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Crush

★ 20k

Charm's glamorous terminal coding agent — any model, LSP-aware, sessions per project, beautiful TUI.

Crush does the job of Claude Code and Codex, self-hosted. It is FSL-1.1-MIT-licensed, so you can do essentially what you like with it, and it installs in about one command. Claude Code bills $20 for it. 20k stars on GitHub.

Open-source replacement for Claude Code, Codex.

Licence
FSL-1.1-MIT
Self-hosting
Easy
The paid one costs
$20
GitHub stars
20k
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Is it actually a replacement?

We have written a verdict on what it replaces — what you lose, and why people still pay:

How Crush runs

Where it runs

Crush runs on your server.

What setup takes

not verified by us yet — check the repo README.

Crush questions

Is Crush open source?

Yes — it is released under FSL-1.1-MIT.

Can Crush replace Claude Code?

Our verdict on Claude Code is YES. OpenCode (192k stars), DeepSeek Harness (175k stars), Gemini CLI (106k stars) are mature open-source replacements for Claude Code — self-host in one command and stop paying $20/mo.

Can I self-host Crush?

Yes — we rate it easy to self-host, and it runs on your server.

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