Amp vs Goose

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	Amp Frontier coding agent originally built at Sourcegraph, now developed by the independent Amp Frontier Corporation.	Goose Open-source, on-machine AI agent created by Block, now hosted at the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation.
Category	harness	harness
Vendor type	commercial	open source
Pricing	usage	free
Strengths	+ Multi-surface workflow across CLI, editor plugins, web, and mobile remote control + Pay-as-you-go pricing with no markup for individual users + Extensible via plugins and MCP servers + Independent, self-described profitable company focused solely on the agent	+ Fully open source (Apache 2.0) under neutral Linux Foundation governance + MCP-native extension model with a large extension catalog + Desktop app, CLI, and API interfaces; runs entirely on your machine + Provider-agnostic, including local models via Ollama
Tradeoffs	− Closed source, unlike terminal-agent alternatives such as OpenCode or Aider − Opinionated model selection managed by Amp rather than freely user-configured − Fast-changing product and branding (recently consolidated Amp Neo back into Amp)	− No hosted/cloud offering; users manage their own keys and token spend − Broader general-purpose focus means fewer coding-specific guardrails than dedicated coding harnesses
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