Telechat — Claude AI on your phone. Self-hosted. No cloud relay.

Tagline

Claude AI on your phone. Self-hosted. No cloud relay.

The Problem

You want Claude AI in your messaging apps — Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack. Anthropic's Claude Code Channels does this for Telegram and Discord, but it routes everything through their cloud, requires a Pro subscription, and offers no cost controls.

What if you could run Claude on your own machine, keep every message private, control costs down to the penny, and connect to WhatsApp and Slack too?

The Solution

Telechat is a self-hosted Claude AI bot that runs on your machine and connects to Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, and web chat simultaneously.

Install in 60 seconds:

npm install -g telechatai && telechat init

That's it. One process, four platforms, zero cloud relay.

Key Features

Smart Model Routing

Telechat analyzes each message and routes it to the cheapest Claude model that can handle it. Simple questions go to Haiku ($0.001/query). Complex reasoning goes to Opus. This saves ~60% on API costs compared to always using Sonnet.

Desktop Bridge

The feature nobody else has. When Claude Code is running on your desktop and needs human approval for a destructive action, you get a push notification on your phone. Approve or deny from Telegram or WhatsApp.

Budget Controls

Set per-user daily and monthly spending caps. Get warnings at 80%. Hard cutoff at 100%. Share Claude with your team without surprise bills.

True Privacy

Every message stays on your machine. No relay server, no telemetry, no analytics. The only external call is to Anthropic's API for inference.

Multi-Platform

Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, and web chat — all from one process. Claude Code Channels only supports Telegram and Discord.

Who It's For

• Developers who want Claude on their phone without a Pro subscription
• Teams who need shared AI access with budget controls
• Privacy-conscious users who want self-hosted AI
• Enterprise with data sovereignty requirements
• DevOps engineers who want remote approval for AI agent actions

Pricing

Telechat is free and open-source. You pay only for Anthropic API usage (bring your own key).

Links

• Website: telechat.fyi
• npm: npm install -g telechatai
• PyPI: pip install telechatai
• GitHub: github.com/telechatai

Claude Code Channels phones home. Telechat stays home.