Ginta vs Lovable
Ginta vs Lovable: which is better for a small business website?
Lovable and Ginta both build with AI from a chat, but they make different things. Lovable is a full-stack app builder: it writes real code for web apps with databases, sign-in and integrations, and you can take that code with you. Ginta makes small-business websites: you describe the business, and you get a finished, fast site with the usual parts (contact form, booking, menu, gallery) already working.
If you're building a product or an app, Lovable is the better tool. If you need a website for a café, a salon or a trade, Ginta gets you there with fewer steps and less to look after.
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Ginta vs Lovable at a glance
| What | Ginta | Lovable |
|---|---|---|
| Price to start | Free plan. Paid from €5 a month (Hosting: you build with your own Claude or ChatGPT) or €19 (Light: Ginta's AI, 150 credits a month). Monthly billing; yearly = 10 months' price for 12. | Pro: $25 a month, or $250 a year ($21 a month), with 100 credits a month. |
| Free plan | Yes: up to 20 websites live at name.ginta.page, with a small “Made with Ginta” badge. 25 AI credits when you confirm your email, then 5 a day. Booking, a shop and events included (up to 25 products, 30 bookings a month and 5 upcoming events per website), with online payments through your own Stripe, plus customer reviews you approve. | Yes: publishes at name.lovable.app with an “Edit with Lovable” badge. 5 credits a day, up to 30 a month. |
| AI building | Yes: describe the business in a sentence, answer a few questions, and it's live in about a minute. Change anything by asking, or click a text on the page. | Yes: you chat and Lovable writes a full web app as code (front end, back end, database, sign-in). Each message uses credits. |
| Hosting included | Yes, on every plan, on Cloudflare's network. | Yes: publishing to lovable.app is free on every plan. Apps with a lot of traffic can start to cost. |
| Forms that email you | Yes, on every plan: each message goes to your email (once it's confirmed) and to your Ginta inbox. | Not ready-made: you ask the AI to build the form. Lovable's built-in app emails need a paid plan and your own domain. |
| Custom domain | On paid plans (from €5 a month): 1 domain on Hosting and Light, more on bigger plans. Connect one you own (Ginta shows the DNS steps for your registrar) or buy one in Ginta for €29 a year, registered in your name and set up for you. | Paid plans, from Pro. |
| Owner admin | yoursite.com/admin, when the site has a form or a ready-made part: messages, menu, bookings and the like, without the editor. You plus 1 helper on Free, 3 helpers on Light. | Workspace roles for your team, and Lovable Cloud shows the app's database tables. A back office inside your app is something you build by prompting. |
| Build from Claude/ChatGPT | Yes: Ginta's MCP server (ginta.app/mcp, also in Claude's connector directory) lets Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex or Cursor build, publish and change the site, using no Ginta credits. | Yes: the Lovable MCP server (in Claude's connector directory, also usable from ChatGPT) sends your prompts to Lovable's agent and can publish. Prompts use Lovable credits. |
Ginta's prices include tax and are the same number in euros (eurozone) or US dollars (everywhere else). Lovable's prices can differ by country: check its pricing page before you buy.
When to pick Lovable
- You're building an app, not a website: user accounts, dashboards, a database, custom logic. Lovable writes all of it as code.
- You want the code. Git sync works on every Lovable plan, including Free, and you can deploy it elsewhere.
- You need integrations like Stripe, Shopify or sign-in with Google, Apple or Microsoft, built to your own design.
- A team builds together, with workspace roles and enterprise features such as SSO.
When to pick Ginta
- You need a business website, not an app. Ginta knows what a barber, a café or a plumber needs on the first screen and builds it from one sentence.
- Forms that email you, without asking for them. Contact form messages are emailed to you on every plan, including the free plan once your email is confirmed; no code, no email provider.
- Ready-made parts you manage without the AI. Menu, gallery, blog, quote requests, booking, shop, events and reviews on every plan (Free: up to 25 products, 30 bookings a month and 5 upcoming events per website). Prices and opening hours stay right because you edit them in a screen, not by prompting.
- An owner admin out of the box. You or a helper sign in at yoursite.com/admin to read messages and update the menu or bookings.
- Your own domain from €5 a month. Build with your own Claude or ChatGPT on the Hosting plan; Ginta's MCP uses no Ginta credits.
Moving from Lovable to Ginta
There's no import. Describe the business in Ginta's chat or paste your texts, and Ginta builds a new site in about a minute. If your Lovable project is a finished static website, you can also upload the build from your own assistant through Ginta's MCP server (Hosting plan, €5 a month).
Sources (checked 20 October 2026)
Plans and credits · Credits and usage · Publishing · Hosting · Pricing FAQ · App emails · Custom domains · People and roles · Lovable Cloud · Code and Git · Lovable MCP server · What Lovable is · Ginta: pricing and limits
See your website before you decide
Describe your business in one sentence and see it live in about a minute. Free to start: 25 credits when you confirm your email, then 5 a day.
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Is Lovable or Ginta better for a small business website?
For a typical small-business website (what you do, prices, hours, booking, a contact form), Ginta: it's made for that and the parts already work. For a custom app with accounts and a database, Lovable.
Which is cheaper?
Lovable Pro is $25 a month ($21 a month yearly) with 100 credits, and custom domains start there. Ginta starts free and your own domain is €5 a month (Hosting) or €19 (Light, with 150 AI credits a month).
Can a Lovable site send contact form messages to my email?
Yes, if you ask its AI to build that. Lovable's built-in app emails need a paid plan and your own domain. On Ginta, a contact form emails you on every plan with nothing to set up.
Can I use Lovable or Ginta from Claude or ChatGPT?
Both have an MCP server, and both are in Claude's connector directory. Lovable's passes your prompts to Lovable's own agent, and those prompts use Lovable credits. With Ginta's, your assistant writes the site itself and Ginta publishes it, using no Ginta credits: see website builder MCP.
Can I download my site's code?
On Lovable, yes: Git sync on every plan and a full download on paid plans. On Ginta, "Download code (.zip)" is on every plan, and the editor's Code tab shows and edits every file.
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