What free actually gets you
The free tier is not a demo, it is the measurement layer: wrap your client, and cost per user, per feature, and per model accumulates against each user’s plan price, across multiple projects. That is enough to have the unprofitable user discovery on your real data, run the three sign diagnostic, and know your true cost per action for pricing decisions. 50,000 requests a month covers the entire early life of most products by design.
What Pro adds: the operational layer
- Spending caps with enforcement: per plan monthly budgets that block or downgrade before the call, per the block or downgrade guide. This is the difference between knowing about the tail and having a ceiling on it.
- Agent loop detection: velocity alerts (default 50,000 tokens per user in 5 minutes) to Slack and email, per what happens when Weckr catches a runaway.
- Margin alerts and the weekly digest: an account crossing below break even pages you instead of waiting to be noticed.
- Model and pricing recommendations: per feature suggestions of cheaper capable models and what your plans should cost given measured usage.
- Volume: up to 1 million logged requests a month.
The honest decision rule
Measurement is free because measurement is the beginning, and charging for it would just delay your discovery. Pro is priced on what happens after: the moment you have seen a red margin row or a token spike, “check the dashboard more often” is not a plan, and $49 against a single prevented runaway or one capped unprofitable account typically pays for the year. If you have not seen either yet, stay free with our blessing; the upgrade will name itself when it happens. The math for whether your plans carry the risk at all is in the heavy tail audit.
FAQ
What does the Weckr free tier include?
Up to 50,000 logged requests a month, with the core per user and per feature cost tracking, the dashboard, and multi project support. No credit card. For most products before meaningful traction, 50,000 requests covers everything, which is deliberate: the free tier is sized so that measuring never has a cost barrier at the stage where you most need the numbers.
What does Weckr Pro add and cost?
Pro is $49 a month with a 7 day free trial, cancel anytime from the dashboard. It raises the ceiling to 1 million requests a month and includes the operational layer: spending caps with block or downgrade enforcement, agent loop detection, margin alerts, and model plus pricing recommendations.
When do I actually need Pro?
Two triggers, whichever comes first: volume (approaching 50,000 logged requests a month, roughly a few thousand active users of a typical feature) or enforcement (the moment you want caps that block or downgrade automatically rather than dashboards you check manually). Most upgrades happen for the second reason: visibility finds a problem, enforcement is how you stop rediscovering it.
Can I find unprofitable users on the free tier?
Yes. Cost per user against plan price, the core margin view, works on free, so the discovery moment does not require paying. What Pro adds is acting on it continuously: the cap that bounds the account you found, the velocity alert for the runaway you have not met yet, and the recommendations that suggest cheaper models per feature.
What happens if I exceed the free tier limit?
Logging is what is metered, and the design principle everywhere in Weckr is that measurement must never break your product: your LLM calls are never blocked by tier limits, the SDK fails open by design. Practically, approaching the ceiling is the volume signal that it is time for Pro.
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Start where it costs nothing
Poke the demo first if you like (no signup), then the ten minute integration on the free tier. Pro and its 7 day trial are one click in the dashboard whenever the first trigger fires. Full pricing detail on the pricing section.