The situation with Google Antigravity and its “7-day quota” can be a bit confusing because there is a difference between the advertised refresh cycle and the hidden safety rules.
I’ll help you navigate these rules and how to manage your usage so you can stay in that 5-hour window.
The “Hidden” Rule: Baseline vs. Rolling Quotas
While your Pro subscription technically grants you a 5-hour rolling refresh for your “sprint capacity,” there is a secondary rule that Google implemented in late 2025 to manage high demand:
The 5-Hour Cycle: This is your immediate pool of “work done.” Once you exhaust this, it typically resets 5 hours after your first request in that session.
The 7-Day Baseline: This is a weekly hard cap. If you hit this weekly limit, the system overrides your 5-hour refresh and locks you out until the start of the next 7-day period.
How to Maintain Your Pro Status and Avoid the 7-Day Lockout
To stay within the “priority access” tier and avoid the week-long wait, you should follow these guidelines:
Monitor “Work Done”: Quotas aren’t just based on the number of messages. They are calculated by the complexity of the task. Agent-heavy tasks (like “Refactor this entire repository”) drain your weekly baseline much faster than simple “Fix this function” prompts.
Check the Model Quota Monitor: You can see your current status directly in the IDE. Go to:
Agent Manager → Settings → Models Check if your “Baseline Quota” is dipping low (e.g., below 20%). If it is, consider switching to Gemini 3 Flash for simpler tasks to preserve your Pro/Ultra quota.
Watch for “Infinite Loops”: One common cause for hitting the 7-day limit is leaving an agent running on a task that gets stuck. If an agent is making dozens of small edits without progress, stop it immediately to save your quota.
Avoid Third-Party “Chaining”: Using external tools to “automate” your Antigravity prompts can trigger abuse filters, which often result in an immediate 7-day lockout regardless of your actual token usage.
Troubleshooting the “Buggy” Lockout
If you haven’t been using the app heavily but still see a 7-day wait, it might be a known authentication bug. Some users have reported that the IDE “forgets” their Pro status and defaults them to the Free Tier (which is weekly).
Open the Output tab in Antigravity.
Select Antigravity from the dropdown.
Look for “OAuth” or “Login” errors. If you see them, Sign Out and Sign In again to force the app to recognize your Pro subscription.
In the Antigravity interface, you can find a detailed breakdown of your activity. This is helpful because not all tasks “cost” the same toward your 7-day baseline. For instance, a complex automated refactor might use more of your quota than a quick code explanation.
To find these logs, follow these steps in your IDE:
Go to the Activity or Account icon in the sidebar.
Select Usage Dashboard.
Look for a section labeled Detailed Logs or Quota Breakdown.
Once you’re there, you’ll likely see a list of your recent interactions and how much “weight” or “units” each one carried.
To understand those numbers, we have to look at how Antigravity calculates “Work Done.” Unlike a standard chatbot that counts messages, Antigravity’s Pro tier uses a dual-layer quota system that tracks the actual computational “weight” of your agent’s actions.
Here is the breakdown of what those numbers in your logs represent:
1. The “Sprint” vs. “Marathon” Numbers
In your Quota Monitor, you’ll likely see two different percentages or “units”:
Rolling 5-Hour Units (Sprint): This is your short-term fuel tank. Every “unit” used here resets exactly 5 hours after it was spent. If you see a high number here, it means you’ve done a lot of work in the last 5 hours.
Weekly Baseline (Marathon): This is the hidden “7-day rule” you mentioned. It’s a much larger pool of units. If the total units spent over a rolling 7-day period cross a certain threshold, the system triggers the 7-day lockout—even if your 5-hour tank is empty.
2. High-Cost vs. Low-Cost Actions
The “units” are calculated based on the complexity of what the agent does. Here’s a typical “cost” hierarchy:
Activity
Quota Weight
Why?
Simple Chat
Low
Minimal context and no file writes.
Tab Completion
Zero
Usually unlimited and doesn’t hit the Pro quota.
Planning Mode
Medium
The agent “thinks” and lists steps before acting.
Multi-File Edits
High
Requires scanning the repo and rewriting multiple buffers.
Browser/Terminal
Very High
Running tests or browsing the web uses significant “compute units.”
3. The “Tier Misalignment” Glitch
One important thing to watch for: If you see your Weekly Baseline at 100% (empty) but you haven’t used the tool much, you might be hitting a known Sync Bug.
Sometimes the app fails to verify your Pro status and treats you as a Free User, who only gets a weekly quota. A quick fix many users use is to Sign Out of the IDE and Sign In again to force a refresh of your subscription tokens.
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This is to address any Google devs that might be reading this. “7-Day Baseline” seems false. It is not mentioned in Use Google AI Pro benefits - Google One Help and I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere else. Until I ran into it in Antigravity after asking the model to review one of my pet projects (a rather small project!).
This is ridiculous. To make things worse, the system displayed “ran out of quota” but the meter shows some usage left - but even here - I would expect “weekly” quota meter at the very least.
It is not a safety rule: Why should people even spend money on your product and not competitors? I got MUCH more use out of ChatGPT Codex which has reasoning comparable to Claude Opus (at least from my testing).
I also am not able to find this - gemini is now suggesting I install 3rd party extensions.
From gemini.google.com:
With all the supply chain issues, I’d rather try to keep 3rd party extensions to a minimum. Hoping for a resolution from Google.
Another data point for others - Got hit with a 7 day reset. Using Antigravity after a week (luckily had to travel so didn’t mind a 7 day limit, the first time I hit it). Started a new session today, got opus to fix silly mistakes Gemini 3.1 Pro (high) had made and intellectual honesty failures. Opus monitored the console for output for a bit (should be a simple script instead needing the model to get engaged) and I got hit with another week long quota expiry. For a pro account and a single short clean up session on 3 files got me to a 1 week quota expiry.
This is strange. A few days ago, I received a 4-5 day data restriction. After that period ended, I started using it again. Just 6 hours ago, I had 40% of my cloud data quota left (and 60% in the Pro version, which renews every 5 hours). Then I received another 4-6 day data restriction. What could be the reason for this? How can my limit be used up on its own? Am I paying for the Pro version to only use it for 4 days a month? This is ridiculous. It’s become erratic after the last two updates. I’m thinking of canceling my subscription.
These usage limits for an AI Pro subscription seem extremely restrictive. I am currently on my first $0 month trial of the subscription, and that seems to be about what it’s worth when it comes to coding tasks. I never hit any usage caps at all when I used Codex through a ChatGPT Plus subscription. I’m a hobbyist coder, so not much more than a couple of hours usage every few days.
Here I’ve hit the 5 hour limits multiple times (which I can deal with), but now I’m blocked completely until March 16th. This can’t be called much more than a “trial” for any coding tasks imo.
Is this a bug, or is it really supposed to be like this? I chose Google over an Anthropic subscription because I wanted the more casual (image gen, video gen, etc) part of it as well as the coding. Best of both worlds, but if it continues to be like this I guess it will be a move to Anthropic next.
I am a Google AI Pro subscriber who joined in early January. I am writing to report a significant discrepancy between the advertised plan benefits and my actual user experience with Antigravity.
According to the plan description: “Users on Google AI Pro receive: High, generous quota, refreshed every five hours until weekly limit reached; Higher weekly rate limit.”
However, my experience has shown a drastic and unexplained tightening of these limits over the past few months:
January: Quotas refreshed every 5 hours as expected.
February: The wait time increased to “Next Day.”
Late February: The wait time extended to several days.
March: I am now facing a “5 to 6-day lockout.”
While I experienced a few 5-hour refreshes earlier this month, after just two days of use, I am now blocked for 5 days. This is far from “generous” and contradicts the 5-hour refresh policy advertised.
Many of us chose Google because of the trust and quality associated with your engineering. This current lack of transparency regarding quota limits is causing a significant loss of trust among your dedicated users. I hope to see this addressed so that the service aligns with the plan we are paying for.
This is terrible. I waited a week. Ran two prompts, and now I have to wait a week again?? Why are we paying for this? I used to be able to do 2-3 hours of work per day but now I can’t get 30 mins a week!
I have been on a 5 day lockout period, and even renewed my subscription in between only to be hit with a 7 day lockout period without even using a single prompt.
I was watching my Gemini 3.1 Pro model quota yesterday and waiting to get to the stated refresh time late afternoon so I could kick off some work. I didn’t have time yesterday but I came back this morning and now my quota is exhausted and will refresh in 6d 7h. I haven’t used it since the refresh and there’s nothing in the logs, chat history or git changes to indicate any usage. Please can someone take a look and advise? This apparent random grant of quotas on a paid service is pretty bad.
Agent-heavy tasks (like “Refactor this entire repository”) drain your weekly baseline much faster than simple “Fix this function” prompts.
