Comparison
Flitch vs Bolt
A full-stack AI app builder against a dashboard builder. Bolt is metered in tokens and builds anything; Flitch is metered in credits and builds one thing well.
Which should you choose?
Bolt is the better choice for building and shipping a full-stack application, and its free tier is unusually generous. Flitch is the better choice for dashboards on business data, because Bolt has no connector layer and no scheduled refresh, so the data work is yours.
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Flitch vs Bolt at a glance
| Flitch | Bolt | |
|---|---|---|
| What it builds | Dashboards, and only dashboards | Full-stack web apps of any kind |
| Entry price | Free tier, then $20/month flat | Free tier, then Pro $25/month |
| Team pricing | $30/user/month (Team) | $30 per member per month (Teams) |
| How AI is metered | Credits at $0.10. The plan fee is the allowance: $20 buys $20 of AI | Tokens. 1M/month free, 10M/month on Pro, unused tokens roll over |
| Free tier | 40 credits/month, 100 dashboards, 10 integrations | 300K tokens/day and 1M/month, unlimited databases, hosting |
| Business data connectors | 61, including Stripe, Xero, HubSpot, Salesforce | None built in. You write the integration |
| Databases | 18 databases and 3 warehouses, read directly | Unlimited databases for the apps it builds |
| Keeping data current | Scheduled refresh, down to every minute | You build it |
| Semantic layer | Yes, relationships and calculations | No |
| Custom domain | Yes, on paid plans | Yes, on Pro |
| Enterprise | No SSO or audit logs | SSO and audit logs on Enterprise |
Which is the more capable builder?
Bolt, and comfortably, if capability means range. It builds full-stack applications with databases, backends and deployment, supports private npm registries on Teams, and its free tier includes unlimited databases and hosting, which is more generous than most of the category. If your goal is to ship a working product, Bolt is designed for exactly that and Flitch cannot do it at all. Flitch builds dashboards. The trade is depth in one shape against range across many.
How does token pricing compare to credits?
They meter different things, so compare carefully. Bolt is free with 300,000 tokens a day and 1 million a month, then Pro at $25 per month for 10 million tokens a month with no daily limit and rollover of unused tokens, Teams at $30 per member, and up to 28 per cent off yearly. Tokens are consumed by the model as it works, so a heavy build session burns through them faster than a light one and the number is hard to reason about in advance. Flitch is free with 40 credits, then $20 per month flat for 200 credits at $0.10 each, and the plan fee is the credit allowance, so $20 of plan is $20 of AI with no markup on the model cost. A dashboard generation is 3 to 7 credits and an edit is 1 to 4, which is easier to budget against. Neither is dearer overall; Bolt is easier to overspend without noticing.
What happens when the dashboard needs your business data?
You write the integration. Bolt has no connector layer for Stripe, Xero, HubSpot, MyGeotab or a production Postgres database. It will give you unlimited databases for data the app itself creates, and everything else is code you write and maintain: auth flows, pagination, rate limits, schema changes when a vendor updates an API, and whatever keeps it all fresh. For a developer that is a normal afternoon and then a permanent maintenance job. Flitch has 61 integrations, reads 18 databases and 3 warehouses directly, and refreshes on a schedule down to every minute, which is the entire reason to pick it over a general builder.
Is a generated dashboard from Bolt good enough?
For a prototype, often yes. Bolt will produce a clean, working dashboard interface quickly, and if the data is static or synthetic that may be all you need. It gets harder in the same places every time: aggregations that stay correct as data grows, date handling across time zones, filters that compose, and a refresh that runs without someone remembering to trigger it. Flitch generates against a semantic layer that holds your entities, relationships and calculations, so those parts are the product rather than something you specify prompt by prompt.
Which has the better free tier?
Bolt, straightforwardly, if you are building apps. 300,000 tokens a day, 1 million a month, unlimited databases and hosting is a lot to give away and you can build something real inside it. Flitch’s free tier is 40 credits a month with a 20 per day cap, 100 dashboards and 10 integrations, which is enough to build several dashboards on your own data and publish them, but it is a smaller allowance. Judge them by what you want to make: Bolt’s is more generous, and it does not include any way to connect to your business systems.
Choose Bolt if
- You are building a full-stack application, not a dashboard
- You want the most generous free tier in the category
- You need backends, auth and deployment in one place
- You are a developer, or have one, and integration code is not a barrier
- You want SSO and audit logs at the enterprise level
- Token rollover suits how you work in bursts
Choose Flitch if
- The app is a dashboard on data that already exists
- You do not want to write and maintain integrations for Stripe, Xero or your database
- The dashboard must refresh on a schedule
- You want a semantic layer keeping metrics consistent
- You want credit costs you can predict: 3 to 7 per dashboard, 1 to 4 per edit
- You want viewers to question the data with Ask AI
Flitch vs Bolt FAQ
Can Bolt connect to Stripe or my database?
Only by writing the integration yourself. Bolt gives you unlimited databases for data its apps create, but it has no connector layer for existing business systems, so auth, fetching, pagination and refresh are all code you own. Flitch ships 61 integrations and refreshes them on a schedule.
Which free tier is better?
Bolt for building apps: 300,000 tokens a day, 1 million a month, unlimited databases and hosting. Flitch gives 40 credits a month with a 20 per day cap, 100 dashboards and 10 integrations, which is smaller but includes connecting to your own data.
Tokens or credits, which is easier to predict?
Credits, because they map to actions. A Flitch dashboard generation is 3 to 7 credits and an edit is 1 to 4, at $0.10 each. Bolt meters raw model tokens, which vary with how much work a request takes and are harder to estimate before you spend them.
Can Flitch build a full-stack app?
No. Flitch builds dashboards, with input tables for collecting data alongside them. For backends, auth and general application logic, Bolt is the right tool.
Do both give you the code?
Yes. Both generate a real web app as editable code, which is what separates either of them from a traditional BI tool where you configure visuals on a fixed canvas.