Charm Crush vs. Kilo Code

Feature	Charm Crush	Kilo Code

Tagline	Glamourous agentic coding for all	The all-in-one agentic engineering platform
Website	https://charm.sh	https://kilo.ai
Language	go	typescript
Release Date	July 29, 2025	October 15, 2025
Last Updated	June 29, 2026	July 15, 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, JetBrains, Cursor, Windsurf, Trae AI
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 via Charm Hyper from Anthropic, OpenAI, Deepseek, Gemini, Groq, etc.	Kilo Gateway managed AI models and supports 500+ AI models including Anthropic, GPT, Gemini, Custom AI models.
Supported Subscriptions	—	ChatGPT GitHub Copilot SuperGrok OpenCode Go / Zen X Premium Kilo Pass Ollama Cloud MiniMax Token Plan
Pricing Model	BYOK	Freemium, Usage Based, Subscription, Free, BYOK
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK), $0 - $20 / month	Free forever (individual users, BYOK), $19/mo (Kilo Pass), $15/mo (teams)
Source Code Availability	Open Source (FSL-1.1-MIT)	Open Source (MIT)
Source Code	https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush	https://github.com/Kilo-Org/kilocode
Development State	active	active