It’s also open source, OpenAI says. “ [Codex CLI is] a lightweight, open source coding agent that runs locally in your terminal,” an OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch via email.

It's called Gemini CLI, and it shares a lot with Gemini Code Assist, but it works in your terminal environment instead of integrating with an IDE. And perhaps best of all, it's free and open source.

Google launched a new, open source AI coding tool for terminals, Gemini CLI, to compete with similar offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Also, Gemini CLI can work with other apps, not just Google's Gemini-based AI tools. It supports MCP, so developers can plug it into all sorts of tools that also support the interconnectivity protocol.

Google introduces Gemini CLI, a free, open-source AI agent that enables developers to code, debug, and automate tasks directly from their terminal.

Google Gemini CLI, however, is quite different from its two primary commercial rivals in that the tool is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Then, of course, is the cost.

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Gemini CLI is available for developers to preview starting today, and it’s currently free to use through a free Gemini Code Assist license that can be obtained via a personal Google account ...