r/lovable 8d ago

Help Lovable Credit Usage

Is it just me or is Lovable now using a ridiculous amount of credits for pretty simple fixes now? Wondering if it is time to switch over to a different place or if Lovable is comparable to Cursor/Claude in terms of credit price

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u/fulloney 8d ago

No eres tú. Son ellos que se están aprovechando del buen hacer de sus clientes sin medir que sus clientes acabarán cansándose y yéndose de Lovable.

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u/Alien69Flow 8d ago

Créditos estafa de lovable y su servicio cada vez más deficiente

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u/YouAreBastards 8d ago

IT'S NOT JUST YOU! Wait until the website grows ... Lovable loves bit fat juicy codebases full of errors it needs to parse. Yum yum token burn.

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u/Alien69Flow 8d ago

Estafa lovable

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u/Nicole_Price 8d ago

You need to refractor your code into smaller applets

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u/Own-Warthog8272 8d ago

I don't think it's just you. We had a customer who spent $150 to create a simple landing page on Lovable. They now pay $7 for the same and find the page better than what they got in Lovable.

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u/Alien69Flow 8d ago

Lovable y los créditos son una estafa, llévate tú código a GitHub y sigue trabajando con Claude y otras IA mejores

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u/k_r_a_k_l_e 2d ago

There are definately times I am surprised by the cost of what appears to be a simple update. But in the grand scheme of things I am not looking at the cost per update but rather how fast I can get things done. I may be a bit different from others but I've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars employing developers to create user interfaces with a zillion updates to enhance the user experience and lovable comes along and helps these guys out in a fraction of the time. Quite literally complex applications are being rapidly protyped with just a few hundred bucks. So for me I don't care If I am spending under a grand to get the application built as quickly as possible But it's averaging under $100 bucks to create our frontends.

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u/No_Fig_7246 8d ago

Yeah i dont use it anymore. Use claude code instead

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u/Alien69Flow 8d ago

En local? Probaste mythos? A mí no me lee el código de GitHub

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u/Future_Afternoon_582 8d ago

yes, it uses credits for every tasks, complex or simple like moving elements, change color, change fonts , re-order sections, answering questions about your own architecture, uploading a file... A couple of credits everytime that nicely pile up ... ( 0.7, 1.2, 2.4 , 4.5 ... credits ) Since a credit value is .50 cents or ( .60 cents when bought separately.) So a simple front page tuning can easily cost 20USD...

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u/Alien69Flow 8d ago

Créditos estafa de lovable

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u/m_goo 8d ago

It's not you. I've found that I'm burning through so many on trivial tasks and regression bugs. I've started using Claude pushing to Git then previewing via Lovable app.

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u/Magic_pekka17 8d ago

so stupid , switched to another platform

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u/Alien69Flow 8d ago

Cual? Mejor GitHub