# Antigravity CLI

31 Hacker News commenters recommended Antigravity CLI and 29 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a fast, responsive step up from Gemini CLI, with many praising its speed. Critics point to low usage quotas and login problems.

## Why people recommend it

- Fast and responsive in use (6 comments): "using antigravity cli is the exact opposite: fast, smooth and very responsive." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559046)) "Once approved the implementation speed is uncanny compared to Claude." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855463)) "it is blazing fast in Antigravity CLI. Easily 10x faster than Opus." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538645))
- Clear step up from Gemini CLI (5 comments): "Antigravity CLI is quite decent, it's a huge step up from Gemini CLI" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48607624)) "Antigravity CLI is far, far superior to Gemini CLI." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781780)) "seems like a straight up upgrade to me?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48204537))
- Stable, rarely crashes (3 comments): "It's not as feature rich, but has also not crashed once for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369636)) "I'm finding the agy cli much more responsive and stable so far" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224745)) "it is phenomenally faster and more reliable" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035498))

## What people warn about

- Usage quotas run out quickly (4 comments): "Antigravity cli has been better about this but the quotas are just so low with the 5-hour window" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475550)) "the change in usage quotas on my AI Pro plan going from Gemini CLI to Antigravity CLI was a massive drop" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227121)) "once you run out of a couple 5 hour windows that's it for all usage (pro or flash) for a week" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233912))
- Confusing mix of Antigravity products (2 comments): "So now there's 3 different Antigravity products: CLI, Antigravity 2, and Antigravity IDE." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202395)) "Antigravity CLI suffers from an identity crisis caused by a tool/ecosystem change" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205058))
- Replaces open-source Gemini CLI with closed source (2 comments): "the open source Gemini CLI being deprecated in favor of closed source Antigravity CLI" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493927)) "now they are getting rid of it for Antigravity CLI.. which is not open-source." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225504))
- Fewer features than Gemini CLI (2 comments): "how many features antigravity is still missing compared to Gemini CLI even today" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786172)) "It's not as feature rich, but has also not crashed once for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369636))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [GitHub Copilot](https://hackerapproved.com/p/github-copilot.md): 571 recommend
- [oh-my-pi](https://hackerapproved.com/p/oh-my-pi.md): 104 recommend
- [Grok Build CLI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grok-build.md): 66 recommend
- [DeepSeek Harness](https://hackerapproved.com/p/deepseek-harness.md): 63 recommend
- [Claude Code VS Code extension](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-code-vs-code-extension.md): 31 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Antigravity CLI", https://hackerapproved.com/p/antigravity-cli/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).