Starting point
A validated buyer, problem and price.
Souped vs. Bolt
From a Token Meter to a Paying Customer
Bolt builds apps by billing you in tokens for every message that follows. Souped is the Startup Kitchen that proves someone will pay before the build starts, builds what survives in your own accounts and keeps watching it after Service.
7-day free trial · No credit card · Your code stays yours
Souped or Bolt: Which Should You Choose?
Souped
Finish line
A business on your domain, built around a buyer.
Billing
Kitchen 0 starts at $12/mo.
Bolt
Starting point
A prompt, a Figma file or a repo.
Finish line
An app on an external, closed cloud.
Billing
$25/mo for 10M Tokens; bigger projects cost more per message.
Bolt:
Starting point
A prompt, a Figma file or a repo.
Souped:
A validated buyer, problem and price.
Bolt:
Finish line
An app on an external, closed cloud.
Souped:
A business on your domain, built around a buyer.
Bolt:
Billing
$25/mo for 10M Tokens; bigger projects cost more per message.
Souped:
Kitchen 0 starts at $12/mo.
Souped is built to get your prototypes paid for: it tests the buyer, sets your price, builds in your own accounts and keeps the product monitored, starting at $12/mo.
What Is The Difference Between Souped and Bolt?
Bolt is a speed-driven tool that writes the code and ships it to its own cloud, but that speed is metered: every prompt spends tokens. The bigger the project gets, the more prompts cost. Souped is the Startup Kitchen that works with you from idea to live, sustainable business.
Put simply, Souped starts with the question Bolt leaves you (whether anyone will pay) and builds only what the answers support. The kitchen covers the games, the build and post-launch monitoring.
| Bolt | vs | Souped |
|---|---|---|
| A prompt, a Figma file or a repo, straight into code. | Starting point | Founder games that test the buyer, the problem and the price. |
| A working prototype, with buyers and pricing still open. | Finish line | A live product on your domain, with a price and a pipeline. |
| Bolt Agent in Plan and Build modes, routing each task to a model. | Guidance | Nacha, the sous-chef that remembers every decision and suggests the next move. |
| Version history of what changed in the code. | Memory | Fond, the contextual record of why each call was made and which bet it served. |
| Pro from $25/mo for 10M tokens; larger projects use more tokens per message. | Pricing | Kitchen 0 from $12/mo, with the games, the build and the monitoring. |
| Bolt Cloud keeps the hosting, databases and logins on Bolt's servers. | Infrastructure | Standard Next.js in your own GitHub, Vercel and Neon accounts. |
Meet Nacha, Your Sous-Chef
Your sous-chef does the work you would otherwise do alone at midnight: reading where the business stands, weighing what moves next, and suggesting what can wait. The call and the kitchen stay yours.
Ongoing Context
Everything you work on with Nacha stays in your Fond memory, and every next step starts from it.
Honest Discussions
Your sous-chef says it like it is, with clear actions to keep the product and company cohesive.
Weight Management
Nacha handles the recommendations and options so decisions reach you worked through.
How Your Project Moves Through Souped
Prep
Start with the Business Idea game: 15 questions across the problem, the user, the solution, the features and the spec.
Prove
Work through the Find, Sharpen, Prove, and Plan phases: positioning, paying signals, first Bet, and the 18-month plan.
Cook
Order in plain language. Nacha builds in an isolated sandbox and wires GitHub, Vercel, Neon, and Clerk for you.
Service!
Your business goes live on your custom domain, with detectors switched on from minute one.
Grow
Fond sets today's goals, records every bet, and keeps a living brief of the business.
Bolt bills you per prompt. Souped works with you through every stage of growth.
Three kitchens.
Choose your menu.
Kitchen 0
Solo founders building
$10
7-day free trial. No credit card.
- 1 builder
- 100 end users
- Full 12-detector monitoring
- All games + Meal Plan
- Full Fond intelligence
- 1 GB storage
- Your code is yours.
- Export anytime.
- Kitchen Pass
Kitchen Plus
Founders earning revenue
$12
Your chef takes 1% when you earn.
- 2 builders included
- 1,000 end users
- Full 12-detector monitoring
- Full Fond + revenue-aware
- Stripe billing built in
- Daily guidance plan with Chaski alerts
- 5 GB storage
- Kitchen Pass Pro · Export anytime
Kitchen X
Universities, accelerators, agencies
Custom
SLA, dedicated support, co-brand.
- Unlimited builders
- Unlimited end users
- Full + custom monitoring
- Dedicated Fond instance
- Custom curriculum games
- SSO, SAML, audit logs
- Co-brand (Souped × You)
- Kitchen Pass Pro
- Dedicated support + SLA
Why Founders Move From Bolt to Souped
Less expensive
Kitchen 0 starts at $12/mo against $25/mo for Bolt Pro. Over a year, that's more than $150 back in your pocket.
Uncostly loops
On Bolt, a bug that takes five prompts to fix costs five token rounds. On Souped, the fee is more likely to stay the same.
A team without the math
Bolt Teams charges $30 per member and keeps tokens apart. Kitchen Plus includes two builders working from one kitchen.
Proof before prompt
The Business Idea game turns a hunch into a spec in 15 questions, so the build always starts with a named buyer.
Watched after launch
Detectors monitor the live product and alert you through PostHog, so paying customers never taste the problem first.
Your accounts, always
Standard Next.js in your own GitHub, Vercel and Neon. Export anytime. Loyalty is earned by growing your revenue.
Souped vs Bolt
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, especially once a prototype needs customers. Souped builds products from plain language, but it also takes on the work Bolt leaves to you: testing demand, setting the price, monitoring the live product and remembering every decision through Nacha and Fond.
Bolt Pro starts at $25/mo for 10M tokens, and larger projects use more tokens per message. Souped's Kitchen 0 is $12/mo, or $10/mo billed annually, and revisions are easier to manage.
Yes. Bolt syncs projects to GitHub, so connect yours and bring the repo to Souped. The kitchen challenges the business first, then wraps the code with monitoring, billing, brand and Fond. Bring Your Product opens in waves via a waitlist.
You do. Souped builds standard Next.js in your own GitHub and deploys to your own Vercel and Neon accounts, so the code, the database and the domain carry your name from day one.
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