Goose and mistral-vibe, fact by fact
| Fact | Goose | mistral-vibe |
|---|---|---|
| StarsGoose has 49,985 more stars (11×). | 55,064Verified 8 Oct 2026 | 5,079Verified 8 Oct 2026 |
| Newest commitBoth committed on the same day. | 7 Oct 20260 days old when we read itVerified 8 Oct 2026 | 6 Oct 20262 days old when we read itVerified 8 Oct 2026 |
| ContributorsGoose has 441 more contributors (38×). | 453Verified 8 Oct 2026 | 12Verified 8 Oct 2026 |
| LicenseBoth ship under Apache-2.0. | Apache-2.0Verified 8 Oct 2026 | Apache-2.0Verified 8 Oct 2026 |
| Latest stable releasemistral-vibe released 3 days more recently. | v1.53.0published 2 Oct 2026Verified 8 Oct 2026 | v2.26.0published 6 Oct 2026Verified 8 Oct 2026 |
| PyPI downloads | not tracked for Goose | 613,081 a weekmistral-vibeVerified 8 Oct 2026 |
| Homebrew installs | not tracked for Goose | 146 in 30 daysmistral-vibeVerified 8 Oct 2026 |
| VS Code installs | not tracked for Goose | 42,329mistralai.mistral-vibe-codeVerified 8 Oct 2026 |
| Repository | aaif-goose/gooseRustVerified 8 Oct 2026 | mistralai/mistral-vibePythonVerified 8 Oct 2026 |
What we know about Goose
goose is the only agent in this set governed by a foundation rather than a vendor, and it can borrow an existing Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini subscription over the Agent Client Protocol instead of an API key.
“goose is part of the [Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)](https://aaif.io/) at the Linux Foundation.”
Automate work that is not coding — research, writing, data analysis — on the same machine and the same agent, through the desktop app, the CLI or the API.
“goose is a general-purpose AI agent that runs on your machine. Not just for code — use it for research, writing, automation, data analysis, or anything you need to get done.”
Wire the agent into tools you already run: goose connects to 70+ extensions over the Model Context Protocol.
“Connect to 70+ extensions via the [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) open standard.”
Ship one configuration to a whole team: a custom distribution bundles the providers, extensions and branding before anybody installs it.
“[Custom Distributions](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/blob/main/CUSTOM_DISTROS.md) — build your own goose distro with preconfigured providers, extensions, and branding”
Model choice is not free: goose leans on tool calling, so a weak or local model degrades it, and the vendor names Claude 4 as the model it works best with.
“goose relies heavily on tool calling capabilities and currently works best with Claude 4 models.”
Two OpenAI reasoning models do not run at all, because they cannot call tools.
“o1-mini and o1-preview are not supported because goose uses tool calling.”
Unattended scheduling is broken in 1.45.0: headless runs die at the first tool call and a recipe's own goose_mode is ignored.
“Scheduler unusable for unattended recipes on 1.45.0: headless runs die at first tool call, recipe-level goose_mode is silently ignored, an interrupted run-now permanently wedges the job, and spawned sessions get no schedule_id”
A developer who wants the widest model catalogue in a terminal should pick OpenCode, which reaches 75+ providers from one config file.
“OpenCode uses the AI SDK and Models.dev to support 75+ LLM providers and it supports running local models.”
What Goose costs
goose charges nothing for itself; you pay whichever provider you configure, and it accepts a ChatGPT Plus or Pro subscription in place of an API key.
“Access GPT-5 Codex models optimized for code generation and understanding. Requires a ChatGPT Plus/Pro subscription.”
What we know about mistral-vibe
Mistral Vibe sets its risk level by picking one of four named agent profiles — ask, plan, accept-edits and auto-approve — rather than by editing a permission table, and accept-edits, which auto-approves edits but not shell commands, is the shipped default.
“- **`ask`**: Requires approval for tool executions. · - **`plan`**: Read-only agent for exploration and planning. Auto-approves safe tools like `grep` and `read`. · - **`accept-edits`**: The default agent. Auto-approves file edits only (`write_file`, `edit`). Useful for code refactoring. · - **`a…”
Refactor with edits applied but shell commands still gated: that is the shipped default, the `accept-edits` agent.
“- **`accept-edits`**: The default agent. Auto-approves file edits only (`write_file`, `edit`). Useful for code refactoring.”
Run two agent sessions on one repository at once: `--worktree` claims a fresh git worktree per session on a `vibe/<name>` branch, so the checkouts cannot collide.
“Unlike the named form, this never reuses an existing worktree: Vibe claims a free name, adding `-2`, `-3` and so on if needed, so two sessions started at once can never land in the same checkout. The branch is always `vibe/<name>`, matching the worktrees Le Chat Desktop creates.”
Hand the agent a screenshot: `.png`, `.jpg`, `.jpeg`, `.gif` and `.webp` attach through `@` mentions as native multimodal content.
“- Image attachments via `@` mentions — `.png`, `.jpg`, `.jpeg`, `.gif`, `.webp` files are sent to vision-capable models (e.g. Mistral Medium 3.5) as native multimodal content.”
Windows is not a supported target, only a working one; Mistral tests and aims at UNIX.
“> [!WARNING] · > Mistral Vibe works on Windows, but we officially support and target UNIX environments.”
There is no bring-your-own-provider path in the default setup: Vibe asks for a Mistral API key from console.mistral.ai and stores it in `~/.vibe/.env`.
“To use Vibe, you'll need a Mistral API key. You can obtain one by signing up at [https://console.mistral.ai](https://console.mistral.ai).”
Interrupting the agent can break the turn: after an interrupt Vibe emits two user messages in a row, which the Devstral 2 template rejects, and the issue is open with 16 comments.
“bug: Mistral-Vibe produces multiple user messages in a row after interrupts, which the Devstral 2 template does not allow”
A Windows-first team should pick Crush, whose built-in Bash interpreter makes the same config run on Windows as on Linux.
“Because Crush has a native, built-in Bash interpreter, Bash-based config works identically across all platforms, including Windows.”
What mistral-vibe costs
Mistral's Free plan includes Vibe with limited coding sessions and $10 a month of API credits.
“Limited coding sessions. · State-of-the-art image generation. · Test Mistral models in Studio. · $10 /mo in API credits.”
The Pro plan is $14.99 a month, lifts the cap to all-day coding in the CLI, and carries $30 a month of API credits; Team is $24.99 per user per month.
“All-day coding in the CLI, IDE, or on web. · More image generations. · $30 /mo in API credits.”
Questions people ask
- Are Goose and mistral-vibe still maintained?
- Goose committed to aaif-goose/goose (main) on 7 Oct 2026. mistral-vibe committed to mistralai/mistral-vibe (main) on 6 Oct 2026. Both readings come from the default branch of each repository, on the date shown beside them.
- What do Goose and mistral-vibe cost?
- Goose: goose charges nothing for itself; you pay whichever provider you configure, and it accepts a ChatGPT Plus or Pro subscription in place of an API key. mistral-vibe: Mistral's Free plan includes Vibe with limited coding sessions and $10 a month of API credits. The Pro plan is $14.99 a month, lifts the cap to all-day coding in the CLI, and carries $30 a month of API credits; Team is $24.99 per user per month. Every figure here is quoted from the vendor's own page and linked beside the claim.
- Is Goose or mistral-vibe open source?
- Goose's repository aaif-goose/goose reports the Apache-2.0 licence. mistral-vibe's repository mistralai/mistral-vibe reports the Apache-2.0 licence. We read the licence GitHub reports for the repository, which is not the same question as whether the hosted product is free.
How we check this page
- Machine facts. Stars, contributors, the newest commit on the default branch, the licence GitHub reports and the latest stable release come from the GitHub API, and download counts from npm, PyPI, Homebrew and the VS Code Marketplace. Each value carries the day it was last confirmed, never the day this page was built. The line under each label is arithmetic on those two values.
- Judgments. Every claim about what a tool suits, what it is bad at and what it costs is quoted from a page we read, and that page is linked beside the claim. Where there is no link, we wrote no claim.
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