Ante vs Gemini CLI

Feature	Ante	Gemini CLI
Tagline	Self-contained Rust agent harness with native offline inference	An open-source AI agent that brings Gemini into your terminal
Website	https://ante.run/	https://geminicli.com
Language	rust	typescript
Release Date	December 23, 2025	June 24, 2025
Last Updated	September 4, 2026	June 29, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	AI Lab
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	basic	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	No	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	Yes
IDE Integration	None shipped; `ante serve` exposes a JSONL protocol for editor plugins	Antigravity, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs (ACP), Zed (ACP)
Hooks / Extensions	No	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	1M tokens
Terminal Bench	#23 · 69.4% ±2.1 (Terminal-Bench 2.0) 1	#15 · 65.8% ±2.7 (Terminal-Bench 2.1) 2
Supported Models	17 built-in presets: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini and Vertex, xAI Grok, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Zai, Ali Coding Plan, Antix, plus any OpenAI-compatible endpoint via ~/.ante/catalog.json and any local GGUF model through the bundled llama.cpp	Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro
Supported Subscriptions	Claude Code ChatGPT	-
Pricing Model	Free, BYOK	Free
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (alpha preview)	Free (1,000 req/day)
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Source Code	https://github.com/AntigmaLabs/ante	https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli
Development State	active	active

¹ Ante tested with Gemini 3 Pro on Terminal-Bench 2.0.

² Gemini CLI tested with Gemini 3 Pro on Terminal-Bench 2.1.