What's the cheapest Lovable fix?

A single-integration fix — Stripe, OAuth, email deliverability, or a broken domain — typically costs $1,500–$2,500 as a fixed-fee engagement. If the rest of the app is reasonable and only one seam is broken, this is usually enough. Most Lovable apps need more than one fix.

How much is a full production-readiness pass?

A full Deploy-to-Production pass — RLS policies, auth hardening, Stripe idempotency, CI/CD, error tracking, staging environment, handoff docs — is $7,500–$15,000 depending on app size and integration count. This is the most common rescue scope.

How much does migrating off Lovable cost?

A Platform Escape (Lovable → Next.js on Vercel + Supabase, with code in git and no more Lovable dependency) is $9,999 fixed fee for a single app. Multi-app agency migrations are scoped as retainers, typically $60,000–$120,000 for 8–12 apps.

Is a free diagnostic worth booking first?

Yes. A 30-minute free diagnostic gives you a written rescue-vs-rewrite recommendation and a fixed-fee quote within 24 hours. It costs nothing and saves founders from spending on the wrong scope. Book it before committing to any fix.

Why are fixed fees better than hourly?

AI-built apps hide their failure modes until you start fixing them. Hourly billing punishes you for the time it takes to find the third and fourth bugs; fixed fees put that risk on us. Every rescue scope at Afterbuild Labs is fixed-fee with a written spec before work starts.

What does 'fixed fee' actually cover?

Everything in the written spec: audit, implementation, testing, deployment, handoff documentation, and two weeks of post-launch support. Scope creep (new features, redesigns, anything outside the spec) gets quoted separately before work starts. No surprise invoices.

How long does a typical Lovable rescue take?

Single-integration fix: 5–10 working days. Production pass: 3–4 weeks. Platform Escape / migration: 4–6 weeks. Multi-app retainer: 8–12 weeks. These are the timelines we quote in the fixed-fee SOW; they've held across 2026 engagements.

Can I DIY the fix and save money?

If you're a technical founder and the issue is localised (one integration, one Supabase RLS policy, one env var), probably yes — our Why-AI-Built-Apps-Break and RLS guides cover the patterns. If the app has multiple overlapping issues, DIY typically costs more in opportunity cost than a fixed-fee rescue. Founders report spending thousands in credits on regression loops that a 2-hour human fix resolves.

Cost to fix a broken Lovable app (2026)

Why Lovable fixes cost what they cost

Lovable apps fail in predictable ways — disabled Row Level Security, half-built auth, Stripe webhooks that never fire, deploys that break outside the Lovable preview. The widely-reported February 2026 Lovable/Supabase RLS disclosure captured the failure at scale, almost all because RLS was off. Industry benchmarks (see our 2026 vibe-coding research) put AI-code vulnerability rates close to half. Rescue cost scales with how many of those failure modes you need to address.

At Afterbuild Labs we've priced every rescue scope as a fixed fee — not hourly — because hourly pricing punishes founders for the time it takes to find the third and fourth bugs. Every engagement starts with a free diagnostic and ends with a written SOW before we write a line of code.

What are the price tiers for fixing a Lovable app?

Four tiers, in order of scope:

Scope	Price	Timeline	Use when
Single-integration fix	$1,500–$2,500	5–10 days	One broken seam (Stripe, auth, email, domain)
Emergency triage	$2,500	48–72 hours	Production down, users affected, need stabilisation now
Production-readiness pass	$7,500–$15,000	3–4 weeks	Working app, needs hardening before launch or scale
Platform Escape / Migration	$9,999	4–6 weeks	You want off Lovable entirely — code in git, owned infra
Multi-app agency retainer	$60k–$120k	8–12 weeks	Agency or operator with 6+ client apps to migrate

What does a $1,500 single-integration fix actually include?

Single-integration fixes cover exactly one broken seam. The most common ones:

Stripe webhook hardening — signature verification, idempotent event handling, a checkout/subscription/refund state machine that mirrors Stripe as source of truth. See our Integration Fix page.
OAuth / auth flow repair — environment-specific redirect URIs, email verification, password reset wiring, session refresh, unhappy-path coverage.
Email deliverability — domain authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), a transactional provider (Resend), templates for welcome / receipt / failed-payment.
Custom domain + DNS— moving from a Lovable subdomain to the founder's domain without breaking sign-ins, webhooks, or OAuth.
One RLS table cluster — policies on a specific feature area (say, a multi-tenant projects table plus its joins) with a pgTAP test.

If two or more of these are broken — which is typical — the production-readiness pass is cheaper than stacking single fixes.

What does a $7,500–$15,000 production-readiness pass include?

A production pass is scoped to make a working demo into a working product. It covers every seam Lovable's preview silently papers over. Scope typically includes:

RLS audit and policy rewrite for every table, with a pgTAP test suite that fails CI if a policy is missing.
Auth hardening: provider-backed flows, verified email, reset, session refresh, unhappy-path tests.
Stripe idempotency: events table with unique constraint, signature verification, every event handled, dead-letter logging.
Deploy pipeline: Vercel production + preview environments, env vars split, rollback runbook.
Monitoring: Sentry for errors, PostHog for product analytics, a daily reconciliation cron.
Schema migrations in git (Supabase CLI), staging project, seed data, local dev that works.
Handoff: architecture doc, env var reference, incident runbook, prioritised backlog.

The price range depends on how many integrations exist, how many tables need RLS coverage, and whether the founder wants us to keep working in the Lovable codebase or begin refactoring toward a conventional Next.js project. See the Deploy-to-Production Pass and AI App Rescue service pages for the full SOWs.

What does a $9,999 Platform Escape include?

Platform Escape is a full migration off Lovable to Next.js on Vercel, with Supabase as the database, GitHub as the source of truth, and zero remaining Lovable dependencies. It is the scope we recommend when the founder's answer to “can you show us this running off Lovable?” needs to be “yes, here's the repo.” Included:

Export of the Lovable-generated code, cleanup pass, and re-homing in a conventional Next.js structure.
Data migration: schema to Supabase migrations, dual-write window, diff-and-verify before cutover.
Auth migration with user re-verification flow (passwordless email link; no forced password reset).
Integration rewiring: Stripe, email, analytics, custom domain, any external APIs.
Production deploy on Vercel with preview environments, rollback runbook, and a handoff doc.
Two weeks of post-cutover support included.

See the App Migration service page and the Replit Agent migration case study for a worked example (same scope, different source platform).

When does a rescue cost more than quoted?

Fixed fees only work when the scope is fixed. Three things take a project out of fixed-fee scope:

New features during the rescue. If the founder wants a feature added mid-engagement, we quote it separately with its own SOW.
Rewrite, not rescue. Some Lovable apps are unsalvageable — three incompatible UI patterns, an incoherent data model, code no developer can orient in. We flag this in the diagnostic; a rewrite is quoted as a new engagement.
Scope that wasn't visible in the diagnostic. A hidden third-party integration, a compliance requirement, a second codebase the founder forgot to mention. If we find it, we stop and re-scope before continuing.

In practice, 2026 rescues have stayed within fixed fee on the great majority of engagements. When they don't, the founder sees the re-scope before the invoice.

Can I DIY the fix and save the fee?

Sometimes. A technical founder with a single broken integration can often fix it in a day using our published guides on why AI-built apps break, Supabase RLS, and the Stripe-in-Lovable checklist. What doesn't work: trying to fix an AI-built app by prompting more AI. Founders routinely report thousands of dollars on regression loops — multi-million-token auth spirals are widely documented (see our 2026 vibe-coding research). The credits cost more than a human fix. If you're more than one bug deep, the economics favour a rescue.

How do I scope the right fix for my app?

Book the free rescue diagnostic. It's 30 minutes on a call, we review the repo (or Lovable project) alongside you, and you receive a written rescue-vs-rewrite recommendation plus a fixed-fee quote within 24 hours. The diagnostic costs nothing and is the single highest-leverage call you can make when an AI-built app is in trouble.

If you already know the scope, skip to the service pages: Integration Fix, Emergency Triage, Deploy-to-Production, or App Migration.

How much does it cost to fix a broken Lovable app in 2026?