What Rethrow charges
Pay once to migrate an app. Pay monthly only for the apps you keep building in Studio.
$100per app, one time
Move an existing app to dedicated cloud infrastructure in hours. Migrated apps continue in Studio at $50 per app, per month.
$50per app, per month
Keep shipping features on infrastructure you own, or start something new. Every feature included for every app.
Single sign-on (SSO): available on request.
Your coding agent and your cloud provider bill you directly for usage. Rethrow never resells either one.
Who you pay
Rethrow charges for the platform. Your agent and your cloud bill you directly for usage.
01Migrations and Studio
$100 once per migrated app
$50 per app, per month in Studio
Migration is charged once per app. Studio is billed monthly per app.
Your coding agent, plus any AI features in your app
Kiro, Claude, Codex, Cursor, Droid or Gemini
Plans from about $20 per builder, per month
Billed monthly by your provider. Only needed in Studio, since migrations use Rethrow’s agent.
The infrastructure your app runs on
AWS, Google Cloud or Azure
List prices, no Rethrow markup
Billed monthly by the provider, on your own cloud account. A small app often costs a few dollars a month.
Examples
Two pricing examples. See TCO calculator below to dive deeper.
One migrated app with under 100 active users a month. One builder on your team keeps shipping features in Studio.
One migrated app with 5,000 active users a month, file storage and background jobs. Two builders shipping features in Studio.
Estimates. Cloud figures assume a serverless app on AWS at list prices. Agent prices are Claude Code’s monthly plans. AI features in your app run on your coding agent provider’s API key, so they appear on that bill: here, 10 requests per user a month on Claude Sonnet 5.5 ($2 / $10 per million input / output tokens), with Claude Max’s included API credits applied first.
TCO calculator
Change the inputs to estimate what you would pay Rethrow, your agent provider and your cloud provider.
Model choice drives AI cost. The same request can cost 100 times more on a frontier model than on a fast one. In Studio you can switch agents and models in a click, so you can build each feature with the model that fits the job.
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Most app builders sell credits that pay for building and running your app on their platform. Rethrow charges a flat fee per app and puts the infrastructure in your cloud account.
Less far than it sounds. By Lovable’s own examples, 100 credits covers 58 to 200 single prompts, and a real feature usually takes many prompts and fixes.
The same balance also pays for hosting (your database reads, writes, file uploads and more) and for the AI features in your app (a summary, a chatbot reply and more). That makes it hard to estimate what your app costs to build and host, or to set your own pricing tiers.
| Topic | Rethrow |  Lovable |  Base44 |  Replit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How you pay | $50 per app, per month. $100 once to migrate. | A plan plus a credit tier. Pro starts at $25/mo for 100 credits. | A plan with two credit pools. Builder is $50/mo for 250 message and 10,000 integration credits. | A plan plus effort-based usage. Core is $20/mo with $20 of usage included. |
| What the credits pay for | No credits. Your agent and your cloud bill you directly, at their own prices. | Building, hosting and AI features in your app all draw from one credit balance. | Message credits for building. Integration credits for actions in your live app. | Agent work, hosting and databases all draw from the same balance. |
| When you build more | Same $50 per app. Your agent subscription sets your usage limits. | Move to a bigger credit tier or buy top-ups. | Move up a plan. Unused credits don’t roll over. | Usage beyond the included amount is billed as you go. |
| Where your app runs | A dedicated account in your own AWS, Google Cloud or Azure. | Lovable’s hosting (Lovable Cloud). | Base44’s hosting. | Replit’s hosting. |
| Architecture | Your cloud and region, defined in Terraform in your own repository. | The platform’s stack. | The platform’s stack. | The platform’s stack. |
| Coding agent | Bring your own: Kiro, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Droid or Google Gemini. | Lovable’s built-in agent. | Base44’s built-in agent. | Replit Agent. |
Monthly list prices from the Lovable, Base44 and Replit pricing pages, October 2026. Credit examples are Lovable’s own. Prices change, so check each site for the latest.
Migration is $100 per app, one-time. The assessment is free. The $100 covers the target architecture, the migration itself, deployment to your cloud account, verification, and support through go-live. Migrated apps then continue in Rethrow Studio at $50 per app, per month.
One flat plan: $50 per app, per month, with every feature included and no tiers. You bring your own coding agent (Kiro, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Factory Droid, or Google Gemini), and that provider bills you for model usage, including any AI features in your app. Your cloud provider bills you for cloud usage. Every app in a workspace bills to one card on file, and teammates can join the same workspace.
Your coding agent provider. When your app calls an AI model, it uses your coding agent’s API key, so that usage shows up on your agent provider’s bill at their API rates, next to your agent subscription. Rethrow doesn’t resell or mark up model usage.
No. Your cloud provider bills you directly. For example, migrating one app and keeping it in Studio costs $150 from Rethrow in the first month ($100 migration plus $50 Studio), then $50 per month. Your cloud provider bills its usage separately, and the amount depends on your app’s architecture and traffic.
Rethrow uses Stripe to store your card and process payments, so Rethrow never stores your card details. There are no plans to upgrade or downgrade: Studio is $50 per app, per month, and your workspace can hold as many apps as you like. When you delete an app, we stop charging you for it. Your full billing history is in your account settings.
