Shortlist · NanoCorp alternatives

NanoCorp alternatives: five options, matched to why you’re leaving.

NanoCorp holds your sales until you withdraw, then keeps 20%: $232 a month on $1,160 in sales. DoAny, Stencil and Lovable take 0%, Polsia 3%; Stripe’s fees still apply.

Work out what each option would cost at your sales

$262NanoCorp a month on $1,160 in sales: $30 plan plus 20%
$54.80Polsia Standard on the same sales: $20 plan plus 3%
$0DoAny or Stencil on Free, same sales, before Stripe’s fees

By the DoAny editorial teamLast reviewed September 25, 2026Sources: each vendor’s pricing, docs and terms.

Fee calculator

What each option costs at your sales

Each option’s cheapest plan with built-in payments, plus its cut of your sales. Buildpad documents no checkout, so it has no total.

At $1,160 a month in sales, DoAny Free and Stencil Free tie for the lowest cost: $0 each over 12 months. NanoCorp Founder costs $3,144.

LowestDoAny Free$0over 12 months$0 a month + 0% of sales; Stripe’s fees apply
NanoCorp Founder$3,144over 12 months$30 a month + 20% of withdrawals
Polsia Standard$657.60over 12 months$20 a month + 3% of sales
LowestStencil Free$0over 12 months$0 a month + 0% of sales
Lovable Pro$300over 12 months$25 a month + 0% of sales
BuildpadNo built-in checkoutSite docs cover email sign-ups

Stripe’s card fees apply on every option that takes payments through Stripe.

Totals use monthly billing, and “Lowest” is on that basis. Paid a year up front, Polsia’s first year is 20% off, and Lovable Pro has two months free on yearly billing. DoAny bills monthly only.
Card processing fees are left out. On DoAny, Polsia, Stencil and Lovable they are Stripe’s own fees, paid by you.
NanoCorp takes its 20% when you withdraw, so this assumes you withdraw everything you sell. Its docs don’t say whether card fees come out before your balance is credited. If its 20% already covers them, its gap to the Stripe-based options shrinks by Stripe’s fees: $547.68 over 12 months at $29 a sale and 2.9% + 30¢ a US card.
Stencil is priced on Free, since its pricing page lists payments on every plan; Pro, $25 a month, adds a custom domain. Lovable is priced on Pro, since its built-in payments need a paid plan; on Free you can connect your own Stripe account instead. Its Paddle option swaps Stripe’s fee for Paddle’s 5% + 50¢ a sale.
Plan prices only: credits used beyond each plan’s allowance, top-ups and ad spend aren’t included, and a credit buys different work on each platform.

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Prices and fees checked September 25, 2026

How we calculated this

Your sales: $1,160 a month × 12 = $13,920.
DoAny Free: $0 × 12 + 0% × $13,920 = $0.
NanoCorp Founder: $30 × 12 + 20% × $13,920 = $3,144, if you withdraw everything you sell.
Polsia Standard: $20 × 12 + 3% × $13,920 = $657.60.
Stencil Free: $0 × 12 + 0% × $13,920 = $0.
Lovable Pro: $25 × 12 + 0% × $13,920 = $300.
Buildpad: no total, since its docs describe no checkout; its websites capture email sign-ups.

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What each option costs at your sales: line items
What you pay	DoAny Free	NanoCorp Founder	Polsia Standard	Stencil Free	Lovable Pro	Buildpad
Entry plan	Free, $0	Founder, $30 a month	Standard, $20 a month	Free, $0	Pro, $25 a month	No built-in checkout
Fee rule	0% of sales	20% of each withdrawal	3% of each payment	0% of sales	0% platform fee	No checkout documented
Plan, 12 months	$0	$360	$240	$0	$300	No built-in checkout
Cut of your $13,920 in sales	$0	$2,784	$417.60	$0	$0	No built-in checkout
Platform cost, 12 months	$0	$3,144	$657.60	$0	$300	No built-in checkout

Sources, checked September 25, 2026

From NanoCorp’s own documents

Why founders look beyond NanoCorp

20% of what you withdraw

NanoCorp keeps 20% of every withdrawal (NanoCorp withdrawals docs), and renewals of monthly plans you sell pay the same fee (NanoCorp monthly plans docs). On $1,000 of sales that is $200.

Your sales sit in NanoCorp’s Stripe

Payments run through a NanoCorp-managed Stripe account, and the FAQ says you don’t have a dedicated Stripe account or dashboard (NanoCorp FAQ). Your own Stripe account only appears at your first withdrawal.

Costs that are hard to predict

Every chat message is a billed turn of about 3 to 12 credits (NanoCorp plans and credits), and NanoCorp’s blog puts a daily run at the same range (NanoCorp blog). At $1 a credit, 30 daily runs cost $90 to $360, before ads.

Leaving is expensive

Code access needs the $120-a-month plan (NanoCorp GitHub access). Database export isn’t self-serve, and you can’t fork the project to run on your own infrastructure (NanoCorp FAQ).

Public by default

NanoCorp says every business on it is public, with revenue on its live feed (NanoCorp blog). Making a project private means contacting NanoCorp (NanoCorp FAQ).

The ground keeps moving

In September 2026 NanoCorp retired its classic harness. Classic businesses stopped until their owners switched to v3, which needs a Founder plan or live trial and at least 12 credits (NanoCorp’s switch-to-v3 post). The 3-day trial ends in a dormant shop with checkout closed (NanoCorp pricing).

NanoCorp’s May 2026 Show HN gives an early user view. In it, a tester reported running out of free credits fast, and the NanoCorp poster described its businesses then as “mainly landing pages, simple product, Stripe link, and email outreach” (Hacker News). Both comments predate v3 and are one thread, not a survey.

If Meta ads run for you and a daily agent that doesn’t wait for approval are why you chose NanoCorp, those are real strengths. The DoAny vs NanoCorp comparison lists them next to the fee arithmetic.

Five alternatives, one table

NanoCorp alternatives compared

“Best for” is our judgment from each product’s published scope and pricing, not a quality score. NanoCorp is the first row, for reference.

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Entry price, cut of your sales, best fit and main limitation, checked September 25, 2026
Product	Entry price	Cut of your sales	Best for	Main limitation
NanoCorp (baseline)	3-day trial; Founder $30 a month for 30 credits. NanoCorp pricing	20% of every withdrawal	A hands-off daily agent with Meta ads	Sales held in its Stripe; code only from $120 a month
DoAny	Free: unlimited companies sharing 5 credits a day, no card, and it can take real payments. Pro $25 a month. DoAny pricing	0%, paid into your own Stripe. DoAny Terms	Non-technical founders who want a working, exportable business, growth work after launch and a say on the big calls	No ads, monthly credits don’t roll over; checkout on the sites it builds is Stripe only
Polsia	Standard $20 a month (1 company, no Meta ads); Pro $50. Polsia plans	3% of customer payments, plus 20% of ad budgets. Polsia Terms	The same autonomous, ads-included model with a smaller cut	31-day settlement rolling out; scheduled work runs without per-run approval
Stencil	Free: 10 credits a day. Pro $25 a month. Stencil pricing	0%; Stripe’s 2.9% + 30¢ per US card. Stencil payments docs	Selling a subscription app or membership	No test mode; the app’s Stripe account has no dashboard login
Lovable	Free $0. Pro $25 a month for 100 credits. Lovable pricing	0% on Stripe or Paddle; built-in payments need a paid plan. Lovable payments docs	A developer taking over the code and self-hosting it	Built-in backend pauses at zero credits. Lovable credits docs
Buildpad	3-day trial; Pro $39 a month for 200 credits (Buildpad plans docs); a price test shows $59 (Buildpad pricing).	No checkout documented; its site docs cover email sign-ups. Buildpad websites docs	Validating an idea with cited research before building	You sell and post elsewhere; the plan bills when the trial ends

Arithmetic on published prices

What $1,160 a month in membership sales costs on each

A $29-a-month membership with 40 members brings in $1,160 a month, the same example as our DoAny vs NanoCorp page. The table adds each platform’s fee on those sales to its cheapest plan with built-in payments. Card processing is left out because it applies everywhere: at Stripe’s US rate of 2.9% + 30¢ it comes to $45.64 a month (Stripe pricing). Buildpad documents no checkout, so it isn’t in the table.

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Fee rule, where the money lands, the platform’s fee on $1,160 a month, and the total with the cheapest plan with built-in payments
Platform	Fee rule	Where sales land	Fee each month	With the cheapest plan for built-in payments
NanoCorp	20% of each withdrawal, if you withdraw it all	NanoCorp-managed Stripe balance until you withdraw	$232.00	$262.00 (Founder $30)
DoAny	0% of sales	Your own Stripe account, as direct charges	$0.00	$0.00 (Free)
Polsia	3% of each customer payment	Your organization’s balance, after a 31-day settlement period now rolling out	$34.80	$54.80 (Standard $20)
Stencil	0% of sales	A new Stripe account per app, with no Stripe dashboard	$0.00	$0.00 (Free)
Lovable	0% platform fee	A Stripe account you claim at go-live, or Paddle	$0.00	$25.00 (Pro; built-in payments need a paid plan)

DoAny Free can go live and take real card payments, and Stencil’s pricing page lists payments on every plan (Stencil pricing), so both rows are Free. Lovable’s built-in payments need a paid plan (Lovable payments docs), so its row is Pro; on Lovable Free you connect your own Stripe account.

Over a year, NanoCorp’s fee on these sales comes to $2,784 and Polsia’s to $417.60, with three caveats.

Lovable’s Paddle option replaces Stripe’s fee with Paddle’s 5% + 50¢ per sale, $78 a month here, and in return Paddle handles sales tax as merchant of record (Lovable payments docs).
NanoCorp’s docs don’t say whether card fees come out before your balance is credited (NanoCorp withdrawals docs); if its 20% already covers them, its gap to the other options is smaller by Stripe’s fees, $45.64 a month here.
The totals use monthly billing. Paid a year up front, Polsia’s first year is 20% off (Polsia plans), and Lovable Pro has two months free on yearly billing (Lovable pricing). DoAny bills monthly only.

The billing options differ too. NanoCorp sells monthly plans only, behind “Sign in with NanoCorp” (NanoCorp monthly plans docs). Stencil plans can add a cheaper annual rate and discount codes (Stencil payments docs) and free trials of 1 to 90 days (Stencil features docs). Lovable can add free trials and discount codes (Lovable payments docs). On sites DoAny builds you can sell weekly, monthly or yearly subscriptions, but their checkout has no coupons or free trials at the moment.

Our product, same candor

DoAny as a NanoCorp alternative

Free: 5 credits a day, up to 30 a month, no card, shared by unlimited companies. It can go live and take real card payments.

$25

Pro a month: 100 monthly credits plus 5 a day, and your own domain. Top-ups cost $15 per 50.

Of your sales. Stripe’s own fees apply.

Best for

A real business on the web, without code

DoAny researches your idea and market first, then Annie builds a working app with customer accounts, a database and checkout, hosted with no separate server bill (DoAny homepage). Customer payments go straight into your own Stripe account (DoAny payments docs).

After launch she posts every day, finds and follows up with people who show interest, runs your CRM and answers customers around the clock. Her site changes wait on a private preview until you press Publish.

Before Annie adds checkout she shows a card with two buttons, “Set up payments” and “Not now”; paid renders, new recurring jobs and account connections wait on the same kind of card, and credits stop hard with no overage (run it solo). The Code and Data views show every file and record you own, and you can export your code and data and walk away, or sync your code to GitHub.

Watch out for

What DoAny doesn’t do

No paid ads. Chat is the only editor: no drag-and-drop and no one-click rollback, though every version is saved. The checkout on the sites DoAny builds is Stripe only at the moment, with no PayPal or Paddle, no coupons or free trials and no sales-tax handling. Those sites can’t bring an existing Stripe account yet. No native iOS or Android apps. Monthly credits don’t roll over and there is no annual plan (DoAny pricing).

Against Stencil and Lovable: DoAny Free takes real card payments, while Lovable’s built-in payments need a paid plan (Lovable payments docs). Hosting doesn’t use credits, so your site and database stay live at zero credits; Lovable’s backend pauses (Lovable credits docs). You rehearse checkout with Stripe test cards; Stencil has no test mode (Stencil payments docs). DoAny doesn’t train AI models on your data; Lovable may train on Free and Pro content unless users opt out (Lovable training docs).

Coming from NanoCorp, bring the code and database records you get out; DoAny imports them, so you don’t start over. Your members still subscribe again on your own checkout, through the new Stripe account DoAny opens for your business at Go live. DoAny vs NanoCorp has the fee arithmetic and a six-step move. DoAny’s standard DoAny Terms rule out equity and revenue share.

Closest operating model

Polsia as a NanoCorp alternative

$20

Standard a month: 20 credits, 1 company, no Meta ads.

Of every customer payment, plus Stripe’s fees.

31 days

Settlement before new sales can be paid out, now rolling out across accounts.

Best for

NanoCorp’s model with a smaller cut

For founders who like hands-off operation. Polsia’s Terms describe scheduled work across advertising, outreach and subscriptions, and Meta ads are included from the $50 Pro plan, which runs up to 3 companies (Polsia plans). On $1,000 of sales Polsia keeps $30; NanoCorp’s withdrawal fee on the same $1,000 is $200.

Watch out for

Autonomy, public dashboards and your inputs

Scheduled functions run “without requiring per-execution approval.” Ads carry a 20% platform fee inside the budget you set. The Terms license your inputs to “train and improve the AI models” Polsia uses, and a 31-day wait before payout is rolling out. Public company dashboards, with execution logs, metrics and posts, “are enabled by default and may be indexed by search engines,” though you can change that visibility in your account settings (Polsia Terms).

Details in DoAny vs Polsia and the Polsia alternatives guide.

Subscription apps, no cut

Stencil as a NanoCorp alternative

Free: 10 credits a day, with a Stencil badge.

$25

Pro a month, with custom domains. Team is $50.

Stencil’s cut. Stripe takes 2.9% + 30¢ per US card.

Best for

Selling a subscription app or membership

Each plan can carry a monthly price and a cheaper annual rate, subscribers can switch plan or period on their own, and you can offer discount codes (Stencil payments docs) and free trials of 1 to 90 days (Stencil features docs). GitHub sync runs both ways: builds commit to your repository, and pushes come back as a draft (Stencil GitHub docs).

Watch out for

A Stripe account you can’t log in to

Stencil opens a new Stripe account for each app, with no Stripe dashboard of its own, and you can’t connect one you already have. There is no test mode: to rehearse, you put a cheap plan behind the paywall, buy it yourself and refund it. The minimum sale is $5, and buyers see prices in US dollars (Stencil payments docs).

Lovable as a NanoCorp alternative

$25

Pro a month for 100 credits, with two months free on yearly billing.

Lovable’s fee on Stripe or Paddle payments.

$50

Business a month: SSO, and workspace data excluded from model training by default.

Best for

Owning the code and hiring a developer later

Lovable says you can export your code, migrate your data and self-host, and Git sync keeps the code in your own repository (Lovable ownership docs). Stripe or Paddle through Lovable cost the same as going direct, and Paddle, as merchant of record, collects and remits sales tax for you. You can link a Stripe account you already have, which the sites DoAny builds can’t do yet (Lovable payments docs).

Watch out for

Zero credits and training defaults

At zero credits, building stops, AI features in your app fail, and the built-in database, storage and login pause shortly after (Lovable credits docs). Since September 9, 2026, Free and Pro content may be used to train Lovable’s models unless each user turns the setting off (Lovable training docs).

Buildpad as a NanoCorp alternative

$39

Pro a month for 200 credits in its plans docs; Max is $85 for 500.

3 days

Trial at 10 credits a day. The subscription starts automatically when it ends.

ZIP

Export of everything: documents as Word, PDF or Markdown, websites as code.

Best for

Testing an idea before you commit

Buildpad runs several research agents in parallel and returns reports with inline citations, after you approve each research task (Buildpad research docs). It drafts posts for LinkedIn, X, Reddit and email. Unused credits roll over for one billing cycle, capped at a month’s allocation, and purchased credits follow the same rule (Buildpad plans docs; Buildpad Terms), and you can export everything, though images are left out (Buildpad export docs).

Watch out for

You still sell and post yourself

The content calendar is for planning; you publish each post yourself (Buildpad calendar docs). Buildpad’s website docs cover email sign-ups, not checkout (Buildpad websites docs). Its pricing page is running a price test: some visitors see Pro at $59 for 300 credits and Max at $125 for 700 instead of $39 and $85 (Buildpad pricing).

How to choose a NanoCorp alternative

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Start from the need that made you look, then pick the tool built for it
If you need	Pick	Because
Research, a working app and growth work in one tool, with approval before the big calls (payments, paid renders, new recurring jobs)	DoAny	Research first, checkout into your own Stripe at 0% from the $0 Free plan, daily posting and outreach with no ad spend, hard credit stop
Meta ads run for you by a hands-off agent	Polsia, or stay on NanoCorp	Polsia: $20 Standard without ads, $50 Pro with Meta ads; 3% of payments and 20% of ad budgets. NanoCorp: 20% of withdrawals
A membership with monthly and annual prices	Stencil	0% cut, an optional annual rate, discount codes and 1–90 day free trials, but no test mode
A codebase a developer will take over and self-host	Lovable	Two-way Git sync plus documented export, data migration and self-hosting
Sales tax handled for you	Lovable with Paddle	Paddle is merchant of record, for 5% + 50¢ a sale; checkout on DoAny sites and on Stencil leaves tax to you
Cited research before you build anything	Buildpad	Multi-agent research reports with citations, and a full export
A site that stays up at zero credits, checkout you can test first, and code and data you can take with you	DoAny	Hosting doesn’t use credits (Lovable’s backend pauses at zero); Stripe test cards in the preview (Stencil has no test mode); export code and data and sync to GitHub (NanoCorp: code from $120 a month)
Your prompts, files and code kept out of AI training	DoAny	DoAny doesn’t train AI models on your data; Lovable may train on Free and Pro content unless each user opts out, and Polsia’s Terms license your inputs for model training

What comes with you

Leaving NanoCorp: what you can take and what you rebuild

Whichever alternative you pick, NanoCorp decides what leaves with you. Set up the new tool first, and switch NanoCorp off last.

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Each part of a NanoCorp business, whether it can leave, and what to do
Part of the business	Can it leave NanoCorp?	What to do
Code	Only from the $120 plan, as a clone of a NanoCorp-managed GitHub repository; support won’t send it below that. NanoCorp GitHub access	Upgrade for one month if you need it, clone, then cancel. DoAny imports the code you clone.
Database and records	Export isn’t self-serve. NanoCorp FAQ	Ask support for them before you cancel. DoAny imports the database records you get back; otherwise, re-create key records in the new tool.
Money in your balance	Yes, by withdrawal, minus 20%, one open request at a time. NanoCorp withdrawals docs	Withdraw before you cancel.
Subscribers	Their plans run behind “Sign in with NanoCorp” and keep renewing even after your shop closes to new sign-ups. NanoCorp monthly plans docs	Invite them to your new checkout, then cancel the old plans, which end with the month already paid.
Domain	Bought in NanoCorp: held on your behalf, transferred out via support. Your own: yes. NanoCorp domains docs	Transfer or repoint it before the shop goes dormant; dormancy detaches the domain from your site (visitors get an error page) until you reopen.
Unused credits	They stay in the account but are never refunded in cash. NanoCorp Refund Policy	Spend them down before you cancel.
Daily outreach	Keeps running until Daily Run is off. NanoCorp FAQ	Turn Daily Run and auto top-up off the day the new tool starts emailing.

Because NanoCorp’s subscriptions run in its own managed Stripe account, plan on members subscribing again wherever you go. On DoAny, they subscribe on your own checkout, which works on the Free plan, and you can rehearse it with Stripe test cards in the preview before going live (DoAny payments docs). Cancelling NanoCorp takes effect at the end of the billing period, with no refund for the rest of it (NanoCorp plans and credits).

Common questions

NanoCorp alternatives FAQ

What is the closest alternative to NanoCorp?

By operating model, Polsia. Its Terms describe scheduled work across advertising, outreach and subscriptions without per-run approval, and Meta ads are included from its $50 Pro plan. The fees differ: Polsia takes 3% of customer payments and 20% of ad budgets, while NanoCorp takes 20% of withdrawals. If you want a whole company built and run with 0% of your sales going to the platform (Stripe’s fees still apply) and your approval before the big calls, DoAny is the closer fit.

Which NanoCorp alternatives take no cut of my sales?

DoAny, Stencil and Lovable charge no platform fee on customer payments; the payment processor’s own fees still apply. Stripe’s US card rate is 2.9% + 30¢, and Paddle, which Lovable also offers, charges 5% + 50¢ as merchant of record. Polsia takes 3% of customer payments. Buildpad documents no checkout or payment processing; its websites capture email sign-ups.

Can I move my NanoCorp business to another platform?

Partly. Code access needs NanoCorp’s $120-a-month plan, database export isn’t self-serve, subscribers sign in with NanoCorp accounts, and a domain bought inside NanoCorp transfers out through its support. Bring whatever code and database records you get out to the new tool; DoAny imports them, so you don’t start over. Then ask members to subscribe again on your new checkout and cancel their NanoCorp plans, because current subscribers keep paying even after your NanoCorp shop closes to new sign-ups.

Is there a free alternative to NanoCorp’s 3-day trial?

Yes. DoAny Free gives 5 credits a day, up to 30 a month, with no card, and it can go live and take real card payments at 0% of your sales (Stripe’s fees apply). Stencil Free gives 10 credits a day, with payments on every plan. Lovable’s $0 plan needs Pro for built-in payments. None of them turns into a dormant shop after three days, as NanoCorp’s trial does; Buildpad’s own 3-day trial bills automatically when it ends.

Which alternative runs paid ads for me?

Polsia runs Meta ads on its Pro plan ($50 a month) and above, with a 20% platform fee included in the budget you set. DoAny runs no ads and has no ad account; it works on search, AI answers, daily posting and outreach instead. If managed ads are the main reason you chose NanoCorp, compare Polsia with staying on NanoCorp first. Stencil’s payments docs also describe promoting an app with paid ads from a prepaid ad wallet.

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Sources and method

Every source was checked on September 25, 2026. The cost table is our arithmetic on published fee rules. DoAny statements without a link describe our own product first-hand.

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