Droid CLI vs. Gemini CLI

Feature	Droid CLI	Gemini CLI
Tagline	Agent-native software development in your terminal	An open-source AI agent that brings Gemini into your terminal
Website	https://factory.ai	https://geminicli.com
Language	typescript	typescript
Release Date	May 28, 2025	June 24, 2025
Last Updated	June 3, 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	No	No
IDE Integration	VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains IDEs, Vim, Zed	VS Code
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	No
Context Window	Model-dependent	1M tokens
Terminal Bench 2.0	#12 · 77.3% ±2.2 1	#42 · 61.4% ±4.1 2
Supported Models	Frontier models by Factory: Opus 4.6, GPT-5, GPT-5.3-Codex & custom models; DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi K2, Qwen.	Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro
Pricing Model	Freemium	Free
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	$20-200/mo	Free (1,000 req/day)
Source Code Availability	Source Available (Proprietary)	Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Source Code	https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory	https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli
Development State	active	active

¹ Droid CLI tested with GPT-5.3-Codex on Terminal Bench v2.0.

² Gemini CLI tested with Gemini 3.1 Pro on Terminal Bench v2.0.