Google Antigravity
Ranked 2 of 9 AI code editors by recommenders
Recommended for its generous usage limits, including Claude models, and its multi-agent and browser automation, though many report bugs, sudden quota cuts and risky unsupervised commands.
Recommended for its generous usage limits, including Claude models, and its multi-agent and browser automation, though many report bugs, sudden quota cuts and risky unsupervised commands.
913 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 337
- criticize it
- 576
- approval share
- 37%
Recommended in 13 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: recommended (month in progress)
Owned for 1 month
Median of the 26 owners who said how long they have had it.
Each square is one year.
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 337 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 13 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Generous limits including Claude models
“In Antigravity sometimes if Gemini can't figure something even on high, Claude can give another perspective and this moves things along.”
Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates” “their antigravity limits for Opus and Sonnet for the $20 plan has higher limits than CC $20 plan, and there is no weekly cap”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Gemini 3.1 Pro” “I've become an Antigravity convert mainly because of the generous limits, especially on the Anthropic models.”
Comment from 21 May 2026 in “Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch” - Comment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Anthropic's Safety Superpower”
- Comment from 8 Jan 2026 in “Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI”
Manages multiple background agents
“The Agent Manager view providing a unified view of all active agents and allowing you to immediately respond to any approval requests or followup questions looks very useful”
Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity” “Antigravity supports running multiple agent and process threads in the background while keeping the main thread free for conversation”
Comment from 23 May 2026 in “Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026” “Antigravity started the workflow where you give a list of things to do and it goes off and does those things without supervision”
Comment from 2 Jul 2026 in “Ask HN: Does anybody still FEEL improvements between latest LLMs for coding?” Drives a browser autonomously
“Just make a blank workspace and ask it to use a browser to do X and it'll start chrome and start navigating, clicking, scrolling, etc.”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Claude in Chrome” “You can also ask antigravity to fill out the forms if it is in the browser (from the spreadsheet data).”
Comment from 23 May 2026 in “Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI” Deep agentic workflow integration
“The integration level with agentic functionality provided by Antigravity goes much deeper in my 20 minutes or so of playing with it.”
Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity” “Antigravity even includes specialized UI for a user to annotate selected portions of an LLM-generated plan”
Comment from 22 Feb 2026 in “How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution” “a few of my colleagues used it saying it is good and they completed a huge chunk of work with Antigravity”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Buggy and unstable experience
“It's a little bit rough around the edges as it's a VS Code fork so things like C# Dev Kit won't install.”
Comment from 24 Nov 2025 in “Claude Opus 4.5” “I've been using Antigravity mainly because of its tab completions. ... But it was a broken experience”
Comment from 21 May 2026 in “Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch” “Antigravity is absolutely horrible. It routinely writes broken code and then ends up in a short term cycle of reverting and re-implementing.”
Comment from 3 Sep 2026 in “Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended” - Comment from 26 Jun 2026 in “I feel like VSCode is falling apart”
- Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity”
Sudden rate limits and quota cuts
“I just heard a lot of people complaining as recently as ~1 month ago that they hit the rate limits very quickly”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Gemini 3.1 Pro” “Their recent silent rug pull on quotas, where without any warning you get rate-limited for 5 days in the middle of code refactoring”
Comment from 13 Feb 2026 in “Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation” “Now with Flash 3.5 they combined the quotas with Pro, such that on a Google pro account you can work 4-5 hours per week in Flash”
Comment from 20 May 2026 in “Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier” Destructive or insecure agent actions
“If you give an llm access to sensitive data, user input and the ability to make arbitrary http calls it should be blindingly obvious that it's insecure.”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack” “Gemini Antigravty wipes the entire storage drive partition because it missed a quotation in function code it wrote and ran without checking.”
Comment from 30 Nov 2025 in “Google CEO says ‘vibe coding’ made software development ‘so much more enjoyable’” “Does it default to on? Clearly this was made by a different team than Gemini CLI, which defaults to confirmation for all commands”
Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive” Distrust of Google's long-term commitment
“Another Google product whose launch will be used to justify somebody's promotion, only to be left for dead only a few months later”
Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity” “no experienced programmer would even consider touching that stuff given Google's stellar track record in developers' satisfaction”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity” “Google isn't hungry anymore and it really really really shows in how much they've botched everything to do with Antigravity”
Comment from 28 Jun 2026 in “Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models”
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What people said
40 of the 1,146 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Slight downside- if I ask it to write a planning doc it will write the doc and then implement it without asking.”
“I would be a little happier if instead of codex/claude/antigravity I would have single standardized interface”
“Antigravity has really upped their game lately so moving around for me personally this has been a big boost.”
“Antigravity is absolutely horrible. It routinely writes broken code and then ends up in a short term cycle of reverting and re-implementing.”
“Antigravity started the workflow where you give a list of things to do and it goes off and does those things without supervision”
“Google isn't hungry anymore and it really really really shows in how much they've botched everything to do with Antigravity”
“Antigravity is unstable based on my experience, it is always insisting that I update it, and there are also constantly occurring bugs.”
“For Google's subsidized $20/month plan they seem to give out a reasonably generous amount of Claude tokens.”
“I will say that the recent rise of AI assisted software development is by far the biggest jump in capability that I have ever seen.”
“You can also ask antigravity to fill out the forms if it is in the browser (from the spreadsheet data).”
“Antigravity supports running multiple agent and process threads in the background while keeping the main thread free for conversation”
“Antigravity was the only autonomous agent that implemented the Pantheon's signature interior ceiling pattern”
“I've become an Antigravity convert mainly because of the generous limits, especially on the Anthropic models.”
“I've been using Antigravity mainly because of its tab completions. ... But it was a broken experience”
“Now with Flash 3.5 they combined the quotas with Pro, such that on a Google pro account you can work 4-5 hours per week in Flash”
“One may argue that Google's Antigravity is clunky or cluttered or something worse, but that's confusing organizational capability with principles.”
“The demo of the model in Antigravity automatically rename and categorize unstructured assets using vision was quite cool”
“In Antigravity sometimes if Gemini can't figure something even on high, Claude can give another perspective and this moves things along.”
“Antigravity even includes specialized UI for a user to annotate selected portions of an LLM-generated plan”
“I just heard a lot of people complaining as recently as ~1 month ago that they hit the rate limits very quickly”
“their antigravity limits for Opus and Sonnet for the $20 plan has higher limits than CC $20 plan, and there is no weekly cap”
“Their recent silent rug pull on quotas, where without any warning you get rate-limited for 5 days in the middle of code refactoring”
“It's the first time in over 10 years that an IDE has managed to take me out a bit out of the jetbrain suite.”
“telling Antigravity "now look for ways to make this more efficient" works almost as well as guiding it specifically”
“Tools like Claude Code and Google's Antigravity are so well done, but I find it hard to get excited about them”
“Antigravity is my current favorite agentic IDE and I have been having problems getting it to explicitly follow my agent.md settings.”
“Google Antigravity IDE, which gives you access to Claude Code, is a pretty decent offering for agent coding”
“Just make a blank workspace and ask it to use a browser to do X and it'll start chrome and start navigating, clicking, scrolling, etc.”
“So of course great kudos to the developers of Cursor, Antigravity, Windsurf, OpenCode and all the other editors.”
“Does it default to on? Clearly this was made by a different team than Gemini CLI, which defaults to confirmation for all commands”
“Gemini Antigravty wipes the entire storage drive partition because it missed a quotation in function code it wrote and ran without checking.”
“If you give an llm access to sensitive data, user input and the ability to make arbitrary http calls it should be blindingly obvious that it's insecure.”
“It's a little bit rough around the edges as it's a VS Code fork so things like C# Dev Kit won't install.”
“no experienced programmer would even consider touching that stuff given Google's stellar track record in developers' satisfaction”
“a few of my colleagues used it saying it is good and they completed a huge chunk of work with Antigravity”
“Interesting that a next-gen open-source-based agentic coding platform with superhuman coding models behind it can have UI glitches.”
“The Agent Manager view providing a unified view of all active agents and allowing you to immediately respond to any approval requests or followup questions looks very useful”
“The integration level with agentic functionality provided by Antigravity goes much deeper in my 20 minutes or so of playing with it.”
“I noticed I had some crappy key bindings extension installed, which apparently caused many of my annoyances.”
“Another Google product whose launch will be used to justify somebody's promotion, only to be left for dead only a few months later”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.