Lovable vs Replit: same prompt, same six requirements, two bills
Lovable vs Replit on one identical brief. Both hit 6 of 6 — Lovable in 109 seconds, Replit in four minutes and 31% of its free plan. The cost model decides it.
Antigravity vs Claude Code: I gave both one brief, neither built it
Antigravity vs Claude Code, measured on one identical brief. Both refused to build unattended — the opposite of what page one says. Costs, code and verdict.
Cursor AI pricing: what the plans cost and what I paid
Cursor AI pricing runs free to $200 a month, plus metered usage. I paid $510.70 across eleven months on a plan advertised at $20. Every tier, verified live.
Google Antigravity review: it wrote its own tests
Antigravity built my six-requirement app on the free tier and met all six. Then it wrote and ran its own unit tests, which no other builder I have tested does.
OpenAI Codex review: it deleted the rule that made it wrong
OpenAI Codex renamed 33 references across 7 files and 3 languages in a single run. Then it edited my rules file, ungated, deleting the line that made it wrong.
Replit alternatives: 8 picks, and what a real build cost
Eight Replit alternatives ranked by job. I ran one identical prompt on three: Bolt built it for $0.25, Lovable $0.30, Replit would not say what it cost.
Lovable pricing: what a credit actually costs
Lovable pricing decoded: one credit costs 25 cents, a measured real build cost thirty cents, and Business charges double per credit for the same 100 a month.
Replit review: I gave it the same brief I gave Lovable
Replit review from a measured build. The same six-requirement prompt I gave Lovable, scored the same way, plus the checkpoint maths that decides your bill.
Bolt.new review: the best build, the worst reviews
Bolt.new review from a measured build: the same six-requirement prompt I gave Lovable and Replit, 100,000 tokens, and the 1.4-star gap nobody explains.
Lovable review: six requirements, six passes, 109 seconds
Lovable review from a real build. One prompt, six requirements, a working app in 109 seconds — and an honest look at what it got right and where it stops.
Cursor alternatives: I left after $510.70, here's where I went
Cursor alternatives from someone who actually cancelled. Real invoices, what each option does about the metered bill, and which ones I've tested.
Claude Code alternatives: 7 tools, and what switching costs
Claude Code alternatives ranked by what they actually cost. Real invoices, the vendors' own $150-250 figures, and which ones I've tested versus only read about.