Tokens

You can upgrade to higher-tier plans that include more tokens in the lower-left-hand corner of your app in the “My Subscription” area. You can also directly purchase Token Reloads there, although upgrading your plan is usually more cost-effective.

Great question. Here is a clip of our CEO Eric explaining why token reloads are priced this way. Would love to hear your feedback on this topic!

Tokens associated with a paid subscription do not rollover from month to month. Tokens associated with a token reload do rollover from month to month, but you must have a paid subscription to use these tokens. We must reserve GPUs from our upstream inference providers that we are billed for regardless of whether or not they are used, which influences our token policy. By reserving these GPUs ahead of time we can negotiate better pricing through volume discounting.

The resources on prompting effectively and maximizing token efficiency are an excellent place to start. Also,

AI tokens are a complex topic related to all AI apps, not just Bolt. To learn more about LLM tokens we recommend searching online resources. For Bolt specifically it is important to know that the majority of token usage is related to syncing your project’s file system to the AI: the larger the project, the more tokens used per message. Our top priority is to increase the efficiency of token usage in Bolt - stay tuned for updates on that!

Additional tokens are now available with higher-tier plans, accessible in bolt.new under My Subscription (lower-left corner of the app).

As a project grows larger, tokens will be consumed faster. For more detailed information reference issue #678. Also checkout #1322 for tips on reducing project size.