What happens to your website if you stop paying your AI website builder?

Four different things that sound like one

“Stop paying” covers four situations, and the platforms treat them differently:

• Downgrading or cancelling a subscription. Your account continues on the free tier. This is what most people mean, and it’s the best documented.
• Deleting your account or workspace. You ask the platform to remove everything. Usually irreversible after a grace period.
• Termination by the provider. The platform ends your access under its terms of service, for cause or otherwise.
• Non-payment. A card fails and the platform suspends or downgrades you.

The sections below keep these apart, and report only what each platform’s current public documentation says. Where a platform doesn’t document what happens to a specific resource, the guide says so rather than guessing, because the honest answer to “what happens to my database if I cancel?” is often “the documentation doesn’t say”.

The comparison, verified only

Each cell is either a documented behaviour, “not documented”, or “depends on” another service. Downgrade or cancellation is the scenario unless a cell says otherwise.

Lovable

Cancel or downgrade. Lovable’s pricing page says that after you cancel, remaining credits stay usable to the end of the billing period, then the plan switches to Free. Its documentation says a published site stays live and isn’t unpublished by a downgrade, that already-connected custom domains keep serving, that for most features Lovable keeps your configuration so they resume if you upgrade again, and that the “Edit with Lovable” badge returns on the next publish from a Free workspace. Downgrading freezes subscription credits and stops publishing new changes. Apps using Cloud or built-in AI need credits to serve requests: the Free plan grants 20 Cloud credits a month, and when a workspace runs out, Lovable says the backend services pause and the data can’t be accessed or exported until they run again. Lovable also pauses Cloud projects after a period of inactivity. Lovable-bought domains are billed separately and keep renewing.

Deletion. Deleting an account has a 30-day grace period, after which workspaces you own go too unless you transferred them; deleting a workspace stops its projects serving on their lovable.app addresses immediately and removes custom domains and data after a 60-day grace period. Removing Cloud from a project deletes the Cloud instance permanently. Before cancelling or deleting, projects can be moved to another workspace or their ownership transferred.

Termination. Lovable’s terms say your right to access the services ends on termination; we could not find a documented data-retention window after provider termination.

Not documented: how long a paused Cloud instance is retained, what happens on a failed payment, and whether inactive projects on a live account are ever deleted.

Bolt

Cancel or downgrade. Bolt says cancelling a paid subscription is the same as downgrading to Free at the next billing cycle. On Free, sites already published to a custom domain stay online, but you can’t republish or reconnect a custom domain; free hosting has hard monthly limits on traffic and requests, and a site goes offline for the rest of the month once they’re reached; the “Made in Bolt” badge appears. Bolt-bought domains stay in your account and can still be managed. A published project’s Bolt Database isn’t paused; an unpublished one may be after about six days of low use.

Non-payment. Bolt retries a failed charge a few times over the following days; if the payment method isn’t updated before the retries end, the plan reverts to the free tier and rollover tokens are lost.

Deletion. Deleting a project permanently removes its files, chat history and Bolt Database; a connected Supabase project is unaffected. Deleting the account deletes its projects. Before that, a project can be downloaded, synced to GitHub, or transferred to another Bolt user.

Termination. The StackBlitz terms that govern Bolt, published on 14 September 2026 and effective for existing accounts from 29 September, say StackBlitz may restrict or end access at any time with or without notice; if it does so other than for cause, it will provide a reasonable means to retrieve your content for thirty days, after which it may delete it. Termination for breach of the acceptable-use policy carries no export period.

Not documented: what happens to a Bolt Database when a subscription simply lapses, whether the GitHub integration is affected by plan, and any inactivity-based deletion.

Replit

Cancel or downgrade. Replit’s subscriptions page says you keep your plan’s features until the end of the billing period, then move to the free Starter plan, and warns that before that transition published apps may go offline, custom domain connections are removed and storage is reduced, and that you should download anything you want to keep first. Its plan-change page says downgrading deletes nothing; projects and data stay intact, and the two statements reconcile as “your data isn’t deleted, but deployments and domain connections can go down”. The database’s point-in-time restore window shortens. On Starter, one published app is allowed and its link goes down after 30 days. Some subscribers can pause a subscription for a month with published projects staying live, which may suit a short break better than cancelling.

Non-payment. Continuous payment failures can lead to published apps being suspended, after a 24-hour grace period, and Replit’s terms say an unpaid account may be limited or terminated.

Deletion and inactivity. Deleted projects are recoverable for 30 days. Deleting the account purges everything, unrecoverably. Free accounts inactive for a year can be terminated and their apps deleted; paid accounts aren’t subject to inactivity termination.

Termination. Replit’s terms let it suspend or terminate an account at its discretion, with access ending immediately; data after account deletion is handled under a retention policy the terms don’t quantify.

Not documented: what happens to the production database (on Neon) after a downgrade beyond “storage is reduced”, and what happens to a Replit-bought domain’s registration.

v0 and Vercel

v0 is different because the site never lived in v0. Cancelling a v0 plan moves the account to Free at the end of the billing period; purchased credits remain but need an active paid plan to use; deleted chats are archived for 30 days. v0’s Free plan lists GitHub sync and deploying to Vercel. The repository is on GitHub and the site is a Vercel project, so what happens to the live site is governed by the Vercel plan: Hobby is restricted to personal, non-commercial use, can’t deploy from a private repository in a GitHub organization, and pauses features when usage limits are exceeded until the 30-day period resets. Vercel says a paused account or deployment stops serving and visitors see a 503 error, and names commercial use on Hobby as a frequent trigger. Downgrading a Vercel team from Pro to Hobby removes its other members, and Vercel says connected stores and domains must be transferred elsewhere first.

Non-payment and termination (Vercel). If a payment can’t be charged, Vercel may suspend or terminate access and may let a domain registration expire. Vercel’s terms allow termination with thirty days’ notice for convenience, ten days for breach, two for non-payment, and say your content may be permanently deleted on termination; Hobby projects may be shut down without notice. Within fourteen days of its domain terms ending, Vercel will help transfer unexpired domains to another registrar on request.

Not documented: anything in v0’s documentation about the repository or the Vercel project on a v0 plan lapse, because those aren’t v0’s to change.

Before you cancel

The pattern across all four is the same: the code is safe, the live site is the platform’s to keep serving or not, and the backend is the least documented. So if the website matters, establish ownership and portability before you cancel, not after.

Sources

The rules and product behaviour described above were checked against these pages when the guide was last updated. If something here has changed, these are the places to look.

• Pricing FAQ: cancelling · Lovable
• Terms of service · Lovable
• Publish · Lovable
• Custom domain · Lovable
• Subscription plans · Lovable
• Cloud · Lovable
• Delete your account · Lovable
• Delete a workspace · Lovable
• Billing · Bolt
• Domains · Bolt
• Hosting plans · Bolt
• Bolt Database · Bolt
• Projects and files · Bolt
• Terms of service (published 14 September 2026) · StackBlitz
• Subscriptions help · Replit
• Changing your plan · Replit
• Starter plan · Replit
• About usage-based billing · Replit
• Account inactivity · Replit
• Deleting your data · Replit
• Account · v0
• Pricing · v0
• Vercel integration · v0
• Hobby plan · Vercel
• Pro plan: downgrading · Vercel
• Fair use guidelines · Vercel
• Why is my account or deployment blocked? · Vercel Knowledge Base
• Terms of service · Vercel
• Credits and usage · Lovable
• Terms of service · Replit