Claude Code is $200/month. GitHub Copilot is $19/month. Jack Dorsey's company just open-sourced a free alternative with 35,000 GitHub stars. It's called Goose. - Works with any LLM — Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, DeepSeek - Reads and edits your entire codebase - Runs shell commands and installs dependencies -... Executes and debugs code automatically - Desktop, CLI, and web interface - Written in Rust. No bloat. Block is a $40 billion company. They built it for their own engineers then gave it to everyone.show more

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Connect a paid api not mean Is free

been testing Goose for a week now, it's legit the multi-LLM support is clutch because I can switch to Claude for architecture and GPT for quick fixes only thing is it's not as smooth as Cursor for the full IDE experience but for $0 vs $200 can't complain

Claude Code is actually free, it's the claude sub that costs money. I use GLM-5.1 in Claude Code and it works great.

goose is cool but the comparison is a bit off. claude code isnt just a code editor, its an agent that reasons through multi-file changes, runs tests, and iterates autonomously. goose gives you a nice wrapper but youre still paying for the LLM API underneath. the $200 includes the model.

You don't pay for the agent you pay for the model usage. Goose is just a worse version of open code which is a slower worse version of Claude code any of these can run different models if you adjust the base Uri and model

It’s about time we had a solid alternative that doesn't lock you into one specific ecosystem or a $200/month subscription. Being written in Rust is a huge plus too no one wants their AI agent eating up all their RAM while they're trying to actually compile code.

honestly Goose sounds veryyy compelling 👀

@RoundtableSpace wow, that's a game changer. legit curious how it stacks up against copilot in real-world use though. anyone tried it yet?

It is interesting to observe how many users are employing multiple models simultaneously versus simply switching between them. This approach appears to be where the most significant gains are made. I have been exploring this concept through Claudex setups on Blackbox AI.

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everyone’s hyping this like it’s just “another copilot”, no, it actually replaces most of them 👇

$200 tools competing with free open source from a $40B company is exactly how pricing gets crushed overnight and nobody saw it coming

Claude Code at $200/mo pays for itself the first week if you ship even one product. The ROI math is easy for any solo founder building real things.

Interesting move.. With Block, Inc. open-sourcing Goose, the AI coding race gets a serious free contender alongside tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot. Open source + multi-LLM support could make this one spread fast. 🚀

jack dorsey said here is a free rust-written goose that does everything claude code does, the audacity to name it that is sending me

Price comparison misses the point. Claude Code's real value is Anthropic's harness engineering, not the editor. Goose being model-agnostic is smart architecture, but "free" still costs integration time. Most production teams will end up running both.

e most underrated part of this is what the video doesn't show: you don't need to manage .env files from 6 different providers. You don't need to switch endpoints when one goes down. You don't need to monitor credit balance. Single endpoint. All models. Side-by-side benchmarks. This is what should have existed from day one. The fact that it takes 2 years for someone to package it well shows that the LLM API ecosystem is still too chaotic."

wait goose works with local llama models too? have llama on my home server and this could be huge if it actually connects properly

Anyone running Goose in a real team workflow? Curious how context management holds up across longer sessions compared to Claude Code — the model-agnostic angle is compelling but execution consistency is where these tools usually fall apart.

honestly the $200/month price point was always going to be hard to justify once free options got good enough. competition is good

Jooo how much you got paid for this ad..? or why all these posts have the same pattern 😂😂

Goose sounds kinda awesome, ngl. Free is good.

comparing these by price is like comparing a private chef to a microwave because they both heat food. the $200/month tool writes production code that ships. the free ones write code that looks right until you actually try to deploy it. you get what you pay for in AI just like everything else

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The model-agnostic angle is what makes Goose interesting long-term. When the underlying models keep improving, not being locked to one provider is a real structural advantage. The price is just the hook.

Codegen tools save you the first 20%. The other 80% is ops: agents that forget what they did yesterday, re-read 10K tokens of logs every restart, and drift after week 2. 70 days running agents 24/7 taught me the hard way — the model doesn't matter if your memory layer is broken. Built to fix exactly this. Retrieval scoring so agents remember what worked and forget what didn't.

Will need a bit more than a task list to switch from Claude Code 🙈 might not have been the best video to make the post with

I have been using goose when I hit codex limits and using it with openrouter, I’m very impressed. A lot better than VS code with codex on Linux 😂

I dig it

free coding agents are great news if you know how to wrap them around real demand.

People arguing $200 vs $20 are missing it. The real threat is “free + open + good enough.” That combo always wins eventually.