Goose vs Windsurf (now Devin Desktop)

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	Goose Open-source, on-machine AI agent created by Block, now hosted at the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation.	Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) Agentic AI IDE acquired by Cognition in 2025 and rebranded Devin Desktop in June 2026.
Category	harness	harness
Vendor type	open source	commercial
Pricing	free	freemium
Strengths	+ 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	+ Full IDE experience with agent, tab completion, and multi-file edits integrated + Backed by Cognition's proprietary SWE coding models plus frontier model access + Free tier available; settings and extensions carried over from Windsurf
Tradeoffs	− 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	− Closed source and tied to Cognition's platform and credit quotas − 2025-2026 ownership changes and the Devin rebrand forced workflow migrations (e.g. Cascade deprecation)
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