Lovable vs WorkOS
AI app builder with shared team workspace — unlimited users per plan
vs. The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
Pricing tiers
Lovable
Free
Limited features baseline. Try out and build small demos.
Free
Pro
$25/month (shared across unlimited users). 100 credits/mo + 5 daily (up to 150/mo). Custom domains, remove Lovable badge, user roles.
$25/mo
Business
$50/month (shared). Everything in Pro + Internal publish, SSO, Team workspace, personal projects, design templates, security center.
$50/mo
Enterprise
Custom (platform fee by company size). Covers all employees. Volume credits, dedicated support, onboarding, SCIM, audit logs.
Custom
WorkOS
AuthKit Free
First 1M MAUs free. Unlimited organizations, user management, social OAuth, passwordless.
Free
AuthKit Scale
Per 1M additional MAUs.
$2500/mo
Enterprise / Annual Credits
Custom with 99.99% SLA, guided migration, dedicated support.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Lovable vs authkit-free on WorkOS.
| Metric | Lovable | WorkOS |
|---|---|---|
| mau included | — | 1000000 users/month |
| organizations | — | unlimited orgs |
| staging environments | — | free envs |
Features
Lovable · 16 features
- Connect External APIs — Chat: "connect OpenAI API" → done.
- Custom Domains — Publish at yourbrand.com.
- Design Templates — Pre-made design systems (Business tier).
- GitHub 2-way Sync — Commit from Lovable or edit in repo — reflects both ways.
- Image/Sketch to UI — Upload screenshot → get matching UI.
- Internal Publish — Deploy internally only (Business tier).
- Live Preview — See the app live while iterating.
- Prompt-to-App — Natural language → running React app.
- Remove Lovable Badge — White-label output — no Lovable branding.
- SCIM Provisioning (Ent) — Directory sync.
- Security Center — Audit + permissions console (Business+).
- Stripe Integration — Built-in Stripe payments setup.
- Supabase Native — First-class Supabase auth + DB integration.
- Team Workspace — Shared projects + roles.
- User Roles — Role-based access control.
- Visual Edit — Click element → describe change.
WorkOS · 13 features
- Audit Logs — Standardized audit log pipeline with streaming to SIEMs (Splunk, Datadog, Sumo L…
- AuthKit — Complete drop-in user management UI + hosted auth flows. Built on top of WorkOS.
- Directory Sync — SCIM-based user provisioning/deprovisioning from Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspac…
- FGA (WorkOS) — Fine-grained authorization based on Google Zanzibar / OpenFGA.
- Magic Auth — Passwordless email codes + links. Good alternative to password auth for B2B.
- Multi-Factor Auth — TOTP + SMS MFA enrollment and verification APIs.
- Organizations — Multi-tenant B2B primitive. Attach SSO/Directory/Audit to specific customer orgs…
- Passkeys — WebAuthn passkeys as a first-class factor.
- Radar — Fraud protection: device fingerprinting + risk scoring at signup and login.
- Single Sign-On — Plug-and-play SAML 2.0 + OIDC SSO with 30+ identity providers pre-mapped.
- User Management — REST API + webhooks for user CRUD, email verification, sessions, MFA, metadata.
- Vault — Secret storage for tokens + per-tenant credentials.
- Widgets — Embeddable admin portals (SSO setup, directory mapping) that your customers self…
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Lovable | WorkOS |
|---|---|---|
| SDK | — | workos-go, @workos-inc/authkit-nextjs, workos-java, workos-node, workos-php, workos-python, workos-ruby |
| REST | Lovable API (preview) | WorkOS REST API |
| OTHER | GitHub 2-way sync, Lovable Web App, Supabase Native | Webhooks |
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