r/GoogleAntigravityIDE

Hello guys I have just built this

You just run 1 command and all your agents gets a 4000+ skill and 2000+ mcp that they can get at anytime + it's a shared network for all agents where your agent can learn from other agents mistakes

I am willing to give 10 pro access for free if you have time to test it and give me a real feedback about how we can improve it

Is it just me, or has the latest Antigravity update made the free tier practically unusable?

I’ve been relying on it for my dev workflows, but the new rate limits feel like a massive downgrade. I’m constantly hitting "compute" walls after just 20-30 minutes of work, and being locked out for hours (or days) is killing any momentum I have. It honestly feels like a "bait and switch"—the platform was great a few months ago, but now it’s just frustrating to use.

Since I’m a free-tier user, I’m looking for something more "merciful" that won't lock me out after a few simple tasks. Does anyone have recommendations for alternatives that are:

1. Actually usable on a free tier (or have fair, transparent limits).
2. Local-first or self-hostable (I’d rather manage my own compute than deal with these arbitrary cloud throttles).
3. Good for coding/agentic workflows.

I’ve looked into things like Cline and Eigent, but I’m curious to hear what the community is actually using right now to get real work done. What are you guys using that doesn't treat AI agents like a "mobile game energy meter"?

Thanks in advance.

Is this correct? I only used the Flash 3.5 (High) model, but all four Google models are draining the exact same amount of quotas at the same time. What kind of logic or rule is this?

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Hi!
Google AI Pro user here. Yesterday (Day 1 of their new 3.5 models) after a few small tasks it used all quota for all the Gemini Models. Now it refreshes in 7 days. And I used exclusively Gemini 3.5 Medium, but all Gemini models are affected. WTF?!

All it had to do was keep some scripts working, nothing fancy. But it reached model quota very fast. I thought is because they messed up my IDE with the upgrade and I had to re-install and re-view all settings (I know, stupid, right?).

Their latest update messed my older Antigravity, had to reinstall their new 2.0 and older IDE. I use only IDE, as AG2.0 is a chatbot.

My agents file is explicitly telling the models to use the least amounts of thinking using their tokens and create scripts to do the heavy lifting as much as possible.

Before the update the simple Flash - as stupid as it was sometimes - it was decent because it could go for hours, I never reached maximum usage in those 5 hours and I knew it will reset after 5 hours, anyway.

I know nobody from Google reads this but I had to write my opinion somewhere, although it won't change anything. But they messed up the product.

Back to Codex or Claude, then.

All Gemini Models use the same quota now.

I agree antigravity isn't worth it with the rate limits. I'm not buying credits. I'll just use gemini $20/month and the web app and a little of antigravity when they let me. I actually used to have the $250/month plan for a while when I was learning this. That gave you a ton of usage on all the models every 5 hours and 25,000 credits, but now they're taking the credits away so that's definitely not worth it.

I'm glad I'm only a hobbyist and not someone working with this for a living.

Just got a google one email and it says:

AI credits: The product-based usage limit model is also rolling out to other products, starting with Flow and Antigravity. You can extend your limits by purchasing AI credits. While 1,000 AI credits will no longer be included as a benefit in your base plan each month, the new usage limit model we are introducing should allow you to maintain the same experience you are used to. To learn more about how to use AI credits, please visit our Help Center.

What about Ultra Plan, what's the story?

EDITED on 26-05-21

They gave flash a 3x usage forever, that changes the story, relationships restore for me, just yet

We are in the common movements of Price creation in technology.

First Telephone, horrendous price, until market will be flooded with cheaper alternatives from competitors.

Same as with TV

Same as with Fax

Same as with Mobilephone

Same as with PC/Laptop

Same as with Internet

Same as with smartphones

Same as with EV's

(And many more)

And now we are in the Ai-Token era, prices go up for the "better" quality.

But it wont hold forever, because once the AI is more optimized to have more token context on lesser hardware usage, we will see competitors (most likely open source models) rising up, and then the "alpha models" have to revamp their prices to not get drowned by the competitors.

I will say 2-4 months, until we have:

- Gemini 3.5-Flash-Lite, which is the same or a bit better than 3.1 just faster and cheaper.

- Haiku 4.6, which is the same as good as sonnet 4.6 just faster and cheaper

- GPT 5.5-mini which is the same as good like GPT 5.5 (low thinking) just faster and cheaper

- Grok 4.3-fast, which is the same as good like grok 4.2 just faster and cheaper.

And the Open source model goes for the run to be the same as good as top models on the market just cheaper.

Therefore... Yes it's super annoying what they doing now with the price and usage of the frontier models.

But we will always get cheaper alternatives soon. The competitors do not sleep.

I just hope that google will add 3.5-Flash-Lite to antigravity, to have back the user experience with 3-flash, just a little more better.

What do you guys think about?

And do you have alternatives with high usage and proper quality?

What it says. Any experience here? I will switch happily before (soon) next invoice comes. Please help me! thank you

I've downloaded these 2 new app after the update. My question is why they have same UI? Where is the IDE? How can I open the IDE like the previous app version?

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Yesterday Google updated the IDE to the Vibe Coding 2.0 version without my consent. Then they forced me to download the new IDE version and reinstall it just to keep having an IDE at all. When I opened it, I found that Flash (the only decent thing left for Pro users) was gone and replaced with Flash 3.5 (High) and (Low). And sure, they are fast and powerful, but it turns out they use the same quota as the 3.1 Pro model. So after just a couple of lines, you are out of tokens, and then it’s a 5 days reset…

What did they leave to those of us who were paying for Pro? Nothing. Just call it Basic already. Five terabytes of space? That’s not why you pay for Pro. You don’t subscribe to Pro mainly for storage.

They are basically giving you two options: Ultra or pay‑per‑token (and that last one is the real business model). And I have to say it: there are very capable models out there that are much cheaper per token.

My frustration is: how do you suddenly change the deal for someone who signed up for a service under certain conditions? Sure, the fine print probably allows them to change the terms… but it really shows how little they value their customers. We are not begging; we are paying. Was what we paid not enough? They should not have offered it, or they should have ended it but still honored the remaining time on the existing contract.

I walk away disappointed and frustrated with Google

Edit: Today, the models were reset to full token capacity again. I don’t know if this is intended behavior or if Google is live‑testing changes to their implementation, but it still disrupts developers’ workflows. I’ll keep this post updated if anything changes.

I'll keep this short because Google's communication already used up my patience.

Yesterday, Antigravity 2.0 force-updated every existing IDE user with zero warning. No changelog, no opt-out. You open your app and you're in something that looks nothing like what you installed. The actual IDE — the VS Code fork — is now buried at the bottom of a product page. The main product is a desktop agent app competing with Claude Code and Codex.

My read: Google saw Cursor eating their lunch and panicked. Instead of improving the IDE, they gutted it and built something aimed at people who can't code. Great. The people who actually reported bugs, built workflows around this tool, and wrote tutorials for it got migrated without a heads-up.

What kills me is how little it would've taken:

- A changelog notice before the update

- A different product name so existing users know what they're getting

- The IDE not being hidden like an embarrassing old version

Oh, and the first thing a lot of users saw after the update? Broken auth. Couldn't even log in.

I've been through enough Google product cycles to know how this goes. They'll keep the IDE around just long enough to say they didn't kill it, then quietly drop it when the user numbers don't justify the maintenance.

Did anyone else get zero warning? Or am I missing something?

I spent a very painful day researching every possible reason to use 2.0 is my main version of anti gravity and there are none. not one. There are however a ton of reasons to stick with IDE as your main version. 2.0 is basically a dumber and less capable version of IDE don't use it. If anyone disputes this explain why below.

Hi everyone! 

Let’s make this thread an island of pure positivity. Huge thanks to Google for listening to the community, bringing back 3 Flash, and boosting the Pro plan quota refresh in 3.5 FLASH! 

 JOIN THE FLASHMOB! Guys, copy the phrase below and drop it in the comments to show our love to the dev team:

>HUGE THANKS to the GOOGLE AntiGravity team for bringing back 3 FLASH and increasing Pro quotas in 3.5 FLASH!! 

Like everyone else, my workflow completely shattered when the automatic Antigravity 2.0 update dropped.

Although people are sharing ways to get old UI back, and also one can download Antigravity IDE from the official site as well, the point is that the company, which is handling such a massive user base, rolls out an update overnight where you update the whole UI, and the main thing that coders wanted just got invisible.

Idk who tf took this decision, but this would be one of the worst things Google could do!!!