Bolt lets Pro's free Bolt Forge promo lapse after the Oct 18 deadline
By Rob Litterst, Co-founder, PricingSaaS
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What changed
Bolt removed Bolt Forge from the Pro plan's feature list after the plan's limited-time 'Bolt Forge included until Oct 18' promotional inclusion expired. The change affects only the free inclusion of Forge; the rest of the Pro plan's terms are unchanged.
Why it matters
Time-boxed inclusions like this let Bolt pull users toward Pro without touching list prices, and they are easy to reverse. Watch whether Bolt brings back a similar time-boxed Forge offer, given how often it has touched Pro's feature set recently, or whether Forge becomes a separate paid add-on.
In context
Bolt has leaned on Bolt Forge as a Pro trial sweetener for over a month, offering it free through Oct 14 in mid-September [[bolt/2026D258]] before extending that same deadline to Oct 18 just three days before this change [[bolt/2026D289]]. That cadence tracks with Bolt's pace lately: 6 of its 8 tracked pricing changes have landed in the last 90 days. Bolt isn't alone in letting an October promo lapse — Together closed out its own free-tier promotion the same day [[together/2026D292]], while Openart and ElevenLabs wound down discounts earlier this month, part of a modest but real pattern (41 of 1,740 tracked changes, across 37 companies) of vendors retiring time-boxed offers instead of touching list price.