Lovable Cloud: What You Actually Get
Lovable Cloud is the backend Lovable switches on for you the first time your app needs to save something. Ask for a login page or a table of orders and it appears: a database, auth, file storage, edge functions, a place for API keys. Lovable's docs say it plainly, it runs on Supabase's open-source foundation. So when people ask us "what database does Lovable use", the answer is Postgres, inside a…
Lovable Cloud provides a backend for developers to easily add databases, authentication, file storage, edge functions, and more to their applications. It runs on Supabase's open-source foundation using Postgres databases. When you access the Cloud tab, you see a simplified version of Supabase's dashboard with options for database management, user accounts, storage buckets, edge functions, secrets, logs, emails, jobs, an SQL editor, usage metrics and advanced settings.
However, Lovable Cloud lacks some advanced features like a direct Postgres connection string, the ability to connect other services, change the data storage region, or use a BI tool on your data. The instance size is limited to a small "Tiny" option until you upgrade, and resizing causes brief downtime. Database storage grows but can't be reduced.
Permissions for destructive migrations are disabled by default. Billing is based on Run credits, with a monthly grant of credits for database, storage, compute, network, realtime and AI features. Once these credits run out, the Cloud backend pauses, causing all functionality to cease except for a live website. To move data to another Supabase project or use different tools, you must export the database and restore it manually, which won't transfer storage files, secrets or settings.
Lovable Cloud is suitable for small projects, prototypes or internal tools, but falls short for production applications with more complex needs or larger user bases.
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