Head to head
Rocket.new vs Lovable (2026)
Lovable takes the overall rating, but this pairing is decided on axes rather than totals: Rocket.new leads 0 of the ten, Lovable leads 10.
Rocket.new
Mobile-minded, web-capable, and still finding its footing
3.5out of 5
Buy only if mobile is the point. Rocket.new is the clearest answer in this index to a specific question: what if the output needs to be an app store app rather than a website? It generates Flutter and React Native targets from the same brief, the screens look genuinely native rather than a web page in a shell, and for a team with no mobile engineers that is a real shortcut. Everything else is mid-table or below. Reliability is shaky, the SEO axis score of 3.0 is among the weakest here, and the credit model prices exploration higher than it should.
- Price from
- USD 25 / month, billed monthly
- Best for
- Teams who need a credible mobile app prototype and do not have mobile engineers
- Ratings
- 8
Lovable
The chat-first full-stack builder that most teams try first
4.2out of 5
Buy, with one eye on the meter. Lovable is the most complete of the chat-first builders: the generated interfaces are the best looking of any chat-first builder here by a clear margin, the Supabase integration means auth and a real relational database arrive in the first ten minutes rather than the third week, and the GitHub sync is honest two-way sync rather than a zip download. Our panel built the same booking app on every tool in the launch cohort; Lovable was one of only four that produced something we would have been willing to put in front of a paying customer without a rewrite. What you are buying is the first eighty percent, delivered faster and prettier than anywhere else.
- Price from
- USD 25 / month, billed monthly
- Best for
- Founders and product teams who want a good-looking, genuinely deployable SaaS front end in an afternoon
- Ratings
- 118
What each one looks like
Axis by axis
The leader on each axis is set in bold. The weight column is what that axis contributes to the overall rating, so a win on reliability counts for more than five times a win on code ownership.
| Axis | Weight | Rocket.new | Lovable | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16% | 3.3 | 4.0 | Lovable |
| Integrations | 16% | 3.4 | 4.5 | Lovable |
| SEO and GEO | 13% | 3.0 | 4.0 | Lovable |
| Design quality | 12% | 4.0 | 4.7 | Lovable |
| Agent performance | 10% | 3.7 | 4.4 | Lovable |
| Speed | 9% | 4.1 | 4.6 | Lovable |
| Value | 9% | 3.6 | 3.9 | Lovable |
| Scalability | 7% | 3.2 | 3.8 | Lovable |
| API and MCP access | 5% | 2.8 | 4.0 | Lovable |
| Code ownership | 3% | 3.0 | 4.5 | Lovable |
| Overall, weighted | 100% | 3.5 | 4.2 | Lovable |
Axis definitions and the full weighting are on how we review. Both tools last verified 6 September 2026.
Where the capabilities differ
| Capability | Rocket.new | Lovable |
|---|---|---|
| Full-stack backend | Partial | Yes |
| Database included | Yes, managed | Yes, Supabase Postgres |
| Auth included | Yes | Yes |
| Code export | Yes, Flutter or React Native | Yes, full repository |
| GitHub sync | Yes | Yes, two-way |
| One-click deploy | Yes, web target | Yes |
| Custom domain | Yes, paid plans | Yes, paid plans |
| Mobile or native output | Yes, Flutter and React Native | Responsive web only |
| Team collaboration | Limited | Yes, paid plans |
| Public API or MCP server | Limited | Yes |
| Self-hosting the output | Partial | Yes, you own the repo |
Shaded rows are the ones where the two differ.
What each one costs
Rocket.new
Free plan with 20 trial credits. Three paid tiers, each a flat monthly platform fee with unlimited team members: Pro at $25, Rocket at $50 and Booster at $250, carrying 100, 250 and 1,500 monthly credits respectively. The vendor's page shows a bare dollar sign and never states the currency.
Pro plan. The vendor's page shows a bare dollar sign and does not state the currency anywhere. Rocket is $50 a month and Booster is $250 a month. A Yearly toggle advertises save 20%, but the yearly figures were not captured, so no yearly number should be published.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | Free |
| Pro | $25 |
| Rocket | $50 |
| Booster | $250 |
Lovable
Free plan with a monthly credit allowance. Pro at USD 25 a month, with credit top-ups sold separately.
Pro plan.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | Free |
| Pro | USD 25 |
| Business | Not captured |
| Enterprise | On request |
Prices are shown in the currency each vendor publishes, never converted. Sorting by price groups the currencies and orders within each one, so it is not an exact cross-currency comparison.
We list the plans we could verify on the vendor's own pricing page. Where a plan exists but its price was not published in a form we could capture, the row says so rather than carrying a number we cannot source.
Which one should you choose
Pick Rocket.new if your project looks like teams who need a credible mobile app prototype and do not have mobile engineers. Its strongest axes in this pairing are none of the ten, on our testing. Avoid it for web-first products, content sites, or anything where organic search is the growth channel.
Pick Lovable if your project looks like founders and product teams who want a good-looking, genuinely deployable saas front end in an afternoon. Its strongest axes here are reliability, integrations, seo and geo. Avoid it for teams with heavy custom backend logic, strict data residency rules, or a fixed monthly budget they cannot exceed.
And the dissenting notes, which we publish rather than average away: on Rocket.new, One panellist argued the overall score understates it because our weights punish a mobile tool: SEO and GEO carries thirteen percent, which is close to irrelevant for a product shipped through app stores. He proposed a use-case weighted variant. We declined for launch, because a single published weighting is what makes the index comparable, but the point is fair and we say so on the review page rather than burying it. On Lovable, The dissent is about the last twenty percent and what it costs. Two of our five panellists argued Lovable should score below Replit, because the moment your app stops looking like a CRUD dashboard the agent starts burning credits on repeated near-misses, and the credit model turns debugging into a metered activity. One reviewer spent 40 credits fixing a row-level security policy that a developer would have fixed in nine minutes. If you already have engineers, they contend, you are paying a premium for scaffolding you could generate once and own forever.
Frequently asked
- Is Rocket.new better than Lovable?
- On our weighted overall rating, Lovable scores higher: 3.5 for Rocket.new against 4.2 for Lovable. Axis by axis it is closer than that sounds. Rocket.new leads 0 of the 10 axes that apply to both, Lovable leads 10, and 0 are tied. The right choice depends on which axes you weight, not on which total is larger.
- Which is cheaper, Rocket.new or Lovable?
- Rocket.new starts at USD 25 / month, billed monthly and Lovable starts at USD 25 / month, billed monthly. Each figure is the vendor's own published price and currency, not converted, so compare the pricing models rather than the two numbers: Rocket.new bills as free plan with 20 trial credits. three paid tiers, each a flat monthly platform fee with unlimited team members: pro at $25, rocket at $50 and booster at $250, carrying 100, 250 and 1,500 monthly credits respectively. the vendor's page shows a bare dollar sign and never states the currency. and Lovable bills as free plan with a monthly credit allowance. pro at usd 25 a month, with credit top-ups sold separately..
- Can I move a project from Rocket.new to Lovable?
- Only as far as code export allows. On the code ownership axis Rocket.new scores 3.0 and Lovable scores 4.5 out of five, which reflects how much of the running application you can take with you and whether it still works once moved.
- Which one is better for search visibility?
- On the SEO and GEO axis, which we weight at 13 percent, Rocket.new scores 3.0 and Lovable scores 4.0. That axis covers server rendered content, per route titles and canonicals, and whether the output is legible without JavaScript.