Replicate vs Bolt.new: Which Is Better in 2026
Last month, I spent three days trying to build a custom image-generation pipeline for a client's e-commerce site. I started in Bolt.new because I wanted the frontend up fast, but I quickly realized I needed fine-grained control over the actual ML model—something Bolt's abstraction layer just couldn't give me. I ended up porting the whole thing to Replicate. But a week later, when I needed to spin up a completely different project—a booking app wi