Shortlist · Blink alternatives
Blink needs Pro, $300 a year up front or $50 a month, to take real payments. Without your own domain, DoAny Free and Lovable Free can sell for $0; Base44 needs Builder, $480 billed yearly, to sell.
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The cheapest plan on each that can take real card payments, over 12 months, on your own domain if you want one.
To take real card payments for 12 months without a domain of your own, DoAny Free and Lovable Free tie for the lowest cost: $0 each. Blink Pro costs $300 and Base44 Builder $480.
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| What you pay | DoAny Free | Blink Pro | Lovable Free | Base44 Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plan | Free, $0 | Pro, $300 a year | Free, $0 | Builder, $480 a year |
| Why this plan | Every plan can sell | Payments need Pro | Free connects your own Stripe | Stripe from Builder |
| Platform cost, 12 months | $0 | $300 | $0 | $480 |
Prices and fees checked September 27, 2026
Sources, checked September 27, 2026
The reasons
Blink builds a working app with a database, sign-in and hosting in one place. These six limits come from its own pricing, docs and legal pages.
The cheapest Blink plan that can take a real payment, or $300 paid a year up front. On any plan you can build a plans page and connect Stripe, but “Taking real payments needs Pro” (payments page).
What production hosting uses for each product every month, up to 10,000 visits, renewed every 30 days. If a renewal fails, the app shows as paused and goes offline after 7 days (hosting docs).
Every project on the Free plan. Anyone can see a public project in Blink and remix it into their own copy; private projects start on Starter (collaboration guide).
Blink rejects Stripe test keys. You test checkout with a 100%-off code on your own card (Blink Stripe docs).
Every Blink fee, a year paid up front included (terms). Auto-reload, if you turn it on, starts with no monthly cap (Blink plans and credits).
What the app uses for sign-in, data, storage and AI, “so it keeps running on Blink” (founders page). The code export leaves out secrets and database data (export docs).
Blink’s prices also differ between its own pages. Its pricing page sells top-ups at $40 per 100 credits, while its plans and credits docs list $25 per 100, and the Starter card shows $13 a month for a year that costs $150. Check the date on any Blink price you read, ours included.
Side by side
Blink is the first row, for reference. “Billed yearly” means paid a year up front.
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| Option | Entry price | Best for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blink (today) | Starter $25/mo or $150/yr; Pro, which can take payments, $50/mo or $300/yr. (Blink pricing) | Web and native mobile apps with hosting built in | Hosting is paid in credits; real payments need Pro; Free projects are public |
| DoAny | Free $0 with no card, and Free can sell; Pro from $25/mo. (DoAny pricing) | Selling from day one on a $0 plan, with hosting that uses no credits and an agent that keeps working after launch | Web apps only, no native store apps; editing is by chat, with no visual editor; custom domains need Pro, and you buy the domain elsewhere |
| Lovable | Free $0; Pro $25/mo or $250/yr. (Lovable pricing) | The closest web app builder to Blink, with private projects on Free and custom domains on Pro | Built-in payments need a paid plan; on Free you connect your own Stripe account. Hosting draws on a 20-credit monthly Cloud grant |
| Base44 | Starter $16/mo billed yearly or $20 monthly; Builder $40 or $50. (Base44 pricing) | An all-in-one builder with a Stripe test mode before you go live | Stripe starts on Builder, $480 a year billed yearly; credits come in two pools, message and integration |
| Rocket | Free $0 (20 credits); Pro $25/mo for 100 monthly credits. (Rocket pricing) | Web and phone apps plus on-demand research, with credits that carry over while your plan is active | Payments need your own Stripe keys and your own Supabase project; custom domains need Pro; you submit phone apps to the stores yourself |
| Bolt | Free $0; Pro $25/mo from 10M tokens a month. (Bolt pricing) | Paying for building in tokens, with free website hosting and unused Pro tokens carried into the next month | Free sites carry Bolt branding; custom domains start on Pro; Bolt’s Stripe guide doesn’t say which plan can sell |
| Replit | Core $20/mo, or $18/mo billed yearly. (Replit pricing) | Keeping the code in a full development workspace that you or a developer keep working in | A coding workspace more than a no-code builder; its pricing FAQ covers effort-based, pay-as-you-go pricing and spending controls |
The shortlist
Best for: selling from day one. Blink needs Pro to take real payments; DoAny Free can, through a Stripe account it opens for you, with no keys to paste. Annie researches your idea first, builds the app with accounts and a database, and keeps posting and answering customers after launch.
Price: Free is $0 with no card: 5 credits a day, and it can take real card payments once you go live with Stripe. Pro starts at $25/mo for 100 monthly credits. DoAny takes 0% of your sales; Stripe’s processing fees still apply (DoAny pricing; DoAny Terms).
Watch out for: web apps only, with no native store apps. Editing is by chat, with no visual editor or rollback screen. Custom domains need Pro. The checkout on the sites DoAny builds is Stripe only, with no coupons or sales-tax handling at the moment. Those sites can’t bring an existing Stripe account yet.
Moving from Blink: hosting uses no credits, so nothing renews every 30 days as Blink’s 50-credit hosting does, and the site stays live at zero credits. DoAny imports existing code and database records, so hand it Blink’s GitHub sync and CSV exports instead of starting over, and rehearse checkout with Stripe test cards first. The step-by-step order is in DoAny vs Blink.
Lovable builds web apps from chat, much like Blink. Its Free plan lists workspace-private projects and 5 lovable.app addresses, with 5 credits a day up to 30 a month (Lovable plans and credits). Pro adds custom domains, top-ups and unused monthly credits that carry over.
Watch out for: Lovable’s built-in payments need a paid plan; on Free you connect your own Stripe account instead, per its payments docs. Hosting and the built-in backend draw on a 20-credit monthly Cloud grant. Our DoAny vs Lovable page covers what happens when it runs out.
Price: Free $0; Pro $25/mo, or $250 billed yearly, per Lovable’s subscription plans; Business $50/mo.
Base44 is an all-in-one app builder with a database, sign-in and analytics. Payments start in Stripe’s test environment, and you switch to live payments by claiming the Stripe sandbox and connecting your own account, per its Base44 Stripe guide. Builder includes 250 message credits a month, GitHub and a free domain for a year.
Watch out for: Stripe is available from Builder up, so selling costs $480 a year billed yearly or $50 a month. Credits come in two pools, message and integration. Free allows up to 5 apps.
Price: Starter $16/mo billed yearly or $20 monthly, which connects a domain; Builder $40 or $50. Yearly billing saves 20%.
Rocket builds websites, web apps and mobile apps, and adds research on demand. Its credits carry over while your plan is active (they expire if you cancel), per its Rocket credits guide, and every plan has no seat fees. Its Rocket FAQ says it generates Flutter apps for iOS and Android.
Watch out for: you download the Flutter code on a paid plan and submit it through Xcode and Google Play Console yourself. Payments run on Stripe keys you paste in, and Rocket advises connecting Supabase first for user accounts (Rocket Stripe guide). Custom domains need Pro.
Price: Free $0 with 20 credits; Pro $25/mo for 100 monthly credits; Rocket $50 for 250; Booster $250 for 1,500. Yearly billing saves 20%.
Bolt meters building in tokens: 300,000 a day and 1 million a month on Free, and from 10 million a month on Pro, where unused tokens carry into the next month. Website hosting is included on Free. Bolt integrates with Stripe for payments and subscriptions (Bolt Stripe guide).
Watch out for: Free sites carry Bolt branding, and custom domains start on Pro. Bolt’s Stripe guide doesn’t say which plan can take real payments, so check before you build a store.
Price: Free $0; Pro $25/mo; Teams $30 per member a month. Yearly billing saves up to 28%.
Replit is a development workspace with an AI agent. Core includes $20 a month toward the most powerful models, plan mode and workspaces without a cap. It suits a founder who expects to hand the code to a developer.
Watch out for: it is a coding workspace more than a no-code builder. Its pricing FAQ covers effort-based, pay-as-you-go pricing and spending controls; read them before you build.
Price: Core $20/mo, or $18/mo billed yearly; Pro $100/mo, or $90 billed yearly.
Decision rules
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| If you need | Pick | Because |
|---|---|---|
| Real payments on a $0 plan, with no keys | DoAny Free | Every DoAny plan can sell, and hosting uses no credits. DoAny takes 0% of your sales; Stripe’s processing fees still apply. |
| Several products on one plan | DoAny Free | Every DoAny plan runs unlimited companies on one credit balance, so Free is $0 for all of them, sharing 5 credits a day, up to 30 a month, and none uses credits for hosting. |
| The closest builder, private on Free | Lovable | Free projects are workspace-private; custom domains from Pro, at $25/mo or $250/yr. |
| A Stripe test run before real money | Base44 Builder | Payments start in Stripe’s test environment; Builder is $40/mo billed yearly. |
| A phone app and research, credits that keep | Rocket | Flutter apps for iOS and Android, research on demand, and credits that carry over while your plan is active, from $25/mo. |
| Pay for building in tokens | Bolt Pro | From 10 million tokens a month for $25, carried over. |
| The code in a developer’s workspace | Replit Core | A full coding workspace with an agent, $20/mo. |
| A native app in the App Store and Google Play | Stay on Blink Max | It builds and signs store builds for you, from $200/mo. |
| The cheapest site on your own domain that doesn’t sell | Stay on Blink Starter | $150 billed yearly; hosting uses 50 of its 100 monthly credits. |
A valid choice
On Max, from $200 a month, Blink builds and signs your mobile app: iOS builds go to TestFlight and Android builds download as AAB or APK (store publishing docs). In-app purchases run through RevenueCat. Among the picks here, Rocket makes Flutter apps, but you build and submit them yourself.
Starter billed yearly is $150 for the year, with production hosting and a custom domain for 5 credits (pricing). That is less than DoAny Pro ($300), Lovable Pro ($250) or Base44 Starter ($192) for a year.
Blink’s Visual Editor lets you click an element and change its text, color, layout and spacing (changelog), and every AI turn saves a version you can restore and publish (publish docs).
Blink connects the Stripe account you have, creates promo codes and sets up Stripe’s customer portal, and it adds no fee on your sales (payments page). Moving means new payment setup and a plan for current subscribers.
Leaving cleanly
This applies whichever alternative you choose. Moving to DoAny specifically? The step-by-step order is in DoAny vs Blink.
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| Asset | What Blink documents | Do this before you cancel |
|---|---|---|
| Code | Two-way GitHub sync on every plan, Free included (GitHub docs). A ZIP costs 5 credits on Starter and Pro. | Connect a repo and check the latest commit is there. |
| Database records | Each table downloads as CSV or JSON (database docs). | Download every table and keep a copy. |
| Secrets and API keys | Left out of the code export (export docs). | List every key so you can add it at the new host. |
| Sign-in, storage and AI features | Run on Blink’s SDK, “so it keeps running on Blink” (founders page). | Budget time to replace them; customers sign in again at the new host. |
| Payments | Products and prices live in your own Stripe account (payments page). | Decide how current subscribers move before you switch off Blink’s checkout. |
| Domain bought in Blink | Moves out with an auth code from its Transfer tab, and renews automatically until then (domains docs). | Request the code early and point DNS at the new host. |
| Production hosting | Deactivate within 25 days of the last charge and unused credits are refunded pro rata (hosting docs). | Deactivate as soon as the new site is live. |
| Plan | Fees are non-refundable (terms); you keep access to the end of the paid period (pricing). | Cancel before renewal and turn off auto-reload. |
Common questions
DoAny Free and Lovable Free both cost $0 and can take real card payments. DoAny Free sells through a Stripe Express account DoAny opens for your business, with no keys to paste, and DoAny takes 0% of your sales; Stripe’s processing fees still apply. Lovable Free connects your own Stripe account. On Blink, real payments need Pro, $50 a month or $300 a year, and Base44 offers Stripe from Builder, $40 a month billed yearly. Prices checked September 27, 2026.
Rocket generates Flutter apps for iOS and Android; you download the code on a paid plan and submit it through Xcode and Google Play Console yourself. DoAny builds web apps only. If you want store builds made for you, Blink Max, from $200 a month, sends iOS builds to TestFlight and Android builds as AAB or APK files, so staying on Blink can be the right call.
Yes. Lovable’s Free plan lists workspace-private projects. Blink’s Free plan is public-only: anyone can see a public project in Blink and remix it into their own copy, and private projects start on Starter, $25 a month or $150 a year. DoAny Free publishes your product on its own yourname.doany.site address.
If you don’t sell online, Blink Starter billed yearly, at $150 for the year, is the cheapest here. If you do, Lovable Pro billed yearly is $250; DoAny Pro is $300 billed monthly, the same as Blink Pro billed yearly; and Base44 Builder is $480 billed yearly. DoAny doesn’t sell domains, so you buy the domain elsewhere.
Yes, with some work. Sync the code to GitHub, which works on every Blink plan, and export each table as CSV or JSON. The code export leaves out secrets and database data, and the app keeps calling Blink’s SDK for sign-in, data, storage and AI, so those parts need replacing at the new host. DoAny imports existing code and database records, so hand Annie both instead of starting over.
Source record
We read each page below on September 27, 2026, without signing up or buying a plan. Prices are US list prices; where a company shows a yearly rate, we say so. Other matchups are on the comparison index.
Put the evidence to work
Blink needs Pro to take real payments; DoAny Free takes them with no keys to paste. Start on the Free plan, 5 credits a day, no card; rehearse checkout with Stripe test cards, then go live without upgrading. Not sure yet? Read DoAny vs Blink first.