Today I'm releasing SARAH 1.0.5, and the headline is simple: SARAH is now 100% free, forever.
Not a trial. Not a free tier with the good parts locked behind a key. The price of SARAH is now nothing, permanently.
No licence, no tiers, no upgrade path
As of 1.0.5 there's one product. SARAH for Linux, SARAH for Windows. That's the whole catalogue.
What this removes:
- The licence key and the activation screen
- The separate Premium and Free builds — there's one build per platform now
- Every premium feature being gated: sandboxes, multi-chat and GitHub writes are just part of the app
There's nothing to upgrade to, because there's nothing above free.
Why
Because the tiering was friction.
It meant maintaining two build pipelines, a signing and verification chain for licence entitlements, and an activation flow — all so that people could be separated from features that were already written and already shipped. Every hour spent on that was an hour not spent on the app.
Removing it makes SARAH easier to ship, easier to support, and easier to explain. Fewer moving parts is a feature. If something doesn't work for you, I want you to tell me, and the easier that is for you to run it, the more likely I am to fix it.
If you bought a key along the way: nothing changes for you, and you don't need to do anything to keep using it. If you feel hard done by, get in touch and I'll sort it out.
New in 1.0.5: Teams
The other half of this release is something I've wanted for a while.
Teams lets you invite people into a shared group chat with multiple agents in the room.
Previously SARAH was a conversation between you and one agent. With Teams you can bring in other people and more than one agent at once — so the right specialist can weigh in on a problem in the same thread, rather than you copy-pasting context between separate windows and hoping nothing got lost in translation.
Think: a project room where the people who need to be in the decision and the agents best suited to the work are both present. One chat, multiple agents, your team.
Getting it
SARAH 1.0.5 for Linux and Windows:
Updates verify the SHA-256 hash and the ed25519 feed signature before installing anything, so you're not running a half-copied install.
One thing I want to say plainly, since it matters: SARAH going free is not a limited-time offer and there isn't a paid version coming back. The maths only works if I keep the user base large enough, so if you find it useful, tell someone. That's genuinely the whole business model now.
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