Bolt.new vs Cursor

Price, free plan and alternatives, side by side

The comparison in short

Cheapest per year

Cursor

$96/yr

56% less than Bolt.new

Who has a free plan
  • Bolt.newhas a free plan
  • Cursorhas a free plan
Easiest to rebuild

Cursor

With trade-offs

weekend

On price, Cursor wins. If you would rather build it, Cursor is the simplest to rebuild.

Side-by-side comparison

APPLICATIONBolt.newDevelopmentCursorDevelopment
Monthly billing$25/moPro 10M$8/moPlus
Per year$216/yrannual plan · −28%$96/yr
Billing modelFlat subscriptionFlat subscription
Free tier300,000 tokens/day and 1,000,000/month; 10 MB uploads; up to 333,000 web requests/month; unlimited databasesHobby is free, but Cursor publishes no numeric request allowance; it only says Agent, Chat and Tab usage is limited.
Additional costsMonthly subscription tokens roll over for at most 2 months and become unavailable if the paid subscription lapses; reload-token purchases are separate and do not expire.Usage is split into included pools that reset monthly without rollover; on-demand third-party model usage is billed in arrears at model/API rates. Cursor Router Cost mode is $1.25/M input tokens, $6/M output and $0.25/M cache read; Bugbot is separately usage-billed.
Can you rebuild it?Worth subscribingclosest consolation build: one sittingWith trade-offsweekend
Free alternatives+2
Checked on10/20/202610/20/2026
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