Durable vs Lovable Comparison 2026
Both cover website builders. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
A site generated from a sentence about the business
Describe the page and it writes the code
At a glance
- Durable starts cheaper, at $22.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Durable | Lovable | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $22 | From $25 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Not stated | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | None |
| Runs on (they differ) | Web, iOS, Android |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Durable
A site generated from a sentence about the business
Durable generates a working site from a short description of the business, which is aimed squarely at a tradesperson or solo operator who needs a presence today and will not be maintaining one. An invoicing tool and a CRM sit beside the builder. The free tier publishes on a subdomain with monthly caps on generated images and AI chat. Anybody with a design in mind will be fighting a generator rather than using a builder.
Our note
Buy this for speed rather than for the site, because the honest comparison is against having no web presence at all rather than against Squarespace. If you will still be running the business in a year, budget for moving to a real builder once the first version has paid for itself.
Lovable
Describe the page and it writes the code
Lovable builds a working web app from a description, then lets you keep talking to it to change what it made. The output is real code rather than a locked page, so a site can be exported and hosted anywhere once it exists. For a creator this is the landing page, the waitlist or the small tool that was never worth hiring somebody for. Usage is metered in credits rather than in projects, and the free plan gives enough of them to find out whether the idea survives contact with the generator.
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