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Bolt.new vs Appwrite

Prompt to full-stack app in your browser — by StackBlitz
vs. Open-source BaaS for building full-stack apps

Bolt.new ↗Appwrite website ↗

Pricing tiers

Bolt.new

Free
1M tokens/month. 300K tokens/day cap. Public + private projects. 10MB file uploads. Hosting + unlimited DBs.
Free
Pro
$25/month. Starts at 10M tokens/month, no daily cap. No Bolt branding, 100MB uploads, custom domains, SEO support, image AI edit. Rollover tokens.
$25/mo
Teams
$30/member/month. Centralized billing, team access, private NPM registries, design system knowledge.
$30/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SSO, audit logs, dedicated account manager, 24/7 support.
Custom
Bolt.new ↗

Appwrite

Self-Hosted
Run Appwrite on your own infrastructure. MIT licensed — no usage limits.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud Free
Managed cloud. Hard caps: 1 team member, 1 database per project.
Free
Cloud Pro
From $15/member/month. 2 TB bandwidth, 150 GB storage, 200k MAU, 3.5M executions, unlimited databases + team members.
$15/mo
Cloud Scale
$599/month flat for the org. Higher included usage + advanced security. Deprecated in some regions — check.
$599/mo
Enterprise
Custom pricing. SOC 2, HIPAA (on request), dedicated infra, SLAs.
Custom
Appwrite website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Bolt.new vs free on Appwrite.

MetricBolt.newAppwrite
bandwidth gb month—5 GB/month
databases per project—1 databases
function duration s—30 seconds
function executions—750000 exec/month
mau—75000 users/month
storage gb—2 GB
team members—1 members

Features

Bolt.new · 14 features

  • Browser Terminal — Real shell in-browser. Run npm install, scripts, etc.
  • Deploy to Netlify — One-click deploy to Netlify.
  • Deploy to Vercel — One-click deploy to Vercel.
  • Design System Knowledge — Team plan: shared design-system context for consistent UI.
  • Expo Support — Build React Native/Expo apps too.
  • GitHub Export — Push full project to a new GitHub repo.
  • Image Input — Upload image/sketch → Bolt generates matching UI.
  • Import Existing Project — Upload an existing repo and iterate in Bolt.
  • Live Edit + Run — Edit code + hot reload alongside AI agent.
  • Private NPM Registries — Team plan: use private packages.
  • Prompt to App — Describe app → Bolt scaffolds + codes + runs it in the browser.
  • Stripe Integration — Hook up Stripe payments in-chat.
  • Supabase Integration — Provision + connect Supabase from chat.
  • WebContainer runtime — Node.js + terminal + filesystem running entirely in your browser.

Appwrite · 13 features

  • Account (Auth) — User authentication: email/password, magic URLs, phone OTP, anonymous, 30+ OAuth…
  • Avatars — Generated avatars, country flags, credit-card icons, QR codes, favicons.
  • Databases — NoSQL collections with attribute types, indexes, permissions per document/collec…
  • Events System — Unified event bus: subscribe in Functions, Webhooks, Realtime using event string…
  • Functions — Serverless functions in 13+ runtimes (Node, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, Dart, Deno, S…
  • Messaging — Multi-channel messaging: Push (FCM/APNs), SMS (Twilio/Vonage/Msg91), Email (Mail…
  • Migrations — Import from Firebase, Supabase, NHost, or another Appwrite project.
  • Permissions (ACLs) — Per-document / per-collection ACLs: Role.user(), Role.team(), Role.any(), Role.g…
  • Realtime — WebSocket subscriptions to events: database changes, auth, storage, function exe…
  • Sites — Deploy static and SSR frameworks (Next, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Astro, Remix) direct fr…
  • Storage — File buckets with access control, auto-transforms (image preview), antivirus, en…
  • Teams — Group users with shared access + roles. Used for row-level permissions on resour…
  • Webhooks — HTTP callbacks on any Appwrite event. Signed with x-appwrite-webhook-signature.

Developer interfaces

KindBolt.newAppwrite
CLI—Appwrite CLI
SDK—Android SDK (Kotlin), Apple SDK (Swift), Dart Server SDK, Deno SDK, Flutter SDK, Kotlin Server SDK, .NET Server SDK, Node.js Server SDK, PHP Server SDK, Python Server SDK, React Native SDK, Ruby Server SDK, Swift Server SDK, Web SDK (browser)
REST—REST API
GRAPHQL—GraphQL API
MCP—Appwrite MCP Server
OTHERBolt Web App, GitHub Export, StackBlitz Sync, WebContainer runtimeRealtime WebSocket
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