Charm Crush vs. Codebuff

Feature	Charm Crush	Codebuff

Tagline	Glamourous agentic coding for all	AI coding assistant for your terminal
Website	https://charm.sh	https://codebuff.com
Language	go	typescript
Release Date	July 29, 2025	November 4, 2024
Last Updated	April 28, 2026	April 28, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
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	No
IDE Integration	None - terminal only	None - terminal only
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model-dependent
Supported Models	All Crush-compatible models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Deepseek, Gemini, Groq, etc.	Any supported OpenRouter model
Pricing Model	BYOK	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK)	Free 500 credits/mo / $100-500/mo
Source Code Availability	Open Source (FSL-1.1-MIT)	Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Source Code	https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush	https://github.com/CodebuffAI/codebuff
Development State	active	active