Goose by Block vs OpenCode vs OpenAI Codex CLI vs Cline
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Goose by Block
Open-source local AI agent, Block-built, Linux Foundation-run
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Cline
Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 7.9 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source | Freemium | Open Source |
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| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Founded | 2024 | — | — | 2024 |
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| Verdict | 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... |
OpenCode has become the default open-source answer to Claude Code — MIT-licensed, provider-agnostic, and reportedly past 160,000 GitHub stars with millions of monthly users. Plan mode (reason before you let it write) and... |
Codex CLI has scaled into a real Claude Code rival: OpenAI's repo sits at roughly 97,000 GitHub stars and the tool now ships baked into every ChatGPT tier, including Free. Reddit sentiment leans toward Codex for token ef... |
Cline is an open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code that plans, edits files, runs terminal commands and uses MCP tools, with bring-your-own-key support across Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter and local models. For d... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.