I think we need to be careful about where the pricing of AI tools is heading. I understand charging monthly subscriptions to cover heavy LLM compute costs, but in an MCP setup, you are asking users to pay $9 a month just to view their own data using their own API tokens. In my opinion, that’s taking advantage of the AI hype.
There are already excellent open-source, free implementations on this forum for those willing to set them up locally. But seeing a paid toll bridge put up for this made me step in.
I just added hosted MCP access directly into my app, MyTrainPal. It honestly took me a single morning to implement. It connects your data from multiple sources, it’s fully hosted, and it’s 100% FREE.
I’d rather focus on building a great, polished in-app experience that users actually want to pay for because it’s convenient and easy to use, rather than charging a toll just to route their own data.
Below few screenshots from Claude Desktop:
