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Bolt Tokens vs Hosting: Does the Site Go Down?
This page covers whether a Bolt token cap takes a published site offline. Current plan prices stay on Bolt. Compare generation-versus-hosting coupling across builders on the deployment-limits matrix. This is not a Bolt tutorial.
Direct answer
If I run out of Bolt tokens, does my live app go down?
- Generation tokens
- Fact Bolt consumes tokens when it reads, thinks about, and builds the project. Free plans have 1 million tokens per calendar month and a separate 300,000 daily cap. Paid tokens reset on the renewal date.
- What still works at the token cap
- Fact If you hit the Free daily cap, you can still make direct edits in Code view, which does not use tokens. Token exhaustion is not documented as a hosting shutdown.
- Hosting meter
- Fact Bolt Cloud hosting is a different allowance: Free up to 10 GB bandwidth and 333,333 requests per month; Pro up to 30 GB and 1 million requests. Those limits apply to the Bolt account as a whole, not per project.
- When a live site actually stops
- Fact Free plan sites stop serving content once they hit their monthly hosting data limits and stay offline until usage resets at the start of the next billing cycle. Pro can keep sites online with pay-as-you-go data up to a dashboard spending cap, then pause.
- Last verified
- Sep 10, 2026, 6:00 PM UTC
Two meters, not one credit
| Meter | What it pays for | When it runs out |
|---|---|---|
| Tokens | Fact AI reading, thinking, and generating project text. | Generation stops. Free Code view edits remain. Hosting is not this cap. |
| Hosting bandwidth and requests | Fact Published traffic on Bolt Cloud. Shared across published sites on the account. | Free sites go offline until the next cycle. Pro can pay-as-you-go until the spending cap, then pause. |
| Custom domain | Fact Paid-plan capability. Free publishing uses a .bolt.host address. | Not a token question. Domain eligibility is plan-gated. |
What this page does not do
- It does not treat Lovable’s documented unified credits or Replit Core/Pro’s shared Agent-and-publishing pool as the same system. See Lovable credits vs hosting and Replit Agent vs hosting.
- It does not publish a universal “how many apps can I generate” number. Token burn is project-size dependent.
- It does not claim a specific live site is currently offline. That remains Unknown — account_dependent.
TraceCheck maintainer: review when Bolt changes token caps, hosting bandwidth/request numbers, or the Free offline-until-reset rule. Do not treat tokens and hosting gigabytes as interchangeable.