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no. CC is not just a cli. Its cli + their pro/max plan. gemini cli is very expensive.

• mark_l_watson 1y ago
  Wait a minute, have you often run out of the gemini cli free daily quota? Their free quota is very generous because they are trying to get market/mind share.
  • apwell23 1y ago
    it switches to flash almost immediately like in 10-15 mins . flash sucks. And even switching is not smooth either. for me when the switch happens it just get stuck sitting there so i have to restart cli.
    • mark_l_watson 1y ago
      OK, thanks, I understand now what is happening. I use gemini-cli for one specific task at a time and sometimes just one 5 to 10 minute session a day. If I use long work sessions then I will add my API key and pay.
• SamDc73 1y ago
  They do have a subscription: it's $22/month, but the whole pricing and instructions is very confusing, it took me 15 min to figure it all out.
• xnx 1y ago
  Isn't Gemini CLI 1000 requests/day free? https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-open-source-ai-agent/#:~:text=To%20use%20Gemini%20CLI%20free,per%20day%20at%20no%20charge. https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini...
  • sunaookami 1y ago
    It's false advertising - 1000 model requests, not 1000 Gemini 2.5 Pro requests. It drops to Flash after 3-5 requests and Flash is useless.
    • laborcontract 1y ago
      Flash is very very good (better than 4.1 at faster speeds). Just not anywhere near 2.5 pro.
  • upcoming-sesame 1y ago
    Theoretically, practically it is riddled with rate limiting issues https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/1502 https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/1502
    • bdmorgan 1y ago
      We are working to resolve this. It's still in preview but expect to see healthy Gemini 2.5 Pro allocations for subscription customers in the near future.