Atelier201 vs Lovable

Lovable builds apps. We build fast websites you can change in a form, with your own AI, without spending credits.

Choose Atelier201 if

What you actually need is a website.
You'd rather not spend credits to change your opening hours.
You already pay for Claude or ChatGPT.
Someone non-technical keeps the site current.
You want a sitemap, llms.txt and JSON-LD without asking for them.
You want a page that stays up when an app changes.

Stay on Lovable if

You're building an app with logins, data or payments.
Your company already pays for it.
You don't mind high prices for a website.

Atelier201 and Lovable, side by side

Based on each company's public pages and docs, November 2026. A check means it does the job, a dash that it does so partly or for an extra fee, and a cross that it doesn't, or that we couldn't find it.

What you need	Atelier201	Lovable
You own the codeHand it to a developer or an agent, any day	A standard Astro project in its own Git repository	Yes, with Git sync on any plan
Export the whole siteHost it anywhere, without asking	Code, content and media, on any plan, even a draft	Zip on paid plans
Complete CLIFrom an empty folder to a live site, in a terminal	Create, pull, push, preview, publish and roll back	No CLI of its own that we could find. Git sync
MCP server and REST APIEverything the dashboard does, for agents and scripts	Included, on every plan	MCP on all plans
Your own Claude, ChatGPT or GeminiNo second AI bill	Your agent does the work. Its calls cost nothing here	Connects, but create_project and send_message spend Lovable credits
Built-in AI assistantFor people without their own agent	1,000 credits a month, 5,000 at sign-up	100 credits a month on Pro, plus 5 a day
CollaboratorsYour team, your clients, your freelancer	Unlimited, at no extra cost	Members don't raise the price
Edit without AI or codeA new price takes ten seconds	A form made from your content, or click the text on the preview	Visual edits, or a prompt that spends credits
Review before anything goes livePeople and agents work on a draft	Nothing is live until you publish. Share a preview link first	Preview, then publish
Full version historyUndo anything, including an agent's work	Every change is a version. Roll back the live site in one click	Every edit is a version you can revert to
Free draft, no clockPay when the site goes live	Free for as long as you like, with preview links	Free plan: 5 credits a day, invite-only publishing
Several languagesHreflang and sitemaps follow	Included, with no fee per language	You prompt for them, and they live in the app's code
Lighthouse performance on mobileStatic Astro pages, with almost no script	100 on the real sites we measured	63 at the median
Ready for AI searchPages ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can read	Sitemap, llms.txt, JSON-LD and a Markdown copy of every page, by default	Server-rendered since May 2026. A sitemap is "not always" created
Built-in analyticsVisitors, pages, sources, AI referrals	Included, and sets no cookie	On all plans
Nothing to maintainNo server, plugin or database on the visitor's path	Static files on Cloudflare's network	A React app, with a backend if you add one
A web app with logins and dataSoftware, not a website	Not offered	Yes, its main job

What a year costs

Atelier201

€90a year, or €9 a month

Credits you don't use: Monthly credits last 35 days, bought credits 12 months
Hosting usage: Sized for 50,000 visits a month

Lovable

€300a year on Pro, with 100 credits a month

Credits you don't use: Monthly plan credits expire after two months
Hosting usage: Free for small apps, then charged to your credit balance

The pricing page of Lovable, as it looked on November 4, 2026. — lovable.dev/pricingNovember 4, 2026

Prices exclude VAT and were read from each pricing page, seen from Germany. Credits work differently on each side, so don't compare them one to one.

Lighthouse performance on mobile

Atelier201100
Framer67
Hostinger64
Webflow63
Lovable63
Jimdo62
Wix61
GoDaddy60
Duda54
Shopify48
WordPress43
Weebly32
Squarespace30

Page weight

Atelier201351 KB
Lovable1,781 KB

JavaScript

Atelier2018 KB
Lovable432 KB

Five times lighter, with almost no script

The median Lovable site weighs 1,781 KB and sends 432 KB of JavaScript, most of it for apps built on its older stack. A website doesn't need that. The real Atelier201 sites we measured weigh up to 351 KB, send 8 KB and score 100.

Where the numbers come from

Competitors: HTTP Archive medians, September 2026. Atelier201: three Lighthouse mobile runs on each of two real sites, November 5, 2026, with the heavier site's weight. On real visits, 17.3% of Lovable sites pass Core Web Vitals on mobile.

Three differences that matter

Two different jobs

Lovable writes software. A restaurant, a law firm and a florist need fast pages they can keep up to date. That's all we do, so a Saturday hours change is a form field, with no prompt and no credits.

Your AI subscription does the work

You can connect ChatGPT or Claude to either product. On Lovable, the calls that do the building make Lovable's own agent work, so they spend Lovable credits. On Atelier201 your agent does the writing itself, and we charge nothing for its calls.

Search-ready from the first publish

Every Atelier201 site is static HTML with a sitemap, llms.txt, JSON-LD and a Markdown copy of every page. Lovable's new apps are server-rendered since May 2026, and its docs say a sitemap is "not always" created.

What customers say about Lovable

Chosen by us from public reviews and Reddit. Every quote links to its source.

right now using lovable feels like a slot machine. you drop a prompt and just pray you get lucky

r/lovable, after spending over 250 euros

Update: just burned 8.8 credits for making some small changes.

r/lovable

It serves the purpose, and SEO is not horrible. But there are issues with lovable, such as CMS is not great.

r/framer, a startup that built its site on Lovable

Moving from Lovable

Your Lovable project is real code, but it's a React app and ours is an Astro site, so it's a rebuild, and usually a quick one for a marketing site. Point your agent at your live pages.

The built-in assistant, for people without their own agent. Made-up data.

What comes across

Text and images
Your domain
Old addresses, through redirects
Your brand's colours and fonts, as a theme

What doesn't

Backend, database and login
React components, unless you add them as an island
Your credit balance, but new accounts here get 5,000 free credits

Questions

Can Lovable create Astro websites?

Not as far as we can find. Lovable's docs say new apps use TanStack Start with server rendering and older ones use React with Vite, and Astro isn't mentioned as an option. If you want a static Astro site, with almost no JavaScript in the browser, Atelier201 builds exactly that, and the project is yours.

Can Lovable sites rank on Google now?

Yes. Lovable's docs say apps created from May 13, 2026 use TanStack Start with server rendering, and older apps get prerendering for verified crawlers. You'll still need to write the titles and check that a sitemap exists. An Atelier201 site ships them by default.

Can I use my ChatGPT or Claude subscription on Lovable?

You can connect them through Lovable's MCP server. Its docs say standard credits apply to create_project and send_message, and other tools are free. On Atelier201 no agent call costs anything.

Can Atelier201 build an app?

No. A site is static files, and it can't run server code or hold a login. A form posts to a service you control. If you need an app, use Lovable, Bolt or Replit.

Should I use both?

Often, yes. Many startups build their product on one tool and keep the marketing site on another, so that a change to the app can't break the home page.

Is Atelier201 a good Lovable alternative for SEO and AI search?

Every Atelier201 site is static HTML built with Astro, served from Cloudflare's network, with an XML sitemap, hreflang, JSON-LD structured data, llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every page. That makes it easy for Google, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and other answer engines to read and cite, which is what generative engine optimization (GEO) and answer engine optimization (AEO) are about.

Can I build my website with Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini?

Yes. Connect your own AI agent, such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor or Codex, through the MCP server, the CLI or the REST API. It can create the site, edit pages and content, run a build and prepare publishing. Those calls cost nothing on Atelier201, so you don't pay for AI twice. People without an agent can use the built-in assistant.

Do I own my website and its code?

Yes. Each site is a standard Astro project in its own Git repository. You can pull it with the CLI or export code, content and media at any time, on any plan, then run npm ci and npm run build and host it anywhere. There is no vendor lock-in.