Credits and usage
Lovable uses a single credit balance to pay for building your app, hosting it, and powering AI features. You can check your credit balance, track usage, and add more credits in the Settings section.
Anyone using Lovable needs this to understand how their app's development and operation consume credits.
Do this, in order
- 1
Go to 'Settings' in Lovable.
This is where all credit and usage management tools are located.
- 2
Select 'Plans & credit usage'.
This page shows your current credit balance, how credits are being used, and options to add more.
- 3
Review the 'Usage details' section to see how your credits are being spent on building, hosting (Cloud), and AI features.
This helps you understand which activities consume the most credits and identify areas for optimization.
- 4
If you need more credits, use the options on the 'Plans & credit usage' page to purchase a one-time top-up or set up auto top-ups.
This ensures your projects can continue running and developing without interruption.
Paste this into your project
I need to check my Lovable credit balance and usage. Can you show me where to go in the settings to see how many credits I have, what's using them, and how to add more if needed?
Words decoded
- Credit balance
- The total amount of Lovable credits you have available to spend.
- Top-ups
- Purchasing additional credits to add to your balance, either as a one-time purchase or automatically when your balance gets low.
- Build usage
- Credits spent when you use Lovable's AI assistant to plan, generate, edit, or update your app's code.
- Cloud usage
- Credits spent on hosting your app and running its built-in backend, including things like database use, network traffic, and storage.
- AI gateway usage
- Credits spent when your deployed app uses AI features, such as making calls to AI models.
- Usage-specific grants
- Free credits given for certain types of activities (like daily build credits or monthly hosting credits) that must be used for that specific purpose before your general credits are touched.
- General credits
- Credits that can be used for any type of activity (building, hosting, AI) after any specific free grants have been used up.
- Plan mode
- A way to use Lovable's AI assistant to think through ideas or create plans without changing your app's code, costing 1 credit per message.
- Build mode
- A way to use Lovable's AI assistant to directly implement changes in your app's code, with costs varying based on the complexity of the work.
Where people get stuck
- Running out of credits can stop your app's development or prevent your deployed app from functioning correctly.
- Not reviewing your top-up settings after the credit system update might mean your auto top-ups are not set to your desired threshold or amount.
- Ignoring credit usage details can lead to unexpected costs, especially for complex build tasks or high-traffic deployed apps.
The short version, steps, decoder and prompt on this page are written automatically from Lovable's own documentation and can lag or misread it. The official page is always the authority.