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AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants. Unified access to frontier LLMs

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The Lens

By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.

Updated Oct 2026

Cherry Studio puts every AI model behind one desktop window: chat, agents, knowledge bases, image generation and translation on Windows, macOS and Linux. Bring your own keys for OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini, or run local models through Ollama and LM Studio. The app is free under AGPL-3.0.

There's no server to run. Download, paste an API key, go. Chats, keys and knowledge bases stay on your machine, and requests go straight to the provider you picked. iOS and Android apps exist too.

Two things cost money. Cherry Flash is an optional $8/month plan (a promo off $10) that bundles DeepSeek, Qwen and GLM usage so you skip the keys. Enterprise is a hosted team workspace: prepay US$10,000 in tokens and you get a one-year license with unlimited seats, paid by Alipay or bank transfer. Solo and small teams: free plus API costs. Larger teams: that Enterprise math, or Open WebUI or LibreChat.

The catch: security history. Cherry Studio has shipped several remote-code-execution bugs, from one-click malicious links to malicious MCP servers to a search flaw that ran attacker code with full system access, fixed only in v2. Stay current. Anonymous usage telemetry is on until you turn it off.

Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid

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Free: The full desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux (plus iOS and Android apps) under plain AGPL-3.0, with no seat cap or revenue threshold. Agents, MCP and Skills, knowledge bases, image generation, translation and local models via Ollama or LM Studio. You pay your model providers directly with your own API keys.

Self-hosted: Nothing to host: it's a desktop app, and chats, keys and knowledge bases are stored locally. Calls to providers you configure go direct, not through Cherry's servers. The built-in model services are the exception: those requests relay through Cherry's servers.

Paid: Cherry Flash is $8/month (shown as a promo against $10/month), cancel anytime, and includes monthly usage allowances for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($20), Qwen 3.8 Flash ($15) and GLM 5.3 Flash ($15) at published per-token rates. Enterprise Edition is a cloud-hosted team workspace (admin console, RBAC, shared knowledge bases, usage analytics, API gateway): the offer is US$10,000 of tokens at providers' official rates, which unlocks a one-year Enterprise license with unlimited seats and $0 seat fees, with $12 of free credit to trial. Payment by Alipay or bank transfer. A separate commercial license that exempts you from AGPL obligations is available on request from the team.

Free with your own API keys. Flash is $8/month for bundled Chinese models; Enterprise means a US$10,000 token prepay that unlocks a one-year, unlimited-seat license.

What to do by team size

Solo: free; bring your own API keys
Small team: free, each person on their own keys
Medium team: free per desktop, or Enterprise if you want central admin and shared knowledge bases
Large team: Enterprise via a US$10,000 token prepay with unlimited seats, or self-host Open WebUI instead

Self-hosting ops:trivial

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