Free & Open Source! Google Gemini CLI Rivals Claude Code
Google Gemini CLI: Free, open-source AI coding assistant with 1M token context. Rivals Claude Code with natural language terminal commands.
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Google Gemini CLI exploded in popularity overnight.
This is an open-source AI agent that runs in the terminal, allowing users to execute commands directly in the terminal using natural language commands. It also features the powerful capabilities of Google Gemini Pro 2.5 — and it's essentially free.
Gemini CLI excels at programming and can also be used for chatting, content creation, Deep Research, and other purposes. The project's star count is rapidly climbing.
Additionally, Google has integrated Gemini CLI with Google's AI coding assistant, Gemini Code Assist, enabling all developers (including free, standard, and enterprise Code Assist plans) to experience prompt-driven coding in VS Code and Gemini CLI.
To get started with Gemini CLI, simply log in with your Google personal account to obtain a free Gemini Code Assist license.
This free license not only supports the Gemini 2.5 Pro model but also opens up an impressive 1 million token context window, meaning you can feed it an entire codebase as background material.
The usage limits also reach the industry's highest free quotas: the free version allows 60 model requests per minute with a daily limit of 1,000 requests.
