Crush

Crush is Charm's terminal coding agent. The CLI itself is $0. The first-party inference path is Hyper: Free $0 / month with 100 Hypercredits, Subscription $20 / month with 250 Hypercredits refreshing daily, plus prepaid bundles $5 / 100, $10 / 500, $20 / 2,000. The Hyper page says 1 Hypercredit is currently 5¢. You can also paste Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, and other keys. Do not call this a Claude subscription.

Compare Claude Code if you wanted Anthropic's CLI, Goose if you wanted Block's local agent, and OpenCode if you wanted another open harness.

Key Features

• Multi-model TUI: switch providers mid-session. Catwalk is the community model catalog.
• LSP + MCP: Crush uses language servers for extra context and accepts http, stdio, and sse MCP servers.
• crushrc: Bash-based config that runs the same on Windows. JSON config is still accepted but deprecated.
• Yolo flag: crush --yolo skips every permission prompt. The README says be very careful.
• Wide OS list: macOS, Linux, Windows, Android, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD. Install via brew, npm @charmland/crush, winget, or go install.

Limitation: --yolo is first-wins inside a shared crush serve workspace. A later client cannot flip the flag. Config files are trusted code. Do not launch Crush in a directory whose crushrc you have not read.

Use Cases

• People who want a Charm TUI and will pay Hyper or BYOK.
• People who already live in Bubble Tea apps and want LSP-aware edits in the terminal.
• People comparing open CLIs before buying Claude Code.

Pricing

CLI is free. Inference on 2026-08-25 from hyper.charm.land.

Confirm before you budget.

Getting Started

1. Install with brew install charmbracelet/tap/crush, or npm install -g @charmland/crush.
2. Run crush. Pick a Hyper model, or press ctrl+l and paste a provider key.
3. Allow tools with permissions allow view edit in crushrc if you want fewer prompts.
4. Do not pass --yolo on a machine you do not trust.

First-party start: github.com/charmbracelet/crush and hyper.charm.land.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the CLI still free?

Yes. The FSL-1.1-MIT CLI is $0. Hyper and BYOK are how models get billed.

Same as Claude Code?

No. Crush is Charm's agent. Claude Code is Anthropic's.

Does --yolo persist across clients?

In crush serve, the first client to create the workspace wins. Later --yolo values do not change it.

Alternatives

• Claude Code: Anthropic first-party CLI.
• Goose: Block's local agent plus MCP.
• OpenCode: another open harness.

Tips

1. Quote 27,650 stars and FSL-1.1-MIT from the GitHub check.
2. Budget Hyper against 5¢ per credit, not against a leftover unlimited claim.
3. Read crushrc before you launch in someone else's repo.

Conclusion

Crush is a 27,650-star Charm TUI with a public Hyper $0 / $20 table, not a Claude seat. Start at github.com/charmbracelet/crush, pick Hyper or BYOK, then decide whether Claude Code already covers the workflow you need.