Providers and keys

Wobu does no AI work of its own, and sells you nothing. You paste in a key you got yourself, and Wobu talks to that company directly on your behalf. Nothing is set up in advance, and there is no account to make here.

Three jobs, not one setting

You pick a service for each job, not one for everything. Enhancing with one company, making pictures on your own graphics card, and making 3D shapes through a third is a perfectly ordinary setup.

Text also has a Model box you can type into, because model names change faster than apps do. Leave it blank for the company's default.

Two halves, because they belong to different people

Settings → Providers and models is split down the middle, and the split is the whole point.

What this project uses is saved in the world folder and travels with it. Open a world somebody else built and you can see the choices they made — which service, which model, which region. It is tagged shared.

Keys on this computer never travel. They are tagged local, and they are listed once per company rather than once per job, because a key is not tied to a job — the same Gemini key writes text and makes pictures. Where your ComfyUI is running lives in this half too, for the same reason: it describes this computer, not the world.

How keys are stored

Keys go into your computer's own password store — Secret Service on Linux, Keychain on macOS, Credential Manager on Windows. Only the part of Wobu that talks to the internet ever sees them: they never reach the part that draws the screen, are never written to a log file, and are blanked out of error messages before you can read them. A key already set up in your environment is used too, and Settings tells you which of the two a key came from.

Keys never go in the world folder World folders are meant to live on shared drives. A key in there would be a key handed to everybody with access to that drive — and to your version history, and to whoever the folder eventually gets emailed to. So the world only records the choice: which service, which model, which region, and the default settings.

That means keys belong to your installation, not to a world. Opening somebody else's world uses your keys. A collaborator without one sees Gemini selected — no key on this machine and an Add key button, rather than a failure halfway through a job.

Where a company allows it, Check this key asks for one short description and stops after a few dozen words — a fraction of a penny, and nothing at all if the key is refused.

Missing keys are not a disaster

Open a world whose chosen service you have no key for and just that one job goes quiet, with a button right there to fix it. You can still read, write and organise the whole world — only Enhance or Generate stops. On Linux, a locked login keyring does not disable Add or Save: Wobu reports the condition and uses its owner-only local credential store instead.

Anthropic

Keys come from the Claude Console. Anthropic is the default for text: a world that has not chosen anything uses it, and Settings says so rather than leaving the box looking empty.

Google Gemini

Keys come from AI Studio. Gemini can do both the text and the pictures.

Text — for Enhance

A fast, cheap model by default. Descriptions are asked for in a fixed shape, so what comes back fits neatly into sections rather than being prose somebody has to unpick.

The thing most likely to catch you out Gemini image generation has no free tier. Text is free; every image model needs billing. So if you paste in a working key, enhance a species perfectly happily, and then hit an error on Generate — nothing is broken. You need billing turned on in your Google account. Wobu spots this exact case and says so plainly instead of showing you a raw error.

Images — for Generate

Several tiers, from a cheap small model up to a good one that takes the most reference pictures. Pictures come back directly rather than as links, and everything carries an invisible SynthID watermark.

Two things worth knowing before you plan around them:

• How many reference pictures a model takes varies, and it varies by type — objects, characters and style. Wobu respects those limits. See References.
• Gemini image models take no "never draw this" list. Every Never line is held back and reported as held back, rather than being quietly pasted into the prompt, where it would summon the very thing you banned.

ComfyUI (on your own machine)

Point Wobu at a running ComfyUI and pictures are made on your own graphics card. No key, no estimate, no bill, and nothing leaves the machine. The usual address is http://127.0.0.1:8188; Save and check confirms it is really there. It is remembered on this computer, never in the world folder.

If you point it at a machine other than your own, that machine receives your prompts and reference pictures — so only ever use a server you trust. Passwords in the address are refused; anything needing a login has to be set up outside Wobu.

Wobu drives ComfyUI rather than replacing it. Your node graph stays exactly where it is, and Wobu stays a document editor.

Two limits worth knowing The setups that ship with Wobu take no picture input, so reference pictures are not sent to ComfyUI at all — they are reported as not sent rather than quietly ignored. And Flux-family models have no way to take a "never draw this" list, so those lines are held back for them too. On the plus side, ComfyUI shows you a live preview while it works, which the paid services do not.

Tencent Hunyuan3D (3D shapes)

The paid 3D service, and the one that genuinely takes some setting up. Settings walks you through it in three linked steps — switch on the service, open the users page, make a limited key — and it is worth knowing why before you start:

Wobu asks first, rather than finding out the hard way

Each service says up front what it can do, and Wobu uses that before sending anything rather than discovering it from an error:

• The list of shapes comes from the service you chose; a saved shape it will not accept is fixed first, and you are shown the size it settled on.
• A service that takes no shape references shows yours as downgraded to mood-board-only.
• Limits on reference pictures are respected, so the panel can say 3/3 style refs and name what got left out.
• A service with no "never draw this" list has yours held back, and says so.
• Services that require billing are marked as such before you spend anything.

Keeping track of spending

Wobu does not meter your spending or cap it. Everything is billed to your own account, and your provider's dashboard is the only place that knows what is left on it — set a budget alert there if that matters to you.

• Your own machine costs nothing at a provider. Paid services are marked as such before you generate, and that asymmetry is deliberate.
• Every picture is saved with the service, model and settings that made it, so what a world really cost can be reconstructed from the folder itself.
• If a paid job is charged for and produces nothing, Wobu says so rather than calling it free.
• 3D sits behind a tick box: that service charges per job you send and does not report the amount. See Concept 3D.

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This page comes from a file in the source code — the very same one the app shows you in its own built-in guide.