 accounts. Here is that stack at list prices, part by part, with the page each price was read on.
The separate stack
$218
a month, across 9 accounts, at list prices
Forge64 Pro
$59
a month, or $49 billed yearly, one account
Your app's end users
$0
a month, on every plan. They live in your app's own database and are never a line on your bill. Team seats for your own staff are priced separately.
| Part | The other product | List price | In Forge64 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI app builder | Lovable Businesshttps://lovable.dev/pricingRead from a search result; re-check it on the vendor page. | $50/mo | Included: the AI builds and edits the app.The builder writes the app, and hosts it while you build. |
| Hosting | Vercel Pro, 2 seatshttps://vercel.com/pricing | $40/moPriced on one of the two usual hosts, so this is hosting counted once. | Built in: always-on app slots on paid plans.Vercel and Netlify are the two usual choices. The row is priced on one of them, so hosting is counted once, not twice. |
| Database | Supabase Pro + Small computehttps://supabase.com/pricing | $30/mo | Included: a Postgres database per app.One product covers the database, row-level security, file storage, realtime channels and functions. |
| Auth | Clerk Prohttps://clerk.com/pricing | $25/mo | Included: sign-in and accounts, no per-user fee.Sign-in, the user directory and the admin console. |
| Email service, 50k sends | $20/mo | Coming soon: sending from your app is paused by default.Transactional email for sign-ups, receipts and campaigns. | |
| Analytics | Plausible Growthhttps://plausible.io/#pricing | $14/mo | Built in: first-party, cookieless page-view analytics.Page views, uptime and latency, with no cookie banner. |
| Error tracking | Sentry Teamhttps://sentry.io/pricing | $29/mo | Built in: first-party error tracking that accepts the standard SDK envelope.Errors, grouping and source maps. |
| File storage | UploadThinghttps://uploadthing.com/pricing | $10/moMost database plans include storage with their quota, so this is the price of a SEPARATE storage product, not a part you have to buy twice. | Built in: hosted uploads with presigned slots and signed URLs.Uploads with signed URLs your app can hand to its own users. |
| Payments | Card payments and payouts for your customers | Per transactionNo monthly platform fee. The card fee is charged per successful transaction, and it applies in both setups, so it is in neither total. | Included: checkout, subscriptions and payouts to your bank account, with no separate payment account to set up. |
The table prices every part separately so the comparison is like for like. Some of these parts are bundled inside one product: a database plan normally carries file storage, realtime channels and functions with its quota, and the hosting row is priced on one of the two usual hosts. A careful buyer will spend less than the headline above, so read that figure as an upper bound rather than a bill.
Every price was read on the vendor's own pricing page on October 22, 2026. Where a price could only be found in a search result, the row says so. The total above adds that row anyway, which is why it is an upper bound. Card-processing fees apply in both setups, so they are in neither total.
In this column, “Included” means the capability is live today, “Built in” means the code is written and tested and the last rollout step is still running, and “Coming soon” means it is not built yet. All three are part of your plan.
Only if your app needs them
These two are optional, so they are not in the total above. Forge64 gives them to your app anyway, which is why a comparison that hid them would be comparing a full stack with a cut-down one.
| Part | The other product | List price | In Forge64 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Background jobs | Inngest Prohttps://www.inngest.com/pricing | $99/mo | Built in: a built-in service your app calls. |
| Search | Meilisearch Cloudhttps://www.meilisearch.com/pricing | $30/mo | Built in: a built-in service your app calls. |
The same stack at three stages
| Stage | Separate stack | Forge64 |
|---|---|---|
| Side project1 app, commercial use, under 1,000 users | ≈ $62/mo | Pro plan, one account and one bill |
| Launched startup2 seats, 3 apps, about 10,000 users | ≈ $218/mo | Pro plan, one account and one bill |
| Scaling product5 seats, about 60,000 users | ≈ $768/mo | Business plan, one account and one bill |
List prices in USD per month, before tax, card-processing fees and domain registration, from each vendor's own pricing page on October 22, 2026. Card-processing fees apply in both setups, so they are left out of both.
One page per builder
Each of these compares Forge64 with one rival in detail, including the accounts you would still have to open and the reasons to pick that rival instead.
- Forge64 vs LovableAn AI app builder that generates React apps from chat, with a managed backend called Lovable Cloud.Read the comparison
- Forge64 vs Bolt.newStackBlitz's in-browser AI app builder, billed in tokens, with hosting and databases on its plans.Read the comparison
- Forge64 vs ReplitA cloud IDE with an AI agent. Apps are hosted with Replit Deployments, billed by usage from plan credits.Read the comparison
- Forge64 vs Base44An AI app builder (owned by Wix) with a built-in backend, database and auth, hosted on its own infrastructure.Read the comparison
- Forge64 vs v0Vercel's AI builder for React/Next.js UIs and apps. Apps deploy to Vercel, which bills hosting separately.Read the comparison
Questions people ask before they switch
- What do I get in one account?
- The app the AI builds, its own Postgres database, sign-in, hosting, domains with automatic HTTPS, checkout and subscriptions, payouts to your bank account, first-party analytics and error tracking — plus the built-in services your app can call: email, background jobs, uploads, forms, search, content, feature flags, webhooks, realtime, a vector store, PDF, translation, a support inbox, a status page, legal pages and an admin console. Every row above carries its own status, and the ones that are not built yet say "Coming soon".
- How much does the stack I would otherwise assemble cost?
- At October 2026 list prices the launched-startup stack is about $218 a month across 9 separate accounts, before card-processing fees. Forge64 Pro is $59 a month. Each price and the page it was read on are listed below.
- Is Forge64 cheaper than assembling it myself?
- Not always, and this page does not pretend otherwise. For one tiny, non-commercial app the free tiers of other platforms can cost less; Forge64's Free plan is $0 and includes one app that sleeps when idle and wakes on the next visit. The numbers above are list prices for a commercial product, and the per-part prices are the ones the vendors publish.
- Do my app's users add to the bill?
- No. No Forge64 plan has a per-user or per-monthly-active-user charge. Your app's users live in your app's own database, and they are not a line on your bill. Team seats for your own staff are a separate allowance.
- Can I take my app and my data somewhere else?
- Yes. You can export your source, your database rows and a manifest at any time, without contacting us. Every export is a standard Next.js app on a standard Postgres database, not a format only we can open.
- Which of these are actually live?
- Each row says: "Available" means it is built and covered by automated tests. "Rolling out" means it is built and tested and a production step is still running. "Coming soon" means it is not built yet — a direction, not a date.
Build it once, on one bill
Start with 50 free credits. No credit card required.
- One account, one bill, and a hard cap on every meter
- Your app's users are never a per-user charge
- Export your source and your data whenever you want