# Claude Code vs Goose

The deciding difference is operational: Goose can run on infrastructure you control, Claude Code cannot. If that constraint is real for you, it settles the choice before anything else is considered.

| | Claude Code | Goose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Licence | Proprietary | Open source |
| Pricing | paid | open source |
| Self-hostable | No | Yes |
| Languages | Any language | Any language |
| Install | npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code | brew install block-goose-cli |
| Keys required | ANTHROPIC_API_KEY | None |

## Full pages

- https://newagent.build/c/claude-code
- https://newagent.build/c/goose

## Machine interfaces

- `GET https://newagent.build/api/registry` — every component as JSON
- `GET https://newagent.build/api/vendors` — vendors, with the repo and releases feed to watch
- `GET https://newagent.build/api/advise?q=<plain english>` — recommended stack for a description
- `GET https://newagent.build/api/stack?<layer>=<id>&format=sh|json|md|yml|agents|env` — a stack as files
- `GET https://newagent.build/llms.txt` — the whole registry in one fetch

Any page here also returns markdown if you send `Accept: text/markdown`.