Yes. When you publish, Lovable puts your app live on a lovable.app address with HTTPS and serves it to visitors around the world, with no hosting provider to choose or set up (how Lovable hosts your app). Publishing to a lovable.app address is free on every plan, and using your own domain needs a paid plan. A live site doesn’t use credits on its own, but its backend and AI features do.
What does Lovable’s hosting include?
Everything that puts a site in front of visitors. You click Publish in the top right of the editor, or ask Lovable in the chat, and your app goes live.
- An address. A lovable.app address you can customise, or your own domain on a paid plan.
- HTTPS. Lovable sets up the security certificate for every published address, custom domains included.
- Global delivery. Your pages are served from locations close to each visitor.
- No traffic cap on paid plans. On the free plan, newer apps are limited to 1,000 page loads and server calls per project every 10 seconds.
The live site is a snapshot. Edits you make in the editor don’t reach visitors until you open the Publish dialog and click Publish changes. By default, anyone with the link can visit, and you can limit the site to people you invite.
Is hosting on Lovable free?
The hosting itself is free on all plans, as long as you publish to lovable.app. A custom domain needs a paid plan, which starts with Pro at $25 a month (Lovable pricing).
The pages cost nothing to serve. What costs credits is the work your app does while people use it, such as saving to its database or calling an AI model. If your workspace runs out of credits, the site and its address stay up, but apps that rely on the backend or AI features pause until you add credits.
For example, a bakery publishes an order site on a lovable.app address. The home page and menu cost nothing to serve. Each order a customer places is saved to the app’s database, and that work uses credits. If the credits run out on a busy weekend, the menu still loads, and the order form stops working until credits are added.
On the free plan, Lovable may take a site offline if it’s had no visits for 12 months, the workspace owner hasn’t logged in for 12 months, and it has no custom domain. When it does, Lovable emails the owners and keeps the project, code and data (publishing guide).
Can you host a Lovable app somewhere else?
Yes. You own your code and data, and you can move the site, the backend, or both (deployment and ownership options). Sync the code to GitHub, then deploy it to a host that fits how the app is built. Older Lovable apps can go on any static host, and newer ones need a host that runs a server. The backend can move to Supabase or another PostgreSQL service.
Moving off Lovable means taking on what it handled for you. You’d run the servers, security certificates, database, backups, logins and AI provider accounts yourself (hosting outside Lovable).
Whether it’s a public site or a tool only your team opens, a Lovable app runs on Lovable’s servers, and the backend behind it runs on your credits.
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References
- How Lovable hosts your app, Lovable Documentation, read 27 October 2026
- Publish, Lovable Documentation, read 27 October 2026
- Deployment, hosting, and ownership options, Lovable Documentation
- Deploying and hosting outside Lovable, Lovable Documentation
- Pricing, Lovable, read 27 October 2026
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