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Crush vs Goose
Live matchup data for Crush and Goose: OpenRouter usage, pricing, benchmark scores, and community sentiment, refreshed daily. No verdicts — read the tape.
usage — openrouter daily tokens
Usage crossover
current leader: Goose
source: OpenRouter app rankings · daily · 90d · ○ 5 lead changes
through Aug 20, 2026
side by side
Spec & pricing
| Spec | Crush | Goose |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Charm | Block |
| Homepage | github.com | block.github.io |
| GitHub | charmbracelet/crush | block/goose |
| Package | @charmland/crush | — |
| Subscription plans | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 27,543 | 53,112 |
| Pkg downloads/day | 0 | — |
| Latest release | nightly · 3 d ago | v1.46.0 · 10 d ago |
sources: provider pages · OpenRouter · GitHub · package registries
— = not tracked / not applicable
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Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Crush | Goose | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
no benchmark results tracked yet for this pair — boards ingest daily | |||
best tracked score per benchmark · scores are not directly comparable across benchmarks
sources linked per row
community pulse
Reddit sentiment
| Signal | Crush | Goose |
|---|---|---|
| Mentions (30d) | 265 | — |
| Positive share | 6.4% | — |
| Negative share | 7.2% | — |
| Net sentiment | -0.8% | — |
| 30d trend |
source: Reddit mentions, LLM-classified sentiment · trailing 30d
through Aug 21, 2026
faq
Frequently asked
- Is Crush more used than Goose?
- As of Aug 20, 2026, Crush shows 2B tokens/day through OpenRouter-tracked apps and Goose shows 5B tokens/day through OpenRouter-tracked apps. The chart above tracks the full daily series with every lead change marked.
- How does Crush pricing compare to Goose?
- Pricing for this pair isn't in the tape yet — plan and price snapshots land with the daily crawl and will appear in the spec table with their sources.
- How do Crush and Goose score on coding benchmarks?
- No benchmark results are tracked for either yet; public boards are ingested daily and results appear here as they land.
- Where does this comparison data come from?
- OpenRouter public rankings (usage), provider pricing pages (plans and per-token prices), GitHub and package registries (adoption), public benchmark leaderboards, and Reddit (sentiment). Every stored datum keeps its source URL, and the tape refreshes daily. The Token Tape publishes the data without declaring a winner.
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