Gemini CLI vs Zot

Feature	Gemini CLI	Zot

Tagline	An open-source AI agent that brings Gemini into your terminal	Yet another coding agent harness.
Website	https://geminicli.com	https://zot.sh
Language	typescript	go
Release Date	June 24, 2025	April 18, 2026
Last Updated	June 29, 2026	September 4, 2026
Provider Type	AI Lab	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	No
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	low
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	No
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	Yes	No
IDE Integration	Antigravity, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs (ACP), Zed (ACP)	None
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	1M tokens	Model dependent
Terminal Bench	#15 · 65.8% ±2.7 (Terminal-Bench 2.1) ¹
Supported Models	Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro	Models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Kimi, DeepSeek, Google Gemini/Vertex, GitHub Copilot, Bedrock, Azure and 300+ models from OpenRouter.
Pricing Model	Free	Free
Free Tier	Yes	No
Price Range	Free (1,000 req/day)	$0
Source Code Availability	Open Source (Apache-2.0)	Open Source (MIT)
Source Code	https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli	https://github.com/patriceckhart/zot
Development State	active	active