NEW Google Gemini CLI Open Source & Free! Beats Claude Code & OpenAI Codex?! INSANE AI Coding CLI
NEW Google Gemini CLI Beats Claude Code & OpenAI Codex?! INSANE AI Coding CLI Race!
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ā³ Timestamps
00:00 - The AI Coding CLI Race Heats Up
00:23 - Introducing Google Gemini CLI: Open Source and Free Credits
01:07 - Key Features and Free vs Paid Limits
02:06 - Installing and Setting Up Gemini CLI
03:12 - Comparing Gemini CLI vs Claude Code
04:01 - Exploring Gemini CLI Commands and Tools
05:26 - Authenticating and Starting a New Project Demo
07:10 - Building a CRM App with Gemini CLI
08:54 - Improving the Project UI and Handling Issues
10:31 - Final CRM Demo and Project Notes
12:20 - Using Gemini CLI Tools: Google Search Example
12:33 - Final Thoughts and Upcoming Videos
Transcript
What's going on, guys? So, the AI race
is really starting to heat up. We have
some of the biggest tech companies
fighting for the spot to be the best AI
coder. All right, we have AI coding
idees, but more importantly, in today's
video, we're going to be talking about
AI coding CLIs. And yes, we had Open AI
codeex, we have COD Code, but now Google
Gemini is coming into the game and they
got a new CLI which we're going to be
covering in today's video. I'm going to
show you how you can actually set this
up, how it may compare to some of the
other AI coding CLIs. And what's even
crazier than anything, guys, is Google
opensourced this entire project and they
are giving away basically like up to
$600 of usage credits a day for free. So
without ado, guys, let's dive right in.
All right, guys. So all links I cover in
today's video will be linked down below.
And here we can see Gemini CLI, your
open-source AI agent. This is the blog
post from them basically announcing this
release. And here is the actual GitHub
repo of the entire open-source AI agent
that brings the power of Gemini directly
into your terminal. All right, so a few
key things to note with Google Gemini
CLI is it has a massive 1 million token
context window and this is of course
very very large. Uh, also too, you get
60 model requests per minute and 1,000
model requests per day with the
opensource free version, which is a huge
amount. Now, if you need advanced use
cases or increase limits, you can use a
specific model or require higher request
capacity, you would have to use your own
API key from Google AI Studio. We're not
going to be doing that though in today's
video. We're just going to be using the
free version. So you can query and edit
large code bases. You can generate new
apps. You can automate operational
tasks. You can use MCP servers within
this. And you can ground your queries in
Google search tool built into Gemini. So
without ado, let's actually run this CLI
right now. So few prerequisites. You're
going to need NodeJS version 18 or
higher. Next, what we're going to do is
we're going to simply run this command
right here. So, npx and then the GitHub
URL right here. All right. So, now we're
going to install the following packages.
I'm going to say yes. Now, as that is
installing, let me just quickly go over
a few things with Gemini CLI, Plaude
Code, and OpenAI Codeex. If you want to
see a side-by-side comparison, you want
to see a side-by-side comparison, here
it is. So, you can see Google Gemini.
I'm not going to read through this
entire thing, but if maybe if you want
to pause this, you can see native, open-
source, crossplatform, free with limits.
course it's open source has all these uh
MCP extensions multimodal rate limits
early stage reliability and it's using
Gemini 2.5 then we have claude code
using opus or sonnet 4 and this is paid
with either pro or max so so pro is
about 17 bucks a month and then max is a
h 100red bucks a month per person if
you're on max you get about five to 20
times more usage than pro if you are
going to using Claude Code a lot, it
probably makes sense to be using Max
because you're going to save a lot of
money. Now, if you want me to do a
sideby-side comparison between these
CLIs, as well as there's some other CLIs
that I'll mention too, um, then let me
know in the comments down below. I have
a few videos planned out where I am
going to dive into these a little bit
deeper and see which one is on top.
Okay, so we have Gemini installed now in
the CLI. So, we can see the logo here.
Tips for getting started. Ask questions,
edit files or run commands. Be specific
for the best results. And then create a
gemini.md file to customize your
interactions with Gemini. And then
for/help for more information. So, first
things first, we can select our theme.
So, I'll just go ahead and
maybe do something like I'll do this
one, Adam one. So, let's go ahead and do
help. Okay. So now we can actually see
all the basics and the commands here. So
basics add context use at to specify
files for context right shell mode. So
execute shell commands. So a few
commands help docs clear theme to change
themes. Change the off method. Editor so
set external editor preference. Stats so
check session stats. MCP memory. So
manage memory list tools. uh about bug
chat manage chat history quit and then
compress. Okay, so I'm going to go ahead
and start by taking a look at the tools
here. I don't know why it's glitching
like that. So available Gemini CLI
tools, we got read folder, read files,
search text, find files, edit, write
file, web fetch, read many files, shell,
save memory, and Google search. Now,
just to show you a sideby-side
comparison of how Claude code looks
right when you install it. First things
first is they get you to pick the theme.
We always go with dark theme. And then
you can either log in through your
Claude account or use the Anthropic API.
So, like I said, if you want to save
some money, it makes sense to actually
log in through your account. Once you
log in, you can click enter. Now, the
one thing I forgot to mention with quad
code is that you do need either a Mac or
Linux or you need WSL. Okay, so first
things first in Google Gemini here, I'm
going to actually make sure that I am
using the right off method. So, I'm
going to use off here for/off and then
log in with Google account. Okay, we're
not going to be using the API. Okay, so
I'm signing in and then boom, you should
see Google Code Assist and Gemini CLI
are now authorized to access your
account. Now, actually for simplicity
sake here, I'm actually just going to
use a Gmail account, not my actual uh
Executive Stride account. Reason being
is because if you do use a business
account, you may have to specify a
Google Cloud project. So, you'd have to
set a environment variable like so.
Google Cloud project right here, project
ID. So, I'm not going to do that right
now, but if you do want to use a
business account for whatever reason,
not that it makes a difference, that's
what you would probably have to do.
Okay. So, here it's showing once the CLI
is running, you can start interacting
with Gemini yourself. And it's giving
two different examples. One, starting a
new project in a directory. So, like
telling it basically, hey, generate me
this or two, working with an existing
project. So, let's go ahead and try
number one to start off. All right. All
right. So, here I'm saying, "Generate me
a CRM application that allows me to
track new leads and conversations in a
modern UI. Have a task manager and
calendar feature in it as well." We're
going to go ahead and click on send. So,
it's constructing a plan right here. So,
here's the plan. So, here's the plan.
Technology stack. We have Nex.js. So,
good choice right there. Nex.js. One of
my favorites. um styling, bootstrap,
material design, data storage,
uh core features, dashboard, lead
management, conversational tracking,
task manager, calendar, development
steps. Boom, boom, boom. So, I will
begin now scaffolding the next.js
project. Okay, so it has a command right
here. Now, it's saying allow execution.
So, you can either allow once or always
allow npx. I'll just allow once for now.
Now, it's running that shell command.
Okay, now it's running another one for
Bootstrap. Now it's running another one
for all the different packages right
here. Slower response times detected.
Automatically switching from Gemini 2.5
Pro to Gemini 2.5 Flash for faster
responses for the remainder of this
session. To avoid this, you can either
upgrade to standard tier or you can
utilize Gemini API key right here. All
right, so this of course isn't the best.
Obviously, it's basically downgrading us
to the cheaper, worse model, but I mean,
at the end of the day, they are giving
us a bunch of free usage, and I know
that everyone's probably using it right
now, so I can kind of understand why
they have to do this, but still, it is
what it is. Okay, so now it is saying
that everything is set up and good to
go. So, we just have to run this command
here. So, I'm going to run this to
launch the dev server. PNP rundev
and we can just go allow this. All
right. So now it's running PNP install
and then it should run PNPD. Okay. So
here we have our local host 3001
and let me just open this up. Okay. So
if we take a look at this, we can see
that it is a basic CRM. Welcome to the
basic CRM. We have our leads here. So we
can add new leads status and then
conversations here. So, pretty basic.
I'm going to tell it to improve this.
I'm saying make this a way nicer UI, way
more modern with way better features.
And we're going to go ahead click send.
Okay. So, I'm getting a build error now.
Let me go ahead and paste this into
here. The one annoying thing is it takes
a minute to paste this in. Okay. So, I
actually stopped it um because I'm going
to tell it to do one thing. But one
thing to note is it shows agent powering
down. Goodbye. And then it shows the
amount of tokens we use. Input, output,
thought tokens. So we use over a million
tokens already. Um, and that is quite a
bit. So that's just one thing to note.
Also, another thing to note is you can
either run it with the npx and then the
URL, the GitHub command, or you can run
it with PMP install uh-g Google Gemini
to install it globally. So one thing I
noticed it did with this Nex.js JS
project is it made it a pages um project
instead of a app router. So I'm actually
telling it to fix that right now. It's
an annoying thing you know that these
models are trained on a lot of older um
updates. So this tends to happen a lot
when you're using Nex.js shad whatever
the case is. So you this is I'm not
going to fully blame it on you know
Google Gemini CLI. This is something
that best practices you should really
specify with your prompting beforehand.
Okay, so it did a bunch of things and as
you can see now if we look at our
project it is using app router which is
good. Okay, so I finally got it to look
somewhat decent. It took me uh quite a
long time. Um but that is partially
because we started out in you know not
the best way. Um, basically one one
thing you know my suggestion as always
I've mentioned it many times on this
channel your initial prompts and how you
set up the project especially if you're
starting from scratch is very crucial
with anything whether you're using
cursor whether you're using wind surf
whatever the case may be. So since we
didn't do it the proper way we had to
switch over we it had a switch to
tailwind there was a few different
things so it took a little bit of time
here. As you can see it looks pretty
good. We got just a modern dashboard
right here for the CRM. All right.
Pretty decent UI. We got the lead
section here. Conversation section,
task, calendar, etc. Here's our
conversations right here. Here's our
basic tasks. Here's our leads. I think
you get the point here. Now, another
way, of course, you can use Gemini,
which it mentions here, is working
within an existing project. So if you
wanted to test this out, you could clone
the repo here, change directory into it,
run Gemini, and then just say, give me a
summary of all the changes that went in
yesterday, or give me a summary of this
project. So I'm going to do that in
actually this project. So I'm just
saying, give me a summary of what this
project is. Okay. And boom, this is a
CRM application built with Next.js. We
have lead management, conversational
tracking, task management, calendar
view, etc. And it says this project was
recently migrated from an older Nex.js
page router to the modern app router.
Now you can also use the Gemini tools of
course. So just to show you in a basic
example which you wouldn't of course use
in a real life scenario. I'm going to
say search what the weather tomorrow in
Toronto will be around 6 p.m. And we can
see here that it's using a Google search
to search the web for the weather. Now,
we see the weather in Toronto at 6 p.m.
is expected to feel like 31Ā° C with a
10% chance of precipitation. All right,
so all in all, guys, I think this is a
pretty big W for Google. Of course, it
definitely is not perfect. I don't know
if I would say it is on the same level
as cloud code. It's really hard to say.
I will be doing more videos in
comparison with some of these CLI tools.
I'll also leave a link in the
description down below to this Twitter
thread right here where they basically
did a CLI battle royale with these
coding agents and you can see they use
Claude Code, Anon Code, Codeex, Open
Code, AMP Code, and Gemini. So, these
are some cool tools as well that I'll
definitely be doing some videos on in
the future such as Open Code here. So,
make sure to stay tuned to see some of
those videos. But, let me know what your
thoughts are in the comments down below,
guys, about Google Gemini CLI. I think
it's a big W for them and and they're
really trying to burn the ground of all
the different competitors by doing this
kind of free model where, you know,
they're giving you access to hundreds of
dollars worth of usage per day. And this
is something that, of course, a company
like Google can actually do because
they're such a huge company with a lot
of money. and they just had a huge W
with Google V3 and they're really coming
strong and the AI races of course with
all these different companies, Claude,
OpenAI is really starting to heat up,
guys. So, I will be doing a lot more
videos more frequently on this channel
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