Codebuff vs Crush
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Codebuff
Terminal-based AI coding agent
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.6 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Crush is free under FSL-1.1-MIT with your own API keys or local models. Hyper's free tier gives 100 Hypercredits a month (1 credit = 5 cents) |
| Paid from | 1¢ per credit pay as you go, or Strong subscriptions at $100, $200 or $500 a month | $20/month Hyper subscription (optional Charm inference, 250 Hypercredits) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2024 | 2025 |
| Maker | Freebuff, Inc. | Charmbracelet, Inc. (Charm) |
| Verdict | Codebuff is an open-source, terminal-first coding agent with a TypeScript SDK for building your own agents. It suits developers who live in the command line and want parallel sub-agents and an automatic review pass on ev... |
Crush brings Charm's TUI craft to agentic coding. LSP context, MCP over stdio, HTTP or SSE, Agent Skills and a long provider list make it one of the most flexible terminal agents, and it ships updates almost weekly.Know... |
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