Charm Crush vs. Keen Code

Feature	Charm Crush	Keen Code

Tagline	Glamourous agentic coding for all	Terminal coding agent in Go with a deliberately lean tool set
Website	https://charm.sh	https://mochow13.github.io/keen-code/
Language	go	go
Release Date	July 29, 2025	February 16, 2026
Last Updated	August 19, 2026	September 4, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
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	None - terminal only
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	No
Web Search	Yes	No
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model-dependent; auto-compaction
Supported Models	All Crush-compatible models via Charm Hyper from Anthropic, OpenAI, Deepseek, Gemini, Groq, etc.	Anthropic, OpenAI, Codex via ChatGPT OAuth, Google AI, Moonshot Kimi, Z.ai GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax, Amazon Bedrock, OpenCode Go, plus any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
Supported Subscriptions	—	ChatGPT
Pricing Model	BYOK	Free, BYOK
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK), $0 - $20 / month	Free (BYOK)
Source Code Availability	Open Source (FSL-1.1-MIT)	Open Source (MIT)
Source Code	https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush	https://github.com/mochow13/keen-code
Development State	active	active