Their preview, their canvas
Lovable shows you the app while you build it, in its own way. Here you describe a change and read what came back, then open the preview. If the live canvas is the part you like, you will miss it.
Bring your Lovable project
Your Lovable project is already on GitHub. Bring it here.
Lovable’s git sync puts your project in a GitHub repository. That repository is the whole project. Paste its link here and it is cloned with every commit, opens as a normal project, and the next change is priced in dollars before you send it.
New project → “I already have one” → paste the link. Nothing in ${name} is changed.
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In short
Turn on Lovable's GitHub sync if it is not on, copy the repository link, and paste it into New project → I already have one. It comes across with full history. Lovable's own hosting and any service it wired up stay theirs; the code is yours.
What changes, what does not
| Question | Lovable | Here |
|---|---|---|
| Where the code lives | A GitHub repository, kept in sync with the project | A git repository here, cloned with its full history |
| Know the cost before you run it | No — credits | Yes — the rate under the composer, the cost printed on the answer |
| Unused allowance | Daily credits expire | You pay for the work that ran |
| Choose the model | No | 300+, each with its published price |
| Run it yourself for $0 | No | Yes, on your own computer with your own model keys |
Lovable’s GitHub git sync — a workspace connection, linking a project to a repository, cloning the repository locally — is as described in Lovable’s own documentation, read on 17 September 2026. Credit behaviour is as read on lovable.dev on 29 August 2026 and dated on the comparison.
Step by step
Out of Lovable, into a repository you own.
- In Lovable: connect GitHub and link the projectLovable’s documentation describes a workspace GitHub connection and linking a project to a repository, after which the project syncs to GitHub.
- Copy the repository linkFrom the repository on GitHub. The link a browser shows is fine — the import rebuilds the clone address itself.
- Here: New project → “I already have one”Paste the repository link. If it is private, connect GitHub and pick it from the list instead. GitLab and Bitbucket links work the same way.
- It is cloned with its full historyEvery commit comes across, into a repository that is yours here. It opens as a normal project from that point on — nothing about it is specific to us.
- Ask for the next change“Add a pricing page.” “Make the sign-up form send me an email.” The rate is under the composer before you send; what it cost is printed on the answer. Keys the app needs go in the project’s secrets.
The honest half
What Lovable does that this does not.
Their hosting and services
Anything that ran on Lovable’s own hosting, database or auth does not come with the code. The repository is yours; those services were theirs. You will be asked before anything is rebuilt.
A price you can read
What you get in exchange: the model’s rate before you send, the cost printed on the answer, 300+ models each with its published price, and no credit with an unpublished exchange rate.
Related
Paste the link. Keep the history.
Free to start with no card. The repository comes across with every commit, and you ask for the next change from there.
Questions
Asked, answered
How do I get my code out of Lovable?
Lovable's documentation, read on 17 September 2026, describes connecting GitHub to your workspace and linking a project to a repository, after which the project syncs to GitHub. Copy that repository's link and paste it here under New project → I already have one.
Does the history come with it?
Yes. The repository is cloned with every commit into a repository that is yours here. Nothing about it is specific to us.
What about the database or hosting Lovable set up?
Services that ran on Lovable's side are not in the repository, so they do not come with the code. You will be asked before anything is rebuilt here, and keys the app needs go in the project's secrets.
Does Lovable know or care?
Nothing in Lovable is changed. Importing a repository is a read of a repository you already own.