Charm Crush vs. Poolside Agent CLI

Feature	Charm Crush	Poolside Agent CLI

Tagline	Glamourous agentic coding for all	Work with Poolside Agents from your terminal
Website	https://charm.sh	https://docs.poolside.ai/cli/pool
Language	go	go
Release Date	July 29, 2025	October 25, 2025
Last Updated	June 29, 2026	June 25, 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	No
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	None - terminal only	Poolside Assistant, VS Code, Visual Studio
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	No
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	No
Context Window	Model-dependent	(Point) 64K - 128K (Malibu, Laguna)
Supported Models	All Crush-compatible models via Charm Hyper from Anthropic, OpenAI, Deepseek, Gemini, Groq, etc.	Laguna M.1, Laguna XS.2, Malibu, Point and OpenRouter with over 300+ supported models.
Pricing Model	BYOK	Subscription
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK), $0 - $20 / month	$0, Enterprise
Source Code Availability	Open Source (FSL-1.1-MIT)	Proprietary Software
Source Code	https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush	https://github.com/poolsideai/pool
Development State	active	active