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Gemini CLI

Google’s open-source coding agent for the terminal.

Price
Free (open source)
GitHub stars
★ 108k
Latest release
v0.65.0
5 days ago

Plans & pricing

Free, open-source software. You pay only for the AI model you connect (or run a local one).

What it is and who it's for

Agents that read your whole project, plan, edit many files, run tests and fix failures on their own — usually from the terminal. You review what they did, like a teammate’s pull request.

Best for: Developers shipping features, refactors and bug fixes faster.

Top models for backend development

By Coding Index · Artificial Analysis

The best-scoring models for the kind of work Gemini CLI does. Check Gemini CLI's docs for which models it supports.

  1. 1AnthropicClaude Fable 5.181.6
  2. 2AnthropicClaude Opus 578
  3. 3OpenAIgpt-5.6-sol78.3
  4. 4OpenAIgpt-6-astra77.1