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Lovable vs Novu

AI app builder with shared team workspace — unlimited users per plan
vs. Open-source notification infrastructure — workflows across email, SMS, push, chat, in-app

Lovable website ↗Novu website ↗

Pricing tiers

Lovable

Free
Limited features baseline. Try out and build small demos.
Free
Pro
$25/month (shared across unlimited users). 100 credits/mo + 5 daily (up to 150/mo). Custom domains, remove Lovable badge, user roles.
$25/mo
Business
$50/month (shared). Everything in Pro + Internal publish, SSO, Team workspace, personal projects, design templates, security center.
$50/mo
Enterprise
Custom (platform fee by company size). Covers all employees. Volume credits, dedicated support, onboarding, SCIM, audit logs.
Custom
Lovable website ↗

Novu

Free
10K workflow runs/mo. All channels. 20 workflows, 2 environments, 3 team members, 24h retention.
Free
Self-hosted (OSS)
Open source (MIT). Run locally or on own infrastructure. No usage limits.
$0 base (usage-based)
Pro
From $30/mo. 30K+ runs, 7-day retention, branding removal, advanced email editor.
$30/mo
Team
From $250/mo. 250K+ runs, 10 envs, 90-day retention, RBAC, 600 RPS.
$250/mo
Enterprise
Custom. 10M+ runs, HIPAA BAA, SSO/OIDC, data residency (SG/UK/AU/JP/KR), self-hosted/VPC.
Custom
Novu website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Lovable vs free on Novu.

MetricLovableNovu
retention—1 days
workflow runs monthly—10000 runs/mo
workflows—20 workflows

Features

Lovable · 16 features

  • Connect External APIs — Chat: "connect OpenAI API" → done.
  • Custom Domains — Publish at yourbrand.com.
  • Design Templates — Pre-made design systems (Business tier).
  • GitHub 2-way Sync — Commit from Lovable or edit in repo — reflects both ways.
  • Image/Sketch to UI — Upload screenshot → get matching UI.
  • Internal Publish — Deploy internally only (Business tier).
  • Live Preview — See the app live while iterating.
  • Prompt-to-App — Natural language → running React app.
  • Remove Lovable Badge — White-label output — no Lovable branding.
  • SCIM Provisioning (Ent) — Directory sync.
  • Security Center — Audit + permissions console (Business+).
  • Stripe Integration — Built-in Stripe payments setup.
  • Supabase Native — First-class Supabase auth + DB integration.
  • Team Workspace — Shared projects + roles.
  • User Roles — Role-based access control.
  • Visual Edit — Click element → describe change.

Novu · 15 features

  • Activity Feed — Message-by-message delivery timeline.
  • Chat — Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Mattermost, WhatsApp, WeChat.
  • Email — SendGrid, Postmark, Mailgun, AWS SES, Resend, SMTP, Plunk, Mailjet, Sparkpost, M…
  • Inbox — React/Next/Vue/Angular in-app Inbox component.
  • Layouts — Reusable email layouts with template nesting.
  • Multi-tenancy — Per-tenant branding, templates, preferences.
  • Novu Framework — Code-first workflow DSL (TypeScript) colocated with app code.
  • Preferences — Per-subscriber + global notification preferences.
  • Push — APNs, FCM, Expo, OneSignal, Pushpad, Pusher.
  • Self-hosting — Docker Compose / Kubernetes deployment of full stack.
  • SMS — Twilio, MessageBird, Plivo, Nexmo, Termii, Sendchamp, Africa's Talking, Kannel, …
  • Subscribers — Subscriber profiles with channels, preferences, topics.
  • Topics — Pub/sub style subscribe many users to a topic.
  • Translations — i18n support for templates.
  • Workflows — Code-first or visual notification workflows with steps, branches, delays.

Developer interfaces

KindLovableNovu
CLI—Novu CLI
SDK—go-novu, @novu/api, @novu/framework, novu-java, novu-kotlin, novu-php, novu (Python), @novu/react (Inbox), novu-ruby
RESTLovable API (preview)Novu REST API
OTHERGitHub 2-way sync, Lovable Web App, Supabase NativeOutbound Webhooks, Self-hosted (Docker)
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