Cherry Studio

What is Cherry Studio?

Desktop AI workspace that chats with many models, runs agents and searches your own documents.

Who is Cherry Studio best for?

Cherry Studio is best for people who want one desktop app to chat with many AI models and their own files.

• Comparing models

  One conversation can show answers from several models side by side.

• Research over your own files

  Local knowledge bases built from files, folders and web pages feed chats and agents, with OCR for scanned documents.

• Hands-on agents

  Agents get their own workspace, model and tool permissions, run commands and browser tasks, and can run on a schedule.

• Private use

  Chat history and knowledge bases stay on your device, with local or WebDAV backups.

How much does Cherry Studio cost?

Cherry Studio is free to download and use with your own API keys or local models; the optional Cherry Flash plan costs $10 a month for a hosted model allowance.

Flash is a model allowance and adds no app features: when it runs out, the app keeps working with your own provider keys. The Enterprise Edition adds central model management, shared knowledge bases and staff access controls, with pricing on request. Full pricing on cherryai.com. We checked these prices on 8 Nov 2026.

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Is Cherry Studio open source?

Yes. Cherry Studio's code is public under the AGPL 3.0 licence, so you can run it on your own server.

What are the best Cherry Studio alternatives?

Cherry Studio is an open source alternative to Monica, BoltAI, Msty and Poe. Jan and AnythingLLM do the same job and are open source too.

MonicaFree

AI assistant browser extension with multiple models.

BoltAIFreemium

300 models in one native Mac app.

MstyFree

Local and cloud models in one private workspace.

PoeFree

Every major model and thousands of custom bots in one app.

JanOpen Source

Desktop app that runs open AI models offline on your computer or connects to cloud model APIs.

AnythingLLMOpen Source

Chat with your documents using local or cloud models, with agents, in a desktop app or Docker.

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