Cursor CLI vs. Gemini CLI

Feature	Cursor CLI	Gemini CLI

Tagline	Ship code with agents right from your terminal	An open-source AI agent that brings Gemini into your terminal
Website	https://cursor.com/cli	https://geminicli.com
Language	typescript	typescript
Release Date	August 7, 2025	June 24, 2025
Last Updated	April 28, 2026	June 3, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	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	Yes	No
IDE Integration	Cursor IDE, Xcode, Android Studio, JetBrains, VSCode, Neovim	VS Code
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	No	No
Context Window	Up to 1M tokens	1M tokens
Terminal Bench 2.0		#42 · 61.4% ±4.1 ²
Supported Models	Composor 2, Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5, Codex 5.3, Gemini 3, Grok	Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro
Pricing Model	Freemium	Free
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free / $20-200/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