Bolt loses free Bolt Forge after Pro plan's limited-time offer expires
Bolt removed the time-limited 'Bolt Forge' line from the Pro plan's feature list.
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WHY IT MATTERS
Forge access that was free on Pro through Oct 14 is no longer listed on the plan, so Pro users who relied on it should check whether it is still available and at what cost. Bolt has added and removed lines on this part of its page within days of each other; watch whether Forge comes back as a paid add-on, moves into a higher tier, or drops off the page entirely.
BY THE NUMBERS
- Bolt Forge was shown as 'included until Oct 14' on Pro; it's now gone from the list
- Bolt's page changed again: Lite launched Oct 1, dropped Oct 2, now Forge expires on schedule
- Bolt's first feature removal in six tracked changes; average gap between changes is 26 days
- Feature removals made up 4% of the 1,707 changes the index tracked in the last 180 days
THEIR RATIONALE
Bolt never advertised this as permanent — the Pro plan listed Bolt Forge as included only until Oct 14, with its own 'Learn more' link rather than being folded into the core plan description. Letting that line expire on schedule, exactly as labeled, reads as a time-boxed trial meant to drive adoption of Forge rather than a lasting plan upgrade.
THE SIGNAL
Bolt has touched this same part of its pricing page again and again recently: on Sep 15 it added a 'Bolt Forge included until Oct 14' line to the Pro plan, on Oct 1 it disclosed a $9 Bolt Lite research preview, on Oct 2 it removed the Lite preview and its Forge footnote, and now the Forge line on the Pro card has expired on schedule. Bolt's overall cadence is a change every 26 days, so this sequence moved much faster than usual. Feature removals are a fairly common move across the index — 69 of the 1,707 changes tracked in the last 180 days, 4%, across 67 companies — but this is Bolt's first one, after a history built mostly on adding and adjusting discounts across its six tracked changes.
IN CONTEXT
Bolt's 'Bolt Forge' line keeps changing: it went free on Pro on Sep 15, set to run through Oct 14, then on Oct 2 Bolt removed the short-lived $9 Bolt Lite preview and its Forge footnote from the page, and now the Forge line on the Pro card has expired as scheduled. That is a much tighter sequence than Bolt's average 26-day gap between changes. Feature removals are a common move across the index — 69 of the 1,707 tracked changes in the last 180 days, spread across 67 companies including Tailscale, which dropped its own premium support the same day — but this is the first one in Bolt's six-change history, which until now was built on adding and adjusting discounts rather than taking things away.