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Forget about AI costs: Google just changed the game with open-source Gemini CLI that will be free for most developers


Google is bringing Gemini Pro 2.5 to the command line with a powerful new open source tool — and it's doing it mostly for free.

“To be very clear, for the vast majority of developers, Gemini CLI will be completely free of charge,” Ryan J. Salva, senior director for product management at Google, said in response to a question from VentureBeat during a press briefing. Salva noted that if an organization wants to run multiple Gemini CLI agents in parallel, or if there are specific policy, governance or data residency requirements, a paid API key comes in. Users can use native macOS Seatbelt support for sandboxing, run the agent in Docker or Podman containers, and route all network traffic through proxies for inspection.

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