Open source alternatives to Poe

By GitHub stars it is Cherry Studio, with 53,490 stars and a commit on 14 Nov. Choose Cherry Studio when you would rather pay model providers directly with your own keys than buy one subscription for many models. Next come LibreChat (47,106 stars) and Jan (45,713 stars).

Yes. The code of all 4 is public under AGPL 3.0, MIT or Apache 2.0, so you can use them with no licence fee. Running one yourself costs the server and your time to look after it, and some makers also sell a hosted plan.

Start from the job you use Poe for. Choose Jan when you want to switch between many models with your own API keys and no subscription, plus open models offline. Choose LibreChat when you want many models in one chat app but need it on your own server with your own API keys.

All 4: Cherry Studio, LibreChat, Jan and Zola. Each tool's page says what it needs to run.

3 of the 4 we track had a commit in the last 30 days, among them Cherry Studio, LibreChat and Jan. The quietest is Zola, last changed on 11 Dec 2025. A recent commit shows the project is kept up, not that it will stay that way.

Apache 2.0 (2), AGPL 3.0 (1), MIT (1). MIT, BSD and Apache let you change and reuse the code freely. GPL and AGPL ask you to share your changes under the same licence when you give the software to others, and AGPL also counts letting people use it over a network.

The hosting. Poe's maker runs the servers for you; with an open source tool the updates, backups, security fixes and support are yours, unless you take the maker's hosted plan. Features differ too, so check what each one imports and exports before you move your data.