Blink turns a plain-English description into a hosted website, full-stack web app, React Native mobile app or Chrome extension, with database, sign-in, Stripe payments and AI models built in and paid for with credits.
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Blink is an AI app builder that turns a written description into working, hosted software. You describe the software your business needs, and Blink builds it with the database, logins and hosting included, then puts it live on your domain. The same prompt box covers marketing websites, full-stack web apps, native iOS and Android apps, and Chrome extensions.
Blink is operated by 1Flow, Inc., which its Terms of Service describe as a California-based company. Pricing covers the Blink app builder alongside two related products: Blink Cloud, a vibe coding cloud for code written by outside coding agents, and Blink Claw, managed hosting for OpenClaw AI agents.
Two points shape most decisions: nearly everything, from prompting to hosting, is paid for with workspace credits rather than seats, and the features that turn a prototype into a business, such as private projects, live Stripe payments and app store publishing, unlock on progressively higher plans.
Because these services are provisioned by Blink instead of separate vendors, the credit balance becomes the single meter for building and running an app. AI requests made by your users, backend traffic above the included allowance and production hosting all draw on the same pool you spend while prompting, so a popular app consumes credits even when nobody is editing it.
Blink also works as an AI website builder with search built into publishing: sites go out as HTML that search engines and AI assistants can read, on your own domain with SSL, and a built-in audit checks the live site and fixes gaps from titles to structured data and llms.txt. The preview link is hidden from search engines, so only published sites can be found.
Instead of a written prompt, you can paste a screenshot of a Figma design, a hand-drawn wireframe or an existing web page, and Blink converts it to code. You can also open a public project and click Remix to use it as a starting point.
Good fit:
Weaker fit:
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing | Credits | What the plan adds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | – | 5 a day, capped at 30 a month | Database, sign-in and a preview link; projects are public |
| Starter | $25/mo | $13/mo | 100 a month + 5 a day | Production hosting, custom domain, private projects |
| Pro | $50/mo | $25/mo | 200 a month + 5 a day | Blink Backend, in-app code editing, advanced AI models |
| Max | from $200/mo | from $100/mo | 800+ a month + 5 a day | App Store and Google Play publishing, credit rollover, free code downloads |
| Business | from $40/mo | from $20/mo | Shared pool, 12 credit tiers | Restricted project access, unlimited custom email domains, VIP support |
Annual billing saves 50% on every paid plan, which Blink describes as paying for 6 months and getting 12. Daily credits reset at midnight Pacific time; on paid plans the 5 daily credits have no monthly cap, and credits are spent in a fixed order: bonus credits first, then daily credits, then plan credits. Only Max carries unused plan credits into the next period; Starter and Pro plan credits reset each cycle. Top-up credits never expire, work on every plan including Free, and can be bought from $40 to $10,000.
Production hosting is billed separately in credits each month:
| Hosting tier | Credits per month | Visits beyond the tier |
|---|---|---|
| 10,000 visits | 50 | 2 credits per 1,000 |
| 50,000 visits | 120 | 1.5 credits per 1,000 |
| 200,000 visits | 240 | 1 credit per 1,000 |
| 1,000,000 visits | 500 | 0.5 credits per 1,000 |
On Starter and Pro, connecting a custom domain costs 5 credits and each code download costs 5 credits; Max includes both. App Store and Google Play publishing requires Max, and Apple also charges $99 a year for its developer program while Google charges $25 once. Blink Claw agents need Starter or higher and are billed per agent by machine size, at 180 credits a month (about $45), 360 (about $90) or 720 (about $180), with AI model usage taken from the same credits.
All subscription fees are non-refundable, and cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period. After that, apps on production hosting pause and the URL is held for about five weeks; resubscribing and resuming hosting brings them back, while projects and code are not deleted and stay exportable to GitHub.
Third-party launch and review listings place Blink next to other prompt-to-app builders such as Bolt and Base44. The realistic options are:
Yes, within limits: 5 credits a day up to 30 a month, with a database, sign-in and a preview link and no credit card. Projects stay public until you move to Starter at $25 a month, or $13 a month billed annually.
Blink's Terms say you keep full ownership of what you create. You can keep a copy through two-way GitHub sync on any plan or download a ZIP on paid plans.
Yes, on the Max plan. Blink builds and signs the app in the cloud; you submit the iOS build in App Store Connect and upload the Android AAB or APK to Google Play Console, and Apple's and Google's developer fees are extra.
According to its privacy policy, not by default: Blink says it does not use your conversations, prompts, code or other content to train its own models or those of providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
