Droid CLI vs Goose CLI

Feature	Droid CLI	Goose CLI
Tagline	Agent-native software development in your terminal	An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions
Website	https://factory.ai	https://block.github.io/goose/
Language	typescript	rust
Release Date	May 28, 2025	December 4, 2024
Last Updated	June 29, 2026	June 28, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	basic
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	Yes
IDE Integration	VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains IDEs, Vim, Zed	Cursor, VSCode, JetBrains IDEs
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model-dependent
Terminal Bench	#9 · 77.3% ±2.2 (Terminal-Bench 2.0) 1	#53 · 54.3% ±2.6 (Terminal-Bench 2.0) 2
Supported Models	Frontier models by Factory: Opus 4.6, GPT-5, GPT-5.3-Codex & custom models; DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi K2, Qwen.	Works with 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Google, Mistral and works with 400+ models on OpenRouter.
Supported Subscriptions	ChatGPT Claude Code	Claude Code ChatGPT
Pricing Model	Freemium	BYOK
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	$20-200/mo	Free (BYOK)
Source Code Availability	Source Available (Proprietary)	Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Source Code	https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory	https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose
Development State	active	active

¹ Droid CLI tested with GPT-5.3-Codex on Terminal-Bench 2.0.

² Goose CLI tested with Claude Opus 4.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.0.