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Goose: The Free Open-Source Alternative to Claude Code

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. $200 a month for Claude Code’s Max plan buys you a phenomenal coding agent. It also buys you vendor lock-in, Anthropic-only models, and code that lives on Anthropic’s servers. I’ve been testing Goose — a free, open-source alternative built by Block and now governed by the Linux Foundation — and the gap between “free” and “$200/month” is smaller than you’d think. ...

June 26, 2026 · 2 min · 342 words · NCR
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