Gemini CLI's free tier is gone, and its value score reflects that
Google shut off free and personal Pro/Ultra access to Gemini CLI on June 18, 2026, replacing it with Antigravity CLI for individuals. The row stays on the board; the value axis and the composite score do not.
By Agent Verdict Panel
Gemini CLI's row is not leaving the board, but the numbers on it changed today. Google confirmed on developers.googleblog.com, dated May 19, 2026, that free, Pro and Ultra personal access to Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist stopped on June 18, 2026, with Antigravity CLI as the stated replacement for individual users. That cutoff is two months in the past, and our copy still described a live free allowance until this correction.
What is actually gone
Every consumer path is gone: Google AI Pro, Google AI Ultra, and the free Gemini Code Assist for individuals tier all stopped being served on June 18, 2026. Gemini Code Assist for GitHub stopped taking new organisation installs the same day. What survives is enterprise: a paid Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise licence, a Gemini Code Assist for GitHub connection through Google Cloud, or a paid Gemini or Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform API key. Google publishes no price for Gemini CLI as its own product, because it is not sold as its own product anymore, it is bundled into those licences and keys.
Why the score moved
The community score on this board blends an editorial baseline against live votes, and that baseline is set from the same ten weighted axes published on the scoring page. Gemini CLI's value axis previously scored 769 out of 1000, specifically because of a free daily allowance we described as real rather than a trial. That allowance no longer exists for anyone without an enterprise licence, so the value axis is now 400, the panel's honest read of a tool with no free tier and no published price. That single change pulls the editorial baseline from 704 to 682, and the published community score from 704 to 683. The rank does not move: Gemini CLI stays 5th of 5 in the coding agent and LLM category, and the tier stays B.
What did not change
The context window, the open source codebase and MCP support are all still genuine strengths, and none of that is affected by this correction. The weights did not change, and no other tool's score moved. This is a correction to one row's data, not a change to the methodology.
The tagline, pricing summary, strengths, weaknesses, FAQ and structured data on Gemini CLI's own page are updated to match, and the Google blog post is cited there as a source.