Charm Crush vs Claude Code

Feature	Charm Crush	Claude Code

Tagline	Glamourous agentic coding for all	An agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal
Website	https://charm.sh	https://claude.ai/code
Language	go	typescript
Release Date	July 29, 2025	February 22, 2025
Last Updated	August 19, 2026	September 4, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	AI Lab
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	Yes
IDE Integration	None - Terminal only	VS Code, JetBrains
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	1M tokens
Terminal Bench		#2 · 57.9% ±3.8 (Terminal-Bench 4.0) ²
AA Coding Agent Index	-	70% · Fable 5.1 (max, with fallback)
Supported Models	All Crush-compatible models via Charm Hyper from Anthropic, OpenAI, Deepseek, Gemini, Groq, etc.	Claude Fable 5 / Mythos 5 (Restricted Availability), Opus 4.8, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Haiku 4.5
Supported Subscriptions	—	Claude Code
Pricing Model	BYOK	Subscription
Free Tier	Yes	No
Price Range	Free (BYOK), $0 - $20 / month	$17-200/mo
Source Code Availability	Open Source (FSL-1.1-MIT)	Proprietary Software
Source Code	https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush	https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code
Development State	active	active