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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%
Each figure is 10 people. RecommendsCriticizes

Recommended in 13 of 13 months

  1. November 2025: recommended
  2. December 2025: recommended
  3. January 2026: recommended
  4. February 2026: recommended
  5. March 2026: recommended
  6. April 2026: recommended
  7. May 2026: recommended
  8. June 2026: recommended
  9. July 2026: recommended
  10. August 2026: recommended
  11. September 2026: recommended
  12. October 2026: recommended
  13. 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”
  • 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”
  • 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.”

MixedComment from 1 Oct 2026 in “Gemini 4 Argon”

“I would be a little happier if instead of codex/claude/antigravity I would have single standardized interface”

MixedComment from 14 Sep 2026 in “Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows”

“Antigravity has really upped their game lately so moving around for me personally this has been a big boost.”

RecommendsComment from 7 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs”

“Antigravity is absolutely horrible. It routinely writes broken code and then ends up in a short term cycle of reverting and re-implementing.”

CriticizesComment from 3 Sep 2026 in “Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended”

“Antigravity started the workflow where you give a list of things to do and it goes off and does those things without supervision”

RecommendsComment from 2 Jul 2026 in “Ask HN: Does anybody still FEEL improvements between latest LLMs for coding?”

“Google isn't hungry anymore and it really really really shows in how much they've botched everything to do with Antigravity”

CriticizesComment from 28 Jun 2026 in “Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models”

“Antigravity is unstable based on my experience, it is always insisting that I update it, and there are also constantly occurring bugs.”

CriticizesComment from 26 Jun 2026 in “I feel like VSCode is falling apart”

“For Google's subsidized $20/month plan they seem to give out a reasonably generous amount of Claude tokens.”

RecommendsComment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Anthropic's Safety Superpower”

“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.”

RecommendsComment from 26 May 2026 in “Show HN: A high-performance audio visualizer using Rust, WASM, and React”

“You can also ask antigravity to fill out the forms if it is in the browser (from the spreadsheet data).”

RecommendsComment from 23 May 2026 in “Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI”

“Antigravity supports running multiple agent and process threads in the background while keeping the main thread free for conversation”

RecommendsComment from 23 May 2026 in “Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026”

“Antigravity was the only autonomous agent that implemented the Pantheon's signature interior ceiling pattern”

RecommendsComment from 22 May 2026 in “Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark”

“I've become an Antigravity convert mainly because of the generous limits, especially on the Anthropic models.”

RecommendsComment from 21 May 2026 in “Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch”

“I've been using Antigravity mainly because of its tab completions. ... But it was a broken experience”

MixedComment from 21 May 2026 in “Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch”

“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”

CriticizesComment from 20 May 2026 in “Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier”

“One may argue that Google's Antigravity is clunky or cluttered or something worse, but that's confusing organizational capability with principles.”

RecommendsComment from 20 May 2026 in “Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026”

“The demo of the model in Antigravity automatically rename and categorize unstructured assets using vision was quite cool”

RecommendsComment from 19 May 2026 in “Gemini 3.5 Flash”

“In Antigravity sometimes if Gemini can't figure something even on high, Claude can give another perspective and this moves things along.”

MixedComment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates”

“Antigravity even includes specialized UI for a user to annotate selected portions of an LLM-generated plan”

MixedComment from 22 Feb 2026 in “How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution”

“I just heard a lot of people complaining as recently as ~1 month ago that they hit the rate limits very quickly”

MixedComment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Gemini 3.1 Pro”

“their antigravity limits for Opus and Sonnet for the $20 plan has higher limits than CC $20 plan, and there is no weekly cap”

RecommendsComment 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”

CriticizesComment from 13 Feb 2026 in “Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation”

“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.”

RecommendsComment from 13 Feb 2026 in “Gemini 3 Deep Think”

“telling Antigravity "now look for ways to make this more efficient" works almost as well as guiding it specifically”

RecommendsComment from 8 Feb 2026 in “We Mourn Our Craft”

“Tools like Claude Code and Google's Antigravity are so well done, but I find it hard to get excited about them”

MixedComment from 1 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out”

“Antigravity is my current favorite agentic IDE and I have been having problems getting it to explicitly follow my agent.md settings.”

MixedComment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Compressed Agents.md > Agent Skills”

“Google Antigravity IDE, which gives you access to Claude Code, is a pretty decent offering for agent coding”

RecommendsComment from 8 Jan 2026 in “Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI”

“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.”

RecommendsComment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Claude in Chrome”

“So of course great kudos to the developers of Cursor, Antigravity, Windsurf, OpenCode and all the other editors.”

RecommendsComment from 20 Dec 2025 in “The Secret to AI-assisted Coding”

“Does it default to on? Clearly this was made by a different team than Gemini CLI, which defaults to confirmation for all commands”

CriticizesComment from 1 Dec 2025 in “Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive”

“Gemini Antigravty wipes the entire storage drive partition because it missed a quotation in function code it wrote and ran without checking.”

CriticizesComment from 30 Nov 2025 in “Google CEO says ‘vibe coding’ made software development ‘so much more enjoyable’”

“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.”

CriticizesComment from 25 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack”

“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.”

MixedComment from 24 Nov 2025 in “Claude Opus 4.5”

“no experienced programmer would even consider touching that stuff given Google's stellar track record in developers' satisfaction”

CriticizesComment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity”

“a few of my colleagues used it saying it is good and they completed a huge chunk of work with Antigravity”

MixedComment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity”

“Interesting that a next-gen open-source-based agentic coding platform with superhuman coding models behind it can have UI glitches.”

CriticizesComment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity”

“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”

RecommendsComment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity”

“The integration level with agentic functionality provided by Antigravity goes much deeper in my 20 minutes or so of playing with it.”

RecommendsComment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity”

“I noticed I had some crappy key bindings extension installed, which apparently caused many of my annoyances.”

MixedComment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity”

“Another Google product whose launch will be used to justify somebody's promotion, only to be left for dead only a few months later”

CriticizesComment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity”

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