Gemini CLI vs Roo Code

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-10-12

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Gemini CLI and Roo Code both sit low in the rankings, with overall scores of 6 and 7 out of 100. Gemini CLI gets named in 7 of 70 answers, best represented in "best AI coding assistant that works in the terminal" (2 of 3 answers). Roo Code shows up slightly more, in 11 of 70 answers, doing best on "best AI coding assistant for VS Code" (2 of 3 answers). Head to head, Roo Code is named more often in 5 questions versus 1 for Gemini CLI, with 14 ties. Claude gives the highest scores to both: 16 for Gemini CLI and 23 for Roo Code.

Head to head

metric	Gemini CLI	Roo Code
score	5	7
questions won	10	11

By assistant

Gemini CLI

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	3	0% of answers
Claude	15	25% of answers	#6.4
Gemini	0	0% of answers
Perplexity	0	0% of answers

Roo Code

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	0	0% of answers
Claude	22	35% of answers	#6.0
Gemini	0	0% of answers
Perplexity	3	5% of answers	#9.0

Where they differ

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Only Roo Code gets named for

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