Best AI App Builders (Vibe Coding) in Australia 2026: Which One Should You Actually Use?

Pricing figures updated 6 September 2026: USD prices are converted at the current rate (1 USD ≈ 1.40 AUD, verified 5 September 2026) and shown ex-GST, replacing the retired 1.55 + GST basis. A GST-registered Australian business that supplies its ABN is not charged GST on an imported digital service; other buyers should allow ~10% on top (Methodology).

Best for non-coders who want a polished app: Lovable (18/25) — describe an app, get a working one with real, exportable code and a choice of three frontier models. Best automatic backend: Base44 (16/25) — wires up your database, logins and APIs for you, with the security posture of its new owner, Wix. Cheapest serious entry: Hostinger Horizons (16/25) — a working web app with hosting bundled. Now sold as Hostinger AI Builder, from A$4.39/mo on a 48-month prepayment (A$210.72 up front, renewing A$15.89/mo). Best for developers who want the AI on rails: Kiro (16/25) — Amazon's spec-first IDE that makes you agree a spec before it builds.

We have not named an outright category Top Pick — and that is deliberate. Every tool here is US- or offshore-billed with weak Australian fit, so none clears our Australian Fit gate. We explain exactly why below.

Last reviewed: 25 June 2026 by Adam. Eight tools tested and scored against our five-criteria framework, plus one we tell you to avoid.

What "vibe coding" actually means

"Vibe coding" is the year's most over-used phrase, so let us be precise about it. These are the tools where you describe an app in plain English — "a booking site for my mobile dog-grooming business with a calendar and Stripe payments" — and the AI builds and runs the thing for you. No editor, no setup, no learning to code first. You talk; it builds.

That is a different category from the broader AI coding tools we have ranked elsewhere. If you write code already — or you are a technical founder happy in an editor — your shortlist is Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, and our best AI coding tools roundup is the page you want. This roundup is the other half: the prompt-to-app builders aimed at people who want software without becoming a software engineer.

The honest framing matters here, because the marketing for these tools promises more than they deliver. They genuinely get you to a working prototype fast — faster than anything before them. But the last 30% of a real app, the part that handles your customers' money and data safely, still bites. And for an Australian buyer, every tool in this category shares the same three weaknesses: US-dollar billing, offshore data, and no local support. We will keep coming back to those, because they decide the category.

Quick-pick table

All prices are USD converted to AUD at roughly 1.40 with around 10% GST assumed at checkout — none of these tools bills natively in AUD. Figures as of 25 June 2026; see each full review for the source pricing pages. Firebase Studio is listed for completeness only; do not start a project on it.

Why this category matters for Australians

For a small Australian business, these tools collapse the distance between an idea and something real. A marketer can stand up a landing page tonight. A product manager can put a clickable prototype in a meeting tomorrow instead of waiting weeks for a build. A founder can validate an idea over a weekend before spending money on an engineer. That is genuinely new, and it is genuinely useful.

But this is also the category where the Australian-specific gaps bite hardest. Not one of these tools prices in Australian dollars — you pay in US dollars at your bank's exchange rate, with GST added at checkout, so every headline price lands roughly 55% higher than it looks before tax even enters the picture. Data residency is thinner still: most of these tools process your prompts and store your project on US infrastructure, which matters the moment you are handling anything covered by the Privacy Act, APRA rules, or the Consumer Data Right. And local support is almost entirely absent — a Discord server and a global help centre, not someone you can phone on a Friday afternoon when a paying client's app goes down.

There is one more trap unique to this category: credit billing. Nearly every tool here charges by consumption, not a flat seat price. Every prompt, every agent action, every attempt to fix a bug the AI itself introduced, spends credits — and on several tools those credits expire monthly and do not roll over. The headline subscription is a floor, not a ceiling, and a stubborn debugging loop can quietly run your real bill well past it. That is why "Australian Fit" is one of our five scoring criteria, and why it separates these tools more than raw capability does.

How we tested

We scored each tool against our five-criteria framework — Value for Money, Ease of Use, Feature Depth, Australian Fit, and Reliability & Support, each out of five for a total out of 25 — and built a verified, primary-sourced review for each before writing a word here. Every price, plan name, model and compliance claim is anchored to the vendor's own pages. Read our Methodology for the full framework, and each linked review for the complete scorecard and sources.

One rule shapes this whole page. Under our Australian Fit gate, a tool needs Australian Fit of at least 4 out of 5 to be named a category Top Pick. As you will see, not one tool here clears that bar — so rather than crown a winner that does not deserve the title, we have structured this as honest "best for this, best for that" picks. We explain the gate in full in the verdict.

The picks, ranked

1. Lovable — 18/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good

Lovable is the most credible prompt-to-app builder for non-technical Australians, and it tops this list on merit. Describe an app in plain English and you get a working, hosted application with a real, exportable codebase — not a locked-in no-code runtime you can never leave. It runs on current frontier models that Lovable selects for you — the vendor no longer names a version or offers a picker (Lovable FAQ, checked 21 September 2026) — and bundles hosting, authentication, database and payments so you do not assemble them yourself. The traction is real too: USD$200M in annual recurring revenue inside its first year, a USD$330M Series B, and over 100,000 new projects a day.

Three workflow modes carry the experience — chat for big changes, click-to-edit "visual edits" for polish, and an agent that takes multi-step actions across files on its own. For a PM who wants a prototype before a meeting or a founder validating an idea before hiring, nothing in this category lowers the barrier more cleanly while still handing you real code at the end.

The Australian story is the best of the genuinely usable tools here, and it has improved: Lovable Cloud now advertises an Australia data region, which lifted our score a point. But read the fine print before you rely on it — the region is described at the Asia Pacific level rather than pinned as a named in-country guarantee, so for a regulated workload you would want that nailed down in writing. Billing is USD-only (around A$35 a month landed on Pro after FX, ex-GST), the credit system bites harder than the USD$25 sticker suggests, there is no local support, and a public April 2026 security incident is worth understanding before you put anything sensitive on it. Lovable's response to that incident was admirably transparent — but the incident still happened. Strong recommend for prototyping and internal tools; appropriate caution for anything customer-facing or regulated. Read the full Lovable review →

2. Base44 — 16/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good

Base44 is the most polished of the no-code pack, and the reason is structural: it provisions your backend — database, user logins, file storage, APIs — automatically, so a non-technical person gets a genuinely working app without ever touching the plumbing. Most people fail at app-building not on the screens but on the invisible parts, and Base44 does those for you, competently. It is the work of a remarkable solo founder, Maor Shlomo, who bootstrapped it to hundreds of thousands of users before Wix bought it for around US$80 million in 2025.

That Wix ownership brings something rare in this category: a grown-up security posture. Base44 is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, with row-level database security and a parent that is not going to vanish overnight. Version control with rollback to any prior state, a "Discussion mode" that lets you plan without burning build credits, and a lower US$16 entry tier all show real maturity.

Two things hold it back for Australians. First, lock-in: you can export the front-end code via GitHub, but the backend logic, database schemas and server-side functions stay on Base44's infrastructure. You can take the shopfront; the engine room stays behind. Second, the Australian data story is weak — apps are hosted in the United States by default, EU and UK residency exist only on the top two tiers, and there is no Australian region at all. Pricing is USD on a two-part credit model (build credits and runtime credits, both expiring monthly), and runtime credits can lock you out of your own live app mid-use. Excellent for internal tools and prototypes; read the residency and lock-in fine print hard before you build a business on it. Read the full Base44 review →

3. Bolt.new — 16/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good

Bolt.new, from US developer-tools company StackBlitz, is one of the fastest ways to go from a sentence to a working web app. Its clever trick is architectural: StackBlitz's WebContainer technology boots a full Node.js development environment inside your browser tab, so the app you build actually runs locally in your browser rather than on a remote server. A non-technical Melbourne business owner can have a working, clickable web app in front of them inside ten minutes, and it is full-stack — database, user logins, a deploy pipeline — not just a pretty front end.

You are never locked out of the code, either. The editor sits right there, so a developer can take over at any point and you can export the project whenever you like. One-click deploy to Netlify gives you a live URL fast.

The catch is the same one that runs through this whole category, sharpened. Bolt's token-based billing burns faster than you expect, because it re-reads your existing code on every iteration — the free tier is fine for a play, but a real project pushes you to Pro within a day, and a heavy build can blow past even Pro's allowance. The last 30% is the hard 30%: custom server-side logic and business rules still need manual coding, and deploy-day gremlins (environment variables that do not carry across, mis-set database security rules) catch beginners cold. On Australian fit it scores honestly low — USD billing, US headquarters, offshore data with no AU residency option, and community-only support. Brilliant for prototyping; treat it as an offshore tool for anything touching real Australian customer data. Read the full Bolt.new review →

4. Hostinger Horizons — 16/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good

Hostinger Horizons is the budget answer, and it earns its spot by being the cheapest serious entry in the category — from US$6.99 a month (about A$9.79) with hosting, a domain and SSL bundled underneath. Because hosting is Hostinger's core business, the pitch is convenience: idea in, deployed app out, all on one bill, with nothing separate to wire up. It is also the most genuinely "build me an app" tool here, leaning toward interactive web applications — a booking tool, a calculator, a small directory, an MVP to show an investor — rather than brochure sites.

For a budget-conscious Australian who wants a functional thing online rather than a beautiful marketing page, the value is real. The no-card, 7-day free trial (five prompts a day) lets you feel it before paying.

The limits are honest ones. It is credit-metered — 30 credits a month on the cheapest plan is tight for the trial-and-error that prompt-building inevitably involves, so watch the meter as you iterate, because that is where the real bill hides. Output is good for simple apps and thinner for ambitious ones; this is a capable but still-maturing product. And it carries the standard Australian penalty: USD billing with tax excluded from the headline, and no Australian data centre — the nearest is Singapore, so your app's data sits offshore. Buy it to ship a functional idea cheaply; reach for a polished site builder if what you actually need is a good-looking marketing site with a clean Australian invoice. Read the full Hostinger Horizons review →

5. Kiro — 16/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good

Kiro is the odd one out here, and deliberately so. It is Amazon Web Services' answer to vibe coding — an AI IDE that makes you agree a written spec before it builds anything. Instead of typing a vague prompt and hoping the AI guesses right, Kiro pushes you to write a structured specification first: the requirements, then a technical design, then a task list it works through. That discipline is the whole point. The single biggest failure mode of AI coding is the agent confidently building the wrong thing, and forcing a requirements step up front means you catch the misunderstanding on paper in two minutes, not in 200 lines of generated code.

It runs the newest Claude models (Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.8) plus an Auto agent that optimises cost, adds genuinely novel property-based testing that red-teams your code against the spec, and carries AWS's stability and IP indemnity behind it. Built on the same open-source core as VS Code, it feels like the editor you already use.

The crucial caveat: this is a developer tool, full stop. It makes coders more disciplined; it will not let a non-technical owner describe an app and walk away with a working product — you still need to read code and reason about a design. If that is not you, this is the wrong category. Billing is USD on an expiring monthly credit model, and the data terms need reading twice: on the free and individual tiers, AWS may use your prompts and generated code to train its models, and everything is stored in the United States with no Australian region. For a developer who wants the AI on rails with a paper trail, Kiro is one of the most thoughtful tools going. For everyone else, it belongs in our coding tools roundup, not your shortlist. Read the full Kiro review →

6. Replit — 16/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good

Replit is the friendliest front door in the category: a full build-and-host platform in the browser — IDE, database, deployments, a mobile app and Replit Agent — with nothing to install and a real free tier. For a beginner or a non-technical builder who wants everything in one place and to learn as they go, the barrier is the lowest here, and unlike a pure no-code tool you get an actual platform to keep growing into when the prototype gets serious. Its closest match is Lovable; the difference is that Replit is a whole platform, not just a builder.

It ranks here on one honest weakness: cost predictability. Replit Agent uses effort-based "checkpoint" billing that scales with how hard each request works, and busy build sessions can run through credits faster than expected — independent users have documented bills well above the headline subscription. The most powerful models are also gated to the Pro plan, so the cheapest paid tier is not running Replit's strongest agent, and the agent is, in Replit's own words, "probabilistic" — complex builds sometimes need several corrective rounds, each consuming credits.

The Australian story is thin in the familiar way — USD-only pricing (around A$34 a month landed on Core), US-side AI, no AU office or support — softened only slightly by the ability to choose a deployment region for hosting. Start free, set a budget cap on day one, and treat Core as the real entry point. If you want cost certainty above all, this is not the one; if accessibility matters more than a predictable bill, Replit earns its place. Read the full Replit review →

7. Emergent — 13/25 ⭐⭐⭐ Good

Emergent is one of the most capable "describe it and it builds it" tools on the market — and one of the easiest to run up a surprise bill on. Rather than a single model spitting out code, a team of coordinated specialist agents plans the app, writes the full stack, tests it, fixes its own bugs and deploys it. The company pitches it as "your on-demand CTO and founding engineer," and for a prototype or a simple internal tool, the speed from idea to running software is extraordinary. It is well-funded (US$100M raised, a US$300M valuation), and — importantly — your code syncs to GitHub and exports cleanly, so you are not fully locked in.

That export is its saving grace, because the economics are punishing. Billing is credit-based and consumption-driven, unused credits expire monthly, and — the complaint that dominates its reviews — when the AI introduces a bug and you ask it to fix it, the fix costs credits, sometimes looping through several paid attempts. You can end up paying, by the prompt, to repair the tool's own mistakes. Simply keeping an app deployed and live draws credits before you build anything. Independent sentiment is poor (an aggregated Trustpilot rating around 2.7 out of 5, with recurring credit-dispute and instability themes), and data is processed in the United States and India with no Australian option.

The smart way to use Emergent is exactly the way its strengths point: build the prototype, export the code via GitHub, and continue serious work in an environment you control. For anything customer-facing or data-sensitive, prototype here and rebuild it properly elsewhere. Read the full Emergent review →

8. v0 — 13/25 ⭐⭐⭐ Good

v0, by Vercel, turns a prompt into production-quality React code faster than any developer can type — and that sentence contains both its strength and its problem. For a React or Next.js developer, it is a genuine productivity booster: describe "a customer dashboard with a sidebar, data table and line chart," and within 30 seconds you have clean, deployable code built on the widely adopted shadcn/ui component library, with a Design Mode that lets you tweak typography and colour visually, Figma import, and one-click deploy to Vercel.

But for the typical Australian small business owner with no coding background, v0 is largely the wrong tool, and that is why it sits near the bottom here. The output is code, not a website. There is no backend, no form submissions going anywhere, no saved data, no user accounts unless a developer writes them. A landing page generated by v0 is a beautiful preview that does nothing until someone technical integrates, deploys and maintains it. Its own Ease of Use splits sharply — a 4 out of 5 for developers, a 2 out of 5 for everyone else.

On Australian fit it scores lowest of the lot, a 1 out of 5: USD billing only, no AUD shown, US-only data residency for the v0 AI service (Vercel's Sydney region hosts deployed apps, not your prompts), no local support, and de-identified prompt data may be used for training on the cheaper tiers. If you write React, try the free tier today. If you do not, look at Lovable or Bolt.new for AI-assisted building you can actually use, or a hosted site builder if you just want a site you can manage yourself. Read the full v0 review →

Avoid: Firebase Studio — being discontinued

We include Firebase Studio only to warn you off it. On paper it is excellent — the most technically capable free tool in the category, pairing a no-code Gemini-powered prototyping agent with a full cloud IDE, and, uniquely, the best Australian data story going: Google Cloud bills in Australian dollars with GST through Google Australia Pty Limited, and you can host your app's Firestore database in the Sydney region.

None of that matters now, because Google is shutting it down. Firebase Studio never left Preview, new workspace creation and signups were switched off on 22 June 2026, and the whole product is sunset on 22 March 2027 — with all remaining data permanently deleted on that date. Google is steering people to Google AI Studio and Google Antigravity instead. Do not start a new project on it. The one genuinely useful takeaway: that Australian data story (AUD billing, GST, the Sydney Firestore region) belongs to Google Cloud and Firebase themselves, not to Studio — so you keep it whether you build elsewhere on Google's stack. Read the full Firebase Studio review →

How to choose: a simple framework

Q: I can't code at all and I want a polished, real app I could grow. Where do I start? A: Lovable. It is the most credible prompt-to-app builder for non-technical users, and crucially it gives you a real, exportable codebase rather than locking you into a runtime — so if your prototype becomes a product, an engineer can pick it up. Start on the free plan, move to Pro (around A$35 a month) when you reach for it weekly.

Q: I want the backend handled for me without thinking about databases and logins. What's best? A: Base44. Its whole point is that it provisions the database, authentication, storage and APIs automatically, and the Wix ownership gives it the strongest security certifications in the category. Just understand the lock-in first — you can export the front end, but the backend stays on Base44's infrastructure.

Q: I just want the cheapest thing that genuinely builds a working app. What's good enough? A: Hostinger Horizons, at about A$9.79 a month with hosting bundled in — the cheapest serious entry here. Or use a free tier to start: Replit's free Starter, Bolt.new's free plan, or Lovable's free credits all let you build something real before paying a cent. Watch the credit meter on any of them.

Q: I'm a developer and I'm tired of the AI building the wrong thing. What fits? A: Kiro, if you want structure and a paper trail — its spec-first workflow forces agreement on requirements before any code, and it runs the newest Claude models with AWS indemnity behind them. If you want speed and trust your own judgement, the agentic coders in our coding tools roundup — Cursor, Claude Code — move quicker.

Q: I need my data to stay in Australia for compliance reasons. What works? A: Honestly, nothing here clears a strict data-residency bar today. Most process and store on US (or US-and-India) infrastructure. Lovable advertises an Australia region but describes it at the Asia Pacific level, not as a pinned in-country guarantee. The one tool with a genuine Sydney database option — Firebase Studio — is being shut down, though that AUD/GST/Sydney-Firestore story survives elsewhere on Google's stack. For anything covered by APRA, the Privacy Act's sensitive-information provisions or the CDR, get sign-off before you put production data through any of these.

Q: I want to walk away with my code if I outgrow the tool. Which ones let me? A: Lovable and Emergent both export a real, full codebase (Emergent via GitHub sync), and Kiro is a real IDE editing files on your own machine. Base44 is the warning case — it exports the front end but keeps the backend. If portability matters, confirm exactly what you can take before you build.

What we'd skip and why

We scoped this to the tools that are either category-defining or fill a distinct lane. Two deserve an explicit note. Firebase Studio is capable and free with the best local data story of all — and we still tell you to avoid it, because a tool with a published deletion date is no place to start a project, however good it looks today. v0 is genuinely excellent at what it does, but what it does — generate React code for developers — is not what most readers of this page need, which is why it lands low here despite real quality.

The fastest way for any of these tools to climb this list would be the first to ship native AUD pricing, or a pinned, named Australian data region for the AI service itself — the gap every tool here currently shares. We will add a tool, or re-rank one, when it does something the current field does not, not just to lengthen the list.

Who wins — and why there's no clean Top Pick

Here is the honest verdict, and it is the same one we reached on our AI-visibility roundup: in this category, we cannot name a clean category Top Pick — and we are not going to invent one to fill the slot.

Our methodology has a hard rule, the Australian Fit gate. To be named a category Top Pick, a tool must score at least 4 out of 5 on Australian Fit. The logic is simple: this is The AI Directory Australia, and a tool that does not serve Australians well — that bills only in US dollars, stores your data offshore, and offers no local support — should not wear the crown, however clever its technology. Every single tool in this roundup falls short of that bar. Lovable and Firebase Studio reach 3 out of 5 (the best here); the rest sit at 2, and v0 at just 1. None reaches 4.

So instead of a winner, here is what to actually do. If you cannot code and want a polished, exportable app, Lovable is the best starting point — it tops the scorecard at 18/25 and has the strongest Australian story of the usable tools, even if that story is not yet airtight. If you want the backend built for you, Base44. If you want the cheapest real entry, Hostinger Horizons. If you are a developer who wants discipline, Kiro. Each is the best at its job; none is the best for Australians outright, because none of them is built for Australians.

That is not a cop-out — it is the most useful thing we can tell you. The whole field shares one frontier it has not crossed: native AUD billing, genuine Australian data residency, and local support. The day a tool here crosses it is the day this roundup gets a Top Pick. Until then, choose by your job, go in with the credit meter in view, and get compliance sign-off before any sensitive Australian data goes near these platforms.

Is vibe coding even worth it?

One last reality check before you start. These tools are genuinely good at getting you to a working prototype, and genuinely bad at the last stretch — the production-grade logic, the security rules, the edge cases that decide whether an app is safe to put real customers through. The pattern that works is to prototype fast, validate the idea, then either rebuild properly or bring in someone who codes for the final stretch. The pattern that ends in tears is betting a live business on a credit meter you cannot predict and a data posture you have not checked.

We have written that argument out in full, with the Australian numbers and the traps: Is vibe coding actually worth it? An Australian reality check. Read it before you commit money to any tool on this page.

Bottom line

Eight tools, one honest conclusion: the technology is real, the Australian fit is not there yet. Lovable is where most non-technical Australians should start — highest score, real exportable code, the best local story of a usable tool. Base44 if you want the backend handled, Hostinger Horizons if price is everything, Kiro if you are a developer who wants the AI on rails. Emergent and v0 are capable but niche — Emergent for fast, exportable prototypes, v0 for React developers. And Firebase Studio, whatever its merits, is being switched off — do not build on it.

No tool here earns a category Top Pick, because none clears our Australian Fit gate. That is the frontier this category has to cross: native AUD pricing, genuine Australian data residency, and local support. We will name a Top Pick the moment one of them does — and given how fast this field moves, we would expect to refresh this roundup within a few months. We will flag any material change in the monitor.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best AI app builder for Australians in 2026?

For non-technical users, Lovable — it scores highest here (18/25), produces real exportable code, and has the best Australian data story of the genuinely usable tools. But no tool clears our Australian Fit gate, so we have not named an outright category Top Pick: every option bills in US dollars, stores data offshore, and lacks local support. Choose by your job — Lovable for a polished app, Base44 for an automatic backend, Hostinger Horizons for the cheapest entry, Kiro for developers.

Do any of these tools bill in Australian dollars?

No — not one of the live tools prices natively in AUD. You pay in US dollars at your bank's exchange rate, usually with GST added at checkout, so every headline price lands roughly 55% higher before tax. The one exception, Firebase Studio (which bills in AUD with GST through Google Australia), is being discontinued. Our AUD figures throughout are conversions at about 1.40.

Can a non-technical person really build an app this way?

Yes, to a point. Tools like Lovable, Base44, Bolt.new, Hostinger Horizons and Replit genuinely turn a plain-English description into a working app — the first 70% is fast and real. The catch is the last 30%: production-grade logic, security rules and edge cases often still need a developer. Prototype with these tools, validate the idea, then bring in someone technical for anything you will put real customers through.

Why do people keep warning about "credit burn"?

Because nearly every tool here charges by consumption, not a flat seat price. Every prompt, agent action and bug-fix attempt spends credits, and on several tools (Base44, Emergent, Kiro, Replit, Hostinger Horizons) those credits expire monthly without rolling over. A stubborn debugging loop — sometimes fixing bugs the AI itself introduced — can run your real bill well past the headline subscription. Set a budget cap on day one.

Can I keep my data in Australia with any of these?

Not to a strict standard. Most process and store on US or offshore infrastructure. Lovable advertises an Australia region but describes it at the Asia Pacific level rather than as a pinned in-country guarantee. Firebase Studio offered a genuine Sydney database region, but it is being shut down (though that capability survives elsewhere on Google's stack). For APRA-, Privacy Act- or CDR-covered data, get sign-off before putting production data through any of them.

How is this different from your AI coding tools roundup?

This roundup covers "vibe coding" — prompt-to-app builders for people who do not write code (Lovable, Bolt.new, Base44, Replit and the like). Our best AI coding tools roundup covers professional developer tools — Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code — that make people who already code dramatically faster. Kiro and Replit appear on both because they straddle the line. If you write code, start there; if you want software without learning to code, start here.

Read next

• Best AI Coding Tools in Australia 2026 — the developer-focused companion to this roundup
• Is vibe coding actually worth it? An Australian reality check
• Where does your AI data actually go? A data-residency guide for Australian businesses
• How we score AI tools — our review methodology

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Primary vendor pages for every tool (pricing, security, data-use, model and product pages), each fetched on the date of its individual review and detailed with Wayback snapshots in those reviews:

1. Lovable — lovable.dev/pricing · lovable.dev/security — review checked 3 June 2026
2. Base44 — base44.com/pricing · base44.com/security — review checked 23 June 2026
3. Bolt.new — bolt.new/pricing · stackblitz.com/privacy-policy — review checked 13 June 2026
4. Hostinger Horizons — hostinger.com/horizons/pricing — review checked 7 June 2026
5. Kiro — kiro.dev/pricing · kiro.dev/docs/privacy-and-security/data-protection — review checked 25 June 2026
6. Replit — replit.com/pricing · blog.replit.com/effort-based-pricing — review checked 2 June 2026
7. Emergent — emergent.sh/pricing · app.emergent.sh privacy policy — review checked 23 June 2026
8. v0 — v0.app/pricing · vercel.com/docs/pricing/taxes — review checked 20 June 2026
9. Firebase Studio — firebase.google.com/docs/studio/pricing · firebase.google.com/docs/studio/migrating-project — review checked 25 June 2026. A Wayback capture of the pricing page cannot evidence the figures: the 18 August 2026 capture archives the full 246 KB page — navigation, headings and all — with no currency and no amount anywhere in it. Google builds the quota tables client-side.

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Full primary-source citations and Wayback snapshots are in each tool's individual review.

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Reviewed by Adam for The AI Directory Australia. First published 25 June 2026.