Excellent core experience. Docking a star because pricing gets steep once you're a heavy user, and the free tier limits hit faster than expected.
Gemini CLI
Build, debug, and deploy with AI from your terminal

About Gemini CLI
Gemini CLI is a terminal-based AI tool for querying and editing large codebases, generating apps from images or PDFs, and automating complex workflows with Gemini 3.
It can be installed globally through npm. The site notes that Gemini CLI will be replaced by Antigravity CLI for unpaid-tier and Google One users on June 18.
Highlights
- Query and edit large codebases
- Generate apps from images or PDFs
- Automate complex workflows
- Runs from the terminal
- Installable with npm
Excellent core experience. Docking a star because pricing gets steep once you're a heavy user, and the free tier limits hit faster than expected.
Promising, but I hit bugs in the first hour and support was slow. Will revisit in a few months when it matures.
Free tier is generous enough that my two engineers use it all day. Quality is a step behind Claude Code on tricky refactors but it's fast and it doesn't cost us anything. For a small team that matters.
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