--- title: "Briks vs Lovable: Apps, Sites, Pricing and Code" url: https://briks.dev/compare/briks-vs-lovable description: "Briks vs Lovable, compared fairly: building, hosting, changes, payments, code export and pricing, with sources for every Lovable fact, checked 8 October 2026." last_updated: 2026-10-08 --- AI app builders # Briks vs Lovable Lovable and Briks both build from plain words, but they aim at different results. Lovable is an AI software engineer for web apps: a chat produces the front end and a built-in back end with a database, sign-in and storage, the code syncs to GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket on every plan, and Pro adds payments through Paddle or Stripe. Briks plans, designs, builds, checks and hosts websites, web apps and dashboards from a written brief or from a site you like, checks contrast before it publishes, and keeps every change as a version you can undo. Briks sites can also give their users accounts and take one-time payments and subscriptions through your own processor, on every plan. As of 8 October 2026. Products change, so check their site before you decide. Briks Lovable **Starting point** Briks: A brief, or a site you like Lovable: A chat **Payments** Briks: Your own processor, every plan Lovable: Paddle or Stripe, Pro and up **Code** Briks: Zip or GitHub sync, on paid plans Lovable: Git sync on every plan **Lowest paid plan** Briks: $16 a month Lovable: $25 a month ## Briks and Lovable at a glance Fifteen rows in six groups. Every Lovable 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 Lovable’s own page. 15 rows | Topic | Briks | Lovable | | --- | --- | --- | | 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 and web apps** Websites and web apps from a chat, front end and back end: database, sign-in, storage and functions. | | 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. | **Not listed** Not found in the pages we checked, so we say nothing either way. | | 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 (Cloud)** Sign-in is part of its built-in back end, Cloud. | | Hosting | | | | Hosting included | Yes **Every plan** On every plan, at the site's own briks.live address. | Yes **All plans** Included on all plans. Publishing to a lovable.app address is free; use beyond the monthly Cloud grants draws on credits. | | 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** From Pro. Domains can also be bought inside Lovable. | | 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 **Built in (Cloud)** Database, sign-in, storage, realtime, edge functions, jobs and logs. Lovable's docs say Cloud uses Supabase's open-source foundation. | | 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. | **Chat, code from Pro** Keep chatting. Editing code in the app and downloading it start on Pro; Git sync works on every plan. | | 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. | **CMS connectors** No built-in CMS in its docs index; connectors for Contentful, Storyblok and self-hosted WordPress. | | 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. | Partly **Monitoring (beta)** Project monitoring (beta, Pro and up) checks code and recent visitor errors on a schedule and emails alerts. No marketing, sales or content agents were found. | | 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 **Paddle or Stripe** Built-in payments with Paddle or Stripe for digital products on Pro and up; Shopify for physical goods. | | 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 **5 credits a day** 5 build credits a day, up to 30 a month, on a lovable.app address. The badge stays and code download is not included. | | 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, or $21 a month billed yearly, for 100 credits 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. | **Credits** One credit balance covers building, Cloud hosting and AI features. Plan mode is 1 credit a message; Default mode varies with the task. | | 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 **Git sync, every plan** Two-way Git sync with GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket on every plan, Free included; code download from Pro. | | 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. | Yes **Unlimited members** Unlimited workspace members on all plans, priced by credits rather than seats. | - 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: a chat that writes an app, or a brief that becomes a site Lovable generates a full-stack app from a chat; Briks asks questions first and designs from a site you like. Lovable describes itself as an AI software engineer that lets anyone build for the web by chatting. One prompt can produce the front end and, through its built-in Cloud back end, a database, sign-in, storage and server functions together. Lovable's docs say Cloud uses Supabase's open-source foundation, and you can connect your own Supabase project instead. Briks starts from a written brief rather than an open chat. Before the first build it asks which pages you want and anything your brief left open, with Decide for me on every question. You can add a site you admire, plus screenshots, and Briks reads its layout, spacing, type, motion and header menu before it designs yours with your own words. Briks builds websites, web apps and dashboards, and a site that needs accounts gets email and password sign-in, with Google and seven more providers on your own keys. Example: a site for a yoga studio With Lovable Ask Lovable for class pages and member accounts, and it can generate the pages together with a database and sign-in from its Cloud back end. With Briks Give Briks the studio's brief and a site whose calm layout you like. It asks which pages you want, builds the class pages with a booking form whose entries are kept in the studio, and checks contrast before it publishes. Ask for member accounts and members sign up with email and password, or with Google once you add your own keys. 02 Hosting ## Hosting and your own domain Both include hosting; both put your own domain on the first paid plan. Both include hosting. Lovable publishes to a lovable.app address on every plan, Free included, and use beyond the monthly Cloud grants draws on your credits. Custom domains start on Pro, and you can buy a domain inside Lovable. Briks publishes every site first as a preview at its own briks.live address, kept out of search, and Publish to production is a separate step with a launch check that includes links that go nowhere. Your own domain starts on Starter: add an A record, a CNAME for www and a TXT record, and the certificate is issued and renewed automatically. Example: going live on your own domain With Lovable On Lovable Pro, connect a domain or buy one in the app. On Free, the app stays on its lovable.app address. With Briks On Briks Starter and above, add the three records the studio shows. They are re-checked every two minutes until they are right, and www is covered once its CNAME is in place. 03 Changes ## Changing it after the first build Lovable: keep chatting or edit the code. Briks: plain words, versions and A/B tests. On Lovable you keep chatting. Plan mode costs one credit a message and Default mode varies with how complex the task is. Editing code in the app and downloading it start on Pro, and Git sync lets a developer change the code in their own tools on any plan. On Briks you type the change in plain words in the studio chat, and Briks builds and publishes it. A question about your site is answered without starting a build. Every build, change and recheck is saved as a version that anyone with edit rights can undo, redo or restore, and you can test a saved version against the live one with a split anywhere from 5 to 95 percent. Example: a shorter headline With Lovable Ask in the Lovable chat, or edit the code yourself on Pro or through Git. With Briks Type the new headline in the studio chat. It becomes a version; restore the old one if you preferred it, or test the two and count form entries, phone taps and email taps. 04 After launch ## After launch: monitoring, selling and agents Lovable sells through Paddle or Stripe and monitors errors in beta; Briks sells through your own processor, counts visitors and has agents on paid plans. Lovable has project monitoring, labelled beta and on Pro and above. It checks the project's code and recent visitor errors on a daily or weekly schedule, emails alerts and helps fix issues in the project chat; the research found no Lovable agents for marketing, sales or content. For selling, Lovable has built-in payments through Paddle or Stripe for digital products on Pro and up, and Shopify for physical goods. Briks counts visitors, pages, sources, referrers and campaign tags without cookies on every published site, and an optional chat answers visitors from your published pages and emails you what it cannot answer. Briks agents for support, leads, search, AI search, articles, social posts and marketing come with paid plans, each asking you before it emails, changes your site or publishes a post. Briks sites take one-time payments through your own account at one of nine processors, and subscriptions through four of them, Paddle and Stripe among them, with no fee from Briks. Example: selling a downloadable guide With Lovable Lovable can add a checkout with Paddle or Stripe on Pro and above. With Briks Connect your own Paddle, Lemon Squeezy or Stripe account in Project settings and ask for the guide's page with a way to buy it. The buyer pays on the processor's own page, and the order appears in the Database tab. 05 Pricing ## Pricing and how usage is counted Lovable Pro starts at $25 a month; Briks Starter is $16. The two count credits differently. Lovable's Pro plan starts at $25 a month, or $21 a month billed yearly, for 100 credits a month, and Pro and Business come in credit tiers up to 10,000 credits. The free plan gives 5 build credits a day, capped at 30 a month. One balance covers building, Cloud hosting and AI features, and Lovable prices by credits rather than seats, with unlimited workspace members. Briks Free gives you 50 credits once, for one site on a briks.live address. Starter is $16 a month with 175 credits, 1 site and 1 domain; Pro is $29 with 400 credits, 3 sites and 3 domains; Studio is $79 and Agency $199. Paying for a year gives 2 months free, and paid plans are bought online at checkout. A new site holds 50 credits and a change 5; each job is charged for the work it took, unused credits come back, any cost beyond the hold is drawn from your balance, and a failed request is not charged. 06 Ownership ## Code, data and who owns what Lovable's code story is stronger; Briks gives you your site's files and your records. Lovable has the stronger code story: two-way Git sync with GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket on every plan, including Free, and code download from Pro. A developer can take the project into their own tools at any point. Briks lets anyone with edit rights browse and edit the files written for your site, and download them as a zip. The zip holds your site's own files, not the shared parts every Briks site runs on, 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. On a paid plan, records in your site's database download as JSON or CSV, up to 50,000 per collection. Form entries are kept in the studio but cannot be exported. ## What reviewers raise about Lovable 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 Lovable’s current plans. - Credits run out quickly, including on loops where the AI fixes its own mistakes. - [Kushi Arikati, UXMagic, 25 September 2026](https://uxmagic.ai/blog/lovable-review-2026) - [Jason Zhou, Superdesign, 14 June 2026](https://www.superdesign.dev/blog/lovable-review) - [Reviews on Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/lovable.dev) **On Briks:** On Briks each job is charged for the work it took, and a request that fails is not charged. A change you ask for to put something right is charged like any other change. - Security gaps in generated back ends, such as missing or weak Row Level Security policies. - [Kushi Arikati, UXMagic, 25 September 2026](https://uxmagic.ai/blog/lovable-review-2026) - [Jason Zhou, Superdesign (citing CVE-2025-48757), 14 June 2026](https://www.superdesign.dev/blog/lovable-review) **On Briks:** Before an app publishes, Briks reads it for keys written into files, writes with no limit, a members' table read with no session, and SQL built from strings. ### Where Lovable is strong - A built-in back end with database, sign-in, storage and functions, generated with the front end. [Source](https://docs.lovable.dev/features/cloud) - Git sync with GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket on every plan, Free included. [Source](https://docs.lovable.dev/introduction/subscription-plans) - Unlimited workspace members on all plans, priced by credits rather than seats. [Source](https://lovable.dev/pricing) ## Who should choose which An honest split. If the left-hand list describes you better, Lovable is the better choice today. ### Choose Lovable if - You want a full-stack app from a chat, with storage and server functions generated beside its database and sign-in. - You want Shopify for physical goods beside the app. - A developer will keep working on the code through GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket. - You want scheduled monitoring that emails you about errors (beta, Pro and up). [Visit Lovable](https://lovable.dev/) ### Choose Briks if - You want a business website or web app designed from a brief, or from a site you like. - You want contrast checked in the code and on the live page before visitors see it. - You want to change things in plain words, undo any change and A/B test versions. [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 Lovable’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 Lovable. ## Moving from Lovable to Briks Moving from Lovable is a rebuild, not an import: Briks builds a new site from your brief and uses your Lovable site as a reference for its look. 1. **Gather what you want to keep** Copy the words from your Lovable 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 Lovable 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 - Accounts and orders kept in Lovable Cloud do not move with the rebuild. Sign-in and payments are set up again in the new site's Project settings, with your own keys. - Your Lovable code stays wherever you synced it; nothing on Briks changes it. ## Common questions ### Is Briks cheaper than Lovable? Lovable Pro starts at $25 a month, or $21 billed yearly, for 100 credits. Briks Starter is $16 a month, or $160 a year, for 175 credits, and Pro $29 a month for 400. The two count credits differently, so compare by what you plan to build: on Briks a new site holds 50 credits and a change 5, and each is charged for the work it took. ### Can Briks take payments like Lovable? Yes, through your own account. Lovable has built-in payments through Paddle or Stripe on Pro and above. On Briks you connect Stripe, PayPal, Mollie, Razorpay, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Creem or Dodo Payments in Project settings, on any plan, for one-time payments, and Stripe, Paddle, Polar or Lemon Squeezy for subscriptions that renew monthly or yearly. Briks takes no fee on your sales. ### Can I get my code out of Briks as easily as out of Lovable? No. Lovable syncs with GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket on every plan. Briks lets you browse and edit your site's own files, and download them as a zip on a paid plan, but the zip leaves out the shared parts every Briks site runs on, 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. ### Does Briks have a back end like Lovable Cloud? Sites that store data get their own database, which you can view and edit in the Database tab and, on a paid plan, download as JSON or CSV. A site that needs accounts also gets sign-in for its users, with email and password and providers such as Google. Lovable Cloud includes sign-in, storage and functions. ### Which one checks its work before publishing? Briks checks contrast in the code before it publishes and again on the live page at desktop and phone, makes sure every chosen page is in the menu, and reads apps for keys in files, writes with no limit and SQL built from strings. Lovable offers project monitoring (beta, Pro and up) that checks code and visitor errors on a schedule after launch. ### Does Briks have agents after launch? Yes, on paid plans. Briks agents reply by email to chat questions and form entries, keep pages current, work on search and AI search, write blog posts, write and plan social posts for X and LinkedIn, and report each week, asking you before anything goes out. Lovable's project monitoring is in beta on Pro and above; the research found no Lovable agents for marketing, sales or content. ### Can I use my own domain on a free plan? Not on either. Lovable's custom domains start on Pro, and Briks's on Starter, where the certificate is issued and renewed automatically. ## Sources Every Lovable fact on this page comes from the pages below, opened on 8 October 2026. Products change, so check Lovable’s site before you decide. ### Lovable 1. [lovable.dev/pricing](https://lovable.dev/pricing) What Lovable is, credit model, pricing by credits not seats 2. [docs.lovable.dev/introduction/subscription-plans](https://docs.lovable.dev/introduction/subscription-plans) Plan features: custom domains, badge, code editing and download, Git sync; Pro prices in USD 3. [docs.lovable.dev/introduction/plans-and-credits](https://docs.lovable.dev/introduction/plans-and-credits) Daily and monthly credit grants 4. [docs.lovable.dev/features/hosting](https://docs.lovable.dev/features/hosting) Hosting on all plans, lovable.app publishing, custom domains on paid plans 5. [docs.lovable.dev/features/cloud](https://docs.lovable.dev/features/cloud) Built-in back end and its Supabase foundation 6. [docs.lovable.dev/features/payments](https://docs.lovable.dev/features/payments) Paddle and Stripe payments from Pro, Shopify 7. [docs.lovable.dev/features/project-monitoring](https://docs.lovable.dev/features/project-monitoring) Scheduled monitoring after launch (beta, Pro and up) 8. [docs.lovable.dev/llms.txt](https://docs.lovable.dev/llms.txt) Docs index: CMS connectors; no built-in CMS listed ### Reviews 1. [uxmagic.ai/blog/lovable-review-2026](https://uxmagic.ai/blog/lovable-review-2026) Kushi Arikati, UXMagic, 25 September 2026 2. [www.superdesign.dev/blog/lovable-review](https://www.superdesign.dev/blog/lovable-review) Jason Zhou, Superdesign (citing CVE-2025-48757), 14 June 2026 3. [www.trustpilot.com/review/lovable.dev](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/lovable.dev) 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 [**Lovable alternatives** Four to six options side by side, Briks among them. *Read*](https://briks.dev/alternatives/lovable) [**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 Bolt.new](https://briks.dev/compare/briks-vs-bolt) - [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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