My Costly Experience with Same.dev
My Costly Experience with Same.dev – Over $800 Lost and Nothing to Show for It.
I want to share my experience using Same.dev so that others can avoid making the same expensive mistake I did.
I originally joined Same.dev to build a website. Their platform initially looked promising, with its AI-powered development flow and quick deployment tools. However, my experience quickly took a turn for the worse—and ended up costing me over $800, with no finished website to show for it.
It Started with a Critical Bug
At one point, my project broke and I tried to roll back to a previous version using the platform’s version history. That’s when I realized: the version history was completely gone. The icon to access it disappeared, and I couldn’t revert my project through the UI or the chat history.
I spent a massive amount of credits trying to recover my project manually—racking up over $100 worth of tokens just in failed attempts to fix a problem that I later learned was caused by a bug in Same.dev’s own system. Eventually, support gave me an alternative way to recover an older checkpoint and fixed my chat history.
I spent a ton of time and credits trying to implement an API and Oauth when I had no idea they didnt even have backend support. I then had to spend even more tokens integrating an external database because they didnt offer one. After, I tried to claim my deployment so that I could have continuous deployment. But apparently they have a bug that doesnt allow you to claim your deployment if your chat history is too large. I also couldn’t fork/remix my project. (2 features that did not work). When I reached out to support, I was eventually helped by someone named Symphony, who guided me through a convoluted workaround to reclaim a working deployment. That was to download my project files, start a new project and upload my site folders. That worked, but that alone cost me another $137 in usage. In total, I estimate that only $350–$400 of my total charges actually went toward building the site—the rest was spent debugging their platform.
I Was a Beta Tester… Without Consent.
What’s most frustrating is that during my support chat, the rep essentially thanked me for helping them find bugs, as if I was some kind of volunteer QA tester. But I wasn’t a tester—I was a paying customer who got stuck doing free quality assurance work at my own expense. At no point was I compensated for the time or credits I lost due to platform bugs. They even suggested and I was eventually forced to "start a new project" to get around the issue, after I’d already poured hours and hundreds of dollars into the first one.
Missing Features, Misleading Expectations
On top of the bugs, I ran into serious limitations trying to implement core features like OAuth login and API integrations. I was attempting to integrate authentication via Oauth and fetch data from an API. After spending more tokens trying to make it work, I was told these features weren’t supported yet and to "hold off" until backend support was released. Even though I already integrated an external database.
This was not communicated up front, and again, I paid the price for trying to build real functionality on a half-ready platform. The lack of transparency about what's actually supported cost me more time, money, and frustration. Not to mention I was never able to claim my deployment on my main project. I had to spend $137 starting a new project to get their platform to work and let me claim my deployment. And even then I still cannot deploy my full site, only a static version. I also was never able to utilize the fork feature on my main project.
Overpriced and Underdelivered
To make matters worse, I later found out I could have built my site using platforms like Lovable or BOLT—both of which offer premium plans for around $200 and come with far more complete tooling and transparency.
By comparison, Same.dev’s pricing model is wildly inflated for what they offer. For $800, I ended up with:
* A broken version history
* No working deployment
* No OAuth or API integration
* Hours of wasted time debugging their bugs
* Corrupted Project which cost me $137 and 6 hours of time
* They Only offered a $5 refund. (Out of $880)
NOT TO MENTION THEY CHARGED ME 15 DAYS EARLY! I was supposed to be charged on the 25th of each month. It said my next payment was on the 25th. So not only did they not deliver or credit me. But they charged me 15 days early!!
7 de abril de 2025
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