Charm Crush vs. Droid CLI

Feature	Charm Crush	Droid CLI

Tagline	Glamourous agentic coding for all	Agent-native software development in your terminal
Website	https://charm.sh	https://factory.ai
Language	go	typescript
Release Date	July 29, 2025	May 28, 2025
Last Updated	April 28, 2026	June 3, 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	VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains IDEs, Vim, Zed
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model-dependent
Terminal Bench 2.0		#12 · 77.3% ±2.2 ²
Supported Models	All Crush-compatible models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Deepseek, Gemini, Groq, etc.	Frontier models by Factory: Opus 4.6, GPT-5, GPT-5.3-Codex & custom models; DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi K2, Qwen.
Pricing Model	BYOK	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK)	$20-200/mo
Source Code Availability	Open Source (FSL-1.1-MIT)	Source Available (Proprietary)
Source Code	https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush	https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory
Development State	active	active