Charm Crush vs Vix

Feature	Charm Crush	Vix

Tagline	Glamourous agentic coding for all	Sleek, Fast and Token Efficient AI Coding Agent
Website	https://charm.sh	https://getvix.dev
Language	go	go
Release Date	July 29, 2025	June 1, 2026
Last Updated	August 19, 2026	August 19, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	shallow
Multi-File Editing	Yes	No
Auto Test Running	Yes	No
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	None - Terminal only	N/A
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	No
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model-dependent
Supported Models	All Crush-compatible models via Charm Hyper from Anthropic, OpenAI, Deepseek, Gemini, Groq, etc.	Anthropic Models (Opus 4.8 / 4.7 / 4.6), OpenAI (GPT-5.1 / o3 / 4o), MiniMax, Xiaomin MiMo and 300+ Models on OpenRouter.
Supported Subscriptions	-	Claude Code ChatGPT
Pricing Model	BYOK	Free
Free Tier	Yes	No
Price Range	Free (BYOK), $0 - $20 / month	$0
Source Code Availability	Open Source (FSL-1.1-MIT)	Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Source Code	https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush	https://github.com/kirby88/vix
Development State	active	active