Lovable hosts your code.
You own yours.
Lovable turns your prompt into code, runs it on their servers, and bills you in credits. We hand you a complete build plan you own — documents and step-by-step instructions your AI coding tool, or any developer, builds from.
Credit burn ≠ product-market fit.
Credits run out mid-build.
Starter is 5M tokens for $25. A real feature set blows through it. You pay again, iterate again, still no security audit.
No business validation.
Lovable doesn't know if your idea has a market. Need for Build runs live web research on how big the opportunity really is, your competitors, and the economics of winning a customer — before any code.
No security review.
A systematic check of how your app could be attacked? A walk-through of the most common ways apps get broken into? Not in the output. You'll discover the holes after you launch.
Hosted = their platform.
Your code runs on Lovable. Leave and lose it. Need for Build gives you plain documents you keep — and the app you build from them is yours.
What each product actually delivers.
What Lovable ships, what it skips, and where Need for Build fills the gap before you spend a single credit.
Or try a free build plan. First.
$69 once vs. $300–$600 per year.
Lovable bills monthly credits. $25/mo Starter is $300/year before you have a working app. Need for Build is $69 once — and the build plan makes every Lovable credit count.
Use both. Your credits go further.
You don't need to pick one tool. Use whatever gets the job done. Run us first — Lovable builds faster, cleaner, and far cheaper from a validated plan than from a bare prompt.
Need for Build delivers a build plan, not a hosted app. You own every file. No lock-in.