An open source AI agent that runs on your machine and works with any model, as a desktop app or CLI.
Teams that want an open agent on the desktop without vendor lock-in
Free and open source (Apache 2.0). You pay only for the model providers you use.
Installs, runs, edits and tests on your machine instead of only suggesting.
Connect Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and others, or local models through Ollama.
Plug in tools and data sources through the Model Context Protocol.
Automate code changes, test runs and project setup from a desktop app.
Script repeatable tasks through the CLI and connect them to company tools.
Close alternatives worth a look before you decide.
The self-improving open source agent from Nous Research that learns skills from experience.
The open source personal AI assistant that runs on your own hardware and answers in your chat apps.
An AI coworker from Anthropic that completes multi-step tasks across your files, apps and browser.
Goose is an AI agent from Agentic AI Foundation (Linux Foundation). It runs as desktop, self-hosted and is offered under a open source model.
Goose is offered under a open source model. Model tokens are usually billed separately, so check the live model price on this page and the vendor site for current tiers.
The alternatives section on this page lists the closest options, with live data for each. Use the head-to-head pages to compare two of them in detail.