Cosine vs Gemini CLI

Feature	Cosine	Gemini CLI

Tagline	Your coding agent in your terminal.	An open-source AI agent that brings Gemini into your terminal
Website	https://cosine.sh/cli	https://geminicli.com
Language	go	typescript
Release Date		June 24, 2025
Last Updated	September 4, 2026	June 29, 2026
Provider Type	AI Lab	AI Lab
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	Yes
IDE Integration	VS Code	Antigravity, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs (ACP), Zed (ACP)
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	No	Yes
Context Window	Model dependent	1M tokens
Terminal Bench		#15 · 65.8% ±2.7 (Terminal-Bench 2.1) ²
Supported Models	Lumen Scout, Lumen Outpost; GPT-5.5/5.4, Claude Opus 4.7/4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3 Flash, Kimi K2.6, GLM 5.1, MiniMax M2.7, Qwen 3.6 Plus, DeepSeek v4 Pro	Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro
Pricing Model	Usage Based, Freemium, Subscription	Free
Free Tier	No	Yes
Price Range	$19-999/mo	Free (1,000 req/day)
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Source Code	N/A	https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli
Development State	active	active