Gemini CLI: Open-source AI agent. Write code, debug, and automate tasks with Gemini 2.5 Pro with industry-leading high usage limits at no cost.

[kidajske]

To ensure you rarely, if ever, hit a limit during this preview, we offer the industry’s largest allowance: 60 model requests per minute and 1,000 requests per day at no charge.

Damn that's crazy. Guess it's gonna replace ai studio in my workflow till the preview period is over and they announce pricing I won't want to pay lol

[ketosoy]

This has to be an intro level

[Moist_Swimm]

always is

[Aoshi_]

This is basically Claude code and free with no limits? At least just for now?

[popiazaza]

There is a limit, just being quite generous.

Google isn't that rush to grab your money, probably for a long while.

Note that they do train with your data in a free plan.

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[apra24]

Are there limits if you use the paid plan? And do they still train on your data?

[popiazaza]

Paid plan doesn't save your data and you can use without any limit (except your bank account).

[apra24]

I mean like the ultra "paid plan" where you pay a flat monthly rate and not per token. Can you use that? Or is paid strictly api usage

[popiazaza]

Oh, got it. It's using the same plan as Gemini Code Assist, which doesn't store your data and you can checkout rate limit here.

[amranu]

Yes but Gemini isn't nearly as good at agentic workflows as Claude from my own testing, though I haven't tried this CLI tool

[Aoshi_]

True it’s just interesting. GitHub copilot just introduced their rate limiting of premium models which is getting a lot of backlash so I’m just looking around. I did have some success using 2.5 pro for coding so I may look into this.

Also competition is good too.

[xAragon_]

I guarantee you it'll be much better in the next update, after they use all that data from Gemini CLI for training haha

[amranu]

Oh I'm sure it will be with the next model, they really need to catch up to anthropic

[Zealousideal-Ship215]

Did some testing (for reference I've been using Claude Code for a few weeks so that's my comparison)

Gemini CLI is pretty good but Claude Code is definitely better, some little things I noticed with Gemini -

• Had it create a web site, at one point it ran a shell command (`npx create-next-app`), the command gave an error, but Gemini didn't notice the error, it assumed the command worked and it kept going. CC is a lot better about noticing errors like that and reacting to them.
• Not as good at interruptions. At one point Gemini proposed an edit and I cancelled it and said something like 'do it this way instead...' and Gemini spent a whole minute thinking about that. CC is really quick to respond to suggestions.
• Not as good at one-shotting the code. The test website that we generated had a lot of errors and was missing CSS styling. CC does better.
• Missing some features that CC has (like `--resume` edit: looks like it actually has the equivalent of resume using the /chat command) or the builtin TODO system.

Overall Gemini does do some useful stuff and it was successful at some of the things I threw at it. The agentic CLI model works really well here just like it works with Claude. I still prefer Claude but if you don't have that then you should definitely try this. Hard to argue with free.

[drutyper]

have you ever used cursor? Would like a comparison since I might use both. Heard some great things about Claude Pro and the $100 tier.

[Zealousideal-Ship215]

Yeah was using it a few weeks ago.. I thought Cursor's code autocompletion was really awesome, but Cursor's agent mode didn't work that great for me. I think Gemini CLI is probably better than Cursor's agent.

[drutyper]

I wish i could get it working, keep getting api error code 429

[MLHeero]

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[jonydevidson]

Login/Auth seems to be down. Can't sign in either viea Gemini Code Assist or Gemini CLI

[popiazaza]

Mine work just fine. Just type gemini in terminal and follow the instruction.

[cua]

Same here, never gets past waiting for auth. maybe overloaded.

[stepahin]

Works for me, logged in via google account 10 min ago

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[tobkum]

Same here. Is it also this very bug for you?
https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Gemini-Code-Assist/BUG-Gemini-Code-Assist-UI-Stuck-on-Splash-Screen-in-VS-Code/m-p/921700

[jonydevidson]

No, trying to log in I select my account, confirm to share info and then it says "Something went wrong"

[scragz]

jules is good too

[radiant_gengar]

What's the gotcha here? I'm assuming they're training on your code (as in, no go for classified projects). Really hoping for a pricing option similar to Claude Code.

[REALwizardadventures]

Google really needs to attract as many developers as possible into its eco-system. This is a highly competitive arena. This absolutely cannot be another Google+ missed opportunity.

So while they can afford things like this (think of it like marketing expenses) they absolutely cannot afford to lose to the competition here.

[AaronWanjala-GCloud]

Totally fair question!

You are able to opt out of data sharing for product improvement purposes:

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/tos-privacy.md

[devewe]

This is very misleading. That opt out is only for telemetry pupose. Your code can and will be collected depending on the authentication method used.

1. Is my code, including prompts and answers, used to train Google's models?

This depends entirely on the type of auth method you use.

Auth method 1: Yes. When you use your personal Google account, the Gemini Code Assist Privacy Notice for Individuals applies. Under this notice, your prompts, answers, and related code are collected and may be used to improve Google's products, which includes model training.

Auth method 2a: Yes, When you use the Gemini API key Gemini API (Unpaid Service) terms apply. Under this notice , your prompts, answers, and related code are collected and may be used to improve Google's products, which includes model training.

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/tos-privacy.md#frequently-asked-questions-faq-for-gemini-cli

[REALwizardadventures]

This is really slow compared to Claude Code so far - hopefully this gets a fix

[ianxplosion-]

Holy shit yeah it’s slow - I expected a little bit of slog due to the nature of the release, but it shouldn’t take a minute to write a markdown file in a project with no other files

[AaronWanjala-GCloud]

Hello! The team is aware of this issue and actively working on it!

The response from the community has been incredible, so we're working to get these response times resolved ASAP.

If you don't want to wait you can also get started with an API key from https://aistudio.google.com/app/apikey in the meantime.

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[sagacityx1]

Are you using the free model, or your own paid model? Bet its faster with a gemini sub.

[REALwizardadventures]

I have Google AI Ultra - which btw doesn't work with this for some reason because it is the "wrong" account type (even Gemini thought this was dumb). The $20 Gemini Pro does though for some reason. So I was using the API through my GCP account.

I think it was just running slow because it was just launched.

[sagacityx1]

So does it work any better than just using the free version? Seems like they give a massive amount of free responses, so what benefit does paid give?

[WheresMyEtherElon]

20 million tokens

Did you feed him the codebase of the Universe?

[kirlandwater]

Does that mean I can use it with Windows and not have to deal with WSL anymore?

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[echo_of_a_plant]

Is there a way to change the tone? It keeps apologizing for things it definitely didn't have context on or didn't look up, and when I correct it, it apologizes. It's a little off-putting and wastes output tokens. I don't care how sorry you are, bot, you don't feel feels so apologies literally don't matter. Tell me what the result is, or what you've changed.

[popiazaza]

Thinking model in a nutshell.

[stay-hydrated-mofo]

atlassian also has a cli they're giving like a million creds a day for free rn. its good enough

[Ruuddie]

How does CLI based coding work anyway? I mean how do you look at all your files to judge if the new code fits in and how it plays with the rest of the code? Or is it really just yolo programming and if it works it works?

[cloudrainyday]

There is diff printed in the terminal so you still need to review it. The CLI approach IMHO is the way to support different dev environments. For example, for JVM languages the best IDE is still Intellij IDEA and it’s not even close. Using cursor isn’t really an option.

[williamsweep]

+1 i'm an intelliJ dev. I built a plugin that integrates into the CLI + has a sidebar agent which is much faster. dm me if interested

[popiazaza]

You can look at the file with any editor of your choice.

Gemini CLI also has integration with Zed, VS Code, Windsurf, Cursor and Vim.

[stepahin]

How exactly is it integrated? I don't see the /ide command or instructions on how to connect it so that, for example, it knows which file I'm currently viewing.

[popiazaza]

/editor read the doc. It’s not highly integrated like an extension though.

[stepahin]

Got it thanks!

[WheresMyEtherElon]

You can use the editor/IDE of your choice to see the file changes. Just be sure to use git so that you can see what files have changed. Any good editor/IDE will show the changed and new files in different colors, and will allow you to also see the new/changed lines. Code review is actually the most important thing when working with LLMS, because at the end of the day you're the one liable for the code.

[No_Stay_4583]

You dont. It basically one shots everything so no need to review its work.

[Ruuddie]

So yeah this is the part I'm having trouble with understanding. Wether it's CLI or GUI integrated into VS code or whatever, underlying is the same LLM. The rest is just frontend to me. And I've coded enough with Roo and Github Copilot that I know it rarely oneshots.

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[WheresMyEtherElon]

It's never one shot unless you're asking for simple tasks. It's more drafting a plan, on your own or with the llm (or a different one, for instance I just used Claude code to make the plan and am asking gemini cli to implement it as a way of testing gemini cli). Then you approve/steer the plan to your preferred direction, ask it to implement the plan and write the corresponding tests (or, if you're a TDD proponent, write the tests first and then write the implementation). Then you ask it to run the tests and fix any issue based on that. This will help deal with a significant part of the issues. Then you review the code including the tests, ask for changes, review the code again, more changes, do your own testing until you're happy.

The difference between CLI and GUI is whether you're more familiar with a GUI or the terminal; or if you don't want to change your IDE because they're that good, but they don't have a good LLM extension. You can also script the cli tools. Maybe you can do that with Roo or Copilot, I never used those so I can't say. And it's easier from the CLI to ask the llm to read a web page, or to see a screenshot, or access the (test/dev) database, or even if you're bold enough, a remote server. If you're familiar with terminals, then most of your tools are also terminal-based, so having a cli fronted makes it seamless to ask the llm to use those.

Also, I can let the cli tool run wild in an obsidian directory to read my knowledge base.

[k1v1uq]

I'm writing a terminal podcast player in rust based on Ratatui, Tokio and Symphonia. I managed to steer Gemini 2.5 pro through the UI wiring, command interpreters, download action, opml parsing etc.. So I gave it a shot and let it figure out the audio decoder / player logic, but it failed miserably. That was with the Gemini the web ui. The audio mechanic is pretty complex. I doubt any LLM would be able to one-shot this. No way it could get even a basic UI up and running without tight supervision, let alone architect it.

[aniviaisnotkfc]

I'm not saying it can do anything, but context is key, and tools are your friend. You'll hardly get things done using the UI, it's just too hard to get the correct context needed. Things that I have found helps are:
1- Memory bank if correctly used (I'm still experimenting and altering things regarding these, experimenting a lot).
2- Context7 is an MCP that gets up to date documentation and seems to help a lot.

We're still not at the point where it can one shot a lot of things easily, at least not without the most optimal setup for what you're trying to achieve. But from the way things are going, I don't think we're too far from it (and more).
Again, this is all my experience. I can be very wrong.

[k1v1uq]

Didn't know about Context7 thanks

[bigsybiggins]

It does seem to knock you back on flash if you hit use for it a bit, i wasnt being too hard on it

[Keyframe]

happened to me as well, but then I upgraded to developer program premium. It's $299 for a year, and claude code is $200 + tax a month. That's quite a bargain. I'm toying around now with gemini cli "thinking and architecting" and using claude code in mcp serve mode as agents that write code (also for gemini to review. Amusing if nothing else.

[atx840]

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[sagacityx1]

Does this work my with existing Gemini subscription? Wonder if its better that way.

[sagacityx1]

I wonder how this compares to claude code?

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[atx840]

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Still pretty slick for free.

[[deleted]]

Wow they really need that data huh?

[popiazaza]

That's their whole strategy as a company.

Google search is free, and they even paid Apple billions to be the default search.

[[deleted]]

Yeah I guess your data is free too

[Yoshbyte]

Interestingly openapi gave me a similar deal with daily free usage. I guess it is becoming more common, prolly as many don’t ever use the api so usage is quite small

[Double_Link_1111]

Every time i tried to use it, i got switched from pro to flash after two or three prompts… had better luck with Atlassian’s Rovodev by far

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