Charm Crush vs. Qwen Code

Feature	Charm Crush	Qwen Code

Tagline	Glamourous agentic coding for all	An open-source AI agent that lives in your terminal
Website	https://charm.sh	https://qwen.ai/qwencode
Language	go	typescript
Release Date	July 29, 2025	August 1, 2025
Last Updated	April 28, 2026	April 28, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	AI Lab
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	Yes
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	None - terminal only	VS Code, Zed, JetBrains IDEs
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 from Anthropic, OpenAI, Deepseek, Gemini, Groq, etc.	Qwen series models, compatible with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini APIs, including models from OpenRouter.
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/QwenLM/qwen-code
Development State	active	active