The short answer
- Moving from Bolt.new Pro to Cursor saves $10 in the first year, after setup and upkeep time (Stackcut's model: modeled, not measured).
- Cursor's community migration guide moves 1 kind of data in full and 2 partly; 3 things stay behind. What moves
- 4 public accounts of making this switch: 2 switched, 1 switching, 1 evaluated. Read them
What Bolt.new and Cursor cost
List prices from each vendor's pricing page, as stored in the Stackcut catalog. Each price links its source.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly (per month) | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bolt.new Pro | $25/mo | not shown | Starts at 10M tokens/mo, no daily limit, no branding, custom domain support |
| Bolt.new Teams | $30/user/mo | not shown | Per member per month; tokens are per member, not shared |
| Cursor Pro (Individual) | $20/mo | not shown | Extended agent limits, frontier models, cloud agents; on-demand usage billed at API rates |
| Cursor Pro+ | $60/mo | not shown | Pro Plus: more included usage |
| Cursor Ultra | $200/mo | not shown | Highest individual included usage |
| Cursor Teams | $40/user/mo | not shown | Standard seat; centralized billing, SAML/OIDC SSO, Bugbot |
- Bolt.new free plan: 300K tokens daily limit, 1M tokens per month, Bolt branding on websites, 10 MB uploads, no custom domain bolt.new
- Cursor free plan: Hobby: limited Agent requests, access to Composer; no credit card cursor.com
Moving from Bolt.new to Cursor
What Cursor's importer carries over, what it leaves behind, and any help it offers switchers.
To Cursor
Community guide boltupgrade.com · Tools: Bolt GitHub integration, Cursor IDE, Supabase dashboard
Moves: Project source code (full); Supabase auth and database connections (partial); Deployment pipeline (partial). boltupgrade.com
Doesn't move: Environment variables; Environment variables (manual recreation required); Bolt hosting and the bolt.host published site. boltupgrade.com
Watch out for:
- "Don't skip the env variables screenshot. Bolt doesn't export these automatically." boltupgrade.com
- Node version mismatch between Bolt and the local machine causes most migration issues. boltupgrade.com
- Forgetting to update Supabase callback URLs causes auth to work locally but fail after deploy. boltupgrade.com
Community guide blog.vibecoder.me · Tools: Bolt ZIP export, Node.js, Git
Moves: Project source code (full); Backend scaffolds Bolt generated (partial). blog.vibecoder.me
Doesn't move: Environment variables; Environment variables (recreate with VITE_ prefix); Packages pre-installed in Bolt's in-browser environment that do not ship with the export. blog.vibecoder.me
Watch out for:
- Bolt's in-browser environment pre-installs some packages that do not ship with the export; read npm errors and install missing packages. blog.vibecoder.me
- Node below version 18 breaks some packages; check node -v and upgrade to LTS. blog.vibecoder.me
- Environment variables must use the VITE_ prefix in Vite projects or the app cannot read them. blog.vibecoder.me
From each destination's own migration docs and switching pages, plus community write-ups where no official guide exists, each checked against its page. Confirm terms on the linked page before you rely on an offer.
People who moved from Bolt.new to Cursor
4 public accounts of leaving Bolt.new: 2 switched, 1 switching, 1 evaluated. Summaries are ours; each links the original, and each was checked against its page before it appeared here.
The Inithouse studio uses Bolt (and Lovable) for initial product builds, then moves products to Cursor for backend logic, edge functions, security hardening and fine-grained refinement once they have real users. They treat the four tools as covering different stages, not substitutes. DEV Community
Sam Julien used Bolt.new to scaffold his new Astro site from screenshots of the old Gatsby site, then downloaded the project and continued in Cursor. He credits the AI tools with cutting a two-year-postponed migration to a two-week sprint, but had to rewrite much of the AI-generated integration code himself. samjulien.com
A Preuve AI review of Bolt.new quotes the top-voted reply on r/boltnewbuilders: use Bolt to frame up 60-70% of where you want to be, then copy the project into Cursor when simple fixes start wasting tokens. Secondary source: the Reddit thread itself was not directly accessible during research. Preuve AI
Emergent's hands-on test built one project-management app in both tools. Bolt was far faster and cheaper for the initial build; Cursor demanded approvals and setup but kept files local with per-command control. The author (who sells Emergent) ultimately recommends Emergent, so read the verdict as vendor-published. Emergent
FAQ
Is Cursor cheaper than Bolt.new?
Modeled, not measured: moving from Bolt.new Pro to Cursor saves $10 in the first year, after setup and upkeep time at $50/hour. It depends on your plan, seats and usage. the math
Can I move my Bolt.new data to Cursor?
Cursor's community guide moves: Project source code; Supabase auth and database connections; Deployment pipeline. It doesn't move: Environment variables; Environment variables (manual recreation required); Bolt hosting and the bolt.host published site. boltupgrade.com
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