Lovable builds you a first draft in a chat window, with one credit balance under everything: the building, the backend, and the AI its deployed apps run on. Everything after the draft is yours to fix, maintain and pay for. A custom build from noboringsites is designed around your business, built and launched by us, and handed over finished.
Lovable facts on this page were checked on 29 August 2026 against Lovable’s published pricing page and documentation. Numbers move. We re-check.
Your brand, your work and the customers you want shape the design. You send the brief once and we run the build, instead of you steering a chat window one prompt at a time.
Your first design comes back as a live preview you click through, not a mockup. Two written rounds of changes are in the price, and nothing goes public until you say so.
After full payment, copyright in the finished site is assigned to you. Run it on any host, change it, or hand it to another agency. Your domain stays registered in your name throughout.
Forms, any database the site needs and the security header set are configured as part of the build, never left for you to set up or debug. Launch is the last step, and you call it.
| Compare | Lovable | noboringsites |
|---|---|---|
| Who builds it | You do. Lovable generates a first draft in a chat window, and every change after that is another prompt you write and check yourself | We do. The site is designed around your business, built, launched and handed over finished |
| What you pay for | One credit balance pays for everything: building the app, hosting it and its backend, and the AI calls the deployed app makes. Plan-mode messages cost one credit each, and build work is charged by the work completed, even on a request you stop | The build, at one price agreed before you pay. The instant quote prices a custom website up front, and apps and business systems are quoted per project |
| When it gets it wrong | Their terms say credits are consumed by each AI action “based on the effort and resources used, regardless of the outcome”, and are non-refundable even where the output is erroneous or must be regenerated | Two written rounds of changes are in the price. Tell us what is wrong and we fix it |
| When the balance runs out | Building stops behind a blocking dialog. Their published pages stay up, but an app that relies on their backend pauses shortly after, and their docs say its data cannot be accessed or exported until the services run again | There is no balance to run out. The build is paid once, and no part of it is metered |
| Owning the code | Git sync and code download sit on their plan ladder; their pricing page says which rung | Copyright in the finished site is assigned to you at handover, after full payment. The export is free and there is no exit fee |
| Custom domain | Connected from their dashboard; their pricing page says which rung it needs | Registered in your name, and a separate cost from the build. We change records and never take custody |
| Security record | CVE-2025-48757, published May 2025: misconfigured row-level security left 170 of 1,645 scanned Lovable-built apps exposing data. Lovable now lints for it free on every plan, but apps generated before the change stayed exposed unless the owner fixed them | Database and form handling are configured as part of the build, never left for the owner to set up |
| If you stop paying | The workspace drops to Free at the end of the billing period; unused paid credits deactivate unless you re-subscribe before they expire | A build is a one-off payment and nothing about it renews. Ownership is settled at handover, and ending a hosting plan later does not touch it |
To be fair: Lovable’s terms say you own the code it generates, and that’s real. Ownership of the code was never the catch. Lovable’s entry paid plan costs far less up front than a custom build, and it builds arbitrary full-stack applications. Check their pricing page for the figure on the day you read this; theirs moves and we are not going to quote a number at you that might already be wrong. If you want to prototype an app yourself and keep iterating in a chat window, Lovable is the right tool and we will say so. If what you want is a finished business site without learning to steer a generator, that is the job we do.
Nobody migrates a prompt history. We look at what you have, rebuild the pages that matter, and hand you a preview link before anything touches production. Nothing changes on your current site until you approve the new one. Carrying an existing site across is a US$400 add-on, priced into your quote before you pay rather than invoiced afterwards.
If what you built on Lovable is an app rather than a website, apps and business systems are quoted per project.
Lovable gets you a first draft fast, and for a prototype that may be all you need. Turning a draft into a site worth putting in front of customers is still your job: the words, the design calls, the fixes, and the credits each fix costs. A custom build hands that whole job to us. A written quote sets the pages, design and functionality before work starts, you click through your real site on a live preview, and nothing goes public until you approve it.
A custom website starts from US$1,500, and the instant quote prices yours before you pay. The quote sets out the pages, the design and the functionality, and two written rounds of changes are in the price. Further rounds are an add-on, priced before you buy one. Domain registration and ongoing hosting are separate costs. Apps and business systems are quoted per project.
Lovable’s terms say you own the code you build there, and that is true: ownership was never the catch. The difference is what you are left owning. With a custom build, full payment gets you the copyright in a finished site, assigned to you at handover, so you can run it on any host, change it, or hand it to another agency. Our build systems, hosting setup and monitoring stay ours. Stock images and licensed fonts carry their own licence, and we pass you the record. The export is free and there is no exit fee.
Not when it starts from your business instead of a prompt. Your brand, your work and the customers you want shape the design, and the words are written for your business rather than filled in around a layout. You approve every draft on a live preview before anything is public.
A custom build includes the technical SEO work: page titles and descriptions, a sitemap, structured data, and your Google Business profile set up and connected. No one can sell you a ranking, and noboringsites will not pretend otherwise. What we will say is that the parts a search engine needs in order to read your site are done before it ships, instead of being bolted on later when the traffic has not arrived.
Moving an existing site across is a build add-on, US$400, on top of the US$1,500 base. It is priced into your quote before you pay, never invoiced afterwards. Nobody migrates a prompt history: what the add-on buys is a rebuild of the pages that matter, staged on a preview link, with your current site still live and answering until you approve the new one.
Ongoing hosting and maintenance are a separate plan, shown on the pricing page, and changes outside the agreed scope are quoted before any work starts. Or take the site elsewhere: after full payment it is yours, and the export is free.
noboringsites is an Australian company, ABN 45 675 551 783, registered for GST and founder-led. The registered entity and address are on the terms page. A custom build is paid in full at checkout, by card through Stripe, so your card number never reaches our servers. Two written rounds of changes are already in that price. Cancel before we start and you get back what you paid less what had already been spent; cancel after we start and we keep a fair amount for the work done to that point, and we tell you the figure and how we got to it.
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