Gemini CLI vs Poolside Agent CLI

Feature	Gemini CLI	Poolside Agent CLI

Tagline	An open-source AI agent that brings Gemini into your terminal	Work with Poolside Agents from your terminal
Website	https://geminicli.com	https://docs.poolside.ai/cli/pool
Language	typescript	go
Release Date	June 24, 2025	October 25, 2025
Last Updated	June 29, 2026	August 14, 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	No
Voice Mode	Yes	No
IDE Integration	Antigravity, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs (ACP), Zed (ACP)	Poolside Assistant, VS Code, Visual Studio
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	No
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	No
Context Window	1M tokens	(Point) 64K - 128K (Malibu, Laguna)
Terminal Bench	#15 · 65.8% ±2.7 (Terminal-Bench 2.1) ¹
Supported Models	Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro	Laguna M.1, Laguna XS.2, Malibu, Point and OpenRouter with over 300+ supported models.
Pricing Model	Free	Subscription, Subscription, BYOK
Free Tier	Yes	No
Price Range	Free (1,000 req/day)	$0, Enterprise
Source Code Availability	Open Source (Apache-2.0)	Proprietary Software
Source Code	https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli	https://github.com/poolsideai/pool
Development State	active	active