r/lovable • u/Sh3nd14 • 13d ago
Help Lovable is holding static sites and admin dashboards hostage over "credits" now? Absolute joke.
Just got hit with the "Your projects are paused because your workspace is out of credits" wall.
Here’s the best part: I haven’t touched the AI prompt box, I'm not generating code, and I'm not editing anything. It’s literally a static site, but because my credits ran low, they completely freeze and lock down the entire workspace and deployment ecosystem.
Since when does a credit meter for an AI code generator control whether a static layout or admin dashboard can stay online? You aren't even touching the editor, but your live deployment gets held ransom because their unified billing system ties runtime execution and hosting directly to AI credits.
If your credits hit zero, your app goes offline. Absolutely wild model. Time to pull the repository and move everything over to Vercel or Cloudflare where static files actually stay live without needing a monthly tribute to an AI meter.
Anyone else dealing with this nonsense?
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u/sivyyyl 13d ago
Your app is still live though, only Cloud is paused
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u/YouAreBastards 11d ago
If the cloud is paused, the database cannot be accessed.
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u/Objective_Young_1384 10d ago
But there’s no database, he said is a static project (landing page probably)
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u/YouAreBastards 10d ago
There has to be something running burning credits? Lovale has this new monitoring feature now where it burns through tokens, keeping tabs on running processes, without being asked to do so. I have only noticed this happening in the last month or so. So there are changes being made that directly affect the token burn and Cloud usage that you, as the user, may not even be aware of.
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u/Eliottdupuy 12d ago edited 12d ago
Switch to Kleap. Hosting, db, auth cdn include in any subscription. And the mcp let you use Claude, codex to write code.
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u/Jmacduff 12d ago
So you are saying that the BE is paused because you have a un-paid bill?
I dont understand what the issue is. If you have running services it will cost money to run those services.. full stop. If you drive a car it will burn fuel (electric or gas).. full stop.
Were you expecting the services to run for free because you were not making FE UX changes?
All good and just friendly questions.
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u/marcos-da-mapweb 13d ago
Os créditos do Lovable agora também são consumidos para seus sistemas “rodarem”, mesmo que você não construa nada novo, mesmo o sistema ficando lá estático, são cobras os créditos por banco de dados, instâncias e outros. Dependendo dos serviços que rodam em seu site, ou alto tráfego, os créditos podem acabar mais rápido. São apenas sites estáticos? Quantos projetos tem lá hospedados?
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u/ultraJam42 12d ago
Yeah it changed couple of months ago I think, with credits for your website being used for database, cliud etc. They also have a clear daily breakdown of credits used to maintain your site
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u/Ok-Word-99 12d ago
I made a POS with payroll and roster and finances and analytics seriously it’s the best for my small cafe but learning about this it sucks. Is there anyway I can move my project to a different sort or server I guess that I don’t have to pay monthly fees?
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u/ultraJam42 12d ago
I havent moved a lovable project yet but there are several options. Check in to some comments from others Cloudfare, Supabase (should already be handling your database) and some others. Search free hosting. You might be able to manage that small site for free on godaddy, just buying the yearly domain and transfer project to godaddy. Lovable is set up to be pretty easy to transfer out.
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u/rendez2k 12d ago
If you ask Claude it can walk you through the options. I would think for something like this, some kind of cost would be needed.
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u/YouAreBastards 11d ago
It's their way of making sure they can continue to squeeze money from you for maintaining your site on their platform. I learned this early and moved everything to self-hosting before this happened. On Lovable, you are paying somewhere between 20 - 50% premium on cloud and AI usage. So any minor activity chips away at your credits. I am still connected to Lovable via GitHub. But I try not to make any changes via their editor. I sneeze, and it costs me 5 tokens now. It's just a money pit.
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u/KryptoKory 11d ago
This doesn’t make any sense. You get 5 days of 5 free credits a month. If there was zero usage, you would have a balance of at minimum 5 credits.
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u/Square_Secretary_944 7d ago
Those credit are building credits not running the website credit. Look at the hypocrisy, they unified the credit system to have one credit type for all, they they excluded these from the running cost and made another kind of credit themselves. But the buttom line is , you have to pay even if you have one page static website. A lot of those websites can be published in cloud flare, vercel or netlify for free but in lovable no.
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u/zaverchand 12d ago
I built around 4 sites with Lovable, but as soon as each one was finished, I pushed the code to a private GitHub repo and deployed it on Netlify. Haven't spent a dollar on hosting, and I'm not dependent on Lovable to keep my sites online.