{
    "title": "v0 Alternatives 2027: 10 Paid, Free & Open-Source",
    "url": "https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/v0/",
    "summary": "The best v0 alternatives in 2027 are Lovable (best overall, $25/mo), Bolt.new (best free plan: 1M tokens a month) and Dyad (best open source, Apache-2.0). v0 itself starts at $30/user/mo. Zekai checked these prices on vendor pages on 13 Nov 2026; 7 more are compared below, including 3 with a free plan and 3 open source.",
    "tool": {
        "name": "v0",
        "starting_price": "$30/user/mo",
        "free_plan": "7 messages a day",
        "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
        "pricing_url": "https://v0.app/pricing"
    },
    "task": "AI app builder",
    "prices_checked": "2026-11-13",
    "date_modified": "2026-11-13",
    "alternatives": [
        {
            "name": "Lovable",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$25/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "5 daily credits, up to 30 a month",
            "best_for": "Credit-metered full-stack app prompting",
            "difference": "Pro starts at $25 for 100 credits, with unlimited workspace members instead of per-user billing, and adds separate monthly Cloud, AI and connector credit grants.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://docs.lovable.dev/introduction/subscription-plans.md",
            "website": "https://lovable.dev/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Bolt.new",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$25/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "1M tokens a month, 300K a day",
            "best_for": "Prompt-to-app builds in the browser",
            "difference": "Meters work in tokens: Free gives 1M a month with a 300K daily cap, and Pro starts at 10M tokens a month with no daily limit.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://bolt.new/pricing",
            "website": "https://bolt.new/",
            "zekai_score": 8.7,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/bolt-new/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Replit",
            "type": "Paid",
            "starting_price": "$20/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "No free plan",
            "best_for": "Hosted IDE with agent and deployments",
            "difference": "Core costs $20 and includes $20 toward more powerful models plus up to 60 projects; Pro at $100 adds up to 15 collaborators and 28-day database rollback.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://replit.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://replit.com/",
            "zekai_score": 7.7,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/replit-ai-development/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Floot",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$25/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "100 building actions a day",
            "best_for": "No-code product builder with hosting",
            "difference": "Pro gives 5,000 AI credits, 1,000 building actions a day and $10 of hosting; the Free plan has 100 building actions a day and 2 mobile app builds a month.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://floot.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://floot.com/",
            "zekai_score": 9,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/floot-mcp/"
        },
        {
            "name": "MeDo",
            "type": "Free",
            "starting_price": "Free plan; paid price not published",
            "best_for": "Web and mobile apps with a free app URL",
            "difference": "MeDo states that it builds web or mobile apps with a connected database and a permanent free app URL; its homepage lists no plans or prices.",
            "website": "https://medo.dev/",
            "zekai_score": 5,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/medo/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Magic Patterns",
            "type": "Free",
            "starting_price": "Free plan; paid price not published",
            "best_for": "Design-led UI prototypes from prompts",
            "difference": "Aimed at design and product teams producing prototypes and UI components from prompts, rather than full applications deployed to production hosting.",
            "website": "https://www.magicpatterns.com/",
            "zekai_score": 7.8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/magic-patterns/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Dyad",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "Apache-2.0",
            "best_for": "Local, private app building with own API keys",
            "difference": "Runs locally as a desktop app on your own API keys, so there is no hosted credit meter and no vendor-side message limit.",
            "website": "https://dyad.sh/",
            "repository": "https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/dyad/",
            "commercial_use": "Yes for the Apache-2.0 code; the src/pro folder is fair-source, not open source.",
            "runs_on": "Desktop app for Mac or Windows; you supply AI provider API keys.",
            "setup": "easy: Download the installer, no sign-up, add your own API key.",
            "github_stars": 22285,
            "stars_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "last_commit": "2026-11-12",
            "last_release": "2026-11-13",
            "zekai_score": 8.4,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/dyad/"
        },
        {
            "name": "bolt.diy",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "MIT",
            "best_for": "Self-hosted Bolt with 22+ model providers",
            "difference": "Open-source fork of the Bolt workspace that lets you pick from 22 or more model providers, including local models, and deploy to Netlify, Vercel or GitHub Pages.",
            "website": "https://github.com/stackblitz-labs/bolt.diy",
            "repository": "https://github.com/stackblitz-labs/bolt.diy",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/bolt-diy/",
            "commercial_use": "Yes (MIT); WebContainers has separate commercial terms for enterprise deployment.",
            "runs_on": "Node.js 22.12+ or Docker; desktop builds for Windows, macOS, Linux.",
            "setup": "moderate: Node and pnpm or Docker, plus a key per model provider.",
            "github_stars": 20087,
            "stars_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "last_commit": "2026-10-14",
            "last_release": "2026-10-12",
            "zekai_score": 7.7,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/bolt-diy/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Open Lovable",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "MIT",
            "best_for": "Chat-built React apps on your own keys",
            "difference": "Open-source chat-to-React builder you run yourself on Firecrawl, AI provider and sandbox keys, with no dollar credit pool or per-message daily limit.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "website": "https://github.com/firecrawl/open-lovable",
            "repository": "https://github.com/firecrawl/open-lovable",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/open-lovable/",
            "commercial_use": "Yes (MIT).",
            "runs_on": "Node.js with pnpm; needs a Firecrawl key and a Vercel or E2B sandbox.",
            "setup": "moderate: Clone, install, then fill .env.local with Firecrawl, AI and sandbox keys.",
            "github_stars": 28907,
            "stars_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "last_commit": "2026-10-09",
            "zekai_score": 7.4,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/open-lovable/"
        },
        {
            "name": "OpenUI",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "Apache-2.0",
            "best_for": "Open-source v0-style UI generator",
            "difference": "Calls itself like v0 but open source: describe a UI, see it rendered live, and convert the HTML to React, Svelte or Web Components.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "website": "https://github.com/wandb/openui",
            "repository": "https://github.com/wandb/openui",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/openui/",
            "commercial_use": "Yes (Apache-2.0).",
            "runs_on": "Docker, or Python with uv; an API key or local Ollama.",
            "setup": "moderate: Docker command or uv sync, plus API keys or an Ollama server.",
            "github_stars": 22757,
            "stars_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "last_commit": "2026-06-30",
            "zekai_score": 7.7,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/openui/"
        }
    ],
    "faq": [
        {
            "q": "What is the best alternative to v0 in 2027?",
            "a": "Lovable is the best overall v0 alternative on this page ($25/mo). For no cost, Bolt.new has a free plan (1M tokens a month, 300K a day). To self-host, Dyad is open source (Apache-2.0)."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a free version of v0?",
            "a": "Yes. v0 has a free plan: 7 messages a day. Paid plans start at $30/user/mo, checked on 11 Nov 2026."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a 100% free alternative to v0?",
            "a": "Yes. Dyad, bolt.diy, Open Lovable, OpenUI are open source and free to self-host. Lovable, Bolt.new, Floot, MeDo, Magic Patterns have a free plan with limits, shown in the table."
        },
        {
            "q": "What is cheaper than v0?",
            "a": "Replit starts at $20/mo, against $30/user/mo for v0, as listed on each vendor's pricing page on 11 Nov 2026."
        },
        {
            "q": "How much do v0 alternatives cost for a team of 5?",
            "a": "If each of 5 people buys the entry paid plan, at the prices Zekai checked on 13 Nov 2026, the monthly cost is Replit $100/mo, Lovable $125/mo, Bolt.new $125/mo, against v0 $150/mo for v0. Team and business plans can cost more per seat. The Zekai Cost Finder on this page recalculates for any team size."
        },
        {
            "q": "Which is better, Lovable or v0?",
            "a": "Pro starts at $25 for 100 credits, with unlimited workspace members instead of per-user billing, and adds separate monthly Cloud, AI and connector credit grants. Choose Lovable if you want a team-wide workspace price rather than a per-user charge, with Cloud and AI grants included. Stay with v0 if you want dollar-denominated credits, a Design Mode and one-click Vercel deployment from the same vendor."
        },
        {
            "q": "Why are people leaving v0?",
            "a": "The documented reasons are: Vercel moved v0 from fixed message counts to token-based metering on 13 May 2025, so chat history and source files count as input tokens and larger projects use credits faster (13 May 2025); The current pricing page lists the Free plan at 7 messages a day, Plus at $30 per user a month with $30 of credits, and Business at $100 per user a month with the same credit amount (11 Nov 2026). Each is sourced in the section above."
        },
        {
            "q": "What is better than v0?",
            "a": "It depends on the job. Lovable and Bolt.new are the closest hosted rivals for prompt-to-app work, Replit adds a full online IDE, and Dyad suits people who want to run the builder locally on their own keys."
        }
    ],
    "publisher": "Zekai (zekaiwork.com) — independently reviewed; prices read on vendor pages on the dates shown.",
    "licence": "Free to quote with a link to https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/v0/. Bulk copying or republishing the dataset is not permitted."
}