Bolt.new runs a Node sandbox in your browser tab. That's genuine engineering, and it's also why bigger apps outgrow it. StackMivo turns the same plain-English prompt into a real, production-ready app: data models, database migrations, controllers, auth and APIs, built to proven conventions and ready to deploy.
>A booking platform with two user roles, Stripe payments, and an admin dashboard.
Both tools take a sentence and hand back a working app. The difference is what's inside it, and whether your team can maintain it on Monday.
JavaScript, end to end. A Vite/Node project running in WebContainers, typically wired to Supabase for data and deployed to a JS host. Excellent if your team is JS-native. If your product needs background jobs, access rules and an admin panel, that part is still yours to build.
Token-metered iteration. Free gives 300K tokens a day and 1M a month; Pro starts at $25/mo for 10M tokens with one month of rollover (verified September 2026). Transparent, to their credit, but every retry and every "actually, change this" spends the meter.
Built for the browser first. The runtime is Node inside a tab. It's great for a fast start, but larger projects press against what a tab can hold.
The whole application. Data models, database migrations, controllers, UI pages, CRUD, auth flows, REST and GraphQL endpoints, and admin panels.
Clean, review-ready code. Consistent structure, dependency injection, typed properties and automatic code formatting by default. Built to pass a senior developer's code review, not just to demo well.
Yours to keep. Standard code with no proprietary runtime. Export to GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket and hand it to any developer.
Same prompt. Different outcome. One gives you a JavaScript prototype in a browser tab. The other gives you a production-ready app you can ship and own.
Bolt.new earned its audience. WebContainers put a full dev environment in a browser tab with no setup, the token pricing is more transparent than most of the category, and developers genuinely like building in it. The friction shows up in the second month, not the first afternoon.
Bolt.new is built for JavaScript developers who want a real environment without installing one. StackMivo is built for founders, agencies and teams who need to ship a real product. It generates production-ready apps with real data models, database migrations and auth, deployable to the cloud or your own server in one click. If you need an app you can maintain, hand off and grow, StackMivo is the better fit.
| Feature | StackMivo | Bolt.new |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Starts from (paid) | $5/mo · 30 credits | $25/mo · from 10M tokens |
| Free tier | 20 credits, 2 projects | 300K tokens/day, 1M/month |
| Billing unit | Credits per build | Tokens per message |
| Unused balance | Monthly allocation | Rolls over one extra month |
| Output & stack | ||
| Backend language | PHP · Laravel 13+, PHP 8.3+ | JavaScript/TypeScript · Node |
| Runtime | Your server — PHP-FPM, MySQL, Redis | WebContainers, in-browser Node |
| Laravel-native output (Eloquent, Blade, migrations) | ✓ | — (out of scope) |
| Frontend choice | Blade, Livewire, React + Inertia, Vue + Inertia | JS frameworks only |
| REST + GraphQL API generation | ✓ | Hand-wired |
| Complete CRUD + auth flows | ✓ | Partial |
| Admin panel generation | ✓ Filament-ready | — |
| Queues, jobs, scheduled commands | ✓ | — (no PHP worker) |
| PSR-compliant, Pint-formatted code | ✓ | N/A (JS stack) |
| Import + refactor existing codebase | Pro plan | Limited |
| Deployment | ||
| One-click deploy targets | Laravel Cloud, Forge, self-hosted | JS hosting platforms |
| Auto migrations, queue restart, instant rollback | ✓ | — |
| Team & ownership | ||
| Git export | GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket | GitHub |
| Team pricing | Seats included per tier | $30/member/mo |
| Role-based access + audit log | Business plan and up | Seat management only |
| Integrations | Stripe, Twilio, Supabase, Figma, Telegram | Supabase, Figma, JS hosts |
If you're weighing Bolt.new against the rest of the prompt-to-app field, these are the tools developers evaluate most often.
| Tool | Primary focus | Start price* | Best for | Common tradeoff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| StackMivo | Production-ready full-stack apps | Free / $5/mo | Founders, agencies and dev teams | One backend stack by design |
| Lovable | Prompt-to-app, React + Supabase | Free tier, credit-based | Non-technical founders, prototypes | Credits expire |
| v0 (Vercel) | React UI generation | $30/user/mo | Frontend components | UI only; backend is on you |
| Replit | Cloud IDE + AI agent | Free / $20/mo | Learning, hosted experiments | Generic output |
| Base44 | All-in-one no-code builder | Credit-based | Non-technical internal tools | Limited code ownership |
| Cursor | AI code editor | Free / $20/mo | Day-to-day edits in any language | Editor, not an app builder; complementary |
*Cursor, Replit, v0 and Bolt.new prices verified September 2026. Lovable and Base44 price client-side, so check their pricing pages directly..
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A booking platform with two user roles, Stripe payments, and an admin dashboard.
Blade, Livewire, React + Inertia, or Vue + Inertia.
Models, migrations, controllers, auth, and APIs, live-previewed as you go.
Laravel Cloud, Forge, or your own server. Or export to GitHub.
Setup takes under 10 minutes. Most developers generate their first working app in their first session.
Bolt.new is a good tool with a clear audience. That audience is JavaScript developers. Here's the honest fit check most teams make before switching.
If two or more of the left-column items apply to you, StackMivo will pay for itself inside the first project.
You can't import a Bolt project as-is, and you rarely need to. Most of what Bolt gave you was the specification, not code you're attached to. Here's the path our users take.
Copy the prompts, screens, and data model that produced your Bolt prototype. That's your product brief.
Paste the same prompt into StackMivo. Pick your frontend. Review the generated models, migrations and controllers.
Run the generated migrations fresh, or point at your existing database. If you were on Supabase, export the tables and map them to the new data models. The schema transfers; the queries don't
One-click deploy to Laravel Cloud, Forge, or. Point your domain over and archive the Bolt project.
Bolt.new is fast to a working prototype. As projects grow, the browser-bound runtime and per-message token costs become the friction. Production hardening, auth edge cases and background work land back on you.
Yes. Both turn a plain-English prompt into a working app. Bolt's output is a JavaScript project in a browser sandbox. StackMivo's output is a standard, full-stack application with data models, database migrations, controllers and your choice of frontend.
Bolt meters tokens per message, so cost scales with how much you iterate. StackMivo allocates credits per month against build work, on flat tiers from $5/mo, which makes a month of feature work quotable in advance. Bolt's paid tokens do roll over one extra month while the subscription is active.
Yes. It's standard code with no proprietary runtime. Export it to GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket and hand it to any developer.
It follows proven conventions, is formatted automatically by default, and is structured the way a production app should be. It's built to pass code review, not just to demo well.
Not as a direct code import, since a Bolt project doesn't convert as-is. But you rarely need the code. Re-describe the same product to StackMivo, pick your frontend and map your existing schema to the new data models. The migration playbook above has the step-by-step path.
Yes, they're complementary. StackMivo scaffolds the full application; an editor-based AI tool is what you use for day-to-day edits inside that codebase afterward.
Skip the boilerplate, keep the conventions, and ship an app you actually own. Start free with 20 credits and see your first app generated today.