Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

VentureBeat AI · 5 months ago

Goose, an open-source AI coding agent developed by Block, offers the same autonomous code-writing capabilities as Claude Code but runs locally on users' machines without subscription fees or usage limits. Claude Code's pricing ranges from $20 to $200 per month with rate limits that some developers exhaust within 30 minutes of intensive work, while Goose has accumulated over 26,100 GitHub stars since launch. Developers frustrated with Anthropic's pricing structure now have a free alternative that keeps their code private and allows offline work, though it requires 32 gigabytes of RAM and lacks the model quality of Claude's Opus for the most complex tasks.