cherry-studio
AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants. Unified access to frontier LLMs
The Lens
By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.
Updated Aug 2026
Cherry Studio puts every LLM behind one desktop window: chat with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, or a local Ollama model from the same app, with hundreds of preconfigured assistants, knowledge bases, document processing, and MCP support for calling external tools. Download it for Windows, Mac, or Linux and it just runs. No server, no Docker.
The Community Edition is AGPL-3.0, and unusually for dual-licensed projects, there's no seat cap or revenue threshold hiding in the license file: commercial use is allowed outright as long as you comply with AGPL. The paid commercial license exists purely to buy an exemption from AGPL obligations, and a separate Enterprise Edition adds private deployment, an admin console, RBAC, and quota management at quote-only pricing.
Solo and small teams: free, plus whatever API keys you plug in. Open WebUI and LibreChat are the browser-based comparisons; Jan and Chatbox are the desktop ones. Cherry Studio's edge is breadth: assistants, agents, knowledge bases, and MCP in one polished client.
The catch: the enterprise side is oriented to the Chinese market (Alipay and bank transfer, quote-based sales), the license terms have been revised repeatedly over the project's life, and the issue tracker runs long. Read the AGPL before you fork it into a product.
Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid
open coreFree (Community Edition): The full desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux under AGPL-3.0. Commercial use permitted under AGPL terms with no seat caps or revenue thresholds. Your API keys, your token costs.
Commercial license: Quote-based, and it buys exactly one thing: exemption from AGPL obligations for teams shipping modified builds.
Enterprise Edition: Cloud-hosted or private-deployed workspace with centralized model management, RBAC, user and quota management. Pricing is not public; sales run through bd@cherry-ai.com with Alipay and bank-transfer payment. Teams outside China should expect friction buying it.
Free desktop app under AGPL. The paid license only buys an exemption from AGPL; Enterprise is quote-only with China-oriented payment rails.
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