Charm Crush vs. Cline CLI

Feature	Charm Crush	Cline CLI

Tagline	Glamourous agentic coding for all	Autonomous coding agent right in your terminal
Website	https://charm.sh	https://cline.bot
Language	go	typescript
Release Date	July 29, 2025	October 2, 2025
Last Updated	April 28, 2026	April 28, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	basic
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, Zed, Neovim, Emacs
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model-dependent (up to 1M)
Supported Models	All Crush-compatible models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Deepseek, Gemini, Groq, etc.	AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, Meta, Azure, Cerebras, 30+ providers
Pricing Model	BYOK	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK)	Free (BYOK) / $20/mo per user
Source Code Availability	Open Source (FSL-1.1-MIT)	Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Source Code	https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush	https://github.com/cline/cline
Development State	active	active