Crush vs OpenAI Codex CLI vs OpenCode vs Plandex
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
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Open-source terminal coding agent — cloud service wound down
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 | 7.9 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium | Open Source | Open Source |
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| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Founded | — | — | — | 2024 |
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| Verdict | Crush carries Charm's design pedigree (Bubble Tea, Gum, Glow) into agentic coding, and it shows — reviewers consistently call it the best-looking TUI in the category. LSP integration means it reasons about actual functio... |
Codex CLI has scaled into a real Claude Code rival: OpenAI's repo sits at roughly 97,000 GitHub stars and the tool now ships baked into every ChatGPT tier, including Free. Reddit sentiment leans toward Codex for token ef... |
OpenCode has become the default open-source answer to Claude Code — MIT-licensed, provider-agnostic, and reportedly past 160,000 GitHub stars with millions of monthly users. Plan mode (reason before you let it write) and... |
Plandex's core idea still holds up: a terminal agent that plans a multi-step task, shows you a cumulative diff before anything touches disk, and lets you branch or roll back a plan like a git history. For a 20-30 file re... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.