"Run it yourself" sounds like it could be expensive or unpredictable. It isn't, but you deserve the real numbers rather than a shrug. Here's the honest breakdown: three line items, what drives each, and roughly what to expect.
When you run your own setup, your bill has exactly three parts — and one company (us) is deliberately not a variable in it.
This is the small always-on server that does the work, on a host like Railway, Render, or Koyeb. For a personal box that's mostly idle and springs to life when you use it, this typically lands in the low single digits to about ten dollars a month, depending on the host and how much it's running. It's a flat, predictable hosting cost, the same kind you'd pay for any small always-on service.
The models themselves. You connect your own API keys — Claude, GPT, Gemini, and so on — and you pay each provider directly for what you use, at their price, with no markup from us sitting on top of it. This is the line item that varies with how heavily you work, and it's entirely in your hands and fully in your view.
That's Wetlether — the client that ties it together. There's a free tier to start; paid tiers ($19.99 and up) add the multi-model "crew" features. Whatever tier you're on, we never meter you — a flat price, because we store nothing and run no model, so there's nothing on our side to bill by the token.
Wetlether — a flat app fee, free to start, never metered.