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	June 29, 2026	June 29, 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	Yes
IDE Integration	Cursor IDE, Xcode, Android Studio, JetBrains, VSCode, Neovim	Antigravity, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs (ACP), Zed (ACP)
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	No	Yes
Context Window	Up to 1M tokens	1M tokens
Terminal Bench	#9 · 15.7% ±2.9 (Terminal-Bench 3.0) 1	#15 · 65.8% ±2.7 (Terminal-Bench 2.1) 2
AA Coding Agent Index	38% · Composer 2.5 Fast	-
Supported Models	Composor 2.5, Claude Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Codex 5.3, Gemini 3.5, Grok 4.20	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

¹ Cursor CLI tested with Grok 4.5 on Terminal-Bench 3.0.

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