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DeepSeek
China's open-source value king with frontier reasoning
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Best Cherry Studio alternatives
AI tools that cover similar ground to Cherry Studio, sorted by relevance. Use the table for a quick pricing and category check, then click through for details.
| Tool | Pricing | Categories | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek | Free | AI Chat / Coding | China's open-source value king with frontier reasoning |
| 通义千问 | Freemium | AI Chat | Alibaba's open-model family, top of global downloads |
| 豆包 | Free | AI Chat | ByteDance's mass-market AI assistant |
| 文心一言 | Freemium | AI Chat | Baidu's ERNIE chat product |
| 腾讯混元 | Freemium | AI Chat | Tencent's fully in-house LLM family |
| Kimi | Free | AI Chat | From Moonshot AI — the long-context champion |
| 智谱清言 | Free | AI Chat | The consumer face of Zhipu's GLM models |
| 星野 | Freemium | AI Roleplay / AI Chat | MiniMax's immersive AI character community, China's top companion app |
How we picked these alternatives
We only include tools that share at least one category with Cherry Studio. Ordering is relevance-based, not paid: featured tools first, then the rest of the category.
Freemium
通义千问
Alibaba's open-model family, top of global downloads
AI Chat
Free
豆包
ByteDance's mass-market AI assistant
AI Chat
Freemium
文心一言
Baidu's ERNIE chat product
AI Chat
Freemium
腾讯混元
Tencent's fully in-house LLM family
AI Chat
FeaturedFree
Kimi
From Moonshot AI — the long-context champion
AI Chat
Free
智谱清言
The consumer face of Zhipu's GLM models
AI Chat
Freemium
星野
MiniMax's immersive AI character community, China's top companion app
AI RoleplayAI Chat
Freemium
猫箱
ByteDance's AI roleplay app with swipeable story worlds
AI RoleplayAI Chat
Freemium
Chai
Swipe-through feed of AI characters to chat with
AI RoleplayAI Chat
Freemium
CrushOn.AI
Unfiltered character chats with multi-model support
AI RoleplayAI Chat
Freemium
Candy.ai
AI girlfriend experience with voice calls and generated photos
AI RoleplayAI Chat
Freemium
Kindroid
Deeply customizable AI companion with long-term memory
AI RoleplayAI Chat
Freemium
MiniMax
China's AI tiger behind Hailuo, full-modal LLMs
LLMsAI Chat
Freemium
阶跃星辰 StepFun
StepFun's Step series: strong multimodal open models
LLMsAI Chat
Freemium
讯飞星火 SparkDesk
iFlytek Spark Desk, LLM with top speech tech
LLMsAI Chat
Free
GPT4All
Local LLMs that run on everyday laptops
AI Open SourceDesktop AI
Freemium
Chatbox
Cross-platform desktop client for ChatGPT and more
Desktop AIAI Chat
Free
NextChat
One-click deploy your own ChatGPT web UI
Desktop AIAI Chat
Freemium
LobeChat
Beautiful open-source AI chat framework
Desktop AIAI Chat
Paid
BoltAI
Native macOS AI assistant for any app
Desktop AIProductivity
Freemium
Msty
One app blending local and online AI models
Desktop AIAI Chat
Freemium
Raycast
Blazing launcher with built-in AI commands
Desktop AIProductivity
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Rewind
Records everything you saw, said and heard
Desktop AIProductivity