Bolt vs Kombai (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Bolt if

• Fits if you want to prototype a web app from a prompt with nothing to install
• Works for people who switch between prompting and editing the code themselves

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you're staying free, at 300K tokens a day and 1M a month, with bigger projects spending more per message
• Watch out: free sites carry a Made in Bolt badge and go offline for the month past 10 GB or 333,333 requests
• Skip it if you want a desktop or phone app to build in, as Bolt lives in the browser
• Pricey if you're a team, since Teams is $30 a member and tokens aren't shared between you
• Not for you if you need custom domains or Supabase databases for free, as both need a paid plan

Pick Kombai if

• Fits if your team has a React repo and a design system to build against
• Works for front-end developers who already use Cursor or VS Code

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you stay free: 300 credits a month, 50 a day
• Skip it if you want a web app: only desktop apps and extensions are listed
• Watch out: shared credits, shared rules and up to 20 seats need Team at $32 and up
• Watch out: credit tiers go up to 110,000 a month and each step costs more

Bolt

• The free plan stops at 300K tokens a day and 1M a month, and larger projects use more tokens per message.
• Custom domains and Supabase databases need a paid plan, and free sites show a Made in Bolt badge.
• Free sites go offline for the rest of the month once they pass 10 GB of bandwidth or 333,333 requests.
• On Teams, tokens are allotted to each paid member and are not shared across the team.

Kombai

• Pro is for one seat; shared credit pools, shared rules and up to 20 seats need Team.
• Credit tiers on Pro and Team range from 2,000 to 110,000 a month, with a higher price at each step.
• Index external and private packages is a Team feature, and a custom context engine is Enterprise only.
• The pricing page lists desktop apps and editor extensions; no web version of the editor is listed.

Bolt

Prompt-to-app building

Describe an idea in chat and Bolt generates a full-stack project using JavaScript-based web frameworks. Plan Mode lets you discuss an approach before any code is written.

Bolt Cloud

Hosting, databases, user authentication and domains are built into each project. Paid plans raise the hosting allowance to 30 GB of bandwidth and 1 million requests a month.

Code view and GitHub

Project files can be read and edited directly in Code view, which uses no tokens, and a project can be connected to GitHub or started from an existing repository.

Design imports

Start a project from a Figma frame or a Google Stitch design, or add a design system so that generated screens follow existing components.

Mobile apps through Expo

Web apps are built natively in Bolt, while mobile apps for iOS and Android are built and shipped through its Expo integration.

Teams workspace

A shared workspace with centralized billing, member and integration controls, team prompts and private NPM registry support, priced per member.

Kombai

Infinite canvas

Explore ideas on a canvas before they touch production code, with parallel agents, targeted variations and live HTML, states and animations.

Repo-aware coding

Context graphs reuse components, tokens and hooks from your repo or npm package, and Storybook can be indexed for real props.

Design systems

Remembers key design decisions from a repo, Figma or a website and carries them into later work.

Many models

Choose from 50+ models, including Anthropic, xAI, Moonshot AI and OpenAI, or use an automatic model router.

Built-in browser

A Kombai Browser and browser extension support editing in the page, with autonomous browser testing and terminal commands.

Bolt

• Free$0

  300K tokens a day and 1M a month, public and private projects, hosting with up to 333K web requests, a 10MB upload limit and Bolt branding on sites.

• ProFrom $25

  per month, billed monthly; $216 a year billed yearly

  Starts at 10M tokens a month with no daily limit. Adds token rollover, custom domains, no Bolt branding, 100MB uploads and up to 1M web requests.

• Teams$30

  per member / month, billed monthly

  Everything in Pro, plus centralized billing, team-level access management, admin controls and private NPM registries. Tokens are per member, not pooled.

• EnterpriseCustom

  SSO, audit logs and compliance support, a dedicated account manager, 24/7 priority support, custom SLAs and data retention policies.

Kombai

• Free$0

  300 credits a month (150 on sign-up, then 50 a day). One seat.

• Pro$16

  per month for 2,000 credits, billed annually ($20 billed monthly)

  2,000 credits a month, rollovers up to 5x, email support and SOC 2 compliance. Tiers go up to 110,000 credits.

• Team$32

  per month and up, billed annually ($40 billed monthly)

  Shared credit pool, up to 20 seats, unlimited rollovers, shared rules, centralized billing and usage analytics.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Custom context engine for large repos, dedicated support, onboarding and custom SLAs. Sold through sales.

Bolt

• Annual discount

  Save up to 28% with yearly billing

  The pricing page advertises up to 28% off with yearly billing. The help center gives $216 a year for the entry Pro tier against $25 a month, and says other annual plans save 10%.

Kombai

• Annual discount

  20% off with annual billing

  Pro and Team are 20% cheaper billed annually: Pro is $16 a month instead of $20. A quarterly option is billed at the monthly price for the same credits per quarter.