v0 pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
v0 (v0.app) is a AI app builder. Per-user monthly seats that include dollar-denominated credits, consumed by token-metered model usage; extra credits sold on top.. Free plan: Free plan: 7 messages/day; $5 credits once for new users (existing Free users keep $5/month); deploy to Vercel..
What v0 costs
- 1 builder: $30/mo (Plus $30/user/mo (cheapest paid plan open to new users; $20 Premium is closed to new users). Includes $30 credits/mo + $2 daily login credits. Apps deploy to Vercel; hosting and custom domains billed by Vercel.)
- 5 builders: $150/mo (Plus $30/user x 5 = $150; team features, shared projects and a shared credit pool for purchased credits; $30 included credits per seat.)
Plan compared: Plus. Cheapest paid plan, billed monthly, that lets one person build with the AI and publish an app on their own domain, and the total for 5 people co-editing in one workspace. AI credit allowances differ by vendor and are listed next to each price rather than normalized; free plans and separately billed hosting are not counted.
What v0 does
Core: Prompt-to-app generation, Design to code, Agentic coding tool.
Important: Autonomous build agent, Built-in database & backend, End-user sign-up & login (partly), Managed site hosting, Code export & GitHub sync, Visual point-and-click edits, Connectors & API integrations, AI features inside your app, Team workspaces (partly), AI-native code editor (partly), Background cloud agents, Web and mobile access.
Also has: Native mobile apps (partly), In-browser code editor (partly), Payments & subscriptions (partly), SSO & compliance (partly), Templates & community gallery, Built-in analytics & SEO, Open source, local & own keys (partly), Build from your phone (partly), Codebase indexing (partly), Multi-lab model choice (partly), Bring your own API key (partly), MCP tool connections (partly), Rules, commands and subagents (partly), Built-in browser testing, Team admin and analytics (partly), Privacy and compliance (partly).
v0 price hikes
- v0 turned its $5 monthly free credits into a one-time grant · Oct 5, 2026
New Free users now get $5 of credits once instead of $5 every month; existing Free users keep the monthly allowance. - v0 roughly doubled per-token rates, so credits buy less · Feb 2026
Per-model token rates roughly doubled (Mini $1/$5, Pro $3/$15, Max $5/$25 per 1M in/out), so the same included credits cover about half the usage. - v0 capped its free plan at 7 messages a day · Dec 2025
The Free plan gained a 7 messages/day cap on top of its $5 monthly credits.
Cheaper alternatives to v0
At 1 builder, v0 costs $30/mo. 3 AI app builders cost less:
- Replit: $20/mo (Core), covers 95% of v0; missing or partial: Built-in analytics & SEO (partly), Open source, local & own keys, Bring your own API key
- Bolt.new: $25/mo (Pro), covers 73% of v0; missing or partial: Design to code (partly), Code export & GitHub sync (partly), Visual point-and-click edits (partly), Connectors & API integrations (partly), AI features inside your app
- Lovable: $25/mo (Pro, 100 credits/month), covers 92% of v0; missing or partial: Design to code (partly), Open source, local & own keys
v0 alternatives: 3 cheaper AI app builders compared, at every size.
Other kinds of products that cover part of v0
- Cursor (AI coding): covers 63% of v0; missing or partial: Built-in database & backend, End-user sign-up & login, Managed site hosting, Visual point-and-click edits (partly), Connectors & API integrations (partly)
Every change we logged
- Oct 5, 2026 · Free tier cut: New Free users now get $5 of credits once instead of $5 every month; existing Free users keep the monthly allowance.
- Aug 11, 2026 · Price cut: v0 Mini token rates fell to $0.20/$1.20 and v0 Pro to $2/$10 per 1M in/out; seat prices unchanged.
- Apr 2026 · Repriced: The $20/mo Premium plan was closed to new users and removed from the pricing page, making the $30/user Team (now Plus) plan the cheapest paid option, 50% more for one builder.
- Feb 2026 · Limits cut: Per-model token rates roughly doubled (Mini $1/$5, Pro $3/$15, Max $5/$25 per 1M in/out), so the same included credits cover about half the usage.
- Dec 2025 · Free tier cut: The Free plan gained a 7 messages/day cap on top of its $5 monthly credits.
- May 13, 2025 · Repriced: v0 replaced fixed message counts with token-metered credits: Free $5/mo, Premium $20/mo, Team $30/user/mo in included credits. Many users reported credits running out much faster.
Sources
Pricing page: v0.app/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices from v0.app/pricing and v0.app/docs/pricing (monthly only; no annual option listed). Change dates after May 2025 come from usagepricing.com's tracker; the Premium sunset date is approximate (April 2026).