Cherry Studio ​

Support: pay-as-you-go Xiaoku APIs are supported.

Install the CLI ​

Node.js 20+ is required.

bash
npm install -g @cherry-studio/cherry-cli

Check: cherry --version

Configure ​

bash
cherry config set provider openai
cherry config set api-key XIAOKU_API_KEY
cherry config set base-url https://api-ai.xiaoku.ai/v1
cherry config set model deepseek-v4-pro

Option 2 (interactive) ​

Run cherry auth, choose the OpenAI provider, and enter the settings when prompted.

Use ​

Run cherry to start, or cherry --tui for TUI mode.

VS Code extension ​

Search the VS Code marketplace for the Cherry Studio extension and install it. Add this to settings.json:

json
{
  "cherry-studio.apiKey": "XIAOKU_API_KEY",
  "cherry-studio.baseUrl": "https://api-ai.xiaoku.ai/v1",
  "cherry-studio.model": "deepseek-v4-pro"
}