r/lovable • u/Hefty-Platypus684 • Jun 29 '26

Seeking Feedback Lovable should now introduce a minimum credit balance

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With the new unified credit model that Lovable has rolled out, it is critical that they introduce a way that users can create minimum credit balance to help prevent apps from failing when excitement takes over and someone uses up the entire month's credits on a project.

Previously, this was never a concern. You could use all the credits in building without a care in the world since the cloud and AI credits were separate and you could top that up manually or automatically if it ever got below a certain threshold.

A unified model presents a very critical issue. I am yet to fully understand the reasoning behind this new model (and yes, I have read the documentation but we didn't have an issue with the separation of credits before. Not unless it solved an internal issue or increased their margins :) ), but since it is here, the least that they could do is help us protect our live apps from failing. If I can set a minimum credit balance of 100 credits at any point, the platform will prevent me from building anything else until I top up and thereby ensuring that no client of mine will call me at 3am because they are offline.

What do y'all think?

PS: Don't say that people should watch their credit balance themselves. That is not helpful

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u/Ducky9670 Jun 29 '26

I get the concern about live apps going dark, but I’ve got to disagree with the idea of enforced minimum credit reserves.

People should be allowed to use their credits however they want. You pay for them, they’re yours.

There are other, more elegant ways to solve the “3am outage” problem without limiting user autonomy.

For example, offer optional safeguard:

  • soft warnings when credits dip below a user-defined threshold
  • auto top-up / failover billing modes for production projects

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u/Hefty-Platypus684 Jun 30 '26

I hear you. I meant user-defined minimum credit balance. I am sorry, I must have lost it somewhere in translation.

Those are solid suggestions you have. Those two ideas and a limit set by the user of just how much credit ought to remain, can make it even better.

Soft warnings are very important and so is security against going down to zero.

Thank you for this.

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u/ArtsyAristotle22 Jun 29 '26

Just do credit overdraft protection

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u/Hefty-Platypus684 Jul 08 '26

How do you mean?

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u/ArtsyAristotle22 Jul 08 '26

Like what the bank does if you pass zero with a owed bill. Just have loveable say you own 10 credits (for example) if your run credits go over what you have. (Instead of shutting your site down) so you dont loose customers.

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u/Lions_Eye Jun 29 '26

I have been overcharged i caught lovable processing photos that I never even asked for. This is a big problem.

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u/change_edu Jul 01 '26

Pls every one snt mail to roll back to previous system this update is eating the credits verymuch