# Polymet review (2026): is the free plan enough? > AI product designer that builds screens as editable React code Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Polymet is an AI product designer. You describe a page, component or prototype and its agent builds it as a React and Tailwind app on a canvas, which you can then change by prompting, in a visual editor or in code. It imports from and exports to Figma, can use a team's own design system, and publishes to a live link. - **Category:** AI App Builders - **Made by:** Polymet - **Website:** https://polymet.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a finished app with logins and payments built for you, as it is aimed at design and front end. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Polymet has a free plan, and paid plans start at $25 per month for 1,000 credits (Pro), or $250 billed yearly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 500 credits every 30 days, up to 250 a day, with unlimited projects and collaborators. Published apps carry a "Built with Polymet" badge. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 500 credits every 30 days (up to 250 a day), unlimited projects and collaborators, canvas, visual and code editors, Figma and GitHub import. Published apps show a Polymet badge. | | Pro | $25 per month for 1,000 credits ($250 billed yearly) | Adds credit rollover, custom domains, code download, GitHub export, no badge and premium models. Sizes run from 1,000 to 50,000 credits a month ($1,000). | | Team | $50 per month for 1,000 credits ($500 billed yearly) | Everything in Pro at twice the price for the same credits, in the same 12 sizes up to $2,000 a month. | | Enterprise | Custom | For teams over 10 people: volume pricing, SSO and SAML, audit logs, SOC 2 and dedicated support. Arranged by contract. | Read from https://docs.polymet.ai/plans/plans.md on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Polymet before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **2 months free on yearly billing** (Annual discount): A yearly Pro or Team plan costs 10 times the monthly price, paid at once, with credits arriving in 12 monthly batches. Source: https://docs.polymet.ai/plans/plans.md ## Key features - **Prompt-built canvas:** The Polymet agent turns a prompt into pages and components on a canvas, as a React and Tailwind app you can click through. - **Visual and code editors:** Tweak layout, spacing and colors visually, select an element and edit it with AI, or open the code editor for direct control. - **Design systems and Figma:** Bring your own design system, import Figma files into a project and export designs back to Figma. - **GitHub and coding agents:** Import from GitHub or a ZIP with two-way sync, export code to a repository, and build in Polymet from Claude Code and other coding agents through its MCP server. - **Backend and publishing:** Projects can add a backend with managed data and secrets, publish to a polymet.app link, and use custom domains on paid plans. - **Team collaboration:** Invite members with Admin and Member roles, work live in the same project, and keep versions and branches. ## Good for - Product designers and teams that want working front-end code from a prompt - Teams with an existing design system or Figma files to build from - Prototypes that need a shareable live link for stakeholders ## Worth knowing - Credits are spent by AI model usage per message, so large builds use more than short edits; nothing is billed past zero and generations stop when credits run out. - Custom domains, code download, GitHub export, removal of the Polymet badge and premium models are Pro-plan features. - A Keep Alive option at $8 a month keeps a finished project online after a paid plan is cancelled, with 300 credits a month on top of the free 500. - Unused free credits do not carry over; paid plan credits roll over for 30 days after each renewal. The product is a browser app only. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Polymet turns a prompt into React and Tailwind screens on a canvas, with Figma import and export and a live link to share. But Pro starts at $25 a month for only 1,000 credits, code download and your own domain sit behind it, and it is a browser app only. If you need a finished product with its own back office, it is a design tool first. - **Value for money: C.** $25 a month for 1,000 credits sits at the top of the $15 to $25 range this category charges, and Team costs $50 for the same credits. The paid plan is what unlocks code download and custom domains. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free gives 500 credits every 30 days, capped at 250 a day, with unlimited projects. Published apps carry a Built with Polymet badge, and unused free credits do not carry over. - **Features: B.** Canvas, visual and code editors, Figma and GitHub in and out, a design system, a backend and publishing. Nothing in the listing is missing from the job of building front-end screens, though credits run out faster on big builds. - **Ease of use: C.** A browser app where the work is describing and shaping the thing you are building. No store rating is on record, so there is nothing to lift it higher. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, but it links to Figma, GitHub, Storybook, npm and Claude Code through its MCP server. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Polymet's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI app builders - Polymet's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 51 of the 89 other AI app builders we grade, and level with 15. - It stands best on features (B, above 64 of 89) and worst on ease of use (C, above 1). - Its paid plans start at $20.83 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $20 for the category: 51 of the 82 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 7 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-app-builders ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Polymet you would be making a tool that builds and hosts other apps. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $250 a year. - You could not: A tool that builds and hosts other apps. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: Several people working in it at the same moment. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Figma, GitHub and Storybook among them, and has an API. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Figma, GitHub, Storybook, npm, Claude Code **Tags:** App builder, AI features, AI agents, Real-time collaboration, Public API ## Alternatives - [Lovable](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lovable): Chat-based AI builder for full-stack web apps and websites. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lovable-vs-polymet) - [v0](https://toolgpa.com/tools/v0): Vercel's AI agent for building and deploying full-stack web apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/polymet-vs-v0) - [Bolt](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bolt): Browser-based AI builder for websites, web apps and mobile apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bolt-vs-polymet) - [Magic Patterns](https://toolgpa.com/tools/magic-patterns): AI prototyping tool that builds product UIs from prompts. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/magic-patterns-vs-polymet) - [Subframe](https://toolgpa.com/tools/subframe): Design canvas, coding agent and browser in one desktop app. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/polymet-vs-subframe) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://polymet.ai - https://docs.polymet.ai/plans/plans.md - https://docs.polymet.ai/plans/credits.md - https://docs.polymet.ai/ - https://docs.polymet.ai/llms.txt Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/polymet Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).