Antigravity

April 17, 2026 update: Antigravity is still routing to Opus 4.6 as of day two of Anthropic’s 4.7 release. Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, and Continue all shipped 4.7 support within 24 hours; Google has not published a 4.7 adoption date for Antigravity. This is a concrete lag relative to the other IDE agents.

Google’s agent-first IDE. A heavily modified fork of VS Code. The Manager view orchestrates multiple autonomous agents working in parallel across editor, terminal, and an integrated Chrome browser. Launched in public preview on November 20, 2025 alongside Gemini 3.

Gemini 3.1 Pro is the default model (both High and Low reasoning modes). Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.6, and GPT-OSS 120B are first-class alternatives. Agents produce Artifacts (task lists, implementation plans, screenshots, browser recordings) as tangible deliverables developers can review without scrubbing raw tool calls.

System Verdict

Pick Antigravity if you want the most opinionated agent-first coding IDE shipping right now. The Manager view runs parallel agents across editor, terminal, and an integrated Chrome browser. Artifacts give you screenshots, browser recordings, and implementation plans for review. Gemini 3.1 Pro at 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2 gives it a reasoning edge on complex planning tasks. Native browser control lets agents verify UI work without switching windows.

Skip it if you want predictable costs or a CLI-native loop. Google has not published the credit-to-token conversion rate. March 2026 free-tier quota cuts triggered backlash when paid AI Pro users hit weekly limits at a fraction of their prior usage. Claude Code outmatches Antigravity on autonomous terminal agents. Cursor has a more mature multi-model workflow with transparent API-rate billing.

Who pays which tier: Free for evaluation on rate-limited Gemini 3.1 Pro, AI Pro $20/mo for most individual developers (bundled into Google AI Pro), AI Ultra $249.99/mo for sustained multi-agent workloads, plus $25 per 2,500 credits top-ups for spillover. Teams already inside Google AI Pro or Ultra get Antigravity bundled into the existing bill.

Key Facts

What it actually is

A desktop IDE that splits AI coding into two surfaces on one window. The Editor view is a standard VS Code experience with tab autocomplete, inline commands, and a chat sidebar. The Manager view is mission control: spawn multiple agents, watch them work in parallel across separate workspaces, review Artifacts, approve or correct actions.

Artifacts are the collaboration primitive. Instead of showing raw tool-call logs, agents produce structured markdown deliverables: task lists, implementation plans, screenshots of UI states, and browser recordings of verification flows. Developers comment and iterate on Artifacts like Google Docs.

The real moats are three. First, the Manager view is the most developed parallel-agent orchestration surface shipping today. Second, native Chrome control lets agents visually verify web-app changes in the same tool. Third, Gemini 3.1 Pro’s 77.1% ARC-AGI-2 score gives it a reasoning-lead on architectural planning over Claude Opus 4.6 on Google’s own benchmarks.

When to pick Antigravity

• Parallel-agent workflows. Manager view spawns multiple agents on independent workspaces. One refactors auth, another builds UI, a third writes tests, all running at once under a unified review surface.
• UI work that needs visual verification. The integrated Chrome lets agents click through the running app, take screenshots, and record flows. Artifacts capture the evidence so you review what the agent actually saw.
• You’re on the Google AI Pro or Ultra bundle already. Antigravity folds into the existing $20 or $249.99 subscription. No incremental bill.
• Architectural planning before coding. Gemini 3.1 Pro’s reasoning gains are strongest on planning tasks. Agents map a full architectural plan as an Artifact before touching code.
• Chrome extension or web-app development. Native browser control collapses the build-test-fix loop into one tool.

When to pick something else

• Pure terminal or autonomous agent loop: Claude Code. Stronger CLI agent with cleaner autonomous iteration on test failures.
• GUI-first multi-model IDE with transparent billing: Cursor. API-rate billing, $20 Pro, no credit opacity.
• VS Code fork with multi-provider model choice: Windsurf. Cascade agent, Cognition-owned, cleaner pricing after March 2026 repricing.
• Open-source agent inside stock VS Code: Cline or Continue. Bring-your-own-key, no editor fork.
• Budget VS Code coding assist: GitHub Copilot. $10/mo, less integrated, single-file focus.
• Fully autonomous remote coding agent: Devin. Runs in a cloud sandbox with no editor.
• Open-source, editor-agnostic pair programmer: Aider. Git-native terminal workflow.

Pricing

Subscription pricing via gemini.google/subscriptions:

Prices verified 2026-04-18 via Google AI subscriptions, vibecoding.app Antigravity pricing, and The Register’s March 2026 pricing report.

Credit opacity warning: Google does not publish the credit-to-token conversion rate. Community reporting in March 2026 flagged AI Pro subscribers hitting weekly rate limits at a fraction of their prior daily quota. Budget-sensitive workloads should benchmark their own weekly consumption before committing.

Against the alternatives

Failure modes

• Credit-to-token ratio is undisclosed. Google does not publish how credits convert to Gemini 3.1 Pro tokens. Users report unpredictable consumption, especially on long-context runs.
• March 2026 quota cuts hit existing subscribers hard. AI Pro users reported hitting weekly limits at under 9M input tokens, versus 300M+ weekly before the cut. Refresh cycle moved from 5 hours to weekly.
• VS Code lock-in. Antigravity is a full editor fork. JetBrains, Vim/Neovim, Zed, and Emacs users have no entry path.
• Model lineup shifts without migration paths. Both Gemini 3 Pro High and Low were pulled from Antigravity when 3.1 Pro launched, leaving active sessions to prompt for a manual model switch.
• Public preview status means no SLA. Antigravity is still officially in preview. Production workloads should expect feature churn and occasional breaking changes.
• Manager view deprecations are ongoing. v1.21.6 (March 25, 2026) formalized Manager deprecations; tutorials and YouTube walkthroughs from late 2025 already document workflows that no longer exist.
• Browser automation is Chrome-only. Firefox, Safari, and Edge testing require external tooling.

Methodology

This page was produced by the aipedia.wiki editorial pipeline, an automated system that ingests vendor documentation, verifies pricing and model details against primary sources, and generates the editorial analysis you are reading. No individual human wrote this review. Scoring follows the four-dimension rubric at /about/scoring/ (Utility x Value x Moat x Longevity, unweighted average). Last verified 2026-04-18 against the Google Developers Antigravity launch post, the Antigravity Wikipedia entry, the Releasebot Antigravity changelog summary, the Gemini 3.1 Pro announcement, and The Register’s March 2026 pricing report.

FAQ

Is Antigravity free to use? Yes, with rate limits. The free tier grants ~20 requests per day and 5 per minute on Gemini 3.1 Pro. Paid tiers (AI Pro $20/mo, AI Ultra $249.99/mo) bundle into the Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscriptions and lift those limits. Additional credits cost $25 per 2,500.

What changed in April 2026? v1.23.2 (April 16, 2026) fixed MCP server loading and workspace-specific settings. v1.22.2 (April 7) introduced a unified permissions system for controlling agent actions. Gemini 3.1 Pro (released Feb 19, 2026) replaced both Gemini 3 Pro High and Low as the default reasoning model.

How is Antigravity different from Cursor or Windsurf? All three are VS Code forks with AI coding agents. Antigravity leans hardest into the agent-first framing with its Manager view for parallel agent orchestration and native Chrome integration for visual verification. Cursor is broader on model choice and has transparent API-rate billing. Windsurf sits between them with Cascade and cleaner credit accounting.

Does Antigravity support Claude Opus 4.7? Not yet as of April 18, 2026. The supported Anthropic lineup is Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Claude Opus 4.6. Cursor and Claude Code added Opus 4.7 within minutes of Anthropic’s April 16 release; Antigravity has not published an Opus 4.7 availability date.

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