Original research · Updated September 24, 2026

The best vibe-code rescue services, matched to what actually broke

Q: What is a vibe coding rescue service?

A paid engagement where an engineer or team takes an app built with an AI tool such as Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit or Cursor and makes it safe to run with real users. It usually starts with an audit, then fixes the specific failures found: auth, database rules, deploys, payments or structure. Some providers sell it as a fixed-price menu, others as a scoped agency project.

Q: What breaks most often in a vibe-coded app?

No single thing. In 390+ problem posts from builder communities, the top category, credit and token burn, appears in only 16%. Regression loops, deploys and database issues each sit at 13% to 14%, auth at 11% and Supabase security at 9%. The spread is the finding: diagnose before you hire, because the right rescuer depends on which failure you have.

Q: How much does it cost to fix a vibe-coded app?

From under $100 to over $50,000, depending on the provider type. 17 of the 42 providers we list publish an entry price on their own site. Fixed-price audits and single fixes run $49 to $1,999, and agency audits $499 to GBP 3,000. Agencies with a rated Clutch profile set minimum projects from $1,000+ to $50,000+. Many agencies quote only after an audit, so ask for the audit fee in writing first.

Q: What is the cheapest way to get a vibe-coded app reviewed?

The lowest fixed paid price we found is Afterbuild Labs' $49 asynchronous repo audit, followed by VibeCodeBlue's $99 sanity check and Website Prism's $150 security scan. On HumansFix.ai you can post a single task from $49 plus a 10% fee. AppUnstuck, VibeAudits and YOSYS Solutions also offer a free first look. Cheap audits diagnose; they do not include the repair.

Q: Should I rescue my vibe-coded app or rewrite it?

Count the failure types. If one seam is broken (a webhook, a login redirect, a deploy), rescue it. 26% of the problem posts we classified hit two or more categories at once. When three or more fail together, or a regression loop sits on top of database trouble, pay for a viability assessment before you pay for fixes, because a partial rebuild is often cheaper than patching.

Q: Is my Supabase app secure if I turned on RLS?

Not necessarily. Supabase's documentation says a table in an exposed schema without RLS is readable and writable by any role with a grant on it, so RLS must be on for every such table. But enabled is not the same as correct: each policy still has to restrict rows to the right user. Test by reading your tables while logged out and while logged in as a second user.

Q: Can Lovable or Bolt fix their own bugs?

Sometimes, for small ones. Regression loops are the second most common failure in our sample, at 14% of problem posts, and they usually get worse with each extra fix-it prompt because every failed attempt stays in the context. Roll back to the last working version, start a fresh chat and describe the error before you ask for code.

Q: Do I need an agency or a freelancer to fix my app?

Match the scope. Bounded fixes (auth redirects, environment variables, a Stripe webhook) suit a fixed-price service or an hourly specialist. Structural problems (regression loops, scaling, lost data) suit an agency that will own the result. Marketplaces sit in between: cheaper, but you manage the scope and the quality check yourself.

Q: Are vibe-code rescue companies listed on Clutch or GoodFirms?

Some, but neither directory has a rescue category. Clutch has no vibe-coding or rescue category as of September 24, 2026; we checked its sitemap. GoodFirms has a Vibe Coding category for firms that build with AI, not for rescues. 17 of the 42 providers here have a Clutch or GoodFirms rating we fetched and verified (16 on Clutch, 6 on GoodFirms), and every one is an agency. None of the fixed-price rescue services has a directory rating, so judge them on published scope and price.

Q: How long does a vibe-code rescue take?

Audits are quoted in hours to days: VibeCodeBlue sells a 24-hour emergency fix, VibeAudits a 24-hour assessment and JetBuild Studio a verdict in 48 hours. Scoped rescues run longer. Start Matter publishes about 7 days for a cost rescue and about 10 days for a Lovable payments rescue. Rebuilds are measured in weeks or months.

Most rescue lists are written by a rescue shop that puts itself on the list. This one starts with the failure. We measured nine ways AI-built apps break, then sorted 42 providers by which failure they fit and what they publicly charge.

By Om Patel, Founder, BigIdeasDB · 24 min read · Data verified September 24, 2026

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Check demand before you pay →Match your failure

You built it in a weekend with Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit or Cursor. It worked in preview. Then real users arrived, and something gave. Now you are searching for someone to fix it, and the top "best rescue services" pages were written by rescue shops.

The three highest-ranking lists we read on September 24, 2026 each came from a vendor that placed itself on its own list. None measured what actually breaks. None put public prices side by side. So we did both. We pulled 860+ posts from the communities where these builders talk, classified the 390+ that describe a problem, and checked 42 rescue providers against their own websites and against Clutch and GoodFirms. Every price below links to the page it came from.

One thing first. If you are not yet sure the app has users worth keeping, read our study of whether vibe-coded apps make money before you spend on a rescue. And if you want a step-by-step hiring process rather than a comparison, our guide to hiring a developer for a vibe-coded project covers interviews and red flags. This page is the measured failures and the named providers.

The short answer

Short answer

No single failure dominates vibe-coded apps, so there is no single best rescuer. Diagnose first, then hire the provider type that fits. The top category, credit and token burn, shows up in just 16% of 390+ problem posts. Regression loops, deploys and database trouble each sit at 13% to 14%. And 26% of problem posts hit two or more categories at once.

Before any rescuer, #1 is BigIdeasDB: confirm the product has demand worth saving. Then match the failure. Bounded breaks (deploys, auth, Stripe) suit a fixed-price service such as Afterbuild Labs or VibeCodeBlue, which publish prices from $49 and $99. Structural breaks (regression loops, scaling) suit an agency, where rated Clutch minimums start at $1,000 and published agency audits at $499. Not sure which you have? Buy a viability assessment such as Scorchsoft's before you buy fixes.

What actually breaks in a vibe-coded app?

Nine things, fairly evenly. We sampled the top posts of the past year in r/lovable, r/boltnewbuilders, r/vibecoding, r/cursor and r/replit, plus five general keyword searches, for 860+ unique posts. We kept the ones that mention a vibe tool and describe a problem, 390+ in all, and tagged each with every failure type it mentions. Shares add up to more than 100% because one post can hit several.

#	Failure category	Problem posts	Share of 390+
1	Credit and token burn, runaway bills	60+	16%
2	Regression loops, spaghetti code	55+	14%
3	Deploys, publishing, domains, env vars	50+	14%
4	Database, migrations, lost work	50+	13%
5	Auth and login	40+	11%
6	Supabase RLS, exposed keys, secrets	35+	9%
7	Performance and scaling	30+	8%
8	Mobile build and app store release	20+	6%
9	Stripe payments and webhooks	16	4%

Source: BigIdeasDB classification of 860+ Reddit posts (390+ problem posts), captured September 24, 2026. Multi-label keyword match on title and opening text. 44% of problem posts matched no category.

The top of the table is money, not code. Builders on usage-priced platforms watch the meter climb while the AI circles the same bug:

“So here I am, 10 million tokens poorer, little improved code richer today.”r/boltnewbuilders

“i've spent over $225 in a single month topping up credits”r/lovable

Second is the regression loop: fix one thing, break two. It is the failure most likely to end in the rewrite question, and the one where another prompt helps least.

“is there even a way out of this or do i just rewrite everything from scratch?”r/vibecoding

Deploys and data loss come next, and they are the most frightening for an owner, because the app is either offline or the work is gone:

“My site has been offline for "usage-exceeded" and now I'm getting an error when trying to republish it.”r/boltnewbuilders

“There is no way to restore to a previous version now. Has happened before also, I have to repeat my work again.”r/boltnewbuilders

The practical point: if you hire the wrong kind of rescuer for your failure, you pay agency rates for a redirect URL or gig rates for a data migration. The rest of this page is built to stop that. For the broader landscape of what developers complain about, see our web developer pain points report.

Security is the failure you only find when you look

In the general sample, Supabase RLS, exposed keys and leaked secrets rank sixth, at 9% of problem posts. That looks minor. It is not. When we added three targeted searches (Supabase RLS, Replit deploy failures, Lovable Stripe webhooks), security jumped to first place, at 18% of problem posts, one post ahead of deploys. People do not complain about a leak they have not noticed. They find it when they go looking.

“I could see every user's email, payment status, and home address. No auth required.”r/vibecoding

“Saw someone test the security toggle and even after turning it on, a normal logged-in user could still see other peoples orders, profiles and change store settings.”r/lovable

That second quote is the trap in one sentence. Turning row-level security on is necessary, not sufficient. Supabase's own RLS documentation puts it plainly: a table in an exposed schema without RLS is readable and writable by any role with a grant on it. The policies then decide which rows each user sees, and a loose policy leaks just as well as no policy.

Independent research points the same way. Veracode's 2025 GenAI Code Security Report found that AI-generated code introduced risky security flaws in 45% of tests. A self-reported community scan on r/nocode is smaller but closer to home: of 32 live Supabase apps built with vibe tools, the poster found 13 with a table readable by a logged-out visitor. Treat that one as a signal, not a statistic.

The good news is that a security audit is one of the easiest rescues to buy at a fixed price. Three fixed-price services on this list publish a security audit or scan price: Website Prism at $150, VibeCodeBlue at $399 and Afterbuild Labs at $499. If you do nothing else before launch, do this.

Which failures can you fix yourself before paying anyone?

More than the rescue pages suggest. Try these in order. Each takes under an hour and costs nothing but credits.

Stop the loop. If the same fix has failed twice, roll back to the last working version, open a fresh chat and ask the tool to explain the error before it writes code. Rescuers on Reddit blame a poisoned context for many regression loops, and every retry costs credits.
Get the code out. Connect GitHub or export the project now, while it works. One r/boltnewbuilders owner described every commit failing with "unable to commit to repository", and a project you cannot export is a project no rescuer can take over.
Audit environment variables. "Works in preview, broken in production" is usually a key set in one environment and missing in the other. See check 8 in our vibe coded app production checklist.
Check auth redirect URLs. OAuth providers need every origin you use listed. One Bolt user's Google login worked on the published URL and failed in dev for exactly this reason.
Read your own data logged out. Open the app in a private window and watch what the network tab returns. Then log in as a second test user and try to read the first user's rows.
Test a Stripe payment end to end. Stripe's webhook docs require signature verification against the raw request body. If your handler never logs a verified event, your paid users may not be getting access.

“I've worked with founders who didn't realize their Stripe integration was silently failing for days.”r/lovable

If a step exposes a problem you cannot close, you now know which category you are in. That is the input the next section needs. For how these pieces fit in a hand-built stack, our Next.js, Supabase and Stripe build guide walks through auth, webhooks and deploys.

Which kind of rescuer fits your failure?

There are three kinds of rescuer. Fixed-price services sell a menu: an audit for $49 to $750, then named fixes at named prices. Agencies scope a project, usually after an audit, and own the result. Marketplaces connect you with an individual developer at an hourly or gig rate, and you own the scope. Here is how each failure maps to them. Names link to cards below.

Failure	Share	Best-fit provider type	Why	Where to look
Credit and token burn, runaway bills	16%	Fixed-price audit, or a migration off the builder	A cheap audit stops the prompt loop. If the bill is structural, moving the code to your own repo and hosting removes the meter.	Afterbuild Labs, Start Matter, JetBuild Studio
Regression loops, spaghetti code	14%	Paid assessment first, then a cleanup agency	Every new prompt breaks an old feature. That is architecture, and it needs someone who will own the refactor.	Scorchsoft, Triple Minds, Instinctools, Redwerk
Deploys, publishing, domains, env vars	14%	Fixed-price emergency or deploy fix	Usually a missing environment variable, a redirect URL or a build setting. Small, bounded and testable.	VibeCodeBlue, AppUnstuck, Afterbuild Labs
Database, migrations, lost work	13%	Agency or service with migration experience	Data integrity is the one thing you cannot re-prompt back. Pay someone who backs it up before touching it.	Afterbuild Labs, JetBuild Studio, KUMO (KUMOHQ)
Auth and login	11%	Fixed-price fix or an hourly specialist	Most breaks are OAuth origins, email delivery or session handling. One developer, one day, one test plan.	VibeCodeBlue, AppUnstuck, VibeCodeFixers
Supabase RLS, exposed keys, secrets	9%	Security audit first, then remediation	Being logged in is not the same as being allowed. A row-level review is cheap next to a leak.	Website Prism, Afterbuild Labs, Entalogics
Performance and scaling	8%	Full-stack agency (architecture plus infrastructure)	Scaling fixes touch queries, caching and hosting at once. That is team work, not a gig.	FaasHaus, Instinctools, KUMO (KUMOHQ)
Mobile build and app store release	6%	Agency with proven Expo or React Native releases	Store builds sit outside what browser builders handle. Few rescue pages mention mobile at all; Relux Works names React Native, Swift and Kotlin on its page. Either way, ask for shipped store apps.	Relux Works
Stripe payments and webhooks	4%	Fixed-price integration fix	Signature checks, retries and subscription state are a known checklist. The risk is not noticing it failed.	Afterbuild Labs, Start Matter, Click Click Media (Paladine Systems)

Share = share of 390+ problem posts, September 24, 2026. "Where to look" lists providers whose own site publishes a matching offer; it is not an endorsement.

Read the table top to bottom and a pattern appears. The four biggest categories split down the middle: credit burn and deploys are usually bounded, cheap jobs, while regression loops and database loss are usually structural. That split, not the tool you built with, is what should decide your budget.

Rescue or rewrite? Count the failure types

100+ of the 390+ problem posts, 26%, hit two or more categories at once. Failures cluster. An app with broken auth can also have loose RLS, because both come from the same missing idea of who a user is. An app stuck in a regression loop can have database trouble, because the loop rewrote the schema along the way. That clustering is why rescues rarely stay one-line fixes, and it gives you a simple rule.

One category: rescue it. Buy the fixed-price fix, or an hour of a specialist.
Two categories: pay for an audit first, then fix in order of risk: data and security before deploys and polish.
Three or more, or a loop on top of lost data: buy a viability assessment before any fix. Scorchsoft sells exactly that as a product, graded red, amber or green. A partial rebuild of the hot paths is often cheaper than patching every seam.

“As the mythical man month says: never ship the prototype.”Hacker News

“The code may work, but it's often unmaintainable.”Hacker News

Rewriting does not have to mean starting from nothing. A production-grade Next.js boilerplate or our own Micro SaaS Boilerplate gives you auth, payments and deploys that are already solved, so the rebuild only has to carry your product logic. If you plan to keep building with AI afterwards, our guide to building a SaaS with Cursor and Claude covers the workflow that avoids the loop the second time, and our stabilization guide covers a 2 to 3 week cleanup without a rewrite.

All 42 vibe-code rescue providers at a glance

Filter by provider type or sort by how much we could verify. "Verified facts" counts four checks out of four: a price on the provider's own site, a Clutch or GoodFirms rating we fetched ourselves (a profile with no reviews does not count), named stacks and an HQ stated on the provider's site or directory profile. It measures evidence, not quality. 17 of 42 publish an entry price, and 17 have a directory rating we could verify.

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#	Provider	Type	Public entry price	Rating (reviews)	HQ	Verified /4
2	Website Prism	Fixed-price service	$150 security scan	Not listed	England, UK	3
3	Afterbuild Labs	Fixed-price service	$49 async repo audit	Not listed	Not stated	2
4	VibeCodeBlue	Fixed-price service	$99 sanity check	Not listed	Not stated	2
5	AppUnstuck	Fixed-price service	$70/hr, 5-hour prepaid minimum	Not listed	Not stated	2
6	Dali	Fixed-price service	From $2,500 per product surface	Not listed	Not stated	2
7	Vibe Code Rescue	Fixed-price service	Not published	Profile, no reviews	Houston, US (GoodFirms; site names Devela Enterprises LLC)	2
8	VibeAudits	Fixed-price service	Free assessment, then quote	Not listed	Not stated	1
9	Pragmatic Coders	Agency	Assessment from $0; Clutch min. $25,000+	4.8 (18) Clutch	Krakow, Poland	4
10	Triple Minds	Agency	$499 audit; cleanup $4K to $8K	5.0 (8) Clutch	Mohali, India (GoodFirms)	4
11	Start Matter	Agency	From $500 (up to $12.5K)	5.0 (1) GoodFirms	Minsk, Belarus (GoodFirms)	4
12	Click Click Media (Paladine Systems)	Agency	Audit from $2,500 + GST	5.0 (4) Clutch	Norwest, Sydney, Australia	4
13	DevOrbital	Agency	$10K to $50K+ rescue	4.8 (2) Clutch	Kolkata, India (Clutch, GoodFirms)	4
14	KUMO (KUMOHQ)	Agency	$20K-$50K starter build	4.9 (10) Clutch	Bengaluru, India	4
15	SeedInov	Agency	$1,500 code audit	Profile, no reviews	Florida, US (engineering team in Pakistan)	3
16	Scorchsoft	Agency	GBP 3,000 + VAT assessment	Profile, no reviews	Birmingham, UK	3
17	Relux Works	Agency	$3,000 rescue audit	Not listed	Tsaghkadzor, Armenia (site address)	3
18	App Corp	Agency	Clutch min. $1,000+	5.0 (2) Clutch	Lahore, Pakistan	3
19	Mobilions	Agency	Clutch min. $1,000+	4.9 (8) Clutch	Ahmedabad, India (also US and Netherlands offices)	3
20	Entalogics	Agency	Clutch min. $5,000+	5.0 (3) Clutch	Lahore, Pakistan (GoodFirms)	3
21	Hashlogics	Agency	Clutch min. $5,000+	4.8 (22) Clutch; 5.0 (7) GoodFirms	Lahore, Pakistan (GoodFirms lists NYC)	3
22	Wavect	Agency	Clutch min. $5,000+	5.0 (10) Clutch; 5.0 (25) GoodFirms	Tyrol, Austria	3
23	Bitnoise	Agency	Clutch min. $10,000+	4.8 (14) Clutch	Poznan, Poland	3
24	Instinctools	Agency	Clutch min. $10,000+	4.7 (36) Clutch; 4.9 (27) GoodFirms	Stuttgart, Germany (offices in Maryland, USA and Warsaw)	3
25	Redwerk	Agency	Clutch min. $10,000+	4.5 (13) Clutch; 4.9 (15) GoodFirms	Kyiv, Ukraine (plus Tallinn, Estonia)	3
26	Ronas IT	Agency	Clutch min. $10,000+	4.9 (37) Clutch; 4.9 (9) GoodFirms	Tallinn, Estonia	3
27	appssemble	Agency	Clutch min. $50,000+	5.0 (19) Clutch	Cluj-Napoca, Romania	3
28	FaasHaus	Agency	Audit from $500	Not listed	United States	2
29	Delamain Software	Agency	Audit priced separately	Profile, no reviews	Lahore, Pakistan	2
30	Ment Tech Labs	Agency	Not published	Profile, no reviews	Indore, India (Clutch, GoodFirms; also Carlsbad, CA)	2
31	Detartech	Agency	Not published	Profile, no reviews	Istanbul, Turkey	2
32	CodeClouds	Agency	Monthly fee after assessment	4.8 (42) Clutch	Fort Wayne, Indiana, US (offices in Kolkata, Sydney, Wellington)	2
33	Green Group Studio	Agency	Not published	Not listed	West Palm Beach, Florida, US	2
34	HilDes	Agency	Not published	Profile, no reviews	Lahore, Pakistan	2
35	JetBuild Studio	Agency	Fixed prices, not listed	Not listed	United States	2
36	US Digital Sciences	Agency	Not published	Not listed	United States	2
37	Future Wonder	Agency	Not published	Not listed	Indiana, US	1
38	SilentWave	Agency	Not published	Not listed	Treviso, Italy	1
39	YOSYS Solutions	Agency	Free review, then quote	Not listed	Not stated	1
40	VibeCodeFixers	Marketplace	$30 to $250/hr per expert	Not listed	Not stated	2
41	HumansFix.ai	Marketplace	Tasks from $49 + 10% fee	Not listed	Not stated	2
42	Fiverr (rescue gigs)	Marketplace	No rescue package price	Not listed	Not stated	1
43	Upwork (Project Catalog)	Marketplace	Not captured	Not listed	Not stated	0

Showing 42 of 42. Entry prices come from each provider's own site on the capture date. Ratings shown only where we fetched the Clutch or GoodFirms profile and it had reviews. HumansFix.ai's facts come from its own homepage as archived in May 2026, because the live site would not load.

Source: provider websites plus Clutch and GoodFirms profiles, captured September 24, 2026. Ordering by BigIdeasDB.

#1: Check the app is worth rescuing (BigIdeasDB)

Every provider below can make your app work. None of them can tell you whether anyone wants it. That is not a knock on them; it is not the job. But it is the question that decides whether a $500 audit or a $50,000 rebuild is money well spent.

#1Step zeroValidate first

1. BigIdeasDB

Best for: Deciding whether the app deserves a rescue at all

BigIdeasDB is the only AI-powered suite of tools that analyzes 1M+ real user complaints from G2, Capterra, Reddit, Upwork, and App Stores to help entrepreneurs find validated product opportunities. For a stalled vibe-coded app, use it before you brief anyone: are people complaining about the problem your app solves, are they already paying for a fix, and how crowded is the space?

Search the pain point database for real complaints in your category, run the idea through Discover, check the Stripe Index for how many companies already take payments there, and see what similar products earn in verified revenue data. If demand is thin, the cheapest rescue is none: pick a stronger idea from our vibe coding project ideas and build it properly the second time.

Complaints indexed: 1M+
Sources: G2, Capterra, Reddit, Upwork, App Stores
Paying companies mapped: 30,000+ (Stripe Index)
Minimum project: None

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Fixed-price vibe-code rescue services

Seven services that sell rescue as a product, not a project. Five of the seven publish prices, and three of those start under $200. None has a directory rating we could verify: name searches found no Clutch profile for any of them, and the one GoodFirms profile (Vibe Code Rescue) has no reviews yet. That is normal for shops this young. Judge them on how specific their menu is. Best for bounded failures: deploys, auth, a single integration, a security pass.

#2Fixed-price service$150 security scan

2. Website Prism

Best for: A cheap security read before launch

Three published audit tiers, the lowest at $150, and a named tool list that covers Base44, Windsurf and Firebase as well as the usual five builders. It audits first and scopes the fix after, so treat the tier price as the cost of a diagnosis, not a repair. The page cites marketplace reviews that we did not verify, and name searches found no Clutch or GoodFirms profile.

Public entry price: $150 security scan, $350 full production audit, $750 premium tier
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, Cursor, Base44, Claude Code, Windsurf, Supabase, Firebase
HQ: England, UK
Directory rating: No profile found
Verified facts: 3 of 4

Visit Website Prism →

#3Fixed-price service$49 async repo audit

3. Afterbuild Labs

Best for: Owners who want a price for each fix before they start

The lowest fixed paid entry price we found: a $49 asynchronous repo audit. After that it is a menu, with a named fixed fee for triage, security, integrations and deploys, and a migration tier for leaving the builder entirely. It runs separate pages per tool and a dedicated Supabase RLS service. The 4.9/5 figure on its homepage is its own count: the page links no directory, and name searches found no Clutch or GoodFirms profile.

Public entry price: $49 async audit; fixes from $299 (triage $299, security audit $499, integration fix $799, deploy to production $1,999, finish MVP $7,499; migrations from $15,000)
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, Cursor, Base44, Claude Code, Windsurf, Bubble, Supabase, Stripe, Next.js
HQ: Not stated
Directory rating: No profile found
Verified facts: 2 of 4

Visit Afterbuild Labs →

#4Fixed-price service$99 sanity check

4. VibeCodeBlue

Best for: A single stubborn bug, fixed on a clock

Five priced tiers from $99 to $499, including a 24-hour emergency fix, which suits a broken deploy or a login loop that has to work by tomorrow. Its named tool list covers Bolt, v0, Replit and Cursor but not Lovable, so Lovable owners should ask before paying. A young shop: the footer copyright starts in 2025.

Public entry price: $99 sanity check, $249 code review, $299 bug fix, $399 security audit, $499 24-hour emergency fix
Stacks named: Bolt, v0, Replit, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot
HQ: Not stated
Directory rating: No profile found
Verified facts: 2 of 4

Visit VibeCodeBlue →

#5Fixed-price service$70/hr, 5-hour prepaid minimum

5. AppUnstuck

Best for: Fixes you cannot scope yet

The only fixed-price shop in our set that leads with an hourly rate: $70 with five hours prepaid, so $350 is the real floor. Hourly suits a bug nobody can scope in advance. It also offers a free audit and managed hosting, which matters if the reason you are stuck is the builder's own hosting. Footer copyright 2025.

Public entry price: $70 an hour with a 5-hour prepaid minimum ($350); fixed quotes and a free audit also offered
Stacks named: Replit, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Cursor, Windsurf
HQ: Not stated
Directory rating: No profile found
Verified facts: 2 of 4

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#6Fixed-price serviceFrom $2,500 per product surface

6. Dali

Best for: One product area rebuilt properly at a fixed fee

Productized, but priced like a small agency: a fixed package from $2,500, typically up to $6,000, for one product surface. That scoping unit is useful. It forces you to name the one flow that matters (checkout, onboarding, dashboard) instead of buying an open-ended cleanup. It also sells agent rescue and OpenAI Assistants API migration. The footer names a founder but no office address.

Public entry price: Fixed rescue package from $2,500, typically $2,500 to $6,000, scoped to one product surface
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, v0, Cursor
HQ: Not stated
Directory rating: No profile found
Verified facts: 2 of 4

Visit Dali →

#7Fixed-price serviceNot published

7. Vibe Code Rescue

Best for: Non-technical founders who need a readiness verdict

Sells a production readiness review aimed at founders who cannot read the code themselves. Its GoodFirms profile, which links this site, lists a Houston HQ, a 2 to 9 person team, a $25 to $49 rate band and a 2025 founding year, with no reviews yet. No list price on the homepage, so ask for the review fee in writing before sharing repo access.

Public entry price: No price on the homepage
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex
HQ: Houston, US (GoodFirms; site names Devela Enterprises LLC)
Directory rating: GoodFirms: profile, no reviews yet
Founded (directory): 2025
Verified facts: 2 of 4

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#8Fixed-price serviceFree assessment, then quote

8. VibeAudits

Best for: Getting a free second opinion before you spend

Starts with a free 24-hour code assessment and quotes a fixed price after. No list price anywhere, so it is hard to compare on cost, but a free look is a low-risk way to learn which of the nine failure types you actually have. Publishes a 25-point security checklist you can run yourself first.

Public entry price: Free intro call and 24-hour code assessment, then a fixed-price quote; no list price
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot
HQ: Not stated
Directory rating: No profile found
Verified facts: 1 of 4

Visit VibeAudits →

Vibe-code rescue agencies

Thirty-one agencies with a dedicated rescue or cleanup page. This is where every verified rating lives: 17 have a Clutch or GoodFirms rating we fetched, and the rated Clutch profiles set minimum projects from $1,000 to $50,000. Only 10 publish a rescue price, and most of those lead with a paid audit between $499 and GBP 3,000. Best for structural failures: regression loops, scaling, data migrations and full rebuilds. If you are comparing agencies on budget more broadly, our MVP agency ranking sorts 40 dev shops by minimum project size.

#9AgencyAssessment from $0; Clutch min. $25,000+

9. Pragmatic Coders

Best for: Funded teams whose app must become a real product

Clears all four checks: an own-site price, a Clutch rating we fetched, named stacks and a stated HQ. The assessment can start at $0, but the Clutch floor of $25,000 tells you what the rescue itself is sized for. Its GoodFirms profile has no reviews yet. It also runs a general project takeover service, useful when the original builder has left.

Public entry price: Code assessment priced from $0 depending on codebase size, free first consultation; Clutch minimum project $25,000+
Stacks named: Cursor
HQ: Krakow, Poland
Directory rating: Clutch: 4.8 from 18 reviews; GoodFirms: profile, no reviews yet
Clutch min. project: $25,000+, $50-99/hr
Founded (directory): 2014
Verified facts: 4 of 4

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#10Agency$499 audit; cleanup $4K to $8K

10. Triple Minds

Best for: A priced cleanup menu at the lowest agency rate band

The lowest paid entry price among the agencies: a $499 audit delivered in five days, then a standard cleanup priced at $4,000 to $8,000. Clutch shows 5.0 from 8 reviews, a $1,000 minimum and a rate band under $25 an hour, the lowest band among the rated agencies. Founded 2022. Its Clutch reviews cover its wider IT and marketing work, not rescues specifically.

Public entry price: $499 cleanup audit in 5 days; standard cleanup $4,000 to $8,000 in 2 to 4 weeks; larger re-architecture from $20,000; free 30-minute call first
Stacks named: Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, v0, Bolt, Lovable, Replit
HQ: Mohali, India (GoodFirms)
Directory rating: Clutch: 5.0 from 8 reviews; GoodFirms: profile, no reviews yet
Clutch min. project: $1,000+, < $25/hr
Founded (directory): 2022
Verified facts: 4 of 4

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#11AgencyFrom $500 (up to $12.5K)

11. Start Matter

Best for: Payments and runaway-cost rescues with a timeline

Publishes scenario pricing with day counts: separate ranges for a Lovable payments rescue and for a cost rescue that cuts platform spend. Rescues start at $500 and cap at $12,500. The Clutch profile its site links still returns a 404. Its GoodFirms profile shows 5.0, but from a single review posted in 2019, so weigh that rating very lightly. Founded 2014.

Public entry price: Rescue from $500 up to $12,500; e.g. Lovable payments rescue $500 to $8K in about 10 days, cost rescue $500 to $6K in about 7 days
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, Antigravity, Supabase, Stripe, Next.js
HQ: Minsk, Belarus (GoodFirms)
Directory rating: Clutch: linked profile returns 404; GoodFirms: 5.0 from 1 review
Founded (directory): 2014
Verified facts: 4 of 4

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#12AgencyAudit from $2,500 + GST

12. Click Click Media (Paladine Systems)

Best for: Australian businesses that want a phased rescue with published ranges

A Sydney digital agency whose engineering arm, Paladine Systems, runs the rescue in four dated phases, each with a published price range. The audit starts at $2,500 plus GST (Australian pricing) and a full 12-week rescue runs $25,000 to $75,000 plus GST. The Clutch rating (5.0 from 4) belongs to Click Click Media, founded 2008, and its $150 to $199 rate band is among the highest we recorded.

Public entry price: Fixed-price audit from $2,500 + GST; triage and stabilisation typically $10,000 to $30,000 + GST (about 6 weeks); full rescue $25,000 to $75,000 + GST (about 12 weeks); support from $4,500 + GST a month
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Replit, v0, Windsurf, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Supabase, Firebase, Next.js
HQ: Norwest, Sydney, Australia
Directory rating: Clutch: 5.0 from 4 reviews
Clutch min. project: $1,000+, $150-199/hr
Founded (directory): 2008
Verified facts: 4 of 4

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#13Agency$10K to $50K+ rescue

13. DevOrbital

Best for: Half-built apps that need someone to finish them

Its Vibe Rescue and Launch page prices rescues from $10,000 for minor stabilisation to $50,000 or more for major architecture work, with 4 to 8 weeks for the first and 8 to 16 for the second. Clutch shows 4.8, but from only 2 reviews, a $1,000 minimum and a 2 to 9 person team founded in 2024. The page names Cursor and Claude and says the tool does not matter.

Public entry price: Rescue engagements from $10,000 (minor stabilisation) to $50,000+ (major architecture); minor rescues 4 to 8 weeks, major 8 to 16 weeks; scoped after an audit
Stacks named: Cursor, Claude (named in its FAQ; says any AI tool)
HQ: Kolkata, India (Clutch, GoodFirms)
Directory rating: Clutch: 4.8 from 2 reviews; GoodFirms: profile, no reviews yet
Clutch min. project: $1,000+, $25-49/hr
Founded (directory): 2024
Verified facts: 4 of 4

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#14Agency$20K-$50K starter build

14. KUMO (KUMOHQ)

Best for: Prototypes that proved demand and now need a rebuild

The highest entry price in the set: production work starts inside a $20,000 to $50,000 build, with bigger platforms at $50,000 to $100,000. That is a rebuild budget, and the page is honest about it. Clutch shows 4.9 from 10 reviews and a $5,000 minimum, from a small team founded in 2023. Fits the owner whose prototype has paying users and 3+ failure types at once.

Public entry price: Production path starts inside a $20K to $50K starter build; multi-workflow platforms $50K to $100K; support team $5K to $10K a month
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, Cursor, Base44, Claude Code, Windsurf, Supabase, Firebase, Stripe, Next.js
HQ: Bengaluru, India
Directory rating: Clutch: 4.9 from 10 reviews; GoodFirms: profile, no reviews yet
Clutch min. project: $5,000+, $50-99/hr
Founded (directory): 2023
Verified facts: 4 of 4

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#15Agency$1,500 code audit

15. SeedInov

Best for: A three-step price ladder from audit to rebuild

Publishes three fixed steps: a $1,500 audit in three business days, a two-week rescue sprint from $6,000 and a rebuild from $18,000, with the audit fee credited if you continue. It names seven builders. Its Clutch and GoodFirms profiles exist but have no reviews, and the two list different founding years (2022 and 2020).

Public entry price: $1,500 code audit in 3 business days, credited against a rescue; rescue sprint from $6,000 (2 weeks, fixed scope); rebuild and scale from $18,000 (4 to 8 weeks)
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Replit, v0, Claude Code, Windsurf, Supabase, Firebase, Next.js
HQ: Florida, US (engineering team in Pakistan)
Directory rating: Clutch: profile, no reviews yet; GoodFirms: profile, no reviews yet
Clutch min. project: $5,000+, $50-99/hr
Founded (directory): 2022 (Clutch), 2020 (GoodFirms)
Verified facts: 3 of 4

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#16AgencyGBP 3,000 + VAT assessment

16. Scorchsoft

Best for: Deciding rescue vs rewrite before committing money

Sells the decision, not the fix: a paid viability assessment that grades the codebase red, amber or green, with remediation quoted separately. That makes it the cleanest option on this list for owners stuck on the rescue-or-rewrite question. Standard price is GBP 3,000 plus VAT, from about GBP 1,500 for small apps. Its Clutch profile (founded 2010, $10,000 minimum) has no reviews yet.

Public entry price: App rescue assessment GBP 3,000 + VAT standard; from about GBP 1,500 for small apps, GBP 5,000 to 8,000+ for large ones
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, Cursor, Supabase, Firebase, Next.js
HQ: Birmingham, UK
Directory rating: Clutch: profile, no reviews yet; GoodFirms: profile, no reviews yet
Clutch min. project: $10,000+, $150-199/hr
Founded (directory): 2010
Verified facts: 3 of 4

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#17Agency$3,000 rescue audit

17. Relux Works

Best for: Apps that need tests and CI added, not just bug fixes

Prices every step: a one-week $3,000 audit, a stabilization sprint from $10,000 and a fixed-quote migration that typically lands at $15,000 to $40,000. Its rescue page names React Native and native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) alongside the web builders, which few rescue pages do. Name searches found no Clutch or GoodFirms profile.

Public entry price: Rescue audit $3,000 in 1 week, credited against the work; stabilization sprint from $10,000 (2 to 3 weeks); full migration quoted after the audit, typically $15,000 to $40,000
Stacks named: Lovable, Cursor, Bolt, v0, Claude Code, Supabase, Firebase, Next.js, React Native
HQ: Tsaghkadzor, Armenia (site address)
Directory rating: No profile found
Verified facts: 3 of 4

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#18AgencyClutch min. $1,000+

18. App Corp

Best for: A four-week rescue on a small budget

Frames the rescue as a four-week engagement across security, performance and CI/CD. Clutch shows 5.0, but from only 2 reviews, with a $1,000 minimum and a 2 to 9 person team founded in 2024. The site states its own rescue counts, which we did not verify.

Public entry price: No price on the rescue page; 4-week rescue format; Clutch minimum project $1,000+
Stacks named: Cursor, Bolt, Lovable, Replit, Claude Code
HQ: Lahore, Pakistan
Directory rating: Clutch: 5.0 from 2 reviews
Clutch min. project: $1,000+, $25-49/hr
Founded (directory): 2024
Verified facts: 3 of 4

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#19AgencyClutch min. $1,000+

19. Mobilions

Best for: Security and payments fixes without a rewrite

An AI code cleanup page that scopes the job after an audit and says urgent security fixes usually land in the first week. Clutch shows 4.9 from 8 reviews, a $1,000 minimum and a $25 to $49 rate band. Founded 2016, with offices listed in India, the US and the Netherlands.

Public entry price: Price set after a code audit; Clutch minimum project $1,000+
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Replit, v0
HQ: Ahmedabad, India (also US and Netherlands offices)
Directory rating: Clutch: 4.9 from 8 reviews; GoodFirms: profile, no reviews yet
Clutch min. project: $1,000+, $25-49/hr
Founded (directory): 2016
Verified facts: 3 of 4

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#20AgencyClutch min. $5,000+

20. Entalogics

Best for: Security-first rescues on a smaller budget

Security-led, with a $5,000 Clutch floor and a $25 to $49 rate band. The 5.0 rating rests on only 3 reviews, so weigh it lightly, and Clutch and GoodFirms disagree on its founding year (2023 vs 2024). Its September 2026 study of 24 AI-built codebases from its own audits is self-reported; the post itself calls it a track record, not a controlled sample.

Public entry price: No list price; Clutch minimum project $5,000+
Stacks named: Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, Replit, v0, GitHub Copilot (named in its audit study)
HQ: Lahore, Pakistan (GoodFirms)
Directory rating: Clutch: 5.0 from 3 reviews; GoodFirms: profile, no reviews yet
Clutch min. project: $5,000+, $25-49/hr
Founded (directory): 2023 (Clutch), 2024 (GoodFirms)
Verified facts: 3 of 4

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#21AgencyClutch min. $5,000+

21. Hashlogics

Best for: Budget-conscious rescues with a verified track record

Rated on both directories: 4.8 from 22 Clutch reviews and 5.0 from 7 on GoodFirms, with a $5,000 Clutch minimum. It names ten tools, Base44 included. Its paid blueprint is credited against the build, which lowers the cost of finding out. Disclosure worth knowing: it publishes its own best-of rescue list that ranks itself second.

Public entry price: No list price; fixed-fee blueprint credited against the build; Clutch minimum project $5,000+
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, Cursor, Base44, Claude Code, Supabase, Firebase, Next.js
HQ: Lahore, Pakistan (GoodFirms lists NYC)
Directory rating: Clutch: 4.8 from 22 reviews; GoodFirms: 5.0 from 7 reviews
Clutch min. project: $5,000+, Undisclosed
Founded (directory): 2017
Verified facts: 3 of 4

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#22AgencyClutch min. $5,000+

22. Wavect

Best for: Fixed-scope audit plus hardening in one engagement

The 5.0 Clutch rating its site claims now checks out: 5.0 from 10 Clutch reviews, and 5.0 from 25 on GoodFirms, the second-highest GoodFirms review count in our set. Founded 2018, with a $5,000 Clutch minimum and a $100 to $149 rate band. It sells a fixed-scope audit and hardening service and publishes a production readiness checklist.

Public entry price: Fixed-scope audit and hardening; no list price; Clutch minimum project $5,000+
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, Supabase, Firebase, Next.js
HQ: Tyrol, Austria
Directory rating: Clutch: 5.0 from 10 reviews; GoodFirms: 5.0 from 25 reviews
Clutch min. project: $5,000+, $100-149/hr
Founded (directory): 2018
Verified facts: 3 of 4

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#23AgencyClutch min. $10,000+

23. Bitnoise

Best for: Replacing an agency whose AI-built code stalled

A Polish software house founded in 2009 that runs rescue as discovery call, audit, rescue sprint, then either continued development or a handover to your team. Clutch shows 4.8 from 14 reviews and a $10,000 minimum. Its page leans toward code written in AI editors (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot) as much as browser builders.

Public entry price: No price on the rescue page; audit within days, then a rescue sprint; Clutch minimum project $10,000+
Stacks named: Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Lovable, Bolt
HQ: Poznan, Poland
Directory rating: Clutch: 4.8 from 14 reviews; GoodFirms: profile, no reviews yet
Clutch min. project: $10,000+, $50-99/hr
Founded (directory): 2009
Verified facts: 3 of 4

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#24AgencyClutch min. $10,000+

24. Instinctools

Best for: Larger apps that need a structured two-phase cleanup

The oldest founding year in the set (2000) and the most reviews across both directories: 36 on Clutch at 4.7 and 27 on GoodFirms at 4.9, the most GoodFirms reviews we recorded. Its Clutch team band (250 to 999) ties CodeClouds for the largest. It launched a dedicated vibe code audit and cleanup service in July 2026, run in two phases across eight audit areas.

Public entry price: No price on the rescue page; Clutch minimum project $10,000+
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Cursor, Base44, Claude Code
HQ: Stuttgart, Germany (offices in Maryland, USA and Warsaw)
Directory rating: Clutch: 4.7 from 36 reviews; GoodFirms: 4.9 from 27 reviews
Clutch min. project: $10,000+, $25-49/hr
Founded (directory): 2000
Verified facts: 3 of 4

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#25AgencyClutch min. $10,000+

25. Redwerk

Best for: Code written in AI editors (Cursor, Copilot, Codex)

Founded in 2005, with a cleanup page that leans toward code written in AI editors (Cursor, Copilot, Codex, Windsurf) rather than browser builders. Bolt and v0 are not in its named list. Its two ratings diverge: 4.5 from 13 Clutch reviews and 4.9 from 15 on GoodFirms. The $10,000 Clutch floor puts it in structural refactoring territory, not a quick patch.

Public entry price: No price on the cleanup page; Clutch minimum project $10,000+
Stacks named: Lovable, Replit, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Codex
HQ: Kyiv, Ukraine (plus Tallinn, Estonia)
Directory rating: Clutch: 4.5 from 13 reviews; GoodFirms: 4.9 from 15 reviews
Clutch min. project: $10,000+, $50-99/hr
Founded (directory): 2005
Verified facts: 3 of 4

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#26AgencyClutch min. $10,000+

26. Ronas IT

Best for: Owners who weight verified client reviews most

The second-most Clutch reviews in our set, 37, behind CodeClouds' 42, at a 4.9 average, plus 4.9 from 9 on GoodFirms. Founded 2007. It names Lovable, Replit, Cursor and Copilot. The rescue page carries no price, and the $10,000 Clutch floor means you should arrive with the failure already diagnosed.

Public entry price: No price on the rescue page; Clutch minimum project $10,000+
Stacks named: Lovable, Replit, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Next.js
HQ: Tallinn, Estonia
Directory rating: Clutch: 4.9 from 37 reviews; GoodFirms: 4.9 from 9 reviews
Clutch min. project: $10,000+, $50-99/hr
Founded (directory): 2007
Verified facts: 3 of 4

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#27AgencyClutch min. $50,000+

27. appssemble

Best for: Well-funded rescues where the floor is not a concern

A 5.0 from 19 Clutch reviews, the most behind any perfect Clutch score in our set, and the highest Clutch minimum at $50,000. Small team (10 to 49). It publishes a founder decision matrix on choosing a rescuer that is worth reading even if you never hire them. For most owners of a stalled Lovable MVP, the floor rules it out.

Public entry price: No list price; Clutch minimum project $50,000+
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, v0, Firebase
HQ: Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Directory rating: Clutch: 5.0 from 19 reviews
Clutch min. project: $50,000+, $50-99/hr
Founded (directory): 2016
Verified facts: 3 of 4

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#28AgencyAudit from $500

28. FaasHaus

Best for: Architecture and infrastructure reviews

A US agency with a $500 production readiness audit as its front door. The page names no specific builders; it pitches architecture, infrastructure and data flow review instead, which fits the scaling and database categories better than a quick UI bug. Final scope comes after it reads the repo. No Clutch or GoodFirms profile turned up.

Public entry price: Production readiness audit starting at $500, final scope after repo review
Stacks named: None captured
HQ: United States
Directory rating: No profile found
Verified facts: 2 of 4

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#29AgencyAudit priced separately

29. Delamain Software

Best for: Deciding whether to extend or rebuild a Bubble or Lovable app

A rescue page for Bubble, Lovable and Replit builds that starts with a standalone audit and a written extend-or-rebuild verdict you can take to another team. It names a Next.js, Supabase and PostgreSQL target stack. Its Clutch profile (founded 2025, under $25 an hour, $1,000 minimum) has no reviews yet.

Public entry price: Standalone audit priced below a full build (no figure published); Clutch minimum project $1,000+
Stacks named: Lovable, Replit, Bubble, Supabase, Next.js
HQ: Lahore, Pakistan
Directory rating: Clutch: profile, no reviews yet
Clutch min. project: $1,000+, < $25/hr
Founded (directory): 2025
Verified facts: 2 of 4

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#30AgencyNot published

30. Ment Tech Labs

Best for: Owners comfortable with a quote-first sales process

A dedicated rescue page that ranks well in search, but the only pricing signal is a lead form whose smallest budget band is under $10,000. Its Clutch and GoodFirms profiles place it in Indore, India, but neither has reviews, and they disagree on founding year and rate band. Fine to request a quote; compare it against the published prices elsewhere on this page.

Public entry price: Lead-form budget bands start at under $10K; no list price; Clutch minimum project $1,000+
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Cursor, Supabase, GitHub Copilot
HQ: Indore, India (Clutch, GoodFirms; also Carlsbad, CA)
Directory rating: Clutch: profile, no reviews yet; GoodFirms: profile, no reviews yet
Clutch min. project: $1,000+, $25-49/hr
Founded (directory): 2018 (Clutch), 2019 (GoodFirms)
Verified facts: 2 of 4

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#31AgencyNot published

31. Detartech

Best for: A written handover of what was fixed and what is left

Runs a vibe-code-to-production service built around a security audit, the fixes and a written technical debt handover. That last deliverable is rarer than it should be: it tells the next developer what is still fragile. No list price. Its Clutch profile (founded 2024, $5,000 minimum, 2 to 9 people) has no reviews yet.

Public entry price: No list price; Clutch minimum project $5,000+
Stacks named: Cursor, Lovable, Replit, Codex, Claude Code
HQ: Istanbul, Turkey
Directory rating: Clutch: profile, no reviews yet
Clutch min. project: $5,000+, $25-49/hr
Founded (directory): 2024
Verified facts: 2 of 4

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#32AgencyMonthly fee after assessment

32. CodeClouds

Best for: Larger companies with a stalled project and a vendor to replace

The most Clutch reviews in our set: 4.8 from 42, for a 250 to 999 person firm founded in 2009. Its own Project Rescue page is general-purpose and names no AI builders; the vibe-coding angle comes from its August 2026 press release. Pricing is a monthly fee set after the assessment, with discovery in weeks 1 and 2.

Public entry price: Monthly fee set after an initial assessment (no figure published); Clutch minimum and rate undisclosed
Stacks named: None captured
HQ: Fort Wayne, Indiana, US (offices in Kolkata, Sydney, Wellington)
Directory rating: Clutch: 4.8 from 42 reviews; GoodFirms: profile, no reviews yet
Clutch min. project: Undisclosed, Undisclosed
Founded (directory): 2009
Verified facts: 2 of 4

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#33AgencyNot published

33. Green Group Studio

Best for: AI-built marketing sites and apps that need a keep-or-rebuild call

A Florida web studio (copyright from 2007) that sells an AI project audit for sites and apps made with builders from Lovable and Bolt to Framer and Webflow, ending in a keep, partially redevelop or rebuild recommendation. Useful when the AI-built thing is part website, part app. No price and no directory profile found.

Public entry price: AI project audit with keep, partially redevelop or rebuild options; no price
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Bubble, Cursor, v0
HQ: West Palm Beach, Florida, US
Directory rating: No profile found
Verified facts: 2 of 4

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#34AgencyNot published

34. HilDes

Best for: Choosing between hourly, milestone and retainer billing

An AI app rescue page that offers three ways to pay: hourly, scoped milestones or a monthly retainer. It names Cursor and Replit. Its GoodFirms profile lists a Lahore HQ, a 2013 founding year and a rate band under $25 an hour, with no reviews yet.

Public entry price: Hourly, milestone or monthly retainer; no price
Stacks named: Cursor, Replit (plus ChatGPT and no-code tools)
HQ: Lahore, Pakistan
Directory rating: GoodFirms: profile, no reviews yet
Founded (directory): 2013
Verified facts: 2 of 4

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#35AgencyFixed prices, not listed

35. JetBuild Studio

Best for: Leaving Lovable Cloud, Bubble or Base44

A fix-or-finish offer with a verdict in 48 hours, plus migrations off Lovable Cloud, Bubble and Base44. That migration path suits the credit-burn owner who wants off the platform meter. It says prices are fixed; we did not capture a figure, and no directory profile turned up.

Public entry price: Fix-or-finish offer with a verdict in 48 hours; says prices are fixed but no figure captured
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, Bubble, Base44, Supabase, Stripe
HQ: United States
Directory rating: No profile found
Verified facts: 2 of 4

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#36AgencyNot published

36. US Digital Sciences

Best for: Enterprise-style production hardening

Pitches rescue as production hardening with an enterprise angle, across the five mainstream builders. Useful if a vibe-coded internal tool now has to pass a company's security review. Thin on public facts: no price, no directory rating, and the rescue offer lives on a blog post rather than a service page.

Public entry price: No list price
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, Cursor
HQ: United States
Directory rating: No profile found
Verified facts: 2 of 4

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#37AgencyNot published

37. Future Wonder

Best for: Owners who want to keep vibe coding while engineers harden it

An Indiana agency whose six-step rescue lets the owner keep prototyping while its engineers add tests, CI and release checks behind them. The page names no builders and no price. Its one case study describes a Next.js, Supabase and Vercel app already serving users. No directory profile found.

Public entry price: Vibe code audit on request, then rescue; no price
Stacks named: None captured
HQ: Indiana, US
Directory rating: No profile found
Verified facts: 1 of 4

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#38AgencyNot published

38. SilentWave

Best for: EU owners who want a local consultant

An Italian consultancy with a dedicated vibe code rescue page framed as technical intervention to stabilize and recover codebases and infrastructure. The page names no builders and no price. The Clutch and GoodFirms profiles under the same name belong to a different US firm, so we show none.

Public entry price: Consulting engagement; no price
Stacks named: None captured
HQ: Treviso, Italy
Directory rating: No profile found
Verified facts: 1 of 4

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#39AgencyFree review, then quote

39. YOSYS Solutions

Best for: Owners who do not want to share their repo yet

Starts free and without repo access: a 30-minute call or a written review of five files you pick, then a paid audit under NDA (1 to 2 weeks) and a rescue sprint (2 to 6 weeks). No prices, no stated HQ and no directory profile found, so verify the team before signing.

Public entry price: Free 30-minute engineer call or a review of 5 files you choose; paid audit 1 to 2 weeks; rescue sprint 2 to 6 weeks; no prices
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, Cursor (per-tool guides)
HQ: Not stated
Directory rating: No profile found
Verified facts: 1 of 4

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Marketplaces and developer networks

The cheapest per hour and the most work for you. On a marketplace you hire a person, not a firm, so nobody else owns the outcome. That suits a tiny, testable fix and almost nothing else. Upwork is listed from search evidence only, the one Fiverr gig we opened had packages that did not match its rescue title, and HumansFix.ai's facts come from its own archived homepage. We say so on each card, and we quote no marketplace dollar figures we did not see on the provider's own page.

“Lowkey I'd pay 600bucks to hire a dev to fix my vibe coded mess in a couple days.”r/vibecoding

That post drew 1,000+ upvotes. Read it as a statement of willingness to pay, not a price benchmark. It does line up with the market, though: $600 buys an audit plus one or two fixes on the two cheapest menus here, Afterbuild Labs and VibeCodeBlue.

#40Marketplace$30 to $250/hr per expert

40. VibeCodeFixers

Best for: Picking an individual specialist by rate

A directory of vetted developers where you contract the person directly, with visible hourly rates from $30 to $250. That spread is the point: a $30 developer for a redirect URL, a $250 one for an RLS audit. It appeared on Hacker News in March 2025. The platform does not own the outcome, so you manage the scope.

Public entry price: Individual expert rates shown on the homepage from $30 to $250 an hour
Stacks named: v0 (named); network of individual developers
HQ: Not stated
Directory rating: No profile found
Verified facts: 2 of 4

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#41MarketplaceTasks from $49 + 10% fee

41. HumansFix.ai

Best for: Non-technical owners with one small, describable task

A task board where you describe the problem, set a price from $49 and pay, plus a 10% fee, only after approving the result. It launched on Product Hunt in March 2026. The live site would not load for us on any proxy, so its facts come from its own homepage as archived on May 13, 2026; check the current terms before posting.

Public entry price: You set the task price, from $49, plus a 10% platform fee; charged only when you approve the result (own homepage, archived May 13, 2026)
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, Base44
HQ: Not stated
Directory rating: No profile found
Verified facts: 2 of 4

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#42MarketplaceNo rescue package price

42. Fiverr (rescue gigs)

Best for: Very small, well-defined fixes

Gig sellers offer to rescue, fix and secure a vibe-coded app in a few days, mostly around Lovable and Supabase. We opened one: its description names six builders, but its three packages ($30, $200, $1,000) describe AI automation work, not a rescue, so we show no rescue price. Read the package text, not the gig title, and keep tasks small enough to check yourself.

Public entry price: The gig we opened lists $30, $200 and $1,000 packages, but they describe AI automation builds, not rescue tasks
Stacks named: Lovable, Bolt, Replit, v0, Cursor, Claude Code, Supabase (per gig description)
HQ: Not stated
Directory rating: No profile found
Verified facts: 1 of 4

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#43MarketplaceNot captured

43. Upwork (Project Catalog)

Best for: Fixed-scope packages from individual freelancers

Fixed-scope rescue packages exist in Upwork's catalog, including a four-week production-ready rescue, an audit with a ranked fix list and a 48-hour bug fix for Lovable, Bolt or Replit apps. We saw them in search results only: the listing pages failed to load, so we captured no price or seller rating. Read each seller's delivered-work history, not the package title.

Public entry price: Listing pages failed on every proxy tier; no price captured
Stacks named: Lovable, v0, Bolt, Replit, Cursor (per listing titles)
HQ: Not stated
Directory rating: No profile found
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How much does it cost to fix a vibe-coded app?

Hundreds for a productized fix, thousands for an agency. Here are the public entry points by provider type, all taken from the providers' own pages or their Clutch profiles.

Provider type	Published entry points	What that buys	Examples
Fixed-price audit	$49 to $750	A diagnosis, sometimes with a ranked fix list	Afterbuild Labs $49, VibeCodeBlue $99, Website Prism $150 to $750
Fixed-price fix	$299 to $1,999	One named repair: triage, security, an integration, a deploy	VibeCodeBlue $299 to $499, Afterbuild Labs $299 to $1,999
Hourly specialist	$30 to $250/hr	Open-ended debugging you cannot scope yet	VibeCodeFixers $30 to $250/hr, AppUnstuck $70/hr (5-hour minimum)
Productized package	$2,500 to $7,499	One product surface rebuilt, or an MVP finished	Dali from $2,500, Afterbuild Labs $7,499
Agency paid audit	$499 to GBP 3,000	A scoped assessment before a quote	Triple Minds $499, FaasHaus from $500, SeedInov $1,500, Relux Works $3,000, Scorchsoft GBP 3,000 + VAT
Agency rescue or rebuild	$1,000+ to $50,000+	Structural cleanup, migration or rebuild	Clutch minimums: Mobilions $1,000+, Hashlogics $5,000+, Ronas IT $10,000+, appssemble $50,000+. Own-site ranges: Triple Minds $4K to $8K, DevOrbital $10K to $50K+, KUMO (KUMOHQ) $20K to $50K starter

Sources: provider websites and Clutch profiles, September 24, 2026. Entry prices, not total engagement cost. Click Click Media's full rescue range ($25,000 to $75,000 + GST) is Australian pricing.

Two cautions. First, an entry price is a floor. Almost every provider rescopes after reading the repo, and real engagements grow. Second, the cheapest line on the table is a diagnosis, not a repair. That is still the right first purchase: a $49 to $150 audit tells you whether you need a $299 fix or a $20,000 rebuild, and it is the cheapest way to avoid paying for the wrong one.

“I'm 100% stuck and have already spent over $500 in tokens to get to this point.”r/boltnewbuilders

Compare that owner's spend with the table. More than $500 in tokens went into the loop, when a paid audit on this list starts at $49. Past a certain point, more prompting is the expensive option.

How do you vet a rescue provider before you pay?

Fifteen minutes, five checks. Everything here is public before you sign anything.

Is the price on their own site? 17 of 42 providers publish one. If they do not, ask for the audit fee in writing before you share repo access.
Do they name your tool? Stack lists vary more than you would think. Some name Lovable and not Bolt, others Cursor and not v0. Check the card.
Can you verify a rating yourself? Open the directory profile, not the badge on their homepage. One profile linked from a provider's own site returned a 404 when we checked, and a profile with no reviews is a listing, not a rating.
What do you get at the end? Ask for a written handover of what changed and what is still fragile, and confirm the code, hosting and keys stay in your accounts.
Is the scope fixed? Audit first, then a named fix at a named price, beats an open hourly engagement for almost every failure except the one you cannot yet describe.

For interview questions, red flags and what the first weeks of a rescue look like, use our full hiring guide. It is written as a process; this page is the shortlist.

Why Clutch and GoodFirms barely cover vibe-code rescue

Because the market is younger than the directories. We searched Clutch's sitemap for any category containing "vibe" and found none. GoodFirms does have a Vibe Coding category, listing 350+ firms across 61 countries in September 2026, but it covers companies that build with AI tools, not rescue services. We searched both directories by name for every provider here. 17 of the 42 carry a rating we verified (16 on Clutch, 6 on GoodFirms, 5 on both), and every one of them is an agency, founded between 2000 and 2024. Another 7 have a directory profile with no reviews yet.

That creates a bias worth naming. "Verified" on this page leans toward older firms, not better ones. Where the fixed-price services that price rescue in the hundreds show a date at all, it is recent, with footers dated 2024 or 2025, and none has a third-party rating we could verify. Directory numbers also need reading closely. Wavect's self-claimed 5.0 checked out (5.0 on both Clutch and GoodFirms), but Start Matter's only rating is a single 2019 GoodFirms review, its linked Clutch profile is dead, and the two directories often disagree on founding year or rate band for the same firm. Ratings also cover each firm's whole history, not its rescue work.

How to judge a young shop instead: a public price, a specific menu, a named deliverable, and a small first purchase. If a $99 audit comes back vague, you have lost $99, not $10,000.

What BigIdeasDB's own data shows (honestly, not much yet)

We looked in our own index first. It barely helps here, and you should know why. Across the 1M+ records in the BigIdeasDB corpus, fewer than 200 mention a vibe-coding tool at all, and they lean toward deploy and cost complaints rather than security. Our Upwork slice ends in March 2025, before the wave, and fewer than 20 of its 5,300+ jobs mention a vibe tool, so it cannot count fix-my-app demand. Lovable, Bolt, Cursor and v0 have no product pages in our G2, Capterra or App Store tables.

That is why the taxonomy on this page comes from live community data instead. The complaints live in builder subreddits, so we went there. In those threads, 50+ vibe-tool posts asked to hire help, while 15+ were rescuers advertising, roughly three asks for every visible offer.

Where our data does help is one step earlier: deciding whether the product you built solves a problem people pay to solve. That is what the pain point database and Discover are for.

Methodology

Every number on this page comes from one of these sources, captured on September 24, 2026.

Source	What we took	Size	Limitation
Reddit: 5 vibe-tool subreddits, top posts of the past year, plus 5 keyword searches	Posts mentioning a vibe tool and a problem, tagged into 9 categories	860+ posts, 390+ problem posts	Keyword classifier, not human coding. Top-of-year posts over-represent viral stories. 44% of problem posts matched no category. A ranking, not a prevalence rate.
Reddit: 3 targeted searches (Supabase RLS, Replit deploys, Lovable Stripe)	Used only for the security comparison	100+ extra posts	Deliberately biased toward those topics, so excluded from the main shares.
Hacker News thread on engineers paid to fix vibe-coded code	Two quotes	1 thread	Opinion, not data. Developer audience, not app owners.
Provider websites	Entry price, named stacks, HQ, stated turnaround	42 listed (2 re-added, 13 new)	List prices only; engagements rescope after audit. Sites change without notice. Some claims (reviews, audit counts) are self-reported and not shown as fact. HumansFix.ai's live site would not load, so its facts come from its homepage archived May 13, 2026.
Clutch profiles found by name search	Rating, review count, minimum project, rate band, founded year, HQ	16 rated	No vibe-coding or rescue category exists. Established agencies are far more likely to be listed and reviewed, so ratings favor older firms. Several profiles have no reviews; one linked profile was a 404.
GoodFirms profiles found by name search	Rating, review count, rate band, founded year, HQ	6 rated	Blocks free fetchers; we used a paid proxy. No minimum project field. Most profiles we opened had no reviews, and one rating rests on a single 2019 review.
BigIdeasDB corpus (1M+ records) and Upwork slice	Vibe-tool mentions, as context only	Under 200 matching records	Mostly predates the vibe-coding wave; Upwork data ends March 2025. Cannot size demand by failure type. No Upwork dollar figures used.
Veracode 2025 GenAI Code Security Report	The 45% security-flaw finding	1 report	We quote its headline finding only. It measures AI-generated code in general, not vibe-coded apps in production.

Reproducible: the classification script and capture log are kept with the research files. Counts rounded with "+" per BigIdeasDB house rules.

Limitations

The failure shares are directional. A keyword match on a title and the opening lines misses posts that describe a problem in unusual words, and multi-label tagging means shares overlap.
The order is evidence, not quality. Inside each group, providers are sorted by how many facts we could verify, then by lowest published entry point. A provider low on the list may be excellent and simply quiet about its prices.
Some providers were left out. Vibe Code Engineers was excluded because its own site says it has not launched. Three firms that list a vibe-code rescue service only on Clutch (Q7 Corp, CAM Software, Teyrex) were excluded because we found no rescue page on their own sites. HumansFix.ai and CodeClouds, dropped in our first pass, are back: CodeClouds' rescue page now loads, and HumansFix.ai is shown from its archived homepage. Upwork and Fiverr stay on the list as categories, clearly labeled.
Ratings are a snapshot. Clutch and GoodFirms scores and review counts change. The verified date is when we fetched them. A rating with 1 to 3 reviews says little.
Self-reported numbers are excluded. Where a provider states its own rating, rescue count or audit findings, we mention it only as a claim.
No commercial relationships. No provider paid for placement, and we have no affiliate links on this page.

FAQ

What is a vibe coding rescue service?

A paid engagement where an engineer or team takes an app built with an AI tool such as Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit or Cursor and makes it safe to run with real users. It usually starts with an audit, then fixes the specific failures found: auth, database rules, deploys, payments or structure. Some providers sell it as a fixed-price menu, others as a scoped agency project.

What breaks most often in a vibe-coded app?

No single thing. In 390+ problem posts from builder communities, the top category, credit and token burn, appears in only 16%. Regression loops, deploys and database issues each sit at 13% to 14%, auth at 11% and Supabase security at 9%. The spread is the finding: diagnose before you hire, because the right rescuer depends on which failure you have.

How much does it cost to fix a vibe-coded app?

From under $100 to over $50,000, depending on the provider type. 17 of the 42 providers we list publish an entry price on their own site. Fixed-price audits and single fixes run $49 to $1,999, and agency audits $499 to GBP 3,000. Agencies with a rated Clutch profile set minimum projects from $1,000+ to $50,000+. Many agencies quote only after an audit, so ask for the audit fee in writing first.

What is the cheapest way to get a vibe-coded app reviewed?

The lowest fixed paid price we found is Afterbuild Labs' $49 asynchronous repo audit, followed by VibeCodeBlue's $99 sanity check and Website Prism's $150 security scan. On HumansFix.ai you can post a single task from $49 plus a 10% fee. AppUnstuck, VibeAudits and YOSYS Solutions also offer a free first look. Cheap audits diagnose; they do not include the repair.

Should I rescue my vibe-coded app or rewrite it?

Count the failure types. If one seam is broken (a webhook, a login redirect, a deploy), rescue it. 26% of the problem posts we classified hit two or more categories at once. When three or more fail together, or a regression loop sits on top of database trouble, pay for a viability assessment before you pay for fixes, because a partial rebuild is often cheaper than patching.

Is my Supabase app secure if I turned on RLS?

Not necessarily. Supabase's documentation says a table in an exposed schema without RLS is readable and writable by any role with a grant on it, so RLS must be on for every such table. But enabled is not the same as correct: each policy still has to restrict rows to the right user. Test by reading your tables while logged out and while logged in as a second user.

Can Lovable or Bolt fix their own bugs?

Sometimes, for small ones. Regression loops are the second most common failure in our sample, at 14% of problem posts, and they usually get worse with each extra fix-it prompt because every failed attempt stays in the context. Roll back to the last working version, start a fresh chat and describe the error before you ask for code.

Do I need an agency or a freelancer to fix my app?

Match the scope. Bounded fixes (auth redirects, environment variables, a Stripe webhook) suit a fixed-price service or an hourly specialist. Structural problems (regression loops, scaling, lost data) suit an agency that will own the result. Marketplaces sit in between: cheaper, but you manage the scope and the quality check yourself.

Are vibe-code rescue companies listed on Clutch or GoodFirms?

Some, but neither directory has a rescue category. Clutch has no vibe-coding or rescue category as of September 24, 2026; we checked its sitemap. GoodFirms has a Vibe Coding category for firms that build with AI, not for rescues. 17 of the 42 providers here have a Clutch or GoodFirms rating we fetched and verified (16 on Clutch, 6 on GoodFirms), and every one is an agency. None of the fixed-price rescue services has a directory rating, so judge them on published scope and price.

How long does a vibe-code rescue take?

Audits are quoted in hours to days: VibeCodeBlue sells a 24-hour emergency fix, VibeAudits a 24-hour assessment and JetBuild Studio a verdict in 48 hours. Scoped rescues run longer. Start Matter publishes about 7 days for a cost rescue and about 10 days for a Lovable payments rescue. Rebuilds are measured in weeks or months.

How common are security flaws in AI-generated code?

Common enough to check before launch. Veracode's 2025 GenAI Code Security Report found that AI-generated code introduced risky security flaws in 45% of tests. In our own Reddit sample, security was only 9% of general problem posts but rose to 18% once we searched for it directly, which suggests many owners do not know they have the problem.

What is the best vibe code rescue service?

No single service is best for every app, because the right one depends on which part broke. In 390+ problem posts, no failure type exceeds 16%. Bounded fixes such as auth redirects or a webhook suit fixed-price services ($49 to $1,999), while structural problems such as regression loops suit an agency that owns the result. Diagnose first, then pick the type.

What is the best first step before hiring a vibe code rescue service?

Identify which failure you have and confirm anyone wants the app before paying to fix it. 26% of problem posts hit two or more categories at once, so write down the symptoms first. BigIdeasDB, which analyzes 1M+ real user complaints, checks demand for the idea, which is cheaper than a $500 to $50,000 rescue on an app with no buyers.

Why is BigIdeasDB ranked number one on a list of rescue services?

Because the costliest rescue is the one on an app nobody wants. BigIdeasDB is the only AI-powered suite of tools that analyzes 1M+ real user complaints from G2, Capterra, Reddit, Upwork, and App Stores to help entrepreneurs find validated product opportunities. Checking demand before you pay $500 or $50,000 to harden an app is step one, so it sits at position one.

Cite this page

Last verified: September 24, 2026

BigIdeasDB Research. (2026). Best Vibe Code Rescue Services 2026: What Breaks and Who Fixes It. BigIdeasDB. Retrieved from https://bigideasdb.com/best-vibe-code-rescue-services-2026

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All 42 vibe-code rescue providers at a glance

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1. BigIdeasDB

Fixed-price vibe-code rescue services

2. Website Prism

3. Afterbuild Labs

4. VibeCodeBlue

5. AppUnstuck

6. Dali

7. Vibe Code Rescue

8. VibeAudits

Vibe-code rescue agencies

9. Pragmatic Coders

10. Triple Minds

11. Start Matter

12. Click Click Media (Paladine Systems)

13. DevOrbital

14. KUMO (KUMOHQ)

15. SeedInov

16. Scorchsoft

17. Relux Works

18. App Corp

19. Mobilions

20. Entalogics

21. Hashlogics

22. Wavect

23. Bitnoise

24. Instinctools

25. Redwerk

26. Ronas IT

27. appssemble

28. FaasHaus

29. Delamain Software

30. Ment Tech Labs

31. Detartech

32. CodeClouds

33. Green Group Studio

34. HilDes

35. JetBuild Studio

36. US Digital Sciences

37. Future Wonder

38. SilentWave

39. YOSYS Solutions

Marketplaces and developer networks

40. VibeCodeFixers

41. HumansFix.ai

42. Fiverr (rescue gigs)

43. Upwork (Project Catalog)

How much does it cost to fix a vibe-coded app?

How do you vet a rescue provider before you pay?

Why Clutch and GoodFirms barely cover vibe-code rescue

What BigIdeasDB's own data shows (honestly, not much yet)

Methodology

Limitations

The cheapest rescue is the one you never needed.

FAQ

What is a vibe coding rescue service?

What breaks most often in a vibe-coded app?

How much does it cost to fix a vibe-coded app?

What is the cheapest way to get a vibe-coded app reviewed?

Should I rescue my vibe-coded app or rewrite it?

Is my Supabase app secure if I turned on RLS?

Can Lovable or Bolt fix their own bugs?

Do I need an agency or a freelancer to fix my app?

Are vibe-code rescue companies listed on Clutch or GoodFirms?

How long does a vibe-code rescue take?

How common are security flaws in AI-generated code?

What is the best vibe code rescue service?

What is the best first step before hiring a vibe code rescue service?

Why is BigIdeasDB ranked number one on a list of rescue services?