Bolt Forge is a new agent inside Bolt.new that runs on open-source models. Every Pro plan gets up to 50X more usage with no daily caps. Scores 91% of Bolt's top paid model on their internal benchmark.
Bolt Forge is a new agent inside Bolt.new that runs entirely on open-source models.
Sitting next to Standard and Max in the agent picker, this one is built only on open models - GLM 5.3 Flash and GLM 5.3 as the main pair, Kimi K3 and DeepSeek v4 Pro as experimental picks.
What makes it different: Every individual Pro plan gets up to 50X more usage on Forge, free, through Oct 14, 2026.
The trade is opt-in: your build sessions (prompts, code, fix traces) get anonymized and go toward training new open-weight models with Arcee AI, a US open-model lab. You can stop sharing anytime by switching back to Standard or Max.
Key features:
One monthly usage bar, no daily limits
Hits 100% → auto-switches to Standard, no overage
Scores 92.2 vs 101 for Bolt's top paid model on their internal benchmark (~91% capability)
Runs on WebContainers in-browser, no server cost
Duplicate your project before testing serious builds, still a research preview
Who it's for: Builders who burn through credits fast in the brainstorm/draft phase and want room to experiment without touching production usage.
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Question for the makers—right now it handles full-stack in the browser tab really well, but what’s the vision for connecting to existing local microservices or private databases during the prototyping phase?
Incredible work from the Bolt team. As far as I know, it's the first of the vibe-coding solutions to really go all in with open-source models, and I commend you!
"91% of Bolt's top paid model on their internal benchmark" is doing a lot of work in that sentence - internal benchmarks tend to be picked to flatter the new thing. Is there a public eval or a task set outsiders can rerun, or is 91% something we just have to take on faith for now?
About Bolt Forge on Product Hunt
“Bolt's new agent with open-source models and 50X usage”
Bolt Forge launched on Product Hunt on September 19th, 2026 and earned 238 upvotes and 5 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. Bolt Forge is a new agent inside Bolt.new that runs on open-source models. Every Pro plan gets up to 50X more usage with no daily caps. Scores 91% of Bolt's top paid model on their internal benchmark.
Bolt Forge was featured in Developer Tools (519.8k followers), Artificial Intelligence (479k followers) and Vibe coding (673 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 208.3k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Bolt Forge?
Bolt Forge was hunted by Rohan Chaubey. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Rohan Chaubey
Bolt Forge is a new agent inside Bolt.new that runs entirely on open-source models.
Sitting next to Standard and Max in the agent picker, this one is built only on open models - GLM 5.3 Flash and GLM 5.3 as the main pair, Kimi K3 and DeepSeek v4 Pro as experimental picks.
What makes it different: Every individual Pro plan gets up to 50X more usage on Forge, free, through Oct 14, 2026.
The trade is opt-in: your build sessions (prompts, code, fix traces) get anonymized and go toward training new open-weight models with Arcee AI, a US open-model lab. You can stop sharing anytime by switching back to Standard or Max.
Key features:
One monthly usage bar, no daily limits
Hits 100% → auto-switches to Standard, no overage
Scores 92.2 vs 101 for Bolt's top paid model on their internal benchmark (~91% capability)
Runs on WebContainers in-browser, no server cost
Duplicate your project before testing serious builds, still a research preview
Who it's for: Builders who burn through credits fast in the brainstorm/draft phase and want room to experiment without touching production usage.
P.S. I hunt the latest and greatest launches in tech, SaaS and AI, follow to be notified → @rohanrecommends