Bolt vs Macaly

Bolt

• Prototyping a web app or site from a prompt without a local setup
• Developers who want to switch between prompting and editing code
• Marketers and founders who need hosting and a custom domain in one place

Macaly

• Small businesses that want a site with bookings, forms or logins
• Marketing teams shipping landing pages and campaign sites
• Agencies running client projects in separate workspaces

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.

Macaly

• The Free plan covers 1 published project on a macaly.app address, with no custom domain, code download or analytics.
• Unused credits on Free and Pro expire at the end of each billing period; only Agency credits roll over, for up to 60 days.
• Macaly's FAQ says it works only with Next.js and Convex and is not meant for native iOS or Android apps.
• Canceling Pro takes a custom-domain site offline unless the account moves to the $5 Hosting plan.

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.

Macaly

Agent that builds full-stack projects

The agent plans, asks questions and builds websites and web apps from a prompt, on Next.js with a Convex database. Pro adds debugging and browser testing.

Several ways to start

A project can start from a screenshot or link, a Word, Excel or PDF file, or a YouTube video. Website tools turn a Google Maps listing, an Airbnb page or a PDF into a site.

Visual edits

Text, images and other elements can be changed by clicking them in the preview. These edits use no credits, except Ask AI, which shows its price before it runs.

Hosting, database and logins

Every plan includes hosting, a database and authentication. Sites publish to a macaly.app address, and Pro allows unlimited custom domains.

SEO audit and analytics

From Pro, an SEO audit runs after each publish with fixes the agent can apply, and cookieless analytics report page views, visitors, countries and UTM sources.

Chat apps and AI assistants

The agent can be reached over WhatsApp and Telegram, and the Macaly Cloud MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor write code that Macaly then builds and hosts.

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.

Macaly

• Free$0

  3M credits a month, 1 published project on a macaly.app address, 1GB of traffic, 1GB of database usage and 10,000 backend API calls.

• ProFrom $25

  per month

  10M credits a month at $25, with tiers up to 450M at $1,000. Adds unlimited custom domains, AI image generation, analytics, SEO tools, GitHub and Stripe.

• AgencyFrom $350

  per month

  150M credits and 5 client workspaces at $350, with steps up to 2B credits. Adds centralized billing, 60-day credit rollover and Macaly API access.

• Hosting$5

  per month

  Keeps a published Pro site live on 1 custom domain with no AI credits. Offered only as a downgrade from Pro.

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%.

Macaly

No public discounts listed.