--- title: "Briks vs Bolt.new: Building, Hosting, Code and Cost" url: https://briks.dev/compare/briks-vs-bolt description: "Briks vs Bolt.new side by side: how each builds, hosts, handles changes, payments, code export and pricing, with a source for every Bolt fact. 8 Oct 2026." last_updated: 2026-10-08 --- AI app builders # Briks vs Bolt.new Bolt.new turns a typed idea into a website, a full-stack web app or a mobile app, and Bolt Cloud keeps hosting, a database with sign-in, and domains in one project. It counts usage in tokens, lets you download the code or sync it to GitHub, and connects Stripe for payments. Briks builds websites, web apps and dashboards from a written brief or from a site you like, asks what it needs first, checks contrast before it publishes and keeps every change as a version. Bolt is the better pick for mobile apps and taking the code elsewhere; Briks for a designed, checked business site that you change in plain words, with sign-in, one-time payments and subscriptions through your own processor when the site needs them. As of 8 October 2026. Products change, so check their site before you decide. Briks Bolt.new **Builds** Briks: Sites, web apps, dashboards Bolt.new: Sites, web apps, mobile apps **Usage counted in** Briks: Credits per job Bolt.new: Tokens a day and a month **Payments** Briks: One-time and subscriptions Bolt.new: Stripe **Code** Briks: Zip or GitHub sync, on paid plans Bolt.new: Download and GitHub ## Briks and Bolt.new at a glance Fifteen rows in six groups. Every Bolt.new cell links to the page it came from; where the research could not confirm something, the cell says “Not listed” rather than guess. Prices are shown only where a US dollar price could be confirmed on Bolt.new’s own page. 15 rows | Topic | Briks | Bolt.new | | --- | --- | --- | | Building | | | | Builds from a prompt | Yes **Sites, apps, dashboards** Websites, web apps and dashboards, planned, designed, built, checked and published from a written brief. | Yes **Sites, web and mobile apps** Websites, full-stack web apps and mobile apps (through Expo) from a typed idea. | | Other ways to start | Yes **A site you like, templates** A site you like plus screenshots, or a template rewritten for your business before it publishes. | Yes **Prompt, Figma, GitHub, imports** A prompt, a Figma import, a Google Stitch import, a GitHub repository, or an import from Lovable. | | Sign-in for your app's users | Yes **Email, Google and more** Sites that need accounts get email and password sign-in with confirmation and reset emails. Google, Apple, Microsoft, GitHub, X, Facebook, LinkedIn and Discord switch on in Project settings with your own app keys. | Yes **Built in** Bolt Database includes sign-in (authentication). | | Hosting | | | | Hosting included | Yes **Every plan** On every plan, at the site's own briks.live address. | Yes **All plans** Included on all plans. Free has 10 GB bandwidth and 333,333 requests a month with a hard limit. | | Your own domain from | **Starter ($16 a month)** From Starter, with the certificate issued and renewed automatically. Free publishes to a briks.live address. | **Pro (any paid plan)** Any paid plan. Domains can be bought through Bolt or connected; publishing to a custom domain stops on a downgrade to Free. | | Database | Yes **Built in** Sites that store data get their own database. View and edit records, and on a paid plan download them as JSON or CSV, up to 50,000 per collection. | Yes **Bolt Database** Bolt Database with sign-in, file storage, server functions and logs. Bolt says Bolt Cloud is powered by Netlify and Supabase. | | Changes | | | | How you change it | **Plain words, or the Visual Editor** Type the change in plain words in the studio chat, or on a paid plan click the words or picture on the page in the Visual Editor. Every change is a version you can undo, and questions are answered without a build. | **Prompts, choice of agent** Keep prompting, with a choice of agent per build, including Forge on open-source models. | | Content editing (CMS or blog) | Partly **Database tab, Visual Editor** Records such as menus, listings or team members live in the site's database and are edited in the Database tab. On a paid plan, words and pictures on any page change in the Visual Editor. | **Not listed** Not found in the pages we checked, so we say nothing either way. | | After launch | | | | AI agents after launch | Yes **From Starter** 13 kinds of agent led by a Team lead, Security among them, or your own from a sentence, each with a schedule and a monthly budget, asking you before it emails, changes the site or posts. Starter includes 3 agents per project, Pro 5, Studio 10 and Agency 15. | No **None advertised** No agents that run the site after launch are advertised; Bolt's agents are choices you make while building. | | Payments and selling | Yes **One-time and subscriptions** One-time payments through your own Stripe, PayPal, Mollie, Razorpay, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Creem or Dodo Payments account, on every plan, with no fee from Briks. Plans that renew monthly or yearly, with an optional free trial, sell through Stripe, Paddle, Polar or Lemon Squeezy. Need shipping? Ask for it and Briks builds it into your site with your own payment account. | Yes **Stripe** Stripe for one-time payments and subscriptions; it needs a Bolt database or Supabase, and user sign-in. | | Pricing | | | | Free plan | Yes **50 credits once** 50 credits once when you sign up, for one site on a briks.live address. No custom domain. | Yes **300K tokens a day** 300K tokens a day and 1M a month, a Made in Bolt badge, and no custom domain. | | Lowest paid plan | **$16 a month** From $16 a month: Starter has 175 credits, 1 site and 1 domain; Pro is $29 a month for 400 credits, 3 sites and 3 domains. Paying for a year gives 2 months free. Paid plans are bought online at checkout. | **$25 a month** Pro from $25 a month. | | How usage is counted | **Credits per job** Credits per job: a new site holds 50 and a change 5. Each is charged for the work it took, which can be more than the hold; unused credits come back and a failed request is not charged. | **Tokens** AI tokens a day and a month; paid-plan tokens roll over for one extra month. Hosting beyond the plan is pay-as-you-go on paid plans. | | Ownership | | | | Code export | Partly **Zip of your site's files on paid plans** Browse and edit your site's own files on every plan, and download them as a zip on paid plans. The shared parts every Briks site runs on are not included, so it does not run on its own. On paid plans those files can also be kept in a GitHub repository, in step both ways. | Yes **Download and GitHub** Download a local copy of the project, and GitHub for backup and automatic commit sync. | | No fees per team member | Yes **From Pro, no seat fees** Owner, Admin, Editor and Viewer roles, with no seat fees: Pro includes 3 people, Studio 10 and Agency 25, the owner included. | No **Teams: per member** The Teams plan is priced per member. | - Yes - Partly - No - Not listed: not found in the pages we checked Want to see Briks build yours? Starting is free, with no card. 01 Building ## Building: many ways in, or a brief and an example Bolt imports from Figma, GitHub and Lovable and builds mobile apps; Briks asks first and designs from a site you like. Bolt gives you several doors in: a prompt, a Figma import, a Google Stitch import, a GitHub repository, or a project imported from Lovable. It builds websites such as landing pages and shops, full-stack web apps, and mobile apps through its Expo integration, and you choose which agent works on each build, including Forge on open-source models. Briks has one door, the brief, and spends its effort on understanding it. It always asks which pages you want, asks about anything left unclear unless you switch that off, and offers Decide for me. Add a site you like and Briks reads its layout, spacing, type, motion and header before designing yours; or switch on Pick a look and choose from three boards of colours, type and buttons set with your own words. Example: a café that has a Figma mock-up With Bolt.new Import the Figma file into Bolt and build from it. With Briks Briks does not take Figma files. Add screenshots of the mock-up and the sites that inspired it, describe the café in the brief, and Briks designs the site in that spirit. 02 Hosting ## Hosting, traffic and domains Bolt's Free hosting has a hard traffic limit; Briks hosts every site on every plan. Hosting is included on every Bolt plan. Free covers 10 GB of bandwidth and 333,333 requests a month with a hard traffic limit, and paid plans include more, with pay-as-you-go beyond it. Custom domains need a paid plan; you can buy one through Bolt or connect your own, and publishing to it stops if you go back to Free. Briks hosts every site on every plan. Each site first publishes as a preview at its own briks.live address, kept out of search, then goes to production after a launch check. On Starter and up you connect your own domain with three records, and the certificate is issued and renewed automatically. 03 Changes ## Making changes without breaking things Bolt: keep prompting. Briks: plain words, and every change is a version. On Bolt you keep prompting the agent you chose, and paid-plan tokens roll over for one extra month. Reviewers we cite below describe error loops on larger builds, where fixes to sign-in or the back end keep failing, and tokens spent on whole-file rewrites for small fixes. On Briks you describe the change in plain words and it is built and published as a new version. Undo, redo and restore are open to anyone with edit rights, so a change you do not like is one click from gone, and you can run an A/B test between a saved version and the live one. Questions about your site are answered without a build. Example: the menu breaks on phones With Bolt.new Ask Bolt to fix it, or download the project and fix it by hand. With Briks Ask Briks to fix it in the chat. If the fix makes things worse, restore the version before it. 04 After launch ## After launch Bolt connects Stripe; Briks connects your own processor and has agents that look after your site on paid plans. Bolt connects Stripe for one-time payments and subscriptions, which needs a Bolt database or Supabase and user sign-in. Bolt does not advertise agents that run a site after launch; its Standard, Max and Forge agents are choices you make while building. Briks counts visitors, pages, sources and campaign tags without cookies, can answer visitors from your published pages with an optional chat, and keeps every form entry in the studio, emailed to you once the site is in production. On paid plans, Briks agents answer enquiries, keep pages current, work on search and write blog posts, asking you first. Briks sites give visitors accounts with email and password or providers such as Google, and take one-time payments and subscriptions that renew monthly or yearly through your own processor, Stripe among them. 05 Pricing ## Pricing: tokens or credits Bolt Pro is $25 a month; Briks Starter is $16. Bolt's free plan gives 300K tokens a day and 1M a month, with a Made in Bolt badge. Pro starts at $25 a month, and a Teams plan is priced per member. Usage is counted in AI tokens, and hosting beyond the included amount is billed as you go on paid plans. Briks gives 50 credits once on Free, for one site. Starter is $16 a month with 175 credits and Pro $29 with 400; Studio is $79 and Agency $199, with 2 months free when you pay for a year and no seat fees. Each job holds credits while it runs (50 for a new site, 5 for a change) and is charged for the work it took. Paid plans are bought online at checkout. 06 Ownership ## Code and ownership Bolt's code goes wherever you like; Briks's zip comes with paid plans and does not run on its own. Bolt lets you export and download a local copy of the project and back it up to GitHub with automatic commit sync. If you might move the project to your own hosting later, that matters. Briks shows you the files written for your site, lets anyone with edit rights change them, and on a paid plan downloads them as a zip. The zip leaves out the shared parts every Briks site runs on, so it needs work to run elsewhere. On paid plans those files can also be kept in a GitHub repository, in step both ways. On a paid plan your database records download as JSON or CSV; form entries stay in the studio and cannot be exported. ## What reviewers raise about Bolt.new These points come from named reviewers, linked and dated, and only where more than one source agreed. They describe some people’s experience, not everyone’s. Some reviewers publish their own tools, and older reviews may predate Bolt.new’s current plans. - Tokens are used quickly, including on fixing errors Bolt introduced and on rewriting whole files for small fixes. - [Jason Zhou, Superdesign, 14 June 2026](https://www.superdesign.dev/blog/bolt-review) - [Ranisha Sinha, UXMagic, 25 September 2026](https://uxmagic.ai/blog/bolt-new-review-2026-ai-app-builder-limits) - [Reviews on Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/bolt.new) **On Briks:** Briks charges each job for the work it took, returns what a job does not use, and does not charge a request that fails. - Error loops and regressions on larger builds, for example sign-in and back-end fixes that keep failing. - [Ranisha Sinha, UXMagic, 25 September 2026](https://uxmagic.ai/blog/bolt-new-review-2026-ai-app-builder-limits) - [Reviews on Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/bolt.new) **On Briks:** Every Briks build and change is a version, so a change that goes wrong can be undone or an earlier version restored. - Weak support for billing disputes and account problems. - [Jason Zhou, Superdesign, 14 June 2026](https://www.superdesign.dev/blog/bolt-review) - [Reviews on Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/bolt.new) ### Where Bolt.new is strong - Bolt Cloud puts hosting, databases and domains in one place with no separate accounts. [Source](https://support.bolt.new/cloud/bolt-cloud) - Several ways to start: a prompt, Figma, Google Stitch, a GitHub repository, or a Lovable project. [Source](https://support.bolt.new/get-started/intro-bolt) - A choice of AI agent per build, including Forge on open-source models with more usage. [Source](https://support.bolt.new/account-and-subscription/bolt-forge) ## Who should choose which An honest split. If the left-hand list describes you better, Bolt.new is the better choice today. ### Choose Bolt.new if - You want a mobile app as well as a website. - You already have a Figma file, a GitHub repository or a Lovable project to start from. - You want to download the code or keep it in GitHub. [Visit Bolt.new](https://bolt.new/) ### Choose Briks if - You want a business site designed from a brief and from a site you like, without managing a codebase. - You want it to ask what it needs before it builds. - You want contrast checked before publishing and every change kept as a version you can undo. - You want hosting that never draws on your credits. [Start building free](https://app.briks.dev/signup) ## Which fits you? Tick what your project needs. The suggestion counts only what is known: a need Bolt.new’s pages did not mention never counts against it. Your suggestion Tick what you need The suggestion updates as you go, and it can be Bolt.new. ## Moving from Bolt.new to Briks Moving from Bolt.new means building the site again on Briks from a brief, with your Bolt site as a reference for the look and feel. 1. **Gather what you want to keep** Copy the words from your Bolt.new site that you want on the new one, and collect any pictures you own. 2. **Upload your pictures** Add them to your Briks media library, where any project's prompt box can use them. 3. **Start a new project with a brief** Describe the business and paste in the words you are keeping. Briks asks which pages you want and anything the brief leaves open. 4. **Add your Bolt.new site as a reference** Paste its address as your project's reference site. Briks reads its layout, spacing, type, motion and header, and builds a new site in that spirit with your words. 5. **Check the preview** The first publish goes to a briks.live preview kept out of search. Ask for changes in plain words; each one is a version you can undo. 6. **Publish to production** A launch check runs first, including links that go nowhere. 7. **Connect your domain on a paid plan** On Starter or above, add an A record, a CNAME for www and a TXT record. The certificate is issued and renewed automatically. Paid plans are bought online at checkout. ### Good to know - Mobile apps do not come across, because Briks builds for the web. Sign-in and Stripe payments are set up again on the new site, with your own keys in Project settings. - Keep your Bolt download or GitHub copy; it stays yours. ## Common questions ### What is the main difference between Briks and Bolt.new? Bolt.new builds web and mobile apps from a typed idea and gives you the code to download or sync to GitHub. Briks builds and hosts designed business websites, web apps and dashboards from a brief, checks contrast before publishing, and keeps every change as a version. ### Does Briks use tokens like Bolt? No. Briks uses credits per job: a new site holds 50 and a change 5, each is charged for the work it took, unused credits come back, and a failed request is not charged. ### Can Briks build mobile apps like Bolt? No. Briks builds for the web: websites, web apps and dashboards. Bolt builds mobile apps through its Expo integration. ### Can I import my Bolt project into Briks? Not as code. Start a new Briks project with a brief and add your Bolt site's address as a reference; Briks reads its layout, spacing, type and motion and builds a new site with your words. ### Which has better hosting limits on the free plan? Bolt's Free hosting covers 10 GB of bandwidth and 333,333 requests a month with a hard limit. Briks Free hosts one site on a briks.live address with 50 credits once. ### Does either include agents that work after launch? Bolt does not advertise post-launch agents. Briks has agents on paid plans, each asking you before it emails, changes your site or publishes a post. ### Can I take payments on Briks? Yes, one-time payments through your own Stripe, PayPal, Mollie, Razorpay, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Creem or Dodo Payments account, connected in Project settings on any plan, and subscriptions that renew monthly or yearly through Stripe, Paddle, Polar or Lemon Squeezy. Briks takes no fee on your sales. Bolt connects Stripe for one-time payments and subscriptions. ## Sources Every Bolt.new fact on this page comes from the pages below, opened on 8 October 2026. Products change, so check Bolt.new’s site before you decide. ### Bolt.new 1. [bolt.new/pricing](https://bolt.new/pricing) Plans, Free and Pro limits, Pro at $25 a month, Teams per member, branding, token rollover 2. [support.bolt.new/get-started/intro-bolt](https://support.bolt.new/get-started/intro-bolt) What Bolt is, what it builds, ways to start 3. [support.bolt.new/cloud/bolt-cloud](https://support.bolt.new/cloud/bolt-cloud) Hosting, domains and database in Bolt Cloud; powered by Netlify and Supabase 4. [support.bolt.new/cloud/hosting/plans](https://support.bolt.new/cloud/hosting/plans) Hosting limits per plan, Made in Bolt badge 5. [support.bolt.new/cloud/domains](https://support.bolt.new/cloud/domains) Custom domains on paid plans 6. [support.bolt.new/cloud/database](https://support.bolt.new/cloud/database) Built-in database and sign-in 7. [support.bolt.new/integrations/stripe](https://support.bolt.new/integrations/stripe) Stripe payments and what they need 8. [support.bolt.new/building/using-bolt/rollback-backup](https://support.bolt.new/building/using-bolt/rollback-backup) Export and download a local copy 9. [support.bolt.new/account-and-subscription/bolt-forge](https://support.bolt.new/account-and-subscription/bolt-forge) Forge agent and research preview 10. [support.bolt.new/llms.txt](https://support.bolt.new/llms.txt) Help centre index; no CMS or post-launch agent pages listed ### Reviews 1. [www.superdesign.dev/blog/bolt-review](https://www.superdesign.dev/blog/bolt-review) Jason Zhou, Superdesign, 14 June 2026 2. [uxmagic.ai/blog/bolt-new-review-2026-ai-app-builder-limits](https://uxmagic.ai/blog/bolt-new-review-2026-ai-app-builder-limits) Ranisha Sinha, UXMagic, 25 September 2026 3. [www.trustpilot.com/review/bolt.new](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/bolt.new) Reviews on Trustpilot ### Briks 1. [briks.dev/features](https://briks.dev/features) What Briks does today, feature by feature, with each one's conditions 2. [briks.dev/pricing](https://briks.dev/pricing) Plans, credits and what each plan includes 3. [briks.dev/features/ai-agents](https://briks.dev/features/ai-agents) Agents, on paid plans 4. [briks.dev/features/your-code](https://briks.dev/features/your-code) What the code download holds 5. [briks.dev/features/sign-in-and-payments](https://briks.dev/features/sign-in-and-payments) Sign-in for visitors and payments through the owner's own processor As of 8 October 2026. Products change, so check their site before you decide. ## Keep comparing [**Bolt.new alternatives** Four to six options side by side, Briks among them. *Read*](https://briks.dev/alternatives/bolt) [**Every Briks feature** What Briks does today, and what each feature needs: a plan, a switch, or nothing. *Read*](https://briks.dev/features) [**All comparisons** Twelve AI app and website builders, and a short guide to choosing. *Read*](https://briks.dev/compare) More comparisons - [Briks vs Lovable](https://briks.dev/compare/briks-vs-lovable) - [Briks vs Replit](https://briks.dev/compare/briks-vs-replit) - [Briks vs v0](https://briks.dev/compare/briks-vs-v0) - [Briks vs Base44](https://briks.dev/compare/briks-vs-base44) - [Briks vs Framer](https://briks.dev/compare/briks-vs-framer) - [Briks vs Wix](https://briks.dev/compare/briks-vs-wix) - [Briks vs Squarespace](https://briks.dev/compare/briks-vs-squarespace) - [Briks vs Webflow](https://briks.dev/compare/briks-vs-webflow) - [Briks vs WordPress.com](https://briks.dev/compare/briks-vs-wordpress-com) - [Briks vs Durable](https://briks.dev/compare/briks-vs-durable) - [Briks vs Hostinger](https://briks.dev/compare/briks-vs-hostinger) ## Try Briks on your own business Describe it in a sentence, or point at a site you like. 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