Top 10 Goose Alternatives for AI-Assisted Coding

If you are looking for AI-powered development tools similar to Goose, here are the top 10 alternatives in the IDE agent category.

1. Cursor

• Pricing: Free tier available; paid plans start at $20/month.
• Key Features: An AI-native IDE built as a fork of VS Code. It features Composer for multi-file editing and an Agent mode for autonomous coding. The agent can pick files, run terminal commands, and iterate on errors. It also supports up to 8 parallel agents via git worktrees, background agents, Bugbot pull request autofixes, MCP plugins, and custom .cursor/rules configurations.

2. Google AntiGravity

• Pricing: Free tier, AI Pro for $20/month, and premium Ultra tiers.
• Key Features: Google's agentic development platform, split across four main interfaces: the Antigravity IDE (a VS Code fork), a standalone Antigravity 2.0 desktop application, a Go-based Antigravity CLI, and a Python SDK for building custom agents.

3. Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)

• Pricing: Free tier / Pro at $20/month / Max at $200/month.
• Key Features: Formerly known as Windsurf, this is Cognition's local AI coding editor. It features the Agent Command Center, Spaces for parallel work surfaces, ACP support for integration with Devin Cloud agents, and the proprietary SWE-1.6 model. It links directly with Devin Cloud (an autonomous remote agent) and the Devin CLI under a unified account.

4. Claude Code

• Pricing: Free tier with limited access.
• Key Features: Anthropic's agentic coding interface. Users can describe tasks in natural language, and Claude autonomously plans, writes, edits, debugs, and iterates. It is available as a web application with GitHub integration, and as a desktop app featuring local file access, visual diffs, and Cowork background agents.

5. Claude Code CLI

• Pricing: Requires Claude Pro, Max, or Team subscription.
• Key Features: The official terminal-based agentic coding tool from Anthropic. It operates directly within your local codebase to edit files, execute terminal commands, manage git workflows, and iterate based on prompts. Features include Channels for remote messaging via Telegram or Discord, Remote Control, Dispatch, and /loop scheduling for persistent autonomous operations.

6. GitHub Copilot Workspace

• Pricing: Copilot Pro at $10/month, Pro+ at $39/month, with custom pricing for Business and Enterprise tiers.
• Key Features: An AI-powered, agentic development environment integrated directly with GitHub. It allows you to describe changes in natural language to generate execution plans, apply code edits, and create pull requests across entire repositories within a web-based workspace.

7. Aider

• Pricing: Open Source (Free).
• Key Features: A terminal-based pair programming tool that integrates directly with git repositories. It allows developers to work with models like Claude 3.5 and GPT-4o to edit multiple files and manage codebases from the command line.

8. Amazon Q Developer

• Pricing: Free tier includes 50 agentic requests per month; Pro tier is $19/user/month for higher limits and admin controls.
• Key Features: AWS's AI developer assistant designed for IDE and CLI workflows. It offers interactive code chat, code suggestions, code transformations, and automated security scanning.

9. Zed

• Pricing: Free.
• Key Features: A high-performance code editor built in Rust. It includes built-in AI collaboration tools and supports integration with multiple LLMs, including Claude and OpenAI models.

10. Kiro

• Pricing: Free tier (includes 500 credits) with additional pay-as-you-go credits.
• Key Features: An agentic, AI-powered IDE by AWS designed to turn natural language descriptions into structured requirements, designs, and task lists. It is tailored to help developers move from initial prototype to production with reduced ambiguity.