How Gemini’s scores are calculated

Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docsweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Run the product headlessly / in CI for automationweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376919“I love how fragmented Google's Gemini offerings are. I'm a Pro subscriber, but I now learn I should be a 'Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise' user to get additional usage. I didn't even know that existed!”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376919“'Failed to login. Ensure your Google account is not a Workspace account.' ... now as a Workspace account I cant use Gemini CLI for my work, which is software development. This approach strikes me as actively hostile towards your loyal paying users.”

Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their toolsweight 3

3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Gemini Apps can connect to other apps to complete your request and give you more helpful responses. With your permission, Gemini can also help you take actions, like editing and managing your content in other apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Gemini Apps can connect to other apps to complete your request and give you more helpful responses.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“With your permission, Gemini can also help you take actions, like editing and managing your content in other apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Boost productivity: Summarize emails from Gmail, create events in Google Calendar or third-party apps, or search for content across a variety of productivity apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Get started with Connected Apps in Gemini **Important:** For now, Gemini can’t use Connected Apps in Gemini in Google Messages.”

Connect an agent via an official MCP serverweight 3

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Gemini Apps can connect to other apps to complete your request and give you more helpful responses. With your permission, Gemini can also help you take actions, like editing and managing your content in other apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Gemini Apps can connect to other apps to complete your request and give you more helpful responses.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“With your permission, Gemini can also help you take actions, like editing and managing your content in other apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Get started with Connected Apps in Gemini **Important:** For now, Gemini can’t use Connected Apps in Gemini in Google Messages.”

Use an official CLIweight 2

2 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 4.8 of 20 max

• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376919“I have been using this for about a month and it's a beast, mostly thanks to 2.5pro being SOTA and also how it leverages that huge 1M context window. I have thrown very large codebases at this and it has been able to navigate and learn them effortlessly.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376919“I love how fragmented Google's Gemini offerings are. I'm a Pro subscriber, but I now learn I should be a 'Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise' user to get additional usage. I didn't even know that existed!”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376919“'Failed to login. Ensure your Google account is not a Workspace account.' ... now as a Workspace account I cant use Gemini CLI for my work, which is software development. This approach strikes me as actively hostile towards your loyal paying users.”

Drive the product through a documented public APIweight 3

3 (weight) × 5 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 9.0 of 30 max

• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967211“API pricing is up to $2/M for input and $12/M for output. For comparison: Gemini 2.5 Pro was $1.25/M for input and $10/M for output, Gemini 1.5 Pro was $1.25/M for input and $5/M for output.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967211“I'm sure this is a very impressive model, but gemini-3-pro-preview is failing spectacularly at my fairly basic python benchmark. In fact, gemini-2.5-pro gets a lot closer (but is still wrong).”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967211“My favorite benchmark is to analyze a very long audio file recording of a management meeting and produce very good notes along with a transcript labeling all the speakers. 3.0 has so far absolutely nailed speaker labeling.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967211“Temperature continues to be gated to maximum of 0.2, and there's still the hidden top_k of 64 that you can't turn off. I love the google AI studio, but I hate it too for not enabling a whole host of advanced features.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967211“It still failed my image identification test (a photoshopped picture of a dog with 5 legs)... Gemini 3 however, while still failing, at least recognized the 5th leg, but thought the dog was...well endowed.”

Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agentweight 2

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Build against official SDKsweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967211“API pricing is up to $2/M for input and $12/M for output. For comparison: Gemini 2.5 Pro was $1.25/M for input and $10/M for output, Gemini 1.5 Pro was $1.25/M for input and $5/M for output.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376919“'Failed to login. Ensure your Google account is not a Workspace account.' ... now as a Workspace account I cant use Gemini CLI for my work, which is software development. This approach strikes me as actively hostile towards your loyal paying users.”

Subscribe to events via webhooksweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examplesweight 2

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)weight 2

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Test against a sandbox environment without touching production dataweight 1

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policyweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Do everything through the API that I can do in the UIweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/15719111?hl=en“You can conduct in-depth and real-time research on almost any subject with Deep Research in Gemini Apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/15235603?hl=en“To create a custom Gem to meet your goals, provide info about your request and requirements.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Gemini Apps can connect to other apps to complete your request and give you more helpful responses. With your permission, Gemini can also help you take actions, like editing and managing your content in other apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/15274899?hl=en“With Gemini Live, you can have a natural, free-flowing conversation with Gemini. You can even interrupt it like when you want to add more details or change the topic of the conversation.”
• [claimed-docs] https://gemini.google/about/“Start your day with a personalized digest from Gemini. Your Daily Brief understands your rhythms and personal preferences to deliver your top priorities, organized by importance.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967211“Temperature continues to be gated to maximum of 0.2, and there's still the hidden top_k of 64 that you can't turn off. I love the google AI studio, but I hate it too for not enabling a whole host of advanced features.”

Export all of my data in open formats and leaveweight 3

3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13278892?hl=en“You can review your prompts, delete your Gemini Apps activity, and turn off Keep Activity in My Activity at any time.”

Read the product's source under an open licenseweight 2

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Self-host the core productweight 3

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the productweight 2

2 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 16.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/14903178?hl=en“You can upload documents, spreadsheets, notebooks, photos, videos, and more to Gemini Apps to get answers, summaries, and insights about your content.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16972047?hl=en“Notebooks provide a continuous chat experience that remembers your sources, instructions, and ongoing discussions.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16972047?hl=en“you can use notebooks to organize your projects in a dedicated, focused space.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/15719111?hl=en“You can conduct in-depth and real-time research on almost any subject with Deep Research in Gemini Apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/15719111?hl=en“You can change or add other sources, like your personal Gmail or Drive, for your research. You can also upload files and add NotebookLM notebooks.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Boost productivity: Summarize emails from Gmail, create events in Google Calendar or third-party apps, or search for content across a variety of productivity apps.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376919“I have been using this for about a month and it's a beast, mostly thanks to 2.5pro being SOTA and also how it leverages that huge 1M context window. I have thrown very large codebases at this and it has been able to navigate and learn them effortlessly.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952605“I work in fintech and we replaced an OCR vendor with Gemini at work for ingesting some PDFs... Processing time went from something like 12 minutes on average to 6s on average, accuracy was like 96% of that of the vendor and price was significantly cheaper.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952605“I've been using NotebookLM powered by Gemini 2.0 for three projects and it is really powerful for comprehending large corpuses you can't possibly read and thinking informed by all your sources... My only gripe is that the visual display of the source material is dogshit ugly.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952605“Unfortunately Gemini really seems to struggle on this, and no matter how we tried prompting it, it would generate wildly inaccurate bounding boxes.”

Set up automations that run autonomously in the backgroundweight 2

2 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 7.2 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16316416?hl=en“You can make Gemini a part of your daily, weekly, and monthly routines by scheduling recurring actions.”
• [claimed-docs] https://gemini.google/about/“Start your day with a personalized digest from Gemini. Your Daily Brief understands your rhythms and personal preferences to deliver your top priorities, organized by importance.”
• [claimed-docs] https://gemini.google/about/“Start your day with a personalized digest from Gemini. Your Daily Brief understands your rhythms and personal preferences to deliver your top priorities”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Gemini Apps can connect to other apps to complete your request and give you more helpful responses. With your permission, Gemini can also help you take actions, like editing and managing your content in other apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Gemini Apps can connect to other apps to complete your request and give you more helpful responses.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“With your permission, Gemini can also help you take actions, like editing and managing your content in other apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Boost productivity: Summarize emails from Gmail, create events in Google Calendar or third-party apps, or search for content across a variety of productivity apps.”

Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the productweight 3

3 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 24.0 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/15719111?hl=en“You can conduct in-depth and real-time research on almost any subject with Deep Research in Gemini Apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16316416?hl=en“You can make Gemini a part of your daily, weekly, and monthly routines by scheduling recurring actions.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/15235603?hl=en“To create a custom Gem to meet your goals, provide info about your request and requirements.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Gemini Apps can connect to other apps to complete your request and give you more helpful responses. With your permission, Gemini can also help you take actions, like editing and managing your content in other apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“With your permission, Gemini can also help you take actions, like editing and managing your content in other apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Boost productivity: Summarize emails from Gmail, create events in Google Calendar or third-party apps, or search for content across a variety of productivity apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://gemini.google/about/“Start your day with a personalized digest from Gemini. Your Daily Brief understands your rhythms and personal preferences to deliver your top priorities, organized by importance.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376919“I have been using this for about a month and it's a beast, mostly thanks to 2.5pro being SOTA and also how it leverages that huge 1M context window. I have thrown very large codebases at this and it has been able to navigate and learn them effortlessly.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967211“My favorite benchmark is to analyze a very long audio file recording of a management meeting and produce very good notes along with a transcript labeling all the speakers. 3.0 has so far absolutely nailed speaker labeling.”

Operate the product with natural-language commandsweight 2

2 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 16.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/15274899?hl=en“With Gemini Live, you can have a natural, free-flowing conversation with Gemini. You can even interrupt it like when you want to add more details or change the topic of the conversation.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/15274899?hl=en“With Gemini Live, you can have a natural, free-flowing conversation with Gemini.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/15274899?hl=en“With Gemini Live, you can: * **Talk back and forth:** Talk to Gemini without typing, and Gemini will respond back verbally.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/15274899?hl=en“you can have a natural, free-flowing conversation with Gemini. You can even interrupt it like when you want to add more details or change the topic”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Gemini Apps can connect to other apps to complete your request and give you more helpful responses. With your permission, Gemini can also help you take actions, like editing and managing your content in other apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Gemini Apps can connect to other apps to complete your request and give you more helpful responses.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“With your permission, Gemini can also help you take actions, like editing and managing your content in other apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16316416?hl=en“You can make Gemini a part of your daily, weekly, and monthly routines by scheduling recurring actions.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/15235603?hl=en“To create a custom Gem to meet your goals, provide info about your request and requirements.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Boost productivity: Summarize emails from Gmail, create events in Google Calendar or third-party apps, or search for content across a variety of productivity apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/14579631?hl=en“On Android, say “Hey Google” to ask Gemini for help with what’s on your screen”

Perform bulk operations across many items at onceweight 2

2 (weight) × 3 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 3.6 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/14903178?hl=en“To add a code folder: click More Uploads Import Code Upload folder.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/14903178?hl=en“To add a code folder: click More Uploads ... Import Code ... Upload folder.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16316416?hl=en“You can make Gemini a part of your daily, weekly, and monthly routines by scheduling recurring actions.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Gemini Apps can connect to other apps to complete your request and give you more helpful responses. With your permission, Gemini can also help you take actions, like editing and managing your content in other apps.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376919“I have been using this for about a month and it's a beast, mostly thanks to 2.5pro being SOTA and also how it leverages that huge 1M context window. I have thrown very large codebases at this and it has been able to navigate and learn them effortlessly.”

Define rules that trigger actions automatically on eventsweight 3

3 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 7.2 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16316416?hl=en“You can make Gemini a part of your daily, weekly, and monthly routines by scheduling recurring actions.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Gemini Apps can connect to other apps to complete your request and give you more helpful responses. With your permission, Gemini can also help you take actions, like editing and managing your content in other apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“With your permission, Gemini can also help you take actions, like editing and managing your content in other apps.”
• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13695044?hl=en“Boost productivity: Summarize emails from Gmail, create events in Google Calendar or third-party apps, or search for content across a variety of productivity apps.”

Schedule recurring jobs or workflowsweight 2

2 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 7.2 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16316416?hl=en“You can make Gemini a part of your daily, weekly, and monthly routines by scheduling recurring actions.”
• [claimed-docs] https://gemini.google/about/“Start your day with a personalized digest from Gemini. Your Daily Brief understands your rhythms and personal preferences to deliver your top priorities, organized by importance.”
• [claimed-docs] https://gemini.google/about/“Start your day with a personalized digest from Gemini. Your Daily Brief understands your rhythms and personal preferences to deliver your top priorities”

Version, review, and roll back my automationsweight 1

1 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 10 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh