Ante vs. Goose CLI

Feature	Ante	Goose CLI
Tagline	Self-contained Rust agent harness with native offline inference	An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions
Website	https://ante.run/	https://block.github.io/goose/
Language	rust	rust
Release Date	December 23, 2025	December 4, 2024
Last Updated	September 4, 2026	June 28, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	basic	basic
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	No	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	Yes
IDE Integration	None shipped; `ante serve` exposes a JSONL protocol for editor plugins	Cursor, VSCode, JetBrains IDEs
Hooks / Extensions	No	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model-dependent
Terminal Bench 2.0	#24 · 69.4% ±2.1 1	#58 · 54.3% ±2.6 2
Supported Models	17 built-in presets: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini and Vertex, xAI Grok, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Zai, Ali Coding Plan, Antix, plus any OpenAI-compatible endpoint via ~/.ante/catalog.json and any local GGUF model through the bundled llama.cpp	Works with 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Google, Mistral and works with 400+ models on OpenRouter.
Supported Subscriptions	Claude Code ChatGPT	Claude Code ChatGPT
Pricing Model	Free, BYOK	BYOK
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (alpha preview)	Free (BYOK)
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Source Code	https://github.com/AntigmaLabs/ante	https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose
Development State	active	active

¹ Ante tested with Gemini 3 Pro on Terminal Bench v2.0.

² Goose CLI tested with Claude Opus 4.5 on Terminal Bench v2.0.