Credits and usage
Lovable uses a single credit balance for everything you do, from building your app to running its AI features. You can check your credit balance, track usage, and add more credits in your Workspace settings.
Anyone using Lovable needs this to understand how their actions consume credits and how to manage their account balance.
Do this, in order
- 1
Go to "Workspace settings" in Lovable.
This is where all your billing and usage information is located.
- 2
Select "Plans & credit usage" from the settings menu.
This page shows your current credit balance, how much you've used, and options to add more.
- 3
Review the credit bar and the "Daily chat credits" row to see your remaining credits and daily allowances.
This gives you a quick overview of what's left for different types of activities.
- 4
Click on "Usage details" to see a breakdown of how your credits are being spent across different areas like building, chatting, and running your app.
This helps you understand which activities consume the most credits and where you might optimize.
- 5
If your credits are low, use the options on the "Plans & credit usage" page to add more credits through one-time top-ups or set up auto top-ups.
Ensuring you have enough credits prevents interruptions to your work and deployed apps.
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How do Lovable credits work, what uses them, and how can I check my usage and add more credits?
Words decoded
- Credit balance
- The total amount of Lovable credits you have available to use for various services.
- Top-ups
- Buying additional credits to add to your balance, either as a one-time purchase or automatically when your balance gets low.
- Usage-specific grants
- Free credits given for certain activities, like a daily allowance for chatting or a monthly amount for running your app, which are used before your main credit balance.
- General credits
- Your main pool of credits that can be used for any Lovable service once usage-specific grants are used up.
- Plan mode
- A way to chat with Lovable about your project ideas or problems without making any changes to your code. It helps you plan before building.
- Build mode
- A way to tell Lovable to directly make changes to your project's code based on your instructions.
- Cloud usage
- The credits used for hosting your app online and running its built-in backend services, like databases, storage, and computing power.
- AI gateway usage
- The credits used when your deployed app uses artificial intelligence features, such as making calls to AI models for tasks like chatbots or image generation.
- Connector usage
- The credits used when your app connects to other services (like Perplexity or Firecrawl) that are managed and billed through Lovable, instead of directly by the service provider.
- Tokens
- Small pieces of text or code that AI models process. The number of tokens affects the cost of AI features.
Where people get stuck
- Running out of credits can pause your work or stop your deployed app from functioning.
- Not understanding the different types of credit usage can lead to unexpected credit depletion.
- Ignoring credit check-ins for long-running tasks can result in higher-than-expected costs for a single action.
- Assuming all chat messages are free; after the daily allowance, chat usage draws from other credit pools.
- Not checking the 'More options' menu for Lovable's responses to see the exact credit cost of each action.
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.