5ire
A free, source-available desktop AI assistant for Mac, Windows and Linux that connects to many model providers, runs MCP servers as tools and keeps a local knowledge base.
About 5ire
People who use several model APIs want one desktop chat app that can also call tools and search their own documents.
Who it’s for
- People who bring their own API keys or run Ollama
- Users who want MCP tools in a desktop chat client
When to consider it
Consider 5ire when you want a free desktop chat client that works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Ollama and other providers, adds MCP tools and answers from local docx, xlsx, pptx, pdf, txt and csv files.
Tradeoffs & limitations
- Free to use, but the licence is a modified Apache 2.0: distributing modified versions to enterprise clients with more than 10 users, in products for sale or in sensitive government or education procurement requires a commercial licence, and the 5ire brand may not be used in forks.
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Documentation-based assessment · Oct 31, 2026 · Prepared with AI assistance; not a hands-on benchmark.
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A free, source-available desktop AI assistant for Mac, Windows and Linux that connects to many model providers, runs MCP servers as tools and keeps a local knowledge base.
Based on official pages and announcements checked on 2026-10-31. No hands-on test, performance benchmark or popularity ranking is claimed.