- Free allowance
- The agent is free to use under FSL-1.1-MIT with keys for many providers; its first-party provider Charm Hyper has no free plan ('We've retired the monthly free Hypercredit allowance') and starts at Shred Diet, USD 10 a month for 180 Hypercredits a week
- Verdict
- self-hosted, last resortverdict qualifies-with-caveat: usable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented15 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | the agent is free to use under FSL-1.1-MIT with keys for many providers; its first-party provider Charm Hyper has no free plan ('We've retired the monthly free Hypercredit allowance') and starts at Shred Diet, USD 10 a month for 180 Hypercredits a week unit none; metered on none; the agent imposes no quota; with Hyper as the endpoint, the weekly and five-hour Hypercredit windows bind |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Binding | none the agent has no quota of its own; the endpoint's quota decides capacity |
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| Identity | anonymous no account for the agent, which installs from package managers; Hyper sign-up is 'Sign up with Google, GitHub, or email', and a Shred plan or prepaid credit is billed through Stripe |
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| Egress | not applicable: the chosen endpoint serves the inference |
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| Per-object cap | not applicable: a coding agent meters nothing itself |
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| Interface | cli a terminal UI. Headless: crush run "prompt" runs non-interactively, --continue (-C) and --session (-s) resume a session, crush session list --json lists sessions, and --yolo skips every permission prompt |
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| Tooling | the user installs and runs the crush binary (Homebrew, npm, winget, scoop, apt, yum or go install) on a rented or free machine; providers come from the Catwalk model list or a custom OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible entry, and the HYPER_API_KEY variable selects Hyper |
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| Composes with | Charm Hyper is the first-party endpoint at hyper.charm.land/v1 with OpenAI and Anthropic protocols: Shred Diet USD 10 a month buys 180 Hypercredits a week (about USD 9.00 of inference at 5 cents a credit), 100 per five hours and 2 concurrent requests; Shred Classic is USD 20 for 250; prepaid credits start at USD 5. Any key in inference/ works instead |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded; Shred subscriptions on Hyper are not zero-data-retention, while Business plans and prepaid credits are |
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| Notes | Not a subscription by itself: the agent is free and source-available, and its first-party plan Charm Hyper is a separate hosted offer with no free tier and a USD 10 entry plan, under USD 20. Hyper models on the probe include prism, kimi-k3, glm-5.3, glm-5.3-flash, deepseek-v4.1-flash, qwen3.8-max, minimax-m3 and gpt-oss-120b. |
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| Evidence note | documented licence, headless command, provider support and the Hyper plan table are quoted from first-party pages read on 2026-10-30, and the Hyper model list from a probe of its unauthenticated models endpoint. Hyper's per-model token price inside a Hypercredit was not converted to tokens per week. |
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