Charm Crush vs OpenHands CLI

Feature	Charm Crush	OpenHands CLI

Tagline	Glamourous agentic coding for all	Lightweight OpenHands CLI as a standalone AI coding agent
Website	https://charm.sh	https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands
Language	go	python
Release Date	July 29, 2025	October 18, 2025
Last Updated	August 19, 2026	August 19, 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	Zed, Toad, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	No
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model-dependent
Terminal Bench		#59 · 51.9% ±2.9 (Terminal-Bench 2.0) ²
Supported Models	All Crush-compatible models via Charm Hyper from Anthropic, OpenAI, Deepseek, Gemini, Groq, etc.	Models from multiple providers including, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI. Compatible with 400+ OpenRouter models.
Pricing Model	BYOK	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/OpenHands/OpenHands
Development State	active	active