Bolt is my platform of choice to quickly prototype. In my experience, it generates coherent, beautiful frontends.
That said, they've recently halved the daily free tokens. A token in Bolt's case is the literal LLM input/output token. Used to be 300K per day/3M per month. Now, it is 150K per day/1.5M per month.
Once you are out of tokens, Bolt won't generate anything for you until more tokens(free or paid) become available.
It is great tbh, but I can understand if it seems a bit too measly, but tokens especially from the frontier closed source models are pretty expensive though.
emir · 3h ago
I was trying out some no-code website builders to understand how they work. One of the most well-known and frequently mentioned ones is
@boltdotnew
. I asked it to create a simple website. It built it using React. When I requested an iteration focused on SEO, it didn’t include the package.json file this time. Only package-lock.json was there, and apparently, I needed a token to fix the error.
Another frustrating part was during onboarding. It asked a few questions, and even though I selected that I’m a pro user, it still asked for payment because of such a simple issue. If it had been more realistic, for example by saying on my second prompt that I reached the limit, I would have paid without hesitation.
Another frustrating part was during onboarding. It asked a few questions, and even though I selected that I’m a pro user, it still asked for payment because of such a simple issue. If it had been more realistic, for example by saying on my second prompt that I reached the limit, I would have paid without hesitation.