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title: "Crush pricing, platforms and integrations"
description: "Terminal coding agent from Charm, written in Go. Works with almost any model provider through your own API keys, plus an optional first-party Hyper plan."
canonical_url: "https://whichcoding.tools/tools/crush"
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# Crush

> Terminal coding agent from Charm, written in Go. Works with almost any model provider through your own API keys, plus an optional first-party Hyper plan.

- **Layer**: Terminal agent
- **Vendor**: Charmbracelet, Inc.
- **Platforms**: macOS, Windows, Linux, Android
- **License**: FSL-1.1-MIT
- **Pricing**: Free tier
- **Status**: Active
- **JSON**: /api/v1/tools/crush.json

## Links

- [Website](https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush)
- [Pricing](https://hyper.charm.land)
- [Repo](https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush)
- [Docs](https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/blob/main/docs/config)

## Pricing

| Plan | Price | Included | Beyond that | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free (individual) | Free | 100 credits/mo (≈ $5). Everyone gets 100 Hypercredits per month for the optional Hyper plan; 1 Hypercredit is 5 cents. | — | Crush itself is free and open source, use it with your own provider API keys at no extra cost |
| Hyper Subscription (individual) | $20/mo | 250 credits/mo (≈ $12.5). 250 Hypercredits refreshing daily. | — | Optional first-party inference plan for Crush, not required to use the agent |
| Hyper Prepaid Bundles (individual) | Usage-based | — | Credit packs. $5 for 100, $10 for 200 and $20 for 400 Hypercredits. Prepaid Hypercredits never expire. | — |

Crush has no license fee. Hyper is Charm's optional hosted inference plan for Crush, billed in Hypercredits currently worth 5 cents each.

Source: [hyper.charm.land](https://hyper.charm.land), verified 2026-09-13.

## Models

- **Providers**: Vendor models, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Moonshot, Alibaba, Zhipu, MiniMax, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway
- **Bring your own key**: BYOK
- **Local models**: Yes

Paste an API key for Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, MiniMax, Z.ai, Moonshot, Alibaba and more, or run local models through Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio or OMLX. Amazon Bedrock and Google Vertex AI are supported through their own credential chains. Hyper is Charm's own first-party inference plan.

## Features

- **MCP client**: Connects to MCP servers
- **Hooks**: Run your own commands at lifecycle points

## Install

- **brew**: `brew install charmbracelet/tap/crush`
- **npm**: `npm install -g @charmland/crush`
- **winget**: `winget install charmbracelet.crush`
- **aur**: `yay -S crush-bin`
- **download**: [github.com/charmbracelet/crush/releases](https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/releases)

## License

- **SPDX**: FSL-1.1-MIT
- **Kind**: Source available
- **Repo**: [github.com/charmbracelet/crush](https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush)

Functional Source License, converts to MIT after two years per release.

## Sources

Every fact above points at a vendor page and the date someone last checked it.

| Source | Covers | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [github.com/charmbracelet/crush](https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush) | platforms, license, models, features, general | 2026-08-25 |
| [hyper.charm.land](https://hyper.charm.land) | pricing | 2026-09-13 |

Source data: [content/tools/crush.yml](https://github.com/benjamincanac/whichcodingtools/blob/main/content/tools/crush.yml)

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- [Compare Crush with another tool](https://whichcoding.tools/compare?tools=crush)
- [All terminal agents](https://whichcoding.tools/layers/harness)

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