CodeFuse 蚂蚁CodeFuse vs Goose by Block vs Helicone vs Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
CodeFuse 蚂蚁CodeFuse
Ant Group's AI coding assistant
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GS Goose by Block Open-source local AI agent, Block-built, Linux Foundation-run Visit |
Helicone
LLM observability via drop-in proxy
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Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码
Alibaba's AI coding assistant — rebranded Qoder CN in May 2026
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.4 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | — | — | Permanently free Individual Edition (no Agent turn cap); Individual Pro Edition is free during a limited preview period and includes up to 50 Agent conversation turns per month |
| Paid from | — | — | — | USD 32/user/month (Enterprise Dedicated Edition, minimum 100 users) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | — | Over 13 million plugin downloads total by May 2025 (was 9 million by January 2025) |
| Founded | 2023 | 2024 | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | — | — | Alibaba Cloud (Alibaba Cloud Computing Co. Ltd., a division of Alibaba Group) |
| Verdict | CodeFuse is Ant Group's open-source family of code LLMs and agent frameworks (including DevOps-ChatBot and muAgent) aimed at the full software lifecycle, from requirements through coding, testing and operations. Its rele... |
Goose is a free, Apache-2.0 AI agent that started at Block and moved to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation in December 2025, alongside MCP and AGENTS.md. It runs the full dev loop on your own machine — editing... |
Helicone is a developer-focused observability platform for LLM apps, providing request logging, tracing, cost and latency tracking, caching, and prompt management with a one-line proxy or async integration. It is open-so... |
This is now Qoder CN — Alibaba retired the Tongyi Lingma name on May 20, 2026 and folded the assistant into its Qoder agentic-coding line, with credit-metered pricing arriving the same day. The free-for-everyone era is o... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.