Gemini CLI Pricing and Gemini Code Assist Pricing for Standard and Enterprise Seats

Gemini Code Assist Standard costs $19 per user per month on a 12-month commitment and $22.80 on a monthly commitment. Enterprise costs $45 and $54. All subscriptions are billed monthly, and you buy licenses in the Gemini Admin console inside Google Cloud or through Google's sales team for a custom quote. Google actually publishes the fee as an hourly rate, $0.026027397 an hour for Standard on the annual term, which multiplies out to exactly $228 over the 8,760 hours in a year.

Here is what the list prices add up to for the team sizes most US engineering managers budget for:

The annual term saves 16.7% on both editions: $45.60 per Standard seat a year and $108 per Enterprise seat. A 50-developer Enterprise rollout on monthly terms costs $5,400 a year more than the same seats on the annual commitment, which is the first number to put in front of finance.

On May 19, 2026 Google announced that Gemini CLI is being folded into Antigravity CLI, and on June 18, 2026 Gemini CLI and the Gemini Code Assist IDE extensions stopped serving requests for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers and for anyone using Gemini Code Assist for individuals free of charge. Organizations with a Code Assist Standard or Enterprise license kept their access unchanged, and Gemini CLI stays usable with paid Gemini API keys and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform keys. Personal accounts that moved to Antigravity now pay through Google AI plans, which our Google Antigravity pricing page breaks down by tier. So who can still run Gemini CLI, and on what bill, depends entirely on the account you sign in with:

Two Google pages still contradict this, which is why so many third-party guides are wrong. The Gemini CLI quota and pricing doc still lists 1,000 free requests a day for individuals and 1,500 and 2,000 for AI Pro and Ultra, while the Gemini CLI plans page carries a banner saying unpaid and Google One users were replaced by Antigravity CLI on June 18. We follow the transition notice and the plans banner. The Google Developer Program is no longer a back door either: its Premium tier is now Google AI Pro at $19.99 a month and lists Antigravity and a $10 monthly cloud credit, not a Code Assist license.

Enterprise costs $26 more per seat on the annual term ($45 against $19), and the extra money buys a defined list of features rather than a better model. Both editions run Gemini CLI and agent mode, both carry Google's generative AI indemnification, and both have local codebase awareness with a 1,000,000 token context window.

The practical test is simple. If your developers mostly need completions, chat and the CLI, Standard is the right seat and the extra 500 daily requests on Enterprise are not worth $26 a month to most of them. Enterprise pays when code customization on your own repositories matters, or when the team builds APIs in Apigee or runs production on Google Cloud and wants Cloud Assist investigations. Many organizations split the two: Enterprise for the platform team, Standard for everyone else.

For anyone who uses it most workdays, the license wins by a wide margin. A paid API key bills every model request at Google's per-token rate, and an agent prompt in Gemini CLI usually triggers several model requests. Paid tier rates per 1 million tokens, from the Gemini API pricing page:

To turn that into a budget we assumed a typical CLI model request sends 40,000 input tokens, 30,000 of them cached, and returns 1,000 output tokens. That profile is our own estimate, not a Google figure, and it leaves out cache storage charges. On it, one request costs about $0.038 on Gemini 3.1 Pro and about $0.0135 on Gemini 3.8 Flash at the current promotional rate.

The license is a flat fee with a hard daily ceiling, and that ceiling is generous. The break-even sits around 500 Pro-model requests a month, roughly 24 per workday. Above that, every extra request on the license is free until the 1,500 cap. Keep API keys for contractors, occasional users and CI jobs that run a handful of prompts, and give a Standard seat to anyone who opens the CLI every day. When the Gemini 3.8 Flash promotion ends on January 1, 2027, its per-request cost doubles, which moves the Flash break-even down to about 700 requests a month.

Seat prices for the tools US teams most often shortlist next to Gemini Code Assist, read from each vendor's pricing page between September 25 and October 7, 2026. The bigger difference is what happens when a developer runs out, so read the fourth column before the second.

Gemini Code Assist Standard on an annual term ties GitHub Copilot Business for the cheapest seat on the list. It is also the only one of the five with no usage bill at all: the worst case is that a developer hits 1,500 requests in a day and stops until tomorrow. Copilot does the opposite, keeping developers working and billing every credit past the pool. Which behavior you want is a finance decision as much as an engineering one. Full detail on each rival is on our GitHub Copilot Enterprise pricing, Cursor pricing, Claude Code pricing and Kiro pricing pages, and we ran a full team comparison in Gemini Code Assist vs GitHub Copilot pricing.

The third row is the expensive mistake. A team that runs Gemini CLI on API keys because "it was free last year" pays about four times the Standard license once usage becomes daily. Put daily users on seats, keep the key for everyone else.