Antigravity
Antigravity is Google's try at an IDE for agentic AI development. Totally 100% FREE and competing with the major players in the industry.
Antigravity Specs Overview
| Google Antigravity | |
|---|---|
| Pricing | Free (preview) · Higher limits via Google AI Pro / Ultra (rate-limit based) |
| Base Model | Gemini 3 Pro / Gemini 3 Flash (+ support for Claude & OSS models) |
| IDE Type | Standalone AI IDE (VS Code–based fork) + agent control interface |
| Agentic Mode | ✓ Full agent orchestration (plan · execute · test · verify across editor, terminal, browser) |
| Context Window | Up to ~1M tokens (Gemini long-context support) |
| Codebase Index | ✓ Full workspace awareness · multi-file reasoning · artifact tracking |
| Web Search | ✓ Built-in browser access (agents can browse + verify outputs) |
| Privacy Mode | Enterprise controls via Google Cloud · local + cloud execution mix |
| Free Tier | ✓ Yes (preview) · usage limited by agent compute quotas |
| Extensions | VS Code ecosystem + multi-model support (Gemini, Claude, OSS) |
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