[ovi256]

Google's gemini-cli offers the most generous current free tier, 2500 daily requests. I'd recommend checking it out, since mostly everything said about Claude Code applies to it too

[Wowfunhappy]

Every time I try to use gemini-cli, it tells me "slow response times detected, switching to Gemini flash" with no option to just wait longer instead.

It then does a bad job, which, like, makes sense if it's using the flash model.

[sunaookami]

You will get limited to Flash after a few requests, Google is straight up lying with the request limit. But you can use an API key with the free tier and get 5 RPM and 100 RPD.