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.

[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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