🏎️ Gemini 3 Pro is now available in Gemini CLI!

[srithreepo]

Self Link : https://goo.gle/geminicli-waitlist-status
PR: #13279

We’ve integrated Gemini 3 Pro, our most intelligent model, directly into Gemini CLI to unlock a new level of performance and productivity right in your terminal.

This powerful combination delivers state-of-the-art reasoning for executing better commands, enhances support for complex engineering work through agentic coding, and enables smarter, more tailored workflows via advanced tool use.

🎟️ Access and Rollout

As we bring you this new model, we want to do it in a responsible way by rolling out access gradually to ensure the experience remains fast and reliable.

🚀 Immediate Access

Gemini 3 Pro is available starting now in Gemini CLI for:

• Non-busines Google AI Ultra subscribers. Sign up here
• Please Note: This does NOT at this time include Google AI Ultra for Businesses
• Users who have access via a paid Gemini API key.

🔜 Coming Soon

Access for Gemini Code Assist Enterprise users is coming soon.

⏳Waitlist

All other users—including

• Google AI Pro,
• Gemini Code Assist Standard,
• Gemini Code Assist for individuals
  can join the waitlist here to get access as it becomes available.

📰 Incremental Access and Updates

You can follow this discussion post for updates as we make Gemini 3 available to more and more of you. In the meantime all our users continue to have access to Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash models.

🏁 Start Using Gemini 3 Pro with Gemini CLI

If you’re a Google AI Ultra subscriber or have a paid Gemini API key, get started immediately by upgrading your Gemini CLI version to 0.16.x or later:

npm install -g @google/gemini-cli@latest

After you’ve confirmed your version, run /settings in the CLI, then toggle Preview features to true.
We’re excited for you to experience the next level of intelligent command-line assistance! Let us know what you think in the comments below.

[lennertvhoy]

Very excited to get access, got a difficult project I'm working on and just can't get working right now!

[clark-mackey]

When I'm in a jam, I install BMAD method, load the PM agent or the Architect agent, sometimes running the course correction workflow (all part of BMAD). I also turn on the sequential thinking MCP and make sure I'm in a thread where I'm in the first third of a context window.

[skerit]

I had no idea which subscription to get, but I guess this settles it. Only the AI Ultra plan will do.
(I hope there is no difference between AI Ultra & AI Ultra for Business.)

[srithreepo]

Unfortunately this only works with Google AI Ultra (Not Google AI Ultra for Business which is different)

We do have support for this on the roadmap. For now could you please apply for the waitlist?

[skerit]

Unbelievable.

[kevyyar]

should've read the notes before brother. Ask for a refund if you can or ask to change it to the Ultra (non-business).

[gsumo]

@srithreepo treating your biggest spenders as second class accounts (always) is a weird decision.

[zsoltvereb]

Odd decision indeed to exclude workspace orgs with ultra.

[amxv]

are the rate limits for ultra still 2000 req/day or will this be increased?

[ryanjsalva]

We aren't planning to change the rate limits at this time.

[ShivamB25]

@ryanjsalva does in ai ultra plan there is data sharing on gemini cli prompts ?

[DanielWicz]

@ryanjsalva does in ai ultra plan there is data sharing on gemini cli prompts ?

I think in all plans aside from Business there is data sharing

[MILKMILKKING]

[Guanpx]

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing#gemini-3-pro-preview

[felarof99]

Is Google's Antigravity IDE powered by gemini-core or gemini-cli? Or is it powered by a new agent completely?

[ryanjsalva]

At present, they use different orchestrators, but we're working hand-in-hand with the Antigravity team to re-share components.

[0xSecureByte]

Would be great to see cli version of antigravity.

[Veraticus]

I have Google Ultra for Business through my business workspace... should I be getting access to this as well or will that be a separate roll-out?

[timewarrior]

Do you have access in the cli. I don't have access over there thought I am on Ultra through business workspace.

[Veraticus]

Oops, I lied -- I thought I had access but it was only regular Pro responding to me 😅 So yeah, still an open question.

[srithreepo]

Unfortunately this only works with Google AI Ultra (Not Google AI Ultra for Business which is different)

We do have support for this on the roadmap. For now could you please apply for the waitlist?

[pedrosarkis]

dumb question, but how i know i'm signing business ultra or "normal" ultra that has access to gemini 3 in cli?

[ScaleLeanChris]

I keep seeing that it's on the roadmap, i however dont see said "roadmap"

[Guanpx]

Does Gemini 3 Pro have a token limit when using it ？

[ericcurtin]

Antigravity provides generous rate limits for Gemini 3 Pro. Should we expect them here? https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code provides generous rate limits.

[timewarrior]

I have google business workspace account and have Ultra through that. I don't still have access to Gemini 3.0. Can you share details on this.

[srithreepo]

Unfortunately this only works with Google AI Ultra (Not Google AI Ultra for Business which is different)

We do have support for this on the roadmap. For now could you please apply for the waitlist?

[timewarrior]

I am doing to cancel my business ultra. Thanks for confirming

[partarstu]

Are there any estimates on how long people from the wait list will have to wait to get the access ?

[partarstu]

At least some info ?

[facelezzzz]

Maybe 41/11 2025 LOL. This is really gooooogle ways....😎

[Veraticus]

Hmm, I'm trying to sign in with my personal Ultra account now... But I'm seeing rate limit errors:

 Failed to login. Message: Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Provision requests' and limit 'Provision requests per minute' of service 'managedprojects.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:477362493796'.

Is this me or Gemini CLI?

[quinnj]

I'm also running into this. New google ai ultra personal account. Can't seem to login to antigravity or gemini cli (just installed latest gemini cli fresh today). Trying to jump into the gemini world today and give things a spin, but hitting a roadblock out of the gates here.

Seeing this exact error message after trying to login to gemini via google login, it says waiting for auth for a while, then displays this error:

Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Provision requests' and limit 'Provision requests per minute' of service 'managedprojects.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:477362493796'

version:

➜  andavo git:(main) ✗ gemini --version
0.16.0

i'm on macos, m3.

[henry-dowling]

I'm also running into this! I just tried to log in with my new google ai ultra personal account

Failed to login. Message: Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Provision requests' and limit 'Provision requests per minute' of service
"managedprojects.googleapis.com' for consumer

gemini -v                                                                        
0.16.0

Anyone know of any workarounds to this?

[quinnj]

I've been retrying every 10 minutes or so, and it finally made it through auth just now.

[nateaveryg]

Please try again and let us know if you still experience the error at login.

[henry-dowling]

Just tried again, and logged in successfully-- thanks!

[dtometzki]

Many thanks for your hard work on this. I look forward to joining the waitlist soon.
Damian

[mateuszulewicz]

It works! Thanks! ;)

[VitalyMalakanov]

The AI Studio preview is seriously impressive—can't wait to try it in CLI for building complex applications that are beyond GPT and Claude's capabilities! Bravo Google!

[michaelfromyeg]

Has anyone here ran into a 404 when trying to access Gemini 3 via the CLI?

[API Error: {"error":{"message":"{\n  \"error\": {\n    \"code\": 404,\n    \"message\": \"Publisher Model                                                                   █
  `projects/.../locations/us-central1/publishers/google/models/gemini-3-pro-preview` was not found or your project does not have access to it. Please ensure you  █
  are using a valid model version. For more information, see: https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/learn/model-versions\",\n    \"status\": \"NOT_FOUND\"\n   █
  }\n}\n","code":404,"status":"Not Found"}}]

I'm using the Vertex API (per these docs) and Gemini 3 is available for me under the same project ID in "Vertex Studio" (i.e., in the browser).

[michaelfromyeg]

pls help i wanna try

[yudai16]

@michaelfromyeg
Gemini 3.0 Pro is only available in the global location, so please try changing the location from us-central1 to global.
GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION="global"

[michaelfromyeg]

this worked! thank you tons

[Exlsunshine]

Seems no quota for free users...

(py311) ➜  ~ gemini --approval-mode=yolo -m gemini-3-pro-preview -p "Introduce AI tome"
YOLO mode is enabled. All tool calls will be automatically approved.
Error when talking to Gemini API Full report available at: /tmp/gemini-client-error-Turn.run-sendMessageStream-2025-11-21T07-36-09-046Z.json
[API Error: You have exhausted your daily quota on this model.]
An unexpected critical error occurred:
[object Object]

[laishere]

If you read the last comment before yours carefully

[Free tier users will be getting access very soon]

[pidgeon777]

If you read the last comment before yours carefully

[Free tier users will be getting access very soon]

So it will be possible to use Gemini CLI with the 3.0 model, as it was with Google Gemini 2.5 pro, for free, with limited requests?

[yaohsien-md]

If you read the last comment before yours carefully

[Free tier users will be getting access very soon]

So it will be possible to use Gemini CLI with the 3.0 model, as it was with Google Gemini 2.5 pro, for free, with limited requests?

Yes. Just like what you say.

[Mmarzex]

Any ideas why an account with a Personal AI Ultra plan is not able to use Gemini 3 pro?

[mystilleef]

Any ideas why an account with a Personal AI Ultra plan is not able to use Gemini 3 pro?

It seems to be slowly rolling out. Make sure Preview Features is enabled in settings. Today is the first day I've been able to use it without issues, and I'm on a Pro account, using nightly. I have had access to it using the Gemini app on mobile and the website for a few days now.

[Mmarzex]

@srithreepo This is very frustrating to be paying for Gemini Ultra (Personal) and supposedly should have access on the CLI but do not.

[sandroama]

@Mmarzex you need to enable preview features from cli and 3.0 will appear

[laishere]

I'm on the AI Pro plan and joined the waitlist.
Event though I don't receive any welcome email from google as I should have, I DO have the access to the gemini-3-pro-preview in gemini-cli now 🚀

So a reminder here: just check your gemini-cli, switch the model to Pro after enabling the preview features with /settings.
If you do not have access to the 3 pro it will prompt to use 2.5 pro.
Otherwise, it means you do have the access to 3 pro and you can check /stats for details.

[partarstu]

Same here

[work4mjn-creator]

Same here but still not able to access gemini 3 pro preview on agent mode in vs code gemini code assist extension.

[cervonwong]

Same

[yaohsien-md]

Gemini 3 Pro is available and free. Thank you all.

[pidgeon777]

But you're using a free or paid account?

[yaohsien-md]

But you're using a free or paid account?

Pro account.

[partarstu]

@srithreepo I got the access as PRO user from the wait list, free limits seem to be similar to the ones for Gemini 2.5 pro, thanks a lot to all your team!

[yaohsien-md]

@srithreepo I got the access as PRO user from the wait list, free limits seem to be similar to the ones for Gemini 2.5 pro, thanks a lot to all your team!

congratulations!

[at621]

there is a typo in "Non-busines Google AI Ultra subscribers."

[yaohsien-md]

there is a typo in "Non-busines Google AI Ultra subscribers."

Yes. There is.

[jeremy10tie]

How can I make it use only Gemini 3 Pro preview? It shows Gemini 3 Pro Preview and 2.5 Pro, but how do I use only Gemini 3 Pro preview? If both are available, it's unclear which one is being used each time... so an option to use only Gemini 3 Pro Preview would be great.

[hakin19]

I had the same issue. You can start Gemini CLI with: gemini --model gemini-3-pro-preview, to start the Gemini CLI with that specific model.

[joshua-light]

I have personal Google AI Ultra (non-business) subscription, I'm from Ukraine, and I still don't have access to Gemini 3 in Gemini CLI. Is it expected? I enabled preview features, but it says "It seems like you don't have access to Gemini 3...". Is it expected?

[joshua-light]

It's not clear what is meant by "supported region". The only thing I can find is that Ukraine isn't eligible for free usage or something like that, but regarding Gemini 3 in Gemini CLI it's only stated that Google AI Ultra subscribers will get access. Google AI Ultra is supported in Ukraine, since I have it.

[gusbemacbe]

@GodBlessingMe

Ukraine is eligible for the billing, but some eastern and southeastern regions in Ukraine are sanctioned by the US and are not eligible. You can see the screenshot:

Verify the list of eligible countries: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/billing

@joshua-light

"It seems like you don't have access to Gemini 3...".

I am Brazilian and use AI Pro account, and I do not access to Gemini 3 either, and hence, I joined the waitlist.

[Pumpica23]

Expiriencing low limits on 3.0 as ultra user, even unable to acess 2.5 pro and 2.5 flash from the CLI because of "high demand" 200euro a month to get completely cut off from CLI after a few hours of usage...

[yaohsien-md]

Expiriencing low limits on 3.0 as ultra user, even unable to acess 2.5 pro and 2.5 flash from the CLI because of "high demand" 200euro a month to get completely cut off from CLI after a few hours of usage...

Is 2000 requests per day a cheat?

[Pumpica23]

I dont know if it is meant to be this way or it is just an overload issue.. or maybe the agent makes too many requests for every prompt, but it doesnt feel right currently.

[JinNgVN]

Is gemini 3.0 available in Australia yet?

[kdvlr]

What does Users who have access via a paid Gemini API key. mean ?

Does this mean, if I follow this guide and sign up via Google Cloud, I get access to Gemini-CLI with Gemini 3 ?

If not, what is the best way to get gemini3 access via gemini-cli for an enterprise that uses Google Workspace and Google Cloud ?

[so0k]

This is getting silly, Google launched Gemini 3.0 Pro a week before Anthropic Opus 4.5, yet getting access to it via the Gemini CLI is needlessly complex while I've had 2 full days on Opus 4.5 by now.

Yes, I used AntiGravity - but the free access is so nerfed... I'm getting way more out of Opus 4.5 directly in Claude Code CLI right now (just /extra-usage - top up wallet.. and I get to easily switch between sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.5 on my pro subscription - right in my CLI on day 1). It's like Google doesn't even want my money (and yah, Opus 4.5 API access is expensive, but at least I can toggle as and when I want while using my Pro monthly subscription for Sonnet 4.5).

(I'm using Gemini CLI with GCP Code Assist access, this is my personal GCP account just for me to keep the billing simple... yes I filled out the waiting list, but my first impression of Gemini 3.0 Pro has already been so bad)

[so0k]

yeah Google AI Pro plan works - I'm talking about users that use GCP > Gemini Code Assist license and set the environment variable GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT (I have a personal GCP account with billing enabled, so to keep it simple I wanted to keep the AI usage consilidated there...)

gemini --version
0.18.4

npm view @google/gemini-cli version
0.18.4

seems I'm on latest.. I added my email to the waiting list last week - still no chance to try out Gemini 3.0 Pro (even on my PAID subscription).

in the meantime, I've got plenty of Opus 4.5 - at this point Gemini CLI and the Gemini subscription I paid for will be cancelled before its renewal - it's sad Google is so bad at managing products because I'm truly excited about TPU inference and was blown away by Gemini 2.5 Pro back in March, but this release is totally botched

[yaohsien-md]

yeah Google AI Pro plan works - I'm talking about users that use GCP > Gemini Code Assist license and set the environment variable GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT (I have a personal GCP account with billing enabled, so to keep it simple I wanted to keep the AI usage consilidated there...)

gemini --version

0.18.4



npm view @google/gemini-cli version

0.18.4

seems I'm on latest.. I added my email to the waiting list last week - still no chance to try out Gemini 3.0 Pro (even on my PAID subscription).

in the meantime, I've got plenty of Opus 4.5 - at this point Gemini CLI and the Gemini subscription I paid for will be cancelled before its renewal - it's sad Google is so bad at managing products because I'm truly excited about TPU inference and was blown away by Gemini 2.5 Pro back in March, but this release is totally botched

Have you enabled preview feature?

[so0k]

Have you enabled preview feature?

yes, else I wouldn't get the notification when I try to use Gemini 3.0 Pro that I don't have access to Gemini 3.0 Pro :)

the message is literally telling me to "disable the preview" to not see the message again

[timrichardson]

Today I discovered the Gemini-3-pro-preview is enabled in a personal account, with a Google Dev Premium subscription.
And by running the git main release, there is usage remaining now !!!

(the 77.6% remaining is NOT due to the 1 request in this session: the usage data doesn't appear until there is a request, so I asked gemini to have a deep think about my AGENTS.md to see the hit from what I call a medium sized refactoring)

[vincenthsh]

subscription cancelled, will be back when gemini team doesn't bottle a release - replaced subscription with Kiro for now

While trying to cancel (ofcourse it's not obvious), i did come across this checkbox in GCP > Admin for Gemini

EDIT: After enabling preview features on BOTH the CLI settings and the Gemini Code Assist subscription... as well as switching to Gemini CLI Nightly - I no longer get an error message when trying to use Gemini 3.0 Pro Preview in Gemini CLI

[thedude898]

i have a problem, i got an email telling me i got access to gemini 3. in model selector it tells me that i can use it. but when i try to use it it gives me this

[gusbemacbe]

@thedude898, I had this same problem. But I had to wait for a week. Yesterday, I was no longer told to need to switch to Gemini 2.5 Pro, and I could continue to use Gemini 3.0. I tested it and saw the model stats. So I could use it now after a week.

[reubenloo]

how do i opt out of data training? i'm using the pro plan (or so called gemini code assist individual)

[QingyeSC]

Based on the official announcement, Gemini Code Assist Enterprise customers were listed under “Coming Soon” for Gemini 3 access.

However, it has now been over three weeks, and the situation has become quite unusual:

Many individual, non-enterprise users who simply joined the public waitlist have already been approved and gained access.

Meanwhile, those of us who are paying for Code Assist Enterprise licenses—the exact group that was said to receive access “soon”—still do not have Gemini 3 enabled.

This creates a strange experience where enterprise-grade, paid subscribers are behind ordinary personal accounts in access priority.

For a product positioned as enterprise, this rollout order feels inconsistent with expectations.
It would be helpful if the team could clarify:

The actual priority order for Gemini 3 access

Whether Code Assist Enterprise is still planned to receive access soon

If there are additional steps enterprise customers should complete

A clearer communication would greatly improve the experience for paying enterprise users.

[pm-bhatt]

Agreed

[a-ruban]

man, i joined waitlist and being here for weeks.
That's awful

[nilskroe]

We just bought enterprise ai ultra licenses and now i see that - even though 100$ ai ultra plan workspace license - no access granted. Cancelled again 🫠

[francismariano]

Hello, will Gemini 3 Pro also have access granted to the AI ​​Plus plan?

[Vitallity]

Hi,
I'm experiencing an issue similar to what's described here.
On December 17th, I received an email confirming that my account (which previously received
access for Gemini 3 Pro) now also has access to Gemini 3 Flash for use in the Gemini CLI. The
email instructed me to update the CLI to version 0.21.1+ and enable 'Preview Features'.

I have confirmed the following:

1. My Gemini CLI version is @google/gemini-cli@0.21.3 (latest).
2. previewFeatures is set to true in my settings.json.
3. I have restarted the CLI.

However, when I use the /model command, I still see "Gemini 3 is coming soon." and only
options for Gemini 2.5 models (Pro, Flash, Flash-Lite) and "Auto (Gemini 2.5)". I do not see a
explicit options for Gemini 3 Pro or Gemini 3 Flash.

It seems there's a disconnect between the access granted to my account and what the CLI
displays. All my local configurations are correct according to the email's instructions.