What is Bolt?
Bolt is a web-based AI development platform from StackBlitz that creates websites, applications, and prototypes from natural-language instructions. Users can begin with a prompt or import work from Figma, GitHub, or a team template. Its interface combines AI-assisted planning, code generation, previews, project infrastructure, and publishing tools.
Bolt automatically selects an AI model for each task based on quality and usage cost. It can also test, revise, and refactor generated projects. Bolt Cloud provides supporting services such as databases, authentication, hosting, analytics, custom domains, and integrations, allowing projects to move from an initial idea to a published product within the same platform.
Key Features
- Prompt-based development: Users describe an app, website, slide deck, or prototype in conversational language, then refine the result through additional instructions.
- Flexible project starting points: Projects can start from a blank prompt, Figma design, GitHub repository, or reusable team template.
- Automated model selection: Bolt routes development tasks to suitable AI models while balancing output quality and token consumption.
- Built-in project infrastructure: The platform includes website hosting and databases, with authentication, analytics, custom domains, and expanded backend capacity available according to plan.
- Testing and code iteration: Bolt can test, refactor, and revise projects to address errors and support larger, more complex builds.
- Team and enterprise controls: Higher tiers add centralized billing, organization sharing, access management, private NPM registries, design system knowledge, and advanced security options.
Use Cases
- Build and publish landing pages or campaign websites with hosting and SEO tools.
- Turn product ideas into interactive prototypes for internal testing and feedback.
- Create working apps for a new business, class project, or independent side project.
- Help agencies and development teams deliver multiple client or internal projects.
Pricing
Bolt uses a freemium model. The Free plan costs $0 and includes 1 million monthly tokens, public and private projects, databases, website hosting, and Bolt branding on published sites. Pro costs $25 per month when billed monthly and starts at 10 million monthly tokens, with rollover, custom domains, additional models, connectors, and no Bolt branding. Teams costs $30 per member per month when billed monthly. Enterprise pricing is customized through an annual contract based on consumption. Applicable taxes may be added.
Who Is It For?
Bolt is intended for product managers, entrepreneurs, marketers, agencies, students, independent builders, and development teams. It suits people who want to create and publish software through AI-guided interaction while retaining access to development, hosting, data, and collaboration capabilities.
