[Feedback] Antigravity's Quota Obscurity and Closed Ecosystem: A Step Backward for Developer Tools

Google Antigravity
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As a developer integrating AI into daily workflows, the current product strategy of Google Antigravity is highly disappointing. It lacks the transparency and openness expected from a leading enterprise tool. Two critical issues severely disrupt productivity:

1. [Quota Obscurity] The Blackbox Baseline Limits

  • Phenomenon: Users are suddenly hit with multi-day lockouts (e.g., a 7-day Baseline Quota lock for Claude or specific Gemini models) with zero prior warning or real-time metric tracking.

  • Critique: The advertised “5-hour rolling refresh” is a superficial metric. The true limitation is a hidden, dynamic baseline limit. This blackbox approach to quota management destroys any possibility of predictable task planning. It functions more like a risk-control trap than a professional Service Level Agreement (SLA).

2. [Ecosystem Walled Garden] Forced Vendor Lock-in

  • Phenomenon: Antigravity physically blocks users from injecting their own external API keys (e.g., personal Claude or independent AI APIs) into the workspace.

  • Critique: Compared to the open architecture of modern IDEs like VS Code (where developers can freely map their own compute via API keys), Antigravity enforces a strict Walled Garden. By conflating the IDE environment with a mandated compute subscription, restricts developer freedom and monopolizes the runtime context.

Conclusion: For a tool aiming to be the core of a developer’s productivity, certainty and flexibility are non-negotiable. Antigravity currently fails on both fronts. We urge the Antigravity product team to:

  1. Provide transparent, quantifiable usage metrics (Tokens/Units) instead of arbitrary time-locks.

  2. Open the architecture to allow custom API key integration, decoupling the IDE UI from the subscription model.

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Normal pro plan give to up to 2 prompts and reach its limits . Now they add a paywall where you have to buy credits to keep use the product.

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It could have been much better if they have told that just take the ultra plan.
We are stuck now with the proj.
I think now they are flexing as we are lock and cannot do anything.

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iterally all quotas in just one to two prompts in Google AI Pro Plan. Still this is the biggest issue at this time. Google Employees should look into this at their earliest possible.

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Hi Everyone,
Welcome to the Google AI Forum!!!

Thank you for bringing these concerns to our attention. Please be assured that I have shared your feedback with our internal team for further review. We appreciate your continued patience as we work to enhance the Antigravity experience.

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