Lovable credits
Lovable credits are the metered usage units that Lovable's AI app builder consumes as you work. Each prompt or edit you send to the assistant draws down credits from your plan's monthly allowance, so heavy iteration — especially repeated fix attempts on a stubborn bug — uses credits faster.
Also known as: credits · message credits
Because every generation costs credits, an unresolved bug that triggers many back-and-forth attempts (a Bug Doom Loop) can quietly consume a large share of a month's allowance. Plan tiers, exact allowances, and top-up behaviour are set by Lovable and can change over time — check current pricing on Lovable's own site for the live numbers.
The biggest cost surprises usually come from debugging, not building. Common mistake: treating a stuck Bug Doom Loop as free iteration and re-prompting the same error over and over — each pass spends credits, so a single hard bug can burn through more allowance than the original feature did. When a fix is not converging, reading the actual error is cheaper than another generation.
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