AI News, 19 January 2026

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Products
Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.
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Anthropic's Claude Code offers autonomous coding capabilities but at premium pricing, prompting developers to seek alternatives. Block's open-source Goose provides similar functionality for free, potentially disrupting the commercial AI coding market and pressuring vendors to reconsider pricing strategies.
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Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.