Charm Crush vs. Continue

Feature	Charm Crush	Continue

Tagline	Glamourous agentic coding for all	The open-source AI code assistant
Website	https://charm.sh	https://continue.dev
Language	go	typescript
Release Date	July 29, 2025	August 21, 2025
Last Updated	April 28, 2026	April 28, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	No
Git Integration	deep	basic
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	No
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	None - terminal only	VS Code, JetBrains IDEs
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.	Claude Opus / Sonnet / Haiku, GPT-5 / pro / mini, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama, Local models for Ollama
Pricing Model	BYOK	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK)	Free (BYOK) / $10/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/continuedev/continue
Development State	active	active