# Is Bolt.new HIPAA compliant? No — its HIPAA mentions describe a different setup - Tool: Compliance - Last updated: August 2026 ## TL;DR No. Bolt.new offers no Business Associate Agreement in any public document, and its own trust profile lists only SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR and CCPA. HIPAA appears twice in Bolt's materials, both times describing a self-hosted deployment in your own cloud. Bolt is fine for prototyping on invented data; moving a Bolt app onto a stack with signed BAAs typically runs 6–10 weeks at $13K–$25K. ## Frequently asked questions ### Bolt's site mentions HIPAA — doesn't that mean I'm covered? HIPAA appears twice in Bolt's materials, and both mentions describe a self-hosted, bring-your-own-key deployment inside your own AWS or Azure tenant. Neither describes the hosted builder at bolt.new. And in neither case does Bolt publish a Business Associate Agreement, which is the document that would matter. ### Can I just sign a BAA with Bolt and carry on? We could not find one to sign. The strings BAA, Business Associate and protected health information return zero occurrences across Bolt's and StackBlitz's Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Enterprise, Pricing and Security pages and the trust profile, as of August 2026. If you want certainty, ask Bolt sales in writing and keep the reply. Until a document arrives, treat the absence as an absence. ### Bolt says it's SOC 2. Isn't that basically the same thing? No. A SOC 2 report is an independent audit of how a company runs its own controls. A BAA is a contract about handling your patients' data. One does not stand in for the other, and there is no government HIPAA certification for either party to hold. Worth knowing: Bolt's certifications list reads SOC 2 Type 2, while a status tile on the same trust profile describes a completed SOC 2 Type 1 audit. We report the discrepancy rather than pick the flattering reading. ### My code runs in the browser, so nothing leaves my machine — right? Execution is local: Bolt runs the project client-side in an isolated WebContainer. Generation is not. Your prompts and the file contents used as context go to third-party model providers, and Bolt's trust profile lists Anthropic and Google Gemini as its code-generation subprocessors. The browser sandbox covers the running app, not the conversation that produced it. ### I already pasted real patient data into the Bolt chat. What do I do now? You cannot unsend it, so the first move is documentation, not code. Write down exactly what was pasted and on what date, ask Bolt in writing what their deletion process covers, and rotate any key that was in the project. Then give those details to whoever handles compliance or counsel for you — that call is theirs to make, and no rewrite of your app substitutes for it. ### Do I have to abandon Bolt entirely? No, and we would not suggest it. Bolt is genuinely fast at turning an idea into a working screen, and that value does not disappear. The split we use with clients is simple: Bolt stays the prototyping surface on invented data, and the version that touches real records runs on a stack whose vendors have signed agreements you can produce on request. Most of what RapidDev does in these projects is building that second half without throwing away the first. ### Would self-hosting Bolt solve it? It is the only configuration where Bolt names HIPAA, so it is a fair question to put to them. Two things to keep in mind. Running it inside your own tenant moves most of the responsibility onto you and your cloud provider. And we found no published BAA for that configuration either, so ask Bolt in writing what they would actually sign before you plan around it. ### How long does moving a Bolt app onto a stack with signed BAAs take? In our experience 6–10 weeks at $13K–$25K, and the spread is driven by how many vendors end up in the data path and whether real records already reached the prototype. Tracing where data has been and rotating exposed keys is the first two to three weeks; rebuilding the data layer and putting access control and record-level logging in front of it is the bulk of the rest. --- Source: https://www.rapidevelopers.com/compliance/is-bolt-hipaa-compliant © RapidDev — https://www.rapidevelopers.com/compliance/is-bolt-hipaa-compliant