the meter problemCredit-metered builders bill on top of the model.
Lovable and Bolt.new charge their own currency for the work the model does — and it runs out mid-build. Lovable's paid plans start around $25/month for roughly 250 credits, then more credits cost about $0.30 each. Bolt starts around $25/month for 10M tokens, with extra tokens around $20 per 10M. So every retry, every regenerate, every "actually, make it blue" spends money you've already spent once on an AI plan. Agentation doesn't add a meter at all: it runs on your existing Claude, OpenAI or Cursor subscription.
- Lovable: ~$25/mo for ~250 credits, then ~$0.30 per extra credit.
- Bolt.new: ~$25/mo for 10M tokens, then ~$20 per extra 10M tokens.
- Agentation: your own AI subscription — no second credit meter.
ungoverned outputThey generate fast — then leave you with the code.
The deeper cost isn't the credits, it's what you're left holding. Lovable, Bolt and v0 hand back generated code with nothing standing between you and the model. No one encodes your standards. Nothing stops a prompt from quietly breaking what already worked. You either learn to read the diffs or you ship on hope. Agentation puts a structure in the middle: a Tech Lead encodes the rules once, and every agent boots inside them.
- No reviewer between you and the model — you inherit whatever it writes.
- One bad prompt can regress working features, silently.
- Agentation: a Tech Lead frames the rules; agents stay inside them.
checks before liveReviewed, not just regenerated.
In a credit-metered builder, the only check is your own eyes on a wall of code. In Agentation, deterministic checks — lint, types, tests, security — run before anything is considered done, and the Tech Lead reviews each change. You point at the live product, describe a Design, Debug or Feature change in plain words, and it comes back verified. The work is governed, not hoped for, and it costs no extra credits to get there.
- Describe the change in plain words — Design, Debug or Feature.
- Deterministic checks run before anything is marked done.
- It comes back as a reviewed result, not a pile of code.
your stack, your repoIt ships through your own GitHub.
Lovable, Bolt and v0 keep the project inside their sandbox until you export it. Agentation works the other way: every change lands as commits in your own GitHub repository, so the product is yours from the first line — and we never even see the code. The Product Owner stays on the experience; the engineering rails stay invisible. That's the difference between renting a generator and owning a product.
- Every change lands in your own GitHub repo.
- We never see your code — it lives in your repository, not our sandbox.
- You own the product from day one, not after an export step.
FAQHow is Agentation cheaper than Lovable or Bolt?
It removes the second meter. Lovable and Bolt charge their own credits or tokens on top of the model — Lovable around $0.30 per extra credit, Bolt around $20 per extra 10M tokens — so iteration keeps costing money. Agentation runs on the Claude, OpenAI or Cursor subscription you already pay for, with no additional credit bill.
Is this a Lovable, Bolt.new and v0 alternative for non-coders?
Yes. As the Product Owner you point at the live product and describe what should change. You never open a file or read a diff. A Tech Lead and deterministic checks handle the engineering rails — the same job a credit-metered builder leaves to you.
What happens to the code? Do I get locked in?
No lock-in. Every change ships as commits to your own GitHub repository, so you own the product from the start. There's no export step and no vendor sandbox holding your project — and we never see the code.
Why don't I just inherit bugs like I do with vibe coding?
Because there's a structure between you and the model. A Tech Lead encodes your rules once, every agent boots inside them, and deterministic checks — lint, types, tests, security — run before anything is marked done. That's what credit-metered generators don't give you.