best prototyping & ui
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# 4 tools, ranked by us. nobody paid to get on it.
tools for prototyping and scaffolding a ui fast, judged the way a dev uses them: a clickable first draft or a ui to start from, never a stand-in for a real repo. v0 is our pick: React and Next.js with shadcn/ui, GitHub sync even on the free plan, and it'll work on your existing repo. Lovable, Replit and Bolt.new are level behind it for scaffolding a full-stack prototype you can push to GitHub. once it's a real product with a real repo, open it in Claude Code or Cursor instead.
pick
v0 by Vercel
React and Next.js ui with shadcn/ui, and it'll work on your own repo. the one devs reach for.
- best for
- front-end devs on Vercel
- free tier
- Free: $5 one-time credits, 7 messages/day
- pricing
- Plus $30/user/mo ($30 credits + $2 daily login credit); Business $100/user/mo
full review official site checked 2026-10-19
the alternatives, compared
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02Lovablescaffolding a full-stack prototype you'll finish in your own repoPro $25/mo for 100 credits (2 months free billed yearly)
scaffolds a full-stack prototype fast and syncs it to GitHub on every plan.
- best for
- scaffolding a full-stack prototype you'll finish in your own repo
- free tier
- 5 build credits/day (up to 30/mo) + 20 Cloud credits/mo
- pricing
- Pro $25/mo for 100 credits (2 months free billed yearly); Business $50/mo
- checked
- 2026-10-19 · pricing source
03Replitbuilders who want to see code and deploy in one tabCore $20/mo ($18/mo annual, includes $20 usage)
code, agent, hosting and database all in one tab. Core is $20/mo.
- best for
- builders who want to see code and deploy in one tab
- free tier
- Starter: daily agent credits up to a monthly cap, 1 published app (30 days)
- pricing
- Core $20/mo ($18/mo annual, includes $20 usage); Pro $100/mo ($90 annual)
- checked
- 2026-10-19 · pricing source
04Bolt.newsolo builders iterating heavily on JS appsPro $25/mo (billed monthly)
quick, you can see the code, and the free tier's chunky.
- best for
- solo builders iterating heavily on JS apps
- free tier
- Free: 300K tokens/day, public and private projects, hosting
- pricing
- Pro $25/mo (billed monthly); Teams $30/member/mo
- checked
- 2026-10-19 · pricing source
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