[Professional Feedback] Serious Quota Sync Issue: 7-Day Lockout despite 100% UI Capacity (Ref: Antigravity IDE)

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Google Antigravity #IDE

Hello Google Developers Team,

I am a software developer deeply integrated into the Gemini ecosystem, specifically using the Antigravity interface for LLM-driven development and automated ASR workflows. While I recognize the SOTA capabilities of Gemini 3.1, there are two critical strategic misalignments currently hindering professional adoption.

1. The “168-Hour Lockout” vs. UI Transparency (Issue: AG-859)

Currently, the Pro subscription ($20) shows a 5-hour reset cycle in the UI. However, users are frequently hit with a 7-day (168-hour) lockout without prior warning or a clear “usage meter.”

  • The Impact: For a developer in the middle of a production sprint (e.g., subtitle generation or RAG architecture), a 7-day downtime is a project-killing event.

  • Request: We need Quota Transparency. If there is a weekly token/request cap, it must be visible. A “Black Box” quota system makes Gemini an unreliable partner for professional work.

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Figure A & B Comparison: Notice how the UI reports 100% capacity (left/top) with a 5-hour reset, while the back-end system simultaneously imposes a 6-day, 14-hour lockout (right/bottom). This is not just a UI bug; it is a total synchronization failure between your marketing promises and your enforcement logic.

2. Market Positioning: The Missing “Developer Tier”

The jump from the $20 Pro plan to the $250 Ultra plan is strategically flawed for the developer community.

  • Value Misalignment: The Ultra tier bundles 30TB of Google One storage, which is irrelevant to AI reasoning workflows.

  • Competitive Pressure: Professional developers are increasingly migrating to Claude 4.6 for its reasoning purity and team-centric features, or awaiting DeepSeek V4 for its disruptive price-to-performance ratio.

  • The Gap: There is a massive “missing middle”—a Developer-Specific Tier (e.g., $50/month) that offers high-volume reasoning and long-context stability without forced storage bundling.

Conclusion

Intelligence without predictability is a liability in software engineering. To retain the developer ecosystem, Google must decouple storage from compute and provide a reliable, transparent path for power users who find the Pro plan too restrictive but the Ultra plan’s bundle illogical.

I have attached a screenshot of the UI showing “100% capacity” just before a 7-day lockout occurred, illustrating the current synchronization failure.

**Best regards,

Jason Q**

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Hello @jasonQ, welcome to 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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100%.

i’ll add, i don’t trust these quota extensions - i think they are putting the SLIGHTEST amount of usage which is killing weekly buckets. instead of letting the bucket just “be full”, they are constantly refreshing. Like i see mine often at 4h57 or 4h58 when i’m just doing nothing… I fixed mine by stripping down to 1 profile 1 login for google in chrome, set that as default browser just so anti has a clean gate to the account for auth, and all my normal workspace etc stuff is on edge/firefox.

Little bit of background because - its kinda wild they don’t let workspace Expanded AI into Antigravity which introduces the multiaccount confusion that triggers off the reset hell loop anyways - just by giving Expanded AI (Workspace equivalent to AI Pro) they could mitigate their customer service tickets by 70% random number probably accurate

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I second this assessment. The current situation is a hot mess for pro subscribers. Ultra is way too much. A $50 dev focussed tier with a transparent quota would be ideal.

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Totally agree, initial usage of anti-gravity was like a god mode. I personally observed it just one single chat not even a well crafted prompt the gemini and ide were like I will build It for you page by page and deriving and designing everything well. The moment we entered 2026. I am feeling like being ditched by a girlfriend who has many relationships back then and now. Google team should work harder and appreciate the developer community for sharing their best original system with them. None of us came to anti-gravity to vibecode. But we got attracted and engaged in easy availability of product and it’s maximumn potential

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