WPVibe sells a daily allowance of tool calls and stops your AI when it runs out. Respira has no meter: you pay for site slots, and your AI does as much as the work needs.
17 page builders, plus the Site Editor
Respira and WPVibe both connect the AI you already use, Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Cursor and others, to a WordPress site.
Every WPVibe plan is a daily allowance of tool calls, shared across all your sites, and when it runs out WPVibe blocks further calls until allowance frees up. Respira counts site slots, the number of sites you need connected at the same time, not usage. There is no daily cap on what your AI does.
With WPVibe, changes to existing posts and pages go live immediately. With Respira, they land on a copy a person approves, and every page and post write saves a snapshot you can restore for 90 days.
WPVibe is a hosted relay that holds an application password for each site. Connected directly, Respira sends your content between your site and your AI, never through Respira's servers.
Each is written in its own format, including Oxygen, WPBakery, Brizy and Flatsome, which WPVibe does not cover.
WPVibe is the better choice in some cases, and this page says which. Every statement about WPVibe links to WPVibe's own page, as checked on 3 October 2026.
Undo: deletes go to the trash; a published theme keeps a backup.
Undo: a snapshot of every page and post write, restorable for 90 days.
Respira is not in the path. The exception is Respira AER, the optional hosted chat.
AI products usually charge by usage in one form or another: tokens, credits, requests, generations, a daily allowance. Your AI provider already does. Claude, ChatGPT and Grok bill you by subscription limits or by tokens for the thinking your AI does.
WPVibe adds a second meter on top of that one, on the same work: the tool calls your AI makes against your site. Listing pages, reading a page, editing it, uploading an image, each one counts. Its pricing page says the allowance is counted over a rolling 24 hours, shared across every site on the account, and that "when you hit the cap, WPVibe blocks further counted calls and tells you when allowance frees up again."
Respira has no second meter, and it does not sell AI either. Your AI runs on the subscription or key you already have, and Respira adds nothing to that bill. The price of a Respira plan is the number of site slots, and it is the same in a quiet month and in the month you rebuild three client sites.
What this does not cover, so you can hold me to it: Respira Exhale, which turns an HTML design into a builder page, and unattended cloud runs in Respira AER do their work on Respira's own servers and come with a monthly allowance included in the plan. There is nothing to buy on top of either; a larger plan includes more.
Usage limits exist to catch a runaway AI agent doing 50,000 edits in a loop. They do not exist to monetize normal work.
Respira pricing philosophy
Reaching it costs nothing and buys nothing; calls free up again as the hour moves on. The fair usage policy is about account sharing and reselling, and the first step under it is always a message, never a lockout.
Most days are quiet. A cap matters on the others: a site rebuild, a migration, a content refresh across every client. So I measured them from Respira's own records of the tool calls made through it, 16 September to 3 October 2026.
On Respira, every one of those days costs the same as a quiet one.
Next to each WPVibe plan, the Respira plan at the same annual price or less, each in its own currency. The match is by price, not by number of sites.
| WPVibe plan (unlimited sites) | WPVibe allowance | Respira plan at the same price or less | Respira allowance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free, $0 | 100 calls a day | No free plan; a 7-day Maker trial, no card | 1,000 calls an hour* |
| Pro, $99 a year | 500 calls a day | Maker, €71 a year, 1 site at a time** | 1,000 calls an hour* |
| Power, $299 a year | 2,000 calls a day | Builder, €238 a year, 10 sites at a time** | 1,000 calls an hour* |
| Agency, $599 a year | 5,000 calls a day | Studio, €451 a year, 25 sites at a time** | 1,000 calls an hour* |
| Scale, $899 a year | 10,000 calls a day | Studio, €768 a year, 50 sites at a time** | 1,000 calls an hour* |
* A default you control, not a plan limit. It stops a runaway agent, it lives on your own site, and the site owner can raise it to 100,000 calls an hour, which is 2,400,000 a day. In practice, unlimited.
** The number of sites connected at the same time. Any slot can move to another site whenever you stop working on the one it holds, so over a year one plan can serve far more sites than its number.
The window is short, because Respira has recorded every tool call only since 16 September 2026. For the five and a half months before it, 1 April to 15 September 2026, only edits and uploads were recorded, so the count is a floor. Even so, 24% of accounts had a day with more than 100 writes alone, 4% had one with more than 500, and the busiest day had 8,614 writes.
In August a WPVibe user on a paid plan wrote on WordPress.org: You have to stop, wait for a few credits to come back, perform a few more actions, and then wait again.
WPVibe's author replied that the allowance is a rolling 24-hour window and that higher tiers are there for serious daily / bulk use.
Read these numbers as a picture of how uneven real work is, not as a forecast of how often WPVibe would stop you. They are calendar days, while WPVibe counts a rolling 24 hours; Respira's records include some calls WPVibe would not count; and the two products cut their tools differently.
Respira counts site slots: the number of sites you need connected at the same time. It is not a list of fixed websites. When you no longer work on a site, disconnect it in your dashboard and connect the new one, with no fee and no waiting period. On a one-site plan, connect a new site and the slot moves to it.
How often can you move a slot? As often as your work needs. On a one-site plan, from the sixth move, your billing page suggests the next plan up. It is a suggestion on a page. Nothing is blocked, slowed or charged, and moves on larger plans are not counted at all.
8 client sites in a year on 5 slots, for €150 a year, with no meter on any of them.
| Respira plan | Slots | Per year | Per slot, per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maker | 1 | €71 | €71.00 |
| Builder | 5 | €150 | €30.00 |
| Studio | 25 | €451 | €18.04 |
| Studio | 250 | €2,970 | €11.88 |
What changes between Respira plans is the number of slots, not what the product can do. Every plan gets every core tool, all 17 page builders, the whole safety layer (draft copies, approvals, plan mode, 90-day snapshots), site memory, Art Direction, the security and accessibility scans, Exhale and the skills.
Three things start at Builder: Murmur client review links, AER runs across several sites, and paid team seats. WooCommerce is the one add-on that adds tools: its 104 store tools would otherwise sit in every AI session on every site, store or not. Studio and Founder include them.
WPVibe takes the other approach: unlimited sites, one allowance between them. That is a good fit for many sites with light use.
| Topic | WPVibe | Respira |
|---|---|---|
| Usage limit | A daily allowance of tool calls over a rolling 24 hours, shared across all sites on the account. Further calls are blocked at the cap. Pricing | No tool-call allowance, no daily cap, no credits or tokens. One safety rail against a runaway agent: 1,000 calls an hour per site key by default, set on your site, which you can raise. Fair usage |
| What you pay for | Per account, unlimited sites, priced by daily allowance: Free (100 a day), Pro $99 a year (500), Power $299 (2,000), Agency $599 (5,000), Scale $899 (10,000). Pricing | Site slots you can move between sites. Maker €71 a year (1 slot), Builder from €150 (5 slots), Studio from €451 (25 slots, WooCommerce included), about €11.88 per slot a year at 250 slots. Pricing |
| Free option | A free plan with 100 tool calls a day. Pricing | A 7-day trial on Maker, no card. |
| How your AI connects | One hosted address for every AI client, signed in to a WPVibe account. WordPress.org | Browser sign-in for claude.ai, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor; any remote MCP client with the site address and a key; or an optional local server. Three ways in |
| Where your content goes | Through WPVibe's relay on Cloudflare, which then calls your site. WPVibe says it does "not claim that site content never leaves your host." Security | Straight between your site and your AI on a direct connection, never through Respira's servers. Privacy |
| Site credential | A WordPress application password for each site, stored encrypted on WPVibe's servers. Security | A Respira site key, with read-only and approval-gated profiles. |
| Edits to a published page | Go live immediately, like editing in wp-admin. New posts start as drafts. WordPress.org FAQ | Land on a draft copy you approve before it goes live. A site owner can turn on direct editing, and even then Respira asks you to confirm before it changes the original. |
| Undo | Deletes go to the trash; publishing a theme keeps a backup. WordPress.org | A snapshot before every page and post write, restorable for 90 days. |
| Approvals | Approval with a dry-run preview for destructive actions. Since 1.20.0, an optional per-site switch, off by default, that skips approvals for deletes, SQL, WP-CLI, REST writes, abilities and fleet jobs, with a red banner and a log while it is on. Changelog | Plan mode, approval for the actions a site owner gates, and client approval on the page itself from a link, with no login. Respira AER also has an Auto mode, which you switch on yourself, that runs permitted operations without asking again. Terms 4 |
| Page builders | Gutenberg, Elementor, SeedProd, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks and Breakdance, plus Kadence and GeneratePress skills. WordPress.org | 17 plus the Site Editor, each written in its own format, with element-level editing on most, including Oxygen, WPBakery, Brizy and Flatsome. Narrower on Visual Composer (limited write), Thrive Architect (text edits) and SeedProd (audit-only). Builders |
| Beyond page content | 37 MCP tools, plus 125+ WP-CLI commands emulated in PHP, SQL with approval, and theme files in a draft theme with a preview. Homepage | 250+ tools on any site, and 104 WooCommerce tools with the add-on. |
| A site on your own computer | Needs a Cloudflare Tunnel, because the service runs in the cloud. Docs | The optional local server reaches it directly. |
| For agencies | White label mode free on every plan: it hides WPVibe's branding from the site's dashboard. Client invites and per-client usage reporting on Agency and Scale. Agencies | Team seats, free for the first 30 days, then from €5 a month per editor, billed only in active months; client review links on the page itself; client reports; white label as an add-on from €200 a year. Pricing |
| Where to get it | WordPress.org, with 50,000+ active installs, and the ChatGPT Apps and Claude directories. WordPress.org | From your Respira dashboard. Submitted to the Claude and ChatGPT directories. |
The work an agency does for clients every week. "Not listed" means I read all 380 public pages of wpvibe.ai on 3 October 2026 and none of them mentions it. If WPVibe has it, tell me and I'll fix the row.
| Feature | WPVibe | Respira |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | Saved skills: instructions your AI saves to your WPVibe account and loads in later chats, up to 100. | Site memory kept in the WordPress site itself, plus site rules the plugin enforces on every agent. Playbooks your AI can save and rerun. |
| Client feedback links | Not listed. Draft themes get a private preview link that only you see while logged in. | Murmur: your client opens the page with no login, taps any spot and leaves a note. Builder plan and up. |
| Client reports | Not listed. Cookbook recipes produce reports inside the chat. | Activity reports of what changed and when, and accessibility reports you can send a client as a link. |
| Teams | Each teammate makes their own free WPVibe account. Clients can be invited and sponsored on Agency and Scale. | Team seats scoped per site. Owner free, one free client seat, editors €5 and admins €10 a month, billed only in months the seat did something. |
| Security scan | A cookbook recipe: your AI checks core and plugin files against the official checksums and reviews admin accounts. | A security audit built into the plugin, against 40,000+ known vulnerabilities from Wordfence Intelligence, refreshed every six hours. |
| Skills | Built-in skills for page builders, WooCommerce, SEO and accessibility audits, loaded on demand. | 55 open-source skills in the Claude plugin, free for everyone, from site audits to builder migrations. |
| Its own AI workspace | Not listed. You work from Claude, ChatGPT or another AI client. | Respira AER: a chat in your dashboard and on your phone, connected to all your sites, running on your own AI provider account. |
| HTML to WordPress | Your AI rebuilds a static HTML site as a classic theme; WPVibe's own write-up took about an hour. | Respira Exhale: drop an HTML file and get a native page in any of 17 page builders in seconds, with no AI touching the file. |
Both products offer white label, and they mean different things by it. One removes the maker's badge. The other puts yours on.
Free on every plan. One click hides every WPVibe surface in the site's dashboard: the admin menu, the dashboard widget, the plugins list entry, the editor sidebar and its rows on the Updates and Site Health screens. Turning it on always asks for approval, because it also hides the approval log. Docs
An add-on: €200 a year for up to 3 sites, or €500 a year for every site on your plan. Your studio's name, logo, accent color and support contact replace Respira's in wp-admin, on review links, on the approve bar and on client reports. White label
The questions I would want answered before letting any AI tool near a client site, Respira included.
The change waits somewhere a person can see it before visitors do, or at least it is saved so it can be put back.
Side by sidePage content is the easy part; plugins, users, menus and settings are where answers get vague.
UndoA cap that stops an agent halfway through a rebuild is a different risk from a cap that only shows up on an invoice.
UsageDirectly between your site and your AI, or through the vendor's servers? Read the security page, not only the FAQ.
Side by sideYou should be able to cut access from your own WordPress admin in one step.
Credentials"Supports" can mean read, write, or a skill that describes the builder. Ask for the list with the exceptions.
BuildersLook for a clear answer in the data processing agreement, with times.
DeletionThe safest answer is that everything it made is ordinary WordPress content that keeps working without it.
ContinuityTwo things. WPVibe charges for usage: a daily allowance of tool calls. Respira does not meter usage at all; you pay for site slots. And what happens to a live page: with WPVibe, edits to existing posts, pages and media go live immediately. With Respira, an edit to a published page lands on a draft copy that a person approves before it goes live, and every page and post write saves a snapshot that can be restored for 90 days.
Yes. Every WPVibe plan is a daily allowance of tool calls, counted over a rolling 24 hours and shared across all the sites on the account: 100 on Free, 500 on Pro ($99 a year), 2,000 on Power ($299 a year), 5,000 on Agency ($599 a year), 10,000 on Scale ($899 a year). When the allowance runs out, WPVibe blocks further calls until it frees up again.
Respira. It sells site slots instead of usage: no tool-call allowance, no credits, no tokens and no daily cap. The one limit is a safety default against a runaway agent, 1,000 calls an hour per site key, which the site owner can raise to 100,000. Maker covers one site for €71 a year, Builder 5 sites for €150, Studio 25 sites for €451.
WPVibe is run by SeedProd, LLC in Florida and processes data in the United States; its data processing agreement says it offers no EU-only processing region. Respira is built in Brașov, Romania, under Romanian law, with its primary data store in Ireland. On a direct connection, your site's content does not pass through Respira at all.
Yes. A Respira plan is a number of site slots, not a list of fixed sites. Disconnect a site in your dashboard and the slot is free for the next one straight away. On a one-site plan, connecting a new site moves the slot for you.
No. Respira connects to claude.ai, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor by signing in from the browser, with nothing to install. Any remote MCP client can connect with the site address and a key, and an optional local server is there for Claude Code and other desktop clients.
There is no free plan. Maker, for one site, starts with a 7-day free trial with no card. WPVibe has a free plan with 100 tool calls a day.
On a quiet month, WPVibe can be: its plans cover unlimited sites. The difference shows on busy days. WPVibe's allowance is shared across every site on the account, so 25 client sites on its Agency plan ($599 a year) share 5,000 calls a day, and a rebuild on one site eats into all the others. Respira Studio covers 25 site slots for €451 a year with no daily cap, falling to about €11.88 per slot a year at 250 slots.
I am grateful to get to build in this space at all. Not long ago, letting an AI work on a live WordPress site was a demo. Now people do it every day, and the space keeps growing, thanks in good part to teams like SeedProd and what they have built with WPVibe.
More good tools means more people trust AI with their sites, whichever tool they choose. If you try both and pick WPVibe, I hope it serves you well.
Mihai Dragomirescu, Brașov, RomaniaAsk each tool for the same three jobs on a staging copy, with the same AI model: an edit in your page builder, a WooCommerce product update, and undoing the edit. Then look at the published site, not the chat. Maker starts with a 7-day free trial, no card.