Marquee vs Lovable checked 16 Oct 2026
A Lovable alternative, if what you need is a landing page
Lovable builds whole web apps, with logins and a database. Marquee builds one thing: landing pages and small marketing sites, written for your business and checked on desktop and phone before you see them. If you’re launching a product, a shop or an event and need the page, not the app, that focus is the difference.
First page free, no card.
Pick Marquee if
- You need a landing page or a five-page site, not an app
- You want the copy written for you and every page checked on a phone
- You want sign-ups from the page in an inbox, with nothing to set up
Pick Lovable if
- You’re building an app with accounts, data or payments
- You want the code in GitHub and to keep working on it there
- Several people will build in the same workspace
The same prompt, in both
“Build me a landing page for my coffee roastery called Ember & Oak in Portland”
Marquee
The page Marquee built from that sentence, from our examples. See the whole page. Ember & Oak is a fictional business, so its quotes and numbers are made up.
Lovable
Run it in Lovable yourself
We only show real output, and we haven’t put Lovable’s version of this prompt here yet. Paste the same sentence into both and compare the first result, not a tuned one.
What to compare
- 1The headline: is it about this roastery, or could it sell anything?
- 2The buttons: do they say what to do, or just “Get started”?
- 3The page on your phone: nothing cut off, nothing too small to tap.
Price and what you get
- What it builds
- MarqueeLanding pages and marketing sitesLovableFull web apps, landing pages included
- Free plan
- MarqueeYour first page, published on a marquee.page linkLovable5 credits a day, up to 30 a month
- Paid plan
- MarqueePro $24 a month: 30 credits (a new page uses 4, a change 2)LovablePro $25 a month: 100 credits, plus the 5 a day
- Your own domain
- MarqueeNot yet: a marquee.page link, named by you on ProLovableOn Pro
- Remove the builder’s badge
- MarqueeOn ProLovableOn Pro
- The code
- MarqueeDownload the HTML on ProLovableFull source, synced with GitHub
- Forms and sign-ups
- MarqueeBuilt in: a leads inbox with CSV exportLovableYou build them, with a database
- Teams
- MarqueeStudio $79: 3 seatsLovableUnlimited users on Pro
Lovable’s plans from lovable.dev/pricing, checked 16 Oct 2026; prices are in US dollars and change, so check there before you decide. Marquee’s from our pricing page.
What Marquee does better
- Every new page is opened at desktop and phone width and checked for overflowing or clipped text, overlaps, contrast and tap targets, and fixed before it reaches you. The chat says what was found and fixed.
- It writes the page for the business you describe: the headline, the sections and the buttons (“Shop this week’s roast”, not “Get started”), with real photos.
- Forms on the page work as soon as it’s live: sign-ups land in a leads inbox you can export, next to the page’s views. No database to set up.
- Each build says what it costs before you send it: 4 credits for a new page, 2 for a change.
What Lovable does better
- It builds real apps: user accounts, a database, payments and backend logic. Marquee doesn’t.
- You get the full source code and two-way sync with GitHub. Marquee’s export is the page’s HTML, on Pro.
- Your own domain on Pro today. On Marquee, pages live on a marquee.page link.
- Built for teams: unlimited users on Pro, roles and per-member credit limits.
Describe your business. Get the page.
Type a sentence, say it, or drop in your notes. Your first page is free.