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Conductor vs Crush

A side-by-side comparison of Conductor and Crush, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.

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Conductor

Agent

Run a team of parallel AI coding agents on your Mac.

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Crush

IDE

Charm's glamorous agentic AI coding agent for your terminal.

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At a glance

Feature comparison of Conductor and Crush
AttributeConductorCrush
Category (differs)AgentIDE
Pricing (differs)FREEBYO KEY
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
DeploymentLocalLocal
Platforms (differs)macOSCLI, macOS, Linux, Windows
Model supportBYO key / modelBYO key / model
Vendor (differs)Melty LabsCharm

The honest brief

Conductor

A native Mac control plane that runs several coding agents at once, each sandboxed in its own git worktree so parallel work never collides.

  • Runs many coding agents in parallel
  • Each agent isolated in a git worktree
  • Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
  • App is free; bring your own agent plan
  • Real-time progress + easy merge review
  • macOS (Apple Silicon) only
  • Not open source
  • Useful only with paid agent subscriptions
  • Young, fast-changing product

Crush

Charm's signature TUI polish over a model-agnostic terminal agent: switch providers mid-session and keep code, keys, and data on your own machine.

  • Polished, keyboard-driven terminal UI
  • BYO keys for many providers
  • LSP-aware code context
  • Runs locally; you control keys and data
  • Requires your own model API keys
  • Beta — some features still missing
  • FSL license is not OSI open-source yet