Hi everyone,
I have a fundamental question.
Why are people trying to use Antigravity when they can just use Cursor without any hassle?
What exactly is better about Antigravity compared to Cursor?
So for many people it depends. For me - it was cheaper as when I signed up before the rug pull, I had 1.5x more usage out of antigravity compared to cursor. Now it’s maybe….. way less like .25x usage compared to cursor.
I recommend now to everyone I talk to to get cursor or claude code. Antigravity is out of the question now as any usage you get is only worth maybe an hour or two worth of work and just stops mid plan / mid implementation.
For me it was the fact that I didn’t want potentially sensitive code being transmitted to untrusted 3rd parties
I agree. Antigravity feels like more money for less value and more frustration.
At this point, Cursor or Claude Code seem like much better options in terms of reliability, usage limits, and overall experience. Antigravity stopping mid-plan or halfway through an implementation makes it really hard to trust for serious work.
That makes sense, but honestly Google’s behavior over the past month and the lack of clear communication have caused a lot of damage to the developer community. For me, they are now on the list of the least trustworthy companies.
Also, with so many coding agents available now, “sensitive code” does not really mean much to me anymore. Almost any code, no matter how complex, is easy to generate or access. I doubt anyone is really interested in stealing someone else’s code when they can already produce almost anything themselves.
Sadly I perceive Antigravity like a cheap Chinese phone: it does the job for cheap, but quality and performance is debatable. In this analogy Claude is the apple phone, everything looks and it is nice, but you pay for it. Hopefully Antigravity and Google become the Samsung in this story….
I respect your perspective, even if I do not fully understand it myself. Wishing you the best and good luck with whatever tools end up working best for you.
As a Google Partner employee, I have a workspace license. And I will never touch Antigravity again!
Why?
- It’s really bad experience, gemini model is not as good as it’s told with the benchmarks
- Antigravity itself is not a finished product, it has a lot of bugs . + Gemini CLI is definitely better framework for vibe-coding!
- Cursor or Claude Code is definitely getting … done, while you were having months of problems with the quota and limit issues in the Antigravity.
What;s my current workflow.
(Claude Code or Cursor) Opus 4.6 detailed planning, then use one of these for coding.
- Claude Code Opus 4.6
- Cursor Composer 2
- Gemini CLI Gemini 3.1 Pro
That’s it. Gemini CLI is pay-as-you-go.
agree, sensitive code doesn’t mean much.. the code itself is not sensitive, but the business idea of that app or website that you make with the code, that’s sensitive because people can easily copy it and that would harm you in theory.
Anyways if you have money to spend, pay for claude code or cursor, they are by far more reliable than antigravity. Google doesn’t care about their users, they are probably using all their compute to speed up training of new models ahead of the Google IO event in 3 weeks.
You’ll see in 3 weeks they’ll announce new models, new progress, new benchmarks bla bla bla, and you will have wasted 1 month of subscription to antigravity.
Surely if the devs wanted to fix the issues in antigravity, they would have done it already, if they have not, it’s because they have not been told to do so by the higher ups.
I really liked your perspective, and I totally agree with you.
Your point actually makes a lot of sense. That said, I feel like Google has become a bit too “fat” as a company and isn’t fully under tight control from leadership anymore.
At this point, it just seems more practical to stick with tools like Claude or Cursor.