WEEKLY AI BUILDER BENCHMARK

Same app. Six AI builders.
Real scores.

Every week we give the exact same spec to Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, Cursor and Claude Code, then score each build out of 100 on quality, cost and time. No vibes, just receipts.

Leaderboard

⏳ Results pending — first head-to-head runs this week. No scores have been published yet.

#ToolTypeAvg scoreAvg timeAvg cost
—LovablePrompt-to-app builderPendingPendingPending
—BoltPrompt-to-app builderPendingPendingPending
—v0Prompt-to-app builderPendingPendingPending
—ReplitCloud IDE + agentPendingPendingPending
—CursorAI code editorPendingPendingPending
—Claude CodeTerminal coding agentPendingPendingPending

Coming this week

Task #1Easy

Habit Tracker

Sign up/login, create habits, daily check-off, streak counter, 7-day chart, persistent DB, mobile-friendly.

⏳ Results pending

Task #2Medium

Link-in-bio + Analytics

Public profile at /u/handle, editable links, click tracking, per-link daily clicks dashboard, custom theme color.

⏳ Results pending

Task #3Hard

AI Recipe Generator + Stripe test checkout

Ingredients in, LLM recipe out, save favorites, 'Pro' unlock via Stripe test mode, rate limit for free users.

⏳ Results pending

Quality · 70 pts

Functionality vs acceptance checklist, UI polish, code quality, deploys first try, accessibility/perf.

Efficiency · 30 pts

Time to pass all checks, real dollar cost of the run, and number of human rescues.

Same rules for all

Verbatim spec prompt, cheapest plan that can finish, 2-hour cap, screen recording kept.

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