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Bolt.new generates apps from prompts in the browser — great for fast demos and MVPs. Archiet generates production-ready codebases from a PRD across all 9 E2B-boot-verified web stacks, with auth, compliance packs, mobile app, and CI/CD included as standard.
Bolt.new is genuinely fast. Describe what you want and receive a working app in under a minute, editable in the browser. For hackathons, stakeholder demos, and rapid MVP validation, that speed is real value.
The gap appears when "working in the browser" needs to become "running in production." Bolt-generated apps typically lack: database migrations (schema changes break real data), auth security (httpOnly cookies, CSRF protection, password policies), compliance controls, deployment infrastructure, and architecture documentation.
Archiet generates a production-ready codebase from the start. The Architecture Wizard captures your entity model, compliance requirements, and stack preference — then generates 500-800 files that pass a quality gate before you download them.
Bolt primarily generates Next.js-based applications. If your team runs Python (Flask, FastAPI, Django), TypeScript/Node (NestJS), PHP (Laravel), Ruby (Rails), Go, Java, or .NET — Bolt is not the right tool.
Archiet supports 9 E2B-boot-verified web stacks from the same PRD — Flask, FastAPI, Django, NestJS, Laravel, Go, Java Spring Boot, Rails, and .NET. Your architecture choice stays consistent with your team's existing expertise and infrastructure.
You need a production-ready codebase, not a prototype. Bolt primarily generates Next.js-based apps. Archiet generates from the same PRD into any of 9 E2B-boot-verified web stacks (Flask, FastAPI, Django, NestJS, Laravel, Go, Java, Rails, .NET) — your team's existing stack stays in your output.
Your app is going to production, not just demo. Bolt-generated apps typically lack database migrations (schema changes break existing data), hardened auth (httpOnly cookies, CSRF, password policies), and deployment infrastructure. Archiet generates all of this by default — the ZIP is production-deployable from day one.
You need compliance documentation. Regulated industries require SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, or ISO 27001 evidence. Bolt generates none of this. Archiet generates the compliance controls, audit logs, and access policies automatically from your architecture model — and produces a PDF compliance report for your auditor.
Bolt generates a small working app in 30-60 seconds. Archiet's architecture wizard takes 5-10 minutes because it captures your entity model, compliance requirements, and stack choice before generating. But the output is fundamentally different: 500-800 files with working migrations, auth, mobile app, CI/CD, and compliance controls — not a prototype. When you factor in the time to add all of that to a Bolt output, Archiet is faster to production.
You can use the Bolt prototype to validate your product idea, then describe the same system in Archiet's architecture wizard to generate a production codebase. You would not import Bolt code into Archiet — the architectures are incompatible. Any custom business logic from the prototype would be migrated manually into the Archiet-generated project.
Yes. Archiet's architecture wizard and code workbench both run in the browser. The difference: Bolt runs your app in a browser sandbox; Archiet generates a ZIP you run on your own infrastructure (locally with Docker, or deployed to any cloud). Archiet also includes a Code Workbench — a 3-panel in-browser IDE for editing generated files before download.
No. Bolt generates apps from prompts with no architectural context — compliance controls must be added manually. Archiet generates SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, DORA, and NIS2 controls as part of the code generation pipeline. The compliance coverage is derived from your architecture model, not bolted on afterward.