Bolt.new vs Vercel

Prompt to full-stack app in your browser — by StackBlitz
vs. Frontend cloud for Next.js and modern web frameworks

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 ↗

Vercel

Hobby (Free)

Free forever. 100 GB bandwidth, 1M functions, 360 GB-hrs memory, 1M edge requests. 1 developer. Hard caps.

Free

Pro

$20/user/month. 1 TB bandwidth, pay-as-you-go overages. Team seats, concurrent builds.

$20/mo

Enterprise

Custom pricing. SLA, SSO, audit logs, dedicated support.

Custom

Vercel website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Bolt.new vs hobby on Vercel.

Metric	Bolt.new	Vercel
bandwidth gb month	—	100 GB/month
edge requests	—	1000000 requests/month
function invocations	—	1000000 invocations/month
memory gb hrs	—	360 GB-hrs/month
team members	—	1 users

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.

Vercel · 15 features

Cron Jobs — Scheduled serverless functions. JSON config in vercel.json.
Edge Functions — V8-isolate serverless functions at edge locations. Lower cold start than Lambda.
Edge Middleware — Intercept requests at edge before hitting origin — auth, routing, A/B tests.
Git-based Deploys — Auto-deploy from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket on every push. Preview URLs for every…
Image Optimization — On-the-fly resize, format conversion (AVIF, WebP), CDN caching.
Incremental Static Regeneration — Re-generate static pages on-demand or via revalidate. Next.js-native.
Log Drains — Stream logs to Datadog, Axiom, Logtail, HTTP endpoints.
Preview Deployments — Unique URL per Git branch/PR. Password-protect or share. Infinite.
Serverless Functions — Node.js, Python, Go. AWS Lambda under the hood. Up to 15 min duration.
Speed Insights — Real User Monitoring. FCP, LCP, CLS, INP per page.
Vercel Blob — Managed object storage (S3-compatible API).
Vercel KV (Redis) — Managed Redis via Upstash. Edge-accessible.
Vercel Marketplace — One-click integrations: Supabase, Clerk, Sentry, PostHog, Resend, 100+ services.
Vercel Postgres — Managed Neon Postgres. Edge-accessible with @vercel/postgres.
Web Analytics — Privacy-friendly web analytics. Core Web Vitals, visitors, pages.

Developer interfaces

Kind	Bolt.new	Vercel
CLI	—	Vercel CLI
SDK	—	@vercel/client
REST	—	Vercel REST API
MCP	—	Vercel MCP
OTHER	Bolt Web App, GitHub Export, StackBlitz Sync, WebContainer runtime	Edge Runtime Bindings

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