Lovable for Students: The 50% Pro Discount, Free Plan and Limits

Yes, Lovable runs a student discount, and its terms are narrow. Verified students and teachers pay $12.50 a month instead of $25 for Pro with 100 credits billed monthly, for up to 12 months, so the most anyone saves is $150 by our arithmetic. Verification checks an academic email domain, needs no card, and works only while your workspace is still on the Free plan. Anyone already paying is shut out. For a single course project the Free plan often carries the work; the discount starts paying off once you prompt most days of the week.

The discount, read clause by clause

You claim it on the students page while logged in with your university address. Lovable compares the domain of that address with a list of academic institutions; personal inboxes such as Gmail cannot pass, and a school domain the list does not recognize can be sent for a manual review ^[1]. Once verified, the account email can no longer be changed. Nothing is charged at that step. The offer gives every Pro feature, and the page shows the monthly figure dropping from $25 to $12.50 for Pro with 100 credits billed monthly.

Timing matters more than most buyers expect. Verification stays valid for 12 months, so you must subscribe inside that window, and the discount then runs up to 12 months from the subscription start or until you cancel, whichever comes first ^[2]. Each person can use it once, and it cannot be transferred. Top-ups are charged at standard prices: $15 per 50 credits on Pro. When the twelve months end, the plan simply continues at the regular price.

What does the paid tier add for a student? Editing code yourself inside Lovable, which costs no credits, plus a full .zip download of the codebase. Custom domains, removal of the Lovable badge, built-in Stripe or Paddle payments, design systems and email support also arrive with Pro. So do credit rollovers and on-demand top-ups, neither of which exists on Free. Collaborators stay unlimited either way, because the price is per workspace and never per seat.

Free or half-price Pro: where the line falls

Free gives each workspace 5 build credits a day, up to 30 a month, plus 20 Cloud, 4 AI and 1 connector credit a month. Pro adds 100 plan credits a month and keeps the same 5 daily build credits on top of them, which comes to 150 daily build credits in a 30-day month by our arithmetic; some regional plans cap that daily grant at 30 a month. Daily credits reset at midnight UTC. Unused ones vanish.

Set the whole discount window against the yearly alternative: Pro with 100 credits billed annually is one charge of $250 a year, while twelve discounted months come to $150, by our arithmetic. The discounted offer is Pro with 100 credits billed monthly. Once the discounted months end, that plan bills $25 a month, billed monthly, which is $300 over a year by our arithmetic.

How far do 30 free credits stretch? Lovable's pricing page prices a landing page with images at 1.70 credits, adding sign-up and login at 1.20, and turning a button gray at 0.50. A Plan mode message costs 1 credit, plus any subagent research. Treat these as examples only. Build mode is billed on the work actually done, many requests cost less than one credit, and the cost only shows afterwards, in the message history.

When 100 plan credits run short, a top-up costs $15 per 50 credits on Pro at the standard price, and top-up credits stay valid for 12 months. Plan credits on monthly billing expire two months after issue, so a quiet week's leftovers survive one more month. Failed or unwanted output still costs credits, and fees and credits are non-refundable except where the law requires; the pricing breakdown covers those rules in full.

Coursework, demos and hackathon weekends

Free covers more of a typical assignment than its credit count suggests. You can publish to a lovable.app address, either publicly or invite-only for up to 10 people per project, which fits an instructor and a couple of teaching assistants. Git sync with GitHub works on Free, so handing in a repository link is easy. Code stays read-only inside Lovable on Free, though single files can be downloaded. Templates can be remixed, version history keeps every change, and security scans cost nothing.

Hackathons are where the daily pace bites. Credits reset at 00:00 UTC, so a Free workspace gets at most 5 build credits on the Saturday and 5 more on the Sunday, and fewer or none once its 30 for the month have been granted. Collaborators spend the project owner's credits. A team of four on one Free project therefore shares a single stream of 5 credits a day. Free also sends only 5 email invitations a day, so invite teammates before the opening talk rather than during it.

Each account also gets 10 free fixes for build errors and security findings, and each one returns 24 hours after use. Publishing from the Publish dialog costs nothing even at a zero balance. A team that verifies one member before the event and subscribes that person's workspace at the student price starts with 100 plan credits plus the daily five, which changes the weekend. Verification needs no card, so it can happen weeks earlier.

Portfolio pieces need a longer view. Free projects can be unpublished after 12 months with no visits, no owner login and no custom domain. The lovable.app subdomain belongs to Lovable and can be reclaimed, normally with seven days' notice, so a project you plan to show employers is safer on a custom domain, which requires a paid plan. The Free plan guide lists what else stays locked at $0.

Your school email, graduation and your data

Signing up with a university address carries a trade-off students rarely read about. If an account was created with a school email, the school can claim that account after giving notice ^[3]. Its administrators then see your email, display name, workspace and project counts and last-active date, but not project contents until a transfer happens. Since a verified email cannot be changed, the address you verify with is the one you keep for that account.

Plan for the day the school deactivates your inbox. Lovable suggests transferring projects to another workspace you belong to, or inviting a second account beforehand as editor, or as admin on a paid plan. Do it during your final term. A connected GitHub repository stays in your GitHub account whatever happens in Lovable. Switching to a new login later means a fresh account and a remix, which carries code and database structure but leaves database records, custom domains and the published state behind.

Model training is the other setting worth a minute. Since September 2026, content on Free and Pro, including prompts, code, files and outputs, may be used to train Lovable's models unless you opt out. The discounted plan is Pro, so this applies to it. The switch sits in Account settings under Preferences, costs nothing, does not affect features and works only from the moment you flip it.

Under 18, classrooms and campus-wide access

Lovable's Privacy Policy (September 2026) requires account holders to be 18 or older, except under-18s in a school program run under a written agreement. A high school student should therefore not open a personal account alone. The route for younger learners goes through a teacher and a school agreement instead, and the student discount above is no shortcut around that age rule. That is where the imagi partnership comes in.

Through imagi Edu, K-12 teachers can bring Lovable into classrooms for grades 6 to 12 at no cost, with teaching materials included ^[4]. Students receive anonymous accounts provided via imagi, no student data is collected, and Lovable calls the program COPPA-compliant. A teacher creates a free imagi Edu teacher account, sets up a classroom and presses Open Access to generate student logins. Neither teachers nor pupils need coding experience.

Universities and colleges have a separate track. Lovable for campus offers billing and administrative controls for a whole institution and is arranged through sales. Campus Leaders is a cohort-based program for students who want to activate their university community, separate from the Ambassador program for professionals. If you are weighing builders, Base44 also offers students 50% off its Starter or Builder plan, on a first paid personal subscription claimed while still on Free, for up to 12 months on monthly billing or the first year on annual billing, then the standard rate. The two products count credits in different units, so compare plan prices on the Base44 pricing page rather than credit totals.

The bottom line

For a verified student, half-price Pro is a straightforward deal: $12.50 a month for Pro with 100 credits billed monthly, capped at twelve months, which saves at most $150 by our arithmetic. It is worth claiming once Free's 30 monthly credits run out by mid-month, or before a hackathon where one team owner needs headroom. It is not worth claiming for a single assignment that fits in a month of Free. Verify while still on Free, opt out of training if that matters to you, and move projects off a school address before you graduate.