Gemini CLI vs. Snowflake Cortex CLI

Feature	Gemini CLI	Snowflake Cortex CLI

Tagline	An open-source AI agent that brings Gemini into your terminal	Snowflake-native AI coding agent for data engineering
Website	https://geminicli.com	https://snowflake.com/en/product/features/cortex-code/
Language	typescript	typescript
Release Date	June 24, 2025	February 2, 2026
Last Updated	June 3, 2026	April 28, 2026
Provider Type	AI Lab	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	No
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	No
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	VS Code	None - terminal only
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	No	No
Context Window	1M tokens	Model-dependent
Terminal Bench 2.0	#42 · 61.4% ±4.1 ¹
Supported Models	Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro	Snowflake managed models - Claude Opus / Sonnet, GPT 5.2
Pricing Model	Free	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (1,000 req/day)	Free trial / $20/mo
Source Code Availability	Open Source (Apache-2.0)	Proprietary Software
Source Code	https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli	N/A
Development State	active	active