Bolt.new vs Kuika

Bolt.new is an AI app builder from StackBlitz, the San Francisco company founded in 2017 whose WebContainers technology runs Node.js entirely inside the browser. Bolt launched in October 2024, grew to an estimated $40 million in annual recurring revenue within months, and in January 2025 StackBlitz raised a $105.5 million Series B led by Emergence Capital and GV. Its core job: you describe an app, website or prototype in chat, and Bolt writes the code, runs it live in the browser and deploys it.

Bolt Cloud adds hosting, unlimited databases, authentication, custom domains and analytics, so small apps can ship without leaving the product. You can start from Figma, a GitHub repo or a template, connect Stripe for payments, and build mobile apps through Expo. Pricing is token-based: the free plan gives 1 million tokens a month with a 300,000 daily cap, Pro gives 10 million tokens with rollover and removes Bolt branding, Teams adds admin controls and shared capacity, and Enterprise is billed by consumption.

Bolt fits founders, designers and developers who want a working prototype or MVP in hours with real, exportable code. It is weaker on large, long-lived codebases: token usage grows with project size, and debugging loops can burn through allowances. Lovable and Replit target the same audience, Bubble and FlutterFlow are visual builders with their own runtime, and Softr fits simple internal tools.

Buying tip: start on the free plan to judge how fast your project consumes tokens; heavy users should take Pro annual, where unused tokens roll over.

Kuika is a low-code application development platform built in Turkey for creating web and native mobile apps visually. It is aimed at both professional developers and business teams who want to deliver internal tools and customer-facing apps faster than with traditional coding, while keeping control over where those apps run.

Users design screens with a drag-and-drop interface, connect data sources such as SQL databases, REST APIs and Excel files, and define business logic with visual actions. Apps can be published to the web, iOS and Android from the same project. A key difference from many no-code tools is deployment flexibility: applications can run in Kuika's cloud or be exported and deployed on the customer's own infrastructure, including on-premise environments, which matters for banks, public institutions and other organizations with strict data residency rules. Pricing is not published: the pricing page now leads to a sales contact form, and access is arranged through a demo and a quote.

Kuika suits enterprises, agencies and software teams in Turkey and the Middle East that want to accelerate app delivery without being locked into a single vendor's cloud. Its ecosystem, templates and community are smaller than those of global platforms, and complex apps still need developers who understand the logic and data model. FlutterFlow and Bubble are larger international alternatives, OutSystems and Mendix target large enterprise programs, and Microsoft Power Apps fits organizations standardized on Microsoft 365.