Eigent vs goose
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Eigent
Open-source desktop app for working alongside AI agents
Where they differ
- Eigent starts at $19.99 per month (Plus); $199.90 billed yearly. goose is free.
- Eigent is self-hostable, according to its own site.
At a glance
| Eigent | goose | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free |
| Starts at | $19.99 per month (Plus); $199.90 billed yearly | Free |
| Free plan | 1,000 one-time registration credits, 500 more per successful invite, and free use with your own API keys or local models. The open-source app can also be self-hosted at no cost. | Goose is free and open source under the Apache 2.0 license, with no paid plan. Model usage is billed by the provider you connect, unless you run a local model or use a provider's free tier. |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial of Plus or Pro, capped at 300 credits a day and 1,000 in total; converts to the paid plan unless canceled. | None listed |
| macOS | ||
| Windows | ||
| Linux | ||
| Made by | Eigent UK Ltd | Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) |
| Price read from | eigent.ai | goose-docs.ai |
| Checked | Oct 9, 2026 | Oct 9, 2026 |
Who each one suits
Eigent
- People who want a desktop agent that runs on their own API keys or local models
- Long tasks that can be split among several agents working in parallel
- Teams that want to self-host and inspect the code they run
goose
- Developers who want a local agent for coding and terminal work
- People who want to reuse a Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini subscription they already pay for
- Teams that share repeatable workflows as recipes
Worth knowing
Eigent
- Desktop only: the download page says Eigent is not supported on mobile or tablet.
- The Free plan's credits are a one-time 1,000 registration bonus plus invite bonuses; it has no monthly credit allowance.
- The Teams plan, with a shared library and centralized billing, is listed as Coming Soon.
- The docs mark the Telegram, Lark and WhatsApp channels and the X, WhatsApp, Reddit and GitHub connectors as Coming soon.
goose
- goose is free, but hosted models are billed by the provider you connect, and the docs note that not every provider has a free tier.
- It runs on your own machine: there are desktop apps for macOS, Linux and Windows and a CLI, and the site lists no hosted cloud version.
- The docs say goose relies heavily on tool calling and currently works best with Claude 4 models.
- The project left Block for the Agentic AI Foundation in April 2026; its repository moved from block/goose to aaif-goose/goose.
Key features
Eigent
- Single Agent and Workforce modes
- Give a task to one agent, or to a Workforce that splits it among specialized workers running in parallel. You can define your own workers and choose the tools each one gets.
- Spaces, Sessions and Tasks
- A Space holds related Sessions and working files and can be tied to a local folder. Space profiles package agents, skills and connectors so the same setup is reused.
- Browser agents
- Agents navigate pages, click, type and capture screenshots in a managed or connected Chrome DevTools Protocol browser, and can use imported cookies for signed-in sessions.
- Automations
- Scheduled automations run recurring work, Event automations respond to webhooks and external events, and App automations react to events in connected applications.
- Connectors and MCP
- Guided connectors cover Notion, Slack, Google Calendar, Gmail, LinkedIn and Lark, and you can add a local or remote MCP server for a service that is not in the catalog.
- Cloud, own-key or local models
- Use managed Eigent Cloud models billed in credits, your own provider API keys, or local models served by Ollama, vLLM, SGLang, LM Studio or LLaMA.cpp.
goose
- Desktop app, CLI and API
- The same agent runs in a native desktop app, a terminal CLI and an API for embedding. The desktop app and CLI share provider, model and extension settings.
- MCP extensions
- More than 70 documented extensions connect goose to databases, APIs, browsers, GitHub, Google Drive and other tools through the Model Context Protocol, and you can build your own.
- Providers and existing subscriptions
- Works with 15+ providers, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Ollama, OpenRouter, Azure and Bedrock, or with a Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini subscription you already have, through ACP.
- Built-in local inference
- The desktop app can download a GGUF model from Hugging Face and run it in-process with llama.cpp, with no API key and no separate model server.
- Recipes
- Workflows are saved as portable YAML recipes holding instructions, extensions, parameters and subrecipes, then shared with a team or run in CI.
- Subagents and safety controls
- Subagents handle parallel tasks outside the main conversation. Safeguards include prompt injection detection, tool permission controls, a sandbox mode and an adversary reviewer.
Plans
Eigent
Free$0
1,000 registration credits, 500 credits per successful invite, free use with your own API keys or local models, and email and community support.
Plus$19.99
per month ($199.90 billed yearly)
2,000 task credits a month, priority email support, and Claude and Grok models on top of the 16 models listed for Free.
Pro$99.99
per month ($999.90 billed yearly)
Everything in Plus, with 10,000 task credits a month and high-priority user support.
EnterpriseCustom
Local deployment with enterprise security, custom features and integrations, agent training environments, invoice or PO billing and account management.
goose
goose (Apache 2.0)Free
The full desktop app, CLI and API. You bring a model provider, an existing AI subscription or a local model.
Ways to pay less
Eigent
- Annual discount
Two months free with yearly billing
The pricing page labels yearly billing as 2 months free: Plus is $199.90 a year instead of $19.99 a month, and Pro is $999.90 a year instead of $99.99 a month.
goose
No public discounts listed.
