Charm Crush vs. Gemini CLI

Feature	Charm Crush	Gemini CLI

Tagline	Glamourous agentic coding for all	An open-source AI agent that brings Gemini into your terminal
Website	https://charm.sh	https://geminicli.com
Language	go	typescript
Release Date	July 29, 2025	June 24, 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	No
IDE Integration	None - terminal only	VS Code
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	No
Context Window	Model-dependent	1M tokens
Terminal Bench 2.0		#42 · 61.4% ±4.1 ²
Supported Models	All Crush-compatible models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Deepseek, Gemini, Groq, etc.	Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro
Pricing Model	BYOK	Free
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK)	Free (1,000 req/day)
Source Code Availability	Open Source (FSL-1.1-MIT)	Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Source Code	https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush	https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli
Development State	active	active