Devin vs Goose

Pick two tools from the same category to compare side-by-side.

	Devin Cognition's autonomous cloud software engineer that plans, codes, tests, and opens pull requests on its own.	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	freemium	free
Strengths	+ Fully autonomous cloud sessions that run tasks end to end without local setup + Access to multiple frontier model families plus Cognition's own SWE models + Quota-based plans scale from a free tier to high-usage Max and Teams tiers	+ 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	− Works best on well-scoped tasks; practitioners report mixed results on ambiguous or large refactors − Quota allowances can deplete quickly on long autonomous runs, pushing users to API-priced top-ups − Closed source with less interactive steering than pair-programming style CLI agents	− 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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