Contrary to posts Lovable Credit Use Seems Normal, what tool are you using?
Hello,
Just my perspective it seems like the community is getting a lot of posts around "this got too expensive" or "it's using too many credits for the prompt" recently. It feels like every other post is "This is too expensive!!" and they never ever share details.
My experience is very different with Lovable and I wanted to share actual concrete data.
Generally speaking these posts loosely describe "I asked for X and it cost Y and that's bad" scenario without sharing real information. I have not seen a single post actually share the prompts and outcome in terms of costs.
Below are 4 real prompts I did this morning as a test of costs.
Context: I have a existing Dashboard app (~140 pages) and I am adding a new Product so just doing some basic clean up on the new pages. Below are 4 real prompts + costs done today.
Scenario 1:
I asked it to disable a button and it cost me 1 credit.
Scenario 2:
On one of the pages there was a existing json parsing bug, I asked it to fix it and it cost me 0 credits
Scenario 3:
Update 2 big dashboard pages and add test to all the sections explaining the data. This is a big grey prompt since I am expecting it too add detailed text. it cost me 6 credits
Scenario 4:
Add a Debug Json button so I can see the raw json, on 6 pages gated by a admin only flag. This cost 6 credits.
Outcome: All of the changes were completed exactly like I asked with zero fixes needed by me. The text on the Dashboard pages looks good and is technically correct. Small Example with some of the text it added:
My Perspective: These Credit costs seem very reasonable to me personally. It's made edits on multiple pages, it's calling and parsing the JSON, and it's checking Auth for the bug component. It generated contextual user level text for the analytic views with no input from me.
I am curious what others think? Everything seems fine to me?
What prompts are you doing that go nuts? I am not seeing that on my side. Friendly questions.
edit: fixed some formatting
