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Antigravity vs Cursor (2026): Cursor vs Antigravity Pricing, Free Tiers and Which Is Better
Google's agent-first platform against the best known AI editor. Every figure on this page was read from Google's and Cursor's own documentation in August 2026.
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The short answer
Google Antigravity and Cursor cost almost exactly the same at the entry tier, $19.99 against $20, and their free tiers are not close: Antigravity gives away Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and unlimited Tab completion at $0, which is roughly what Cursor charges $20 a month to reach. The difference that decides a team purchase is not the price, it is whether you can forecast one. Cursor publishes included model usage in dollars at every tier, $20 on Pro, $70 on Pro Plus and $400 on Ultra. Google publishes no absolute quota at any tier: its own plans documentation calls the free allowance a "meaningful quota", Google AI Pro a "high, generous quota" and Google AI Ultra "the highest, most generous quota". One of these two bills can be budgeted from the vendor's own documentation and the other cannot.
What is the difference between Antigravity and Cursor?
They look like the same category and they are not quite. Cursor is an editor with an agent in it: you sit in the file, Tab finishes your line, and the agent runs when you ask. Antigravity is a platform with an editor in it, and Google's own framing is about orchestrating autonomous subagents, scheduled tasks and verification rather than about typing faster. Reading the row about how each one meters you is worth more than reading the price.
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| Google Antigravity | Cursor | Edge | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you install | A four-product line under one name: the Antigravity IDE, Antigravity CLI, Antigravity SDK and Antigravity 2.0, the agent layer that ties them together. | One product: a fork of VS Code with an agent in the sidebar, plus a Cursor CLI and a TypeScript and Python SDK. | Antigravity is broader, Cursor is more finished |
| The core idea | Agent first. Google describes it as orchestrating autonomous subagents, scheduled tasks and interactive verification, with the editor as one surface among several. | Editor first. You sit in the file, Tab completes your line, and the agent runs when you ask it to. | Different products wearing similar clothes |
| Models you can reach | Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini 3 Flash, plus Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.6 and gpt-oss-120b, all of them on the free tier. | A wider third-party field including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI models, split across two usage pools. | Cursor reaches more, Antigravity charges less to reach them |
| Autocomplete | Unlimited Tab completions and unlimited Command requests, stated on the $0 tier. | Unlimited tab completions on Pro and above. The free Hobby tier is capped. | Antigravity, at $0 |
| How you are metered | By work done, not by request count. Google states that simpler tasks consume less quota, so two developers sending the same number of prompts can land in very different places. | By dollars of model usage against a stated included allowance, then on-demand at API prices. | Cursor, for anyone who needs to forecast |
| Buying it for a company | No seat price. An Organization plan arrives through Google Cloud with consumption-based Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform billing, rolling out to selected customers. | Teams at $40 per user a month Standard and $120 Premium, self-serve, plus a custom Enterprise tier. | Cursor for a small team, Google for a Cloud shop |
| Where the work lands | In your working copy, in the editor or terminal in front of you. | In your working copy, plus Cloud Agents that can open pull requests. | Cursor, slightly |
Antigravity vs Cursor pricing, tier by tier
Two things jump out of this table. The bottom rung is a rout in Google's favor and the middle rung does not exist on Google's side at all. A Cursor user who outgrows the $20 plan pays $60 next. An Antigravity user who outgrows Google AI Pro pays $100 next, a five-fold jump, and Google sells nothing in between.
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| Tier | Antigravity | Cursor | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 Hobby | Not a close contest. Antigravity gives away frontier models including Claude Opus 4.6 plus unlimited Tab and Command. Cursor Hobby caps both the agent and the completions. |
| Entry paid | $19.99 Google AI Pro | $20 Pro | A cent apart, and they buy different things. Cursor Pro buys a coding tool plus $20 of stated third-party model usage. Google AI Pro buys a consumer bundle that happens to raise your Antigravity quota. |
| Middle | Nothing at this price point | $60 Pro Plus, $70 included | Cursor owns this rung outright. Google jumps from $19.99 straight to $100, so a developer who has outgrown Pro has nowhere cheap to go. |
| Power | $100 Google AI Ultra, 5X the Pro quota | $200 Ultra, $400 included | Cheaper on the sticker for Google, but 5X of an unpublished number is still an unpublished number. Cursor sells $400 of usage for $200, which you can check against last month. |
| Top | $200 Google AI Ultra, 20X the Pro quota | $200 Ultra, $400 included | Level on price. Note that both Ultra plans carry the same name at $100 and $200, which is a real source of confusion when somebody quotes you an Ultra price. |
| Team seat | No seat price published | $40 Standard, $120 Premium | Only one of these can be turned into a purchase order this afternoon. Antigravity for an organization goes through Google Cloud and is consumption billed. |
| Overage | AI credits at Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform rates, Pro and Ultra only | On-demand usage at the model API price | Both meter past the line. Cursor adds a $0.25 per million token Cursor Token Rate on Teams and Enterprise, and it applies even when you bring your own key. |
Full tier detail for one side is on our Cursor pricing breakdown, the Google side is covered on Google Antigravity, and the whole field sits together on AI coding tool pricing.
The real difference: what each vendor is willing to put a number on
This is the part of the comparison that almost nobody writes up, and it is the part that decides purchases. Cursor tells you what your subscription includes in dollars. Google tells you what your subscription includes in adjectives. The Antigravity column below is quoted word for word from Google's own plans documentation so you can check it yourself.
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| What you want to know | Antigravity publishes | Cursor publishes | Why it matters |
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| Free tier allowance | "Meaningful quota" | Capped agent requests and completions | Neither is a number, but only one of them is free. |
| Entry tier allowance | "High, generous quota" | $20 of third-party model usage | Google's own words. Cursor's figure is checkable against an invoice. |
| Top tier allowance | "The highest, most generous quota" | $400 of third-party model usage | The Ultra multipliers, 5X and 20X, are measured against a Pro quota that has no published value. |
| Reset period | Weekly on free, every five hours on Pro and Ultra until a weekly ceiling | Monthly allowance, then on-demand | This changes a working day more than the size of the allowance does. |
| Unit of measurement | Work done by the agent, not requests sent | Dollars of model usage | Two people sending identical prompt counts can burn very different Antigravity quota. |
| Can you budget it from the docs? | No | Yes | This is the row that decides most team purchases. |
None of this makes Antigravity a bad product. It is a very good product with an unusually generous free tier. It makes Antigravity a hard product to put in a budget, which is a different complaint and one that only matters to some readers. If you are spending your own $20, ignore this table. If you are asking someone else to approve a number for fifteen engineers, it is the only table on the page that matters. We wrote up what Google actually publishes about Antigravity usage limits in full, including the wording of every tier.
What will each one actually cost you per month?
Cursor does something unusual here and publishes its own spend bands, telling you roughly what each kind of user ends up paying once on-demand usage is counted. Those figures are Cursor's, about Cursor, which makes them the most credible numbers available. The Antigravity column is what the equivalent user would pay, with the honest caveat attached each time.
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| If you are | Cursor's own estimate | Antigravity equivalent |
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| Daily Tab users | Always stay within $20 | Free tier is genuinely sufficient. Unlimited Tab at $0. |
| Limited agent users | Often stay within the included $20 | Free tier probably holds. Watch the weekly reset. |
| Daily agent users | Typically $60 to $100 a month all in | $19.99 Pro, if you never hit the weekly ceiling. You cannot check that in advance. |
| Power users running several agents | Often $200 or more a month | $100 or $200 Ultra, plus AI credits once the quota runs out. |
The pattern is worth saying plainly: the heavier your usage, the wider the gap opens in Google's favor on sticker price and in Cursor's favor on predictability. A daily agent user pays Cursor $60 to $100 and knows it in advance. The same person pays Google $19.99 and finds out on a Thursday afternoon whether that was enough. Our cost per developer breakdown turns numbers like these into a line you can defend.
What actually decides your invoice
Six mechanics that are not on either pricing page and that change the answer more than the sticker does.
Google measures work, not requests
This catches people out more than any price on this page. Antigravity quota is consumed in proportion to how much work the agent does, so a hundred small edits can cost less than three long autonomous runs. It means prompt count tells you nothing about how close you are to the ceiling, and it means two developers on identical plans can have completely different weeks.
The five hour reset is the reason to pay Google
Free quota refreshes weekly. Pro and Ultra refresh every five hours until you reach a weekly ceiling. On the free tier one heavy afternoon can leave you without an agent until the week turns over. On Pro the same afternoon costs you a coffee break. If you are deciding whether $19.99 is worth it, that is the reason, not the raw volume.
Cursor's token rate applies to your own API key
On Teams and Enterprise, third-party model requests carry a Cursor Token Rate of $0.25 per million tokens. Cursor is explicit that this sits on top of model API pricing for included usage, on-demand usage and bring-your-own-key usage alike. Teams who plan to supply their own Anthropic or OpenAI keys to save money should price that line in before they assume they will.
Antigravity is not sold as a coding tool
There is no Antigravity subscription. As an individual you buy Google AI Pro or one of the two Ultra plans, which are consumer bundles carrying cloud storage, the Gemini app and other Google perks, and the Antigravity quota rides along. That is fine if you wanted the rest of it and wasteful if you did not.
The free tier has a shelf life nobody has stated
Google has adjusted Antigravity rate limits more than once since the November 2025 launch, including moving free users to a weekly refresh. Nothing in Google's documentation commits to keeping the current free allowance. Building a team habit on a free tier that one blog post can change is a risk worth naming out loud, even though the tier is genuinely excellent today.
Both Ultra plans are called Ultra
Google AI Ultra exists at $100 with a 5X multiplier and at $200 with a 20X multiplier. Same product name, same page, double the price. When somebody tells you what Ultra costs, ask which one they mean, because the comparison against Cursor Ultra at $200 changes completely depending on the answer.
Google Antigravity vs Cursor: which is better for your situation?
"Which is better" has no general answer for this pair, because they are good at different amounts of hands-on control. Here it is asked nine ways that do have answers.
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| If this is you | Pick | Why |
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| You are one developer and you want the best tool for nothing | Antigravity | Claude Opus 4.6 and unlimited Tab at $0 is the most generous free tier any of these vendors currently offers. There is no honest argument for paying $20 before you have tried it. |
| You have to defend the line item to a finance team | Cursor | You can quote $20, $60 or $200 and say what each includes. You cannot build a forecast on "high, generous quota". |
| You already pay for Google AI Pro or Ultra | Antigravity | The quota is already bought and sitting unused. Adding $20 of Cursor on top of it needs a reason beyond curiosity. |
| You want Tab completion above everything else | Either, then Antigravity | Cursor's Tab is the better known of the two and many people find it worth the subscription alone. Antigravity offers unlimited Tab at $0, so try that first and see whether you miss anything. |
| You are standardizing a team of five to fifty | Cursor | A $40 seat you can buy today beats a consumption contract that is still rolling out to selected Google Cloud customers. |
| Your company already runs on Google Cloud | Antigravity | The Organization plan bills through your existing Cloud project under Google Cloud terms, which can be easier to approve than a new vendor. |
| You need the work to arrive as a reviewable pull request | Neither, quite | Both are tools you sit inside and steer. If you want finished branches showing up for review on GitHub or GitLab without you watching, that is a different product shape. |
| You are evaluating on a personal account before a company buys | Careful | Antigravity's free and consumer tiers include Claude and gpt-oss models that the enterprise route does not. You may be evaluating a product your company cannot buy. |
| Your spend is spiky and unpredictable month to month | Neither meters kindly | Cursor charges on-demand past the allowance, Google throttles you until the quota turns over. One costs money, the other costs time. |
Other pairs in this bracket: Windsurf vs Cursor, Cursor vs Claude Code, Cursor vs GitHub Copilot, Codex vs Cursor and Gemini CLI vs Claude Code. If you are weighing a wider field than this pair, the best AI for coding roundup covers the rest.
What Antigravity and Cursor both leave to you
Both of these are tools you sit inside. You open the editor, you describe something, you watch it work, you steer it when it drifts. Both can run a longer task while you do something else, and both are honest that the meter keeps moving while they do. That is the shared constraint: the more work you hand over, the faster the allowance drains or the quota throttles, and the harder next month is to predict.
Agentcode is built for that gap rather than to replace either one. You describe a task, it plans, edits the files, runs your test suite, and opens a reviewable pull request on the GitHub or GitLab repository you already have. It never merges on its own. The bill is $29 a month, flat, with no included-usage allowance to run down and no quota to wait out, which is why neither table on this page has a row for us: there is nothing to meter.
Where they genuinely beat us: Antigravity's free tier costs nothing and ours does not, Cursor's Tab completion has no equivalent here and is worth the subscription on its own for a lot of people, and both reach more model vendors than we do. If you want a frontier model at your fingertips while you type, install one of them today. If you want finished work arriving as pull requests on GitLab as well as GitHub at a price you can forecast a year out, that is the case for us. Compare directly on Cursor alternatives, or read what an AI coding agent does differently from an assistant.
Antigravity vs Cursor: your questions answered
Is Antigravity better than Cursor?
Not better at the same job, better at a different amount of control. Antigravity is agent first and gives away frontier models on a $0 tier. Cursor is editor first, more finished, and is the only one of the two whose cost you can forecast from published figures. For a solo developer today, Antigravity is the better free deal. For a team standardizing on something, Cursor is the lower-risk purchase.
Is Google Antigravity free?
Yes, there is a $0 Individual tier and it is unusually capable: Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.6 and gpt-oss-120b, plus unlimited Tab completions and unlimited Command requests. What it does not include is an unlimited agent. Google applies what it calls basic weekly rate limits, and it publishes no number for them.
How much does Antigravity cost compared to Cursor?
At the entry tier they are a cent apart: Google AI Pro is $19.99 a month and Cursor Pro is $20. Above that they diverge. Cursor sells a $60 Pro Plus tier that Google has no answer to, and Google sells Ultra at $100 and $200 against Cursor Ultra at $200. Cursor states included model usage in dollars at every tier. Google states none.
Which is better for a team, Antigravity or Cursor?
Cursor, for most teams, and the reason is procurement rather than product. Cursor sells a $40 Standard seat and a $120 Premium seat you can buy self-serve today. Antigravity has no seat price at all: organizations buy through Google Cloud with consumption-based Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform billing, which is still rolling out to selected customers.
What are Google Antigravity's rate limits?
Google does not publish a number for any tier. Its plans documentation describes the free allowance as a "meaningful quota", Google AI Pro as a "high, generous quota" and Google AI Ultra as "the highest, most generous quota". Free refreshes weekly; Pro and Ultra refresh every five hours until a weekly ceiling. Quota is consumed by work done, not by requests sent.
Can you use Claude in Google Antigravity?
Yes, and this is the strongest single argument for the free tier. Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Claude Opus 4.6 are both listed on Antigravity's $0 Individual plan alongside the Gemini models and gpt-oss-120b. Reaching Opus-class models inside Cursor means a paid plan and consumes your included third-party model allowance.
Does Cursor have a free tier?
Yes, called Hobby, but it is a trial rather than a working plan. Agent requests and completions are both capped, and unlimited tab completion starts at Pro. Cursor also sells a lower-priced Start plan at 649 rupees a month, which is available only to developers in India and does not include the third-party model pool.
How much will I actually spend on Cursor per month?
Cursor publishes its own bands, which is unusually candid. Daily Tab users always stay within $20. Limited agent users often stay within the included $20. Daily agent users typically land at $60 to $100 a month all in. People running several agents or automation often pass $200. Use those bands rather than the sticker price when you budget.
Should I switch from Cursor to Antigravity?
Try it before you cancel anything, because it costs nothing to find out. Install Antigravity, run a week of real work through the free tier, and watch two things: whether you hit the weekly ceiling, and whether you miss Cursor's Tab. If neither happens, you have just removed $20 a month from your stack. If either happens, you have learned it for free.
Is Antigravity the same as Gemini CLI?
No, though they overlap. Antigravity is a four-product line: the IDE, the Antigravity CLI, the SDK and the Antigravity 2.0 agent layer, all announced or refreshed at Google I/O in May 2026. Gemini CLI is the older terminal client, and Google stopped serving it to free, AI Pro and AI Ultra users on June 18, 2026.
Last updated: August 2026
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