Pricing & Cost Guides
What It Actually Costs to Fix a Vibe-Coded App in 2026
Real cost ranges for fixing apps built with Lovable, Bolt, Replit, and similar tools — broken down by problem type, not a vague "it depends."
The honest answer is a range, not a single number, but the range is knowable: most vibe-coded app fixes land between $199 (an audit that tells you exactly what's wrong) and $2,500+ (a full rebuild of the broken parts). What decides where you land is whether the problem is configuration, a handful of bugs, or a structural issue in how the app was built.
Why "it depends" is still a real answer, but not a useful one
Every agency says cost depends on scope, and that's technically true — but founders comparing options need something more concrete than that to plan a budget. The real cost driver isn't the tool that built your app, it's which category your specific problem falls into.
Category 1: Configuration and deploy issues — usually under $600
Environment variable mismatches, CORS errors, failed deploys, broken OAuth redirect URIs — these are diagnosis-heavy, fix-light problems. Once the actual cause is found, the fix itself is often small. This is the cheapest category by a wide margin, and it's also the category most founders wrongly assume needs a rebuild.
Category 2: Isolated bugs — typically $600 to $1,500
A broken checkout flow, a specific RLS policy locking out a user segment, a webhook that doesn't fire — these are scoped, fixable problems in otherwise working apps. Cost scales with how deeply the bug is entangled with other logic, not with how dramatic the symptom looks to a user.
Category 3: Structural issues — $2,500 and up
No error handling anywhere, a data model that doesn't hold up under real usage, or an app that breaks in a new place every time you touch it — this is where a genuine rebuild of the affected parts (rarely the whole app) becomes the honest recommendation. It's also the rarest category; most apps that look this broken are actually Category 2 wearing a scarier symptom.
The variable that changes everything: do you have a real audit first?
Every agency (including us) will quote higher on an unknown codebase than a known one, because unknown code carries risk that has to be priced in. A $199 audit isn't just a formality — it's what turns "$600 to $5,000, we'll see" into an actual fixed number, because the diagnosis is already done.
This is also why the audit fee is credited against the fix: it's not a separate cost, it's the first step of the same job, done properly instead of guessed.
What inflates cost beyond the categories above
A few things reliably push cost higher regardless of category: no access to the original Supabase or hosting account (recovery work first), a live app with real user data that can't tolerate downtime (careful migration required), and payment or auth systems specifically, since bugs there carry real financial and security risk that has to be handled properly, not fast.
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