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Goose

OpenRouter rank

#12

of 15 tracked tools

Tokens / day

5B18.8%

snapshot Aug 20, 2026

Requests / day

75,980

OpenRouter, summed

Usage

OpenRouter token volume

latest Aug 20, 2026

source: OpenRouter app rankings · summed across the tool's apps · daily

5B on Aug 20, 2026

Pricing

Subscription plans

Latest captured subscription plans for Goose.
Plan$/moNotes

plan tracking pending — first pricing-page capture lands with the next crawl (no public pricing page on file)

source: vendor pricing page

awaiting first capture

Change history

no plan changes detected yet — changes appear here the day the pricing page moves

Changelog

Releases

  • v1.46.0v1.46.0
    Aug 12, 2026
    • ## ✨ Features
    • Unrolled agent loop [#9574](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9574)
    • Cache-safe request assembly with append-only turn context and declared cache semantics [#11022](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/11022)
  • v1.45.0v1.45.0
    Jul 29, 2026
    • ## ✨ Features
    • Stable agent event message identity [#10716](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/10716)
    • Tab completion and switch provider for `model` command [#10585](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/10585)
  • v1.44.0v1.44.0
    Jul 23, 2026
    • ## ✨ Features
    • Support for latest Gemini models [#10630](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/10630)
    • Pass working_dir to the Stop hook context [#10296](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/10296)
  • v1.43.0v1.43.0
    Jul 14, 2026
    • ## ✨ Features
    • Reconnect desktop ACP sessions after sleep and connection loss [#10411](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/10411)
    • Per-message usage stats UI (tokens, cost, TTFT, tok/s) [#10210](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/10210)
  • v1.42.0v1.42.0
    Jul 13, 2026
    • ## ✨ Features
    • OllamaCloudProvider with dynamic model discovery and context limits [#10264](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/10264)
    • Per-message usage stats UI (tokens, cost, TTFT, tok/s) [#10210](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/10210)
  • v1.41.0v1.41.0
    Jul 3, 2026
    • ## ✨ Features
    • iFlytek Spark and Astron MaaS providers (#9837)
    • `--edit` session flag to edit conversation before forking (#9799)
  • v1.40.0v1.40.0
    Jul 2, 2026
    • ## ✨ Features
    • Language selection in desktop app [#9405](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9405)
    • French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Malay, Vietnamese, Traditional Chinese desktop locales [#10072](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/10072)
  • v1.39.0v1.39.0
    Jun 25, 2026
    • ## ✨ Features
    • ACP method for managing recipes and UI changes [#9951](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9951)
    • Use ACP to manage global config and session extensions [#9948](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9948)
  • v1.38.0v1.38.0
    Jun 17, 2026
    • ## ✨ Features
    • Opt-in ACP last message snippets for sessions [#9798](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9798)
    • Unified OTLP logging schema for cross-tool detection [#9713](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9713)
  • v1.37.0v1.37.0
    Jun 3, 2026
    • ## ✨ Features
    • xAI SuperGrok OAuth subscription provider [#9420](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9420)
    • Replay ACP images on session load [#9496](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/9496)

source: github.com/block/goose/releases

latest Aug 12, 2026

Adoption

GitHub & package growth

GitHub stars

source: github.com/block/goose

53,112 stars · Aug 21, 2026

Package downloads/day

no package registry tracked for this entity

Community

Reddit pulse

30-day

no Reddit mentions tracked for this tool yet

Benchmarks

Benchmark results

Benchmark scores for Goose.
BenchmarkConfigurationScoreDateSource

no benchmark results attributed to Goose yet

scores as published by each benchmark; configurations differ — compare within a row's benchmark only

Alternatives

Similar tools

Alternatives to Goose by OpenRouter usage-rank proximity.
#ToolTokens/day7d ΔHead-to-head
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45
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8.5B40.3%vs Goose
38
Z CodeZ.ai
10.3B54.3%vs Goose
62
Qwen CodeAlibaba (Qwen)
3.6B66.8%vs Goose

ranked by OpenRouter usage-rank proximity

snapshot Aug 20, 2026

FAQ

Goose FAQ

How popular is Goose?
As of Aug 20, 2026, Goose routes about 5B tokens per day through OpenRouter — the #12 tracked AI coding tool by that measure. Its OpenRouter volume moved +18.8% over the last 7 days.
When was Goose last updated?
The most recent tracked release is v1.46.0 on Aug 12, 2026. Its full changelog history is listed above.
What are the best alternatives to Goose?
By OpenRouter usage, the closest alternatives are OpenCode, Roo Code, and Z Code. Head-to-head comparisons are linked in the alternatives table.
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