goose Alternatives (2026)
The top alternatives to goose are ECC, cline, DeepSeek-Reasonix, agents, crush, learn-claude-code, agent-skills and awesome-copilot — ranked open-source Coding & Software Engineering agents on The Agentic Leaderboard.
Ranked by overall score on reliability, tool selection quality, autonomous iteration, efficiency, and community mindshare. Updated weekly.
| Rank | Alternative | Score | vs goose |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | ECC by affaan-m | 89.3 | +5.2 |
| #2 | cline by cline | 87.7 | +3.6 |
| #15 | DeepSeek-Reasonix by esengine | 85.7 | +1.6 |
| #23 | agents by wshobson | 85.3 | +1.2 |
| #34 | crush by charmbracelet | 84.9 | +0.8 |
| #36 | learn-claude-code by shareAI-lab | 84.7 | +0.6 |
| #51 | agent-skills by addyosmani | 84.2 | +0.1 |
| #59 | awesome-copilot by github | 84.0 | -0.1 |