Charm Crush vs. Codex CLI

Feature	Charm Crush	Codex CLI

Tagline	Glamourous agentic coding for all	Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
Website	https://charm.sh	https://openai.com/codex
Language	go	rust
Release Date	July 29, 2025	April 30, 2025
Last Updated	April 28, 2026	June 3, 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, Zed (via ACP)
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model-dependent
Terminal Bench 2.0		#6 · 82.0% ±2.2 ²
Supported Models	All Crush-compatible models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Deepseek, Gemini, Groq, etc.	All frontier GPT, Codex models: GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 pro, GPT-5.3-Codex, optional custom models.
Pricing Model	BYOK	Subscription
Free Tier	Yes	No
Price Range	Free (BYOK)	$20-200/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/openai/codex
Development State	active	active