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Bolt dropped the Bolt Lite plan disclosure from its pricing page

By , Co-founder, PricingSaaS

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Bolt removed the footnote disclosing its Bolt Lite plan from its pricing page.

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Bolt’s pricing page · Change detected

BOLT LITEfirst seen Oct 1, 2026 as Beta

What changed

Bolt pulled the footnote that disclosed its invite-only Bolt Lite plan, priced at $9 a month and powered by Bolt Forge according to Pulse's Oct 2, 2026 record, and the footnote's link to the Bolt Forge Supplemental Terms; Pulse tracked the footnote as gone by Oct 2, 2026, when the plan was no longer mentioned anywhere on bolt.new/pricing. The footnote had also noted that Forge was included free on the Pro plan through Oct 14, per the pricing page; that line was removed too.

Why it matters

For a company selling AI coding assistance, an undisclosed invite-only tier is already an edge case; pulling the footnote that explained its $9-a-month price, per Pulse's Oct 2, 2026 record, and its Forge dependency removes the only public trace that the plan, or its separate Forge Supplemental Terms, ever existed. Product leaders testing a similar limited-access or research-preview tier should treat this as a reminder that quiet removal, not quiet addition, is where legal and support exposure usually surfaces: anyone who signed up under those terms still needs to find them somewhere. Watch whether Bolt reintroduces Bolt Lite as a named, discoverable plan or lets it stay invite-only and undocumented — the difference signals whether this is a real product line or a quiet usage test on Forge costs.

In context

Bolt reversed course just one day after introducing the plan: on Oct 1, 2026 it unveiled Bolt Lite as an invite-only, Forge-powered research preview at $9 a month, and by Oct 2, 2026 it had pulled the disclosing footnote and the plan's own terms link from the pricing page. Pulse has tracked Bolt's pricing page since Jun 1, 2026 and recorded 6 real changes in that span, several of them short-lived Forge promotions rather than durable pricing moves. Plan removals like this are uncommon across the companies Pulse tracks, though Distribute and Addigy both dropped a named plan in September as they restructured their own lineups. What the footnote deletion understates is that Bolt Lite never showed up as a selectable plan card on the page, only as a footnote, so removing it erases the only public record that the invite-only tier, and its separate Forge supplemental terms, ever existed. Watch whether Bolt Lite resurfaces as a named plan or stays an unlisted test.

Common questions

Is Bolt Lite still accessible to anyone who was invited to it?

The pricing page no longer says — Pulse's record only shows that the footnote naming it was removed on Oct 2, 2026, one day after it was added, so there's no public statement either way on existing invites.

How often does Bolt change its pricing page?

Pulse has tracked Bolt's pricing page since Jun 1, 2026 and logged 6 real changes, 4 of them in the last 90 days — most were short Forge promotions rather than lasting plan or price moves, which fits this quick add-then-remove pattern.

Is quietly removing a plan's disclosure common elsewhere?

It's uncommon: among the companies Pulse tracks, plan removals are rare, and recent examples like Distribute and Addigy both dropped a named plan outright as part of a lineup restructuring, rather than erasing an unlisted, footnote-only tier.

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