Fil vs Lovable
Lovable turns a chat into a web app with a database, sign‑in and payments. Fil makes the designed site, with its pictures, video and 3D, and opens it in Lovable when it needs a backend.
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The short answer
Of 11 lines, Fil is ahead on 3, Lovable on 3, and they’re even on 5.
Pick Lovable if
- You’re building an app with sign-in, data or payments.
- You want code synced to GitHub, or SOC 2 and SSO.
Pick Fil if
- You’re making a site that should look designed.
- You want its pictures, video and 3D made alongside it.
Lovable and Fil, line by line
Checked on 2026-10-26 against Lovable’s own pages.
| What | Lovable | Fil |
|---|---|---|
| What it makes | Full-stack web apps: frontend, database, storage, sign-in and functions (docs) (Cloud) | Designed websites: pages with a design system and content, React apps and single pages, with the pictures, video and 3D for them |
| Price | $25 for 100 credits, any team size: Pro from $25 a month; Business from $50; yearly is two months free; unlimited members (plans) | $18 alone, from $30 a seat for teams: Starter $18 with 1,800 credits, Pro $30 a seat with 3,000 credits, Max $100 a seat with 10,000 credits; 20% off yearly ($14.40, $24 and $80 a month) |
| What a page costs | About $0.43: a landing page with images is 1.70 credits at Pro’s $0.25 a credit (pricing) (credits) | About $0.05–$0.49: 5–49 credits on Claude Sonnet 5.5; its pictures are priced on their own |
| Backend | Built in: database, sign-in, storage and functions, or your own Supabase; payments with Stripe or Paddle (Cloud) (changelog) | Forms only: answers kept in Fil; no database, sign-in or payments |
| Visual editing | A preview toolbar: select, edit text inline, draw, comment (docs) | The Design tab: layers, styles, components and a design system at desktop, tablet and phone sizes, with an agent |
| Choice of model | Lovable picks: you “cannot pick a specific model for building” (FAQ) | You pick, per run: Claude Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5 or Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6, Gemini 4 Argon, Muse Wonder 1.0 and more |
| Code | Two-way Git sync: GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket; ZIP export on paid plans (Git sync) (FAQ) | Download it: a page as HTML, a site as a zip, a React app as a Vite project; Copy prompt; Open in Lovable |
| Free plan | 5 build credits a day: at most 30 a month (plans) | Up to 1,000 credits a month: free, from daily check-ins, with every model; Free work is public and not for commercial use |
| Publishing | A lovable.app address: custom domains on paid plans; a security scan and SEO review (publish) | A fil.design address: public or with a password; custom domains and uptime checks on paid plans; analytics |
| Visuals for the site | Image assets: generated while building (changelog) | Made on the canvas: 13 image, 15 video and 4 3D models, wired into the page; Three.js scenes |
| Security | Certified: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, AIUC-1 (enterprise) | Not certified |
Where Fil is different
Design it with an agent beside you.
Open any page in the Design tab to change layers, styles and components by hand, check it at three sizes, or ask the agent and watch it edit the page with you.
- A link, HTML or part of a site comes in as layers
- Layers, breakpoints and motion, as in Figma
- The agent changes only what you point at
Lovable: A preview toolbar to select, edit text, draw and comment (docs)
The hero picture, made here.
Make the hero picture, the product video or a 3D scene on the same canvas, and wire it into the page. Pick the model that writes the page too, per run, with the price shown first.
- Paint over what should change, extend it, split it into layers
- Video with sound for the hero, up to 30 seconds
- Three.js scenes you can turn and publish
Lovable: Image assets made while it builds; it picks the build model (changelog) (FAQ)
A landing page, start to finish.
The Landing page workflow plans the page for your kind of site and makes a picture for every section first. When it needs a backend, Open in Lovable sends the page, a picture of it and its words to Lovable.
- A plan, a picture per section, then the page
- Copy prompt writes the page out for Claude Code, v0 or Cursor
- Or download it as HTML, a zip or a Vite project
Lovable: Sign-in, a database and storage, built in, for the page you bring (Cloud)
Where Lovable is better
- Real apps. A database, sign-in, storage, server functions and payments, built from chat. Fil makes sites with forms, not apps with accounts. (Cloud) (changelog)
- Code in your repo. Two-way sync with GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket on every plan. Fil downloads code but doesn’t sync it. (Git sync)
- Built for companies. Unlimited members, SSO, SCIM, audit logs, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and EU inference. (plans) (enterprise)
- Everywhere you work. Desktop and mobile apps, Slack, Telegram and ChatGPT, plus an API. (docs) (changelog)
- Huge and proven. Over 60 million projects since November 2024, by Lovable’s count. (post)
Questions
Is Fil a good Lovable alternative?
For websites and landing pages, yes: Fil designs them visually and makes their pictures, video and 3D on the same canvas. For apps with sign-in, a database or payments, use Lovable.
Can I move a page from Fil to Lovable?
Yes. Open in Lovable fills Lovable’s box with a prompt describing the page, a picture of it and, once it’s published, its address; you send it there. Copy prompt does the same for Claude Code, v0 or Cursor.
Does Fil build apps with a backend?
No. Fil’s sites can collect form answers, but they have no database, user accounts or payments.
Which is cheaper?
Fil starts at $18 a month; Lovable Pro starts at $25 for 100 credits. One page costs about the same in each: 5–49 credits in Fil, about $0.05–$0.49, against 1.70 Lovable credits, about $0.43.
Can I export my code from Fil?
Yes. Download a page as HTML, a whole site as a zip, or a React app as a Vite project that you can check builds first.
Can I use Fil today?
Fil is invite-only while it’s in beta. Sign in with Google and join the waitlist; invited friends of members get in sooner.
Sources
- Welcome: What Lovable is, who it’s for
- For work: Teams of 20 to 2,000
- Subscription plans: Free, Pro, Business, yearly, unlimited members
- Plans and credits: $0.25 a credit on Pro
- lovable.dev/pricing: What tasks cost
- FAQ: No model choice, ZIP export
- Lovable Cloud: Database, storage, sign-in, functions
- Preview toolbar: Visual edits
- Git sync: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
- Publish: lovable.app, custom domains, scans, SEO
- Changelog: Payments (2026-04-24), image assets (2026-06-22)
- Lovable for Enterprise: Certifications
- Series C: Post of 2026-08-12: 60M+ projects