Goose CLI vs. Plandex

Feature	Goose CLI	Plandex

Tagline	An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions	Open source AI coding agent for large projects and real world tasks
Website	https://block.github.io/goose/	https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
Language	rust	go
Release Date	December 4, 2024	March 14, 2024
Last Updated	June 3, 2026	June 11, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	No
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	No
Git Integration	basic	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	No
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	No
Voice Mode	Yes	No
IDE Integration	Cursor, VSCode, JetBrains IDEs	None - terminal only
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	No
Web Search	Yes	No
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	2M tokens effective
Terminal Bench 2.0	#58 · 54.3% ±2.6 ¹
Supported Models	Works with 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Google, Mistral and works with 400+ models on OpenRouter.	Any OpenAI-compatible models and 400+ models from OpenRouter.
Pricing Model	BYOK	Free
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK)	Free (self-hosted)
Source Code Availability	Open Source (Apache-2.0)	Open Source (MIT)
Source Code	https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose	https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
Development State	active	inactive