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Nova vs v0

AI UI generator

v0 is great at generating polished UI components. Nova builds the whole product behind them — auth, database, payments, deploy and domains — and ships it live.

Capability
Nova
v0

Prompt → live, deployed site

From one sentence to a public URL

Built, reviewed and deployed for you
Deploys to Vercel

No IDE or terminal needed

Build entirely from chat

Just describe it
Prompt-based

Full-stack — auth, database, payments

Not just the front-end

Nova Cloud database + Stripe + auth, wired in
Front-end first

Multilingual UI + RTL

7 languages incl. Arabic & Urdu

Whole product, not just output
English UI

Built for global & emerging markets

Pricing and locales beyond the US

6 regions, low-cost by design
Vercel-centric

One-click custom domains

Your name, not a subdomain

Connect a domain in a click
Via Vercel

Self-healing builds

Catches and fixes its own errors

Multi-agent review loop
Iterative prompts

Database set up for you

Provisions the database + writes your schema

Nova Cloud: a real Postgres database per project, created automatically — no signup, no keys, nothing to turn on
Connect your own Neon or Supabase

Sign-in for your app's users

Your visitors get accounts, not just you

nova.auth.signUp / signIn built in — no second service to wire up
Bring your own — Clerk, Auth.js, Supabase

Each user sees only their own data

Per-row isolation, not just per-table

Automatic: a table with a user_id column is private to its owner, enforced server-side — no policies to write
Whatever your chosen backend gives you

Take your database with you

Leave without a migration project

Plain Postgres — export it or point your app elsewhere, any time
Your own account from the start

Deploy to your OWN Vercel

Your account, your control — not ours

One click to your own Vercel account
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Connectors out of the box

Supabase, Stripe, GitHub, Vercel…

Working on first build
Front-end focus

Builds AI agents & chatbots for you

LLM chatbots + task-doing, tool-using agents

Chatbots and task agents that call tools — API keys stay server-side, live once you add a key
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Edits your own local code

Open a folder on your machine, Nova edits it in place

Nova Desktop reads a local project and writes the changes back
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Native desktop app

Installable app, not just a browser tab

Mac + Windows (32 & 64-bit)
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Free to start

No card to try it

Free tier, ~1¢ per build after
Free tier

full  · partial  · not the product's focus

Why builders pick Nova

Whole product, not just UI

Auth, database, payments and connectors — the parts behind the pretty front-end.

Reviewed before you see it

A multi-agent loop self-heals the build instead of leaving fixes to your next prompt.

Global from day one

7 languages, RTL and emerging-market pricing baked in, not bolted on later.

What v0 is great at

v0 (by Vercel) is superb for front-end. It turns prompts into clean, production-grade React and shadcn/ui components fast, and pushes straight into the Vercel ecosystem. For UI scaffolding, it's excellent.

Where Nova is different

v0 focuses on the interface; Nova builds the application. Nova wires up authentication, a database, payments and the connectors a real product needs, runs a self-review pass, and deploys the finished thing to a live URL — in 7 languages, for 6 regions. You get a working product, not just beautiful components to assemble.

Nova

See it for yourself

Describe a site in a sentence and watch Nova plan, build, review and deploy it — live, in your language. No card required.