Head to head / curated pair / cycle 04
Base44 vs Lovable
Both products were given the identical 9 prompt vibeOps specification, 5 times each. Nothing on this page is an impression, all of it is a measurement from the same harness.
Strong at the parts of the specification that map onto its built in primitives: entities, roles and the admin surface came out quickly and cleanly. The cost is portability. Exported code still depends on the platform runtime, so it scores lowest in the top half on code ownership.
Strongest single shot agent in the cohort. It read the tenancy requirement in prompt 1 without being told twice and carried the organisation scope through every later prompt. It lost points on the machine facing surface: webhook signing needed an explicit follow up in 3 of 5 runs, and the generated API had no idempotency handling.
Index gap
7.33
Lovable leads
Axes won
2 / 7
Base44 versus Lovable, of ten axes
Faster median
Lovable
85.2 s per prompt
Higher pass rate
Base44
84.4%
Every measurement, side by side
Cyan marks the better figure on each row. The delta column is the first product minus the second.
| Measurement | Base44 | Lovable | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Composite index | 70.54 | 77.87 | -7.33 |
| Agent performance (weight 18) | 75.0 | 89.0 | -14.00 |
| Reliability (weight 18) | 84.4 | 82.2 | +2.20 |
| Scalability (weight 13) | 68.0 | 78.0 | -10.00 |
| SEO and GEO (weight 12) | 64.0 | 75.0 | -11.00 |
| API and MCP (weight 9) | 66.0 | 66.0 | +0.00 |
| Integrations (weight 8) | 75.0 | 86.0 | -11.00 |
| Design output (weight 7) | 80.0 | 92.0 | -12.00 |
| Speed (weight 7) | 33.4 | 36.9 | -3.50 |
| Value (weight 5) | 76.0 | 74.0 | +2.00 |
| Code ownership (weight 3) | 55.0 | 79.0 | -24.00 |
| Median seconds per prompt | 94.1 | 85.2 | +8.90 |
| p10 seconds | 58.8 | 52.6 | +6.20 |
| p90 seconds | 161.4 | 133.1 | +28.30 |
| Executions failed | 0 | 2 | -2.00 |
| HTML bytes, no JS | 14.0 KB | 18.0 KB | -4096.00 |
| LCP milliseconds | 2,320 | 2,140 | +180.00 |
| CLS | 0.080 | 0.060 | +0.02 |
| Entry price EUR | 18.00 | 21.00 | -3.00 |
Screenshot diff
Both landing pages, captured by the lab on 14 Aug 2026 at 1440 by 900. Stored locally, never hotlinked.
Base44, captured 14 Aug 2026.
Lovable, captured 14 Aug 2026.
Speed spread on a shared scale
Base44
58.8 / 94.1 / 161.4 seconds
Lovable
52.6 / 85.2 / 133.1 seconds
Axis by axis, who wins
Base44 wins 2 of 10
- Reliability84.4
- Value76.0
Lovable wins 7 of 10
- Agent performance89.0
- Scalability78.0
- SEO and GEO75.0
- Integrations86.0
- Design output92.0
- Speed36.9
- Code ownership79.0
Verdict
Lovable takes the composite by 7.33 points. It wins on the weighted total, but the axis table is where the real decision sits: Base44 takes 2 axes and Lovable takes 7.
If the work in front of you is mostly interface, weight the design and speed rows. If it is a product with an API, webhooks and background jobs, weight agent performance, reliability and the API and MCP row, which together carry 45 of the 100 index points. If the project has to outlive its vendor, read the code ownership row first and treat everything else as secondary.
Both products in this comparison were measured in the same cycle, on the same specification, by the same harness. The per run data for each is on its product page and in /api/runs.json.