I’m writing this out of sheer frustration, and I know I’m not the only one. There’s a growing wave of unannounced account suspensions (Error 403) hitting legitimate, paying Antigravity subscribers simply because we are routing our usage through the OpenClaw agent.
I get that Google needs to fight API abuse and scraping. But the current zero-tolerance ban hammer is hitting the exact wrong crowd: your actual paying customers.
Here is why this approach is driving developers away, and why it needs to change:
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We are just using the quota we paid for. Google already has strict rate limits (HTTP 429), 5-hour rolling windows, and weekly caps. If an agent like OpenClaw hits those limits, just throttle us. Throwing a 429 error makes sense. But permanently banning a paid account just because we used a CLI agent to consume our quota efficiently—instead of manually clicking around a web UI—is wild to me.
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Zero warnings, terrible support. There was no heads-up, no email warning, and nothing explicitly clear in the ToS about banning local agent wrappers. Loyal users are just waking up to a 403 error, completely locked out of their workflows. When we try to appeal, we get slow, automated bot rejections. Leaving your paying developers stranded like this is a massive trust-killer.
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Your competitors are embracing this. The whole industry is shifting to agentic workflows. OpenAI (Codex) and Anthropic (Claude) don’t ban their Pro users for plugging into OpenClaw. Emerging players like Kimi and MiniMax are actively using OpenClaw compatibility as a marketing feature to attract devs! By criminalizing agent workflows, Google is essentially telling power users to take their subscription money elsewhere.
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It doesn’t even stop real abuse. The bad actors scraping your APIs at scale don’t care about these bans—they just spin up thousands of disposable free accounts. Dropping the ban hammer on developers who linked their primary work accounts and real credit cards doesn’t fix the abuse problem; it just alienates your most loyal user base.
We actually want to build in the Google ecosystem and use Gemini models. But getting our accounts nuked without warning for using modern development tools makes it really hard to justify keeping the subscription.
The Ask: Please re-evaluate these 403 bans for paid users. Swap the permanent bans for standard rate limiting (429s) when agent usage spikes, and give us a sanctioned, clear way to use our paid quotas with tools like OpenClaw.