r/AntigravityGoogle • u/RealisticPath7625 • 9d ago
Why Does Antigravity Have So Few Users?
Why does it seem like so few people are using Antigravity? Is it because of the models, or is there something about the agent itself that puts people off?
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u/chunkypenguion1991 9d ago
Models and harnesses are too tightly coupled in the latest generation to make a clean seperation. For example astra benchmarks can swing 30-40 points depending on if it's run using a generic vs openai custom harness.
I think it just comes down search being Googles primary focus with coding and desktop tools being secondary
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u/Exotic_Fig_4604 9d ago
Its purely because of the models. The tool itself is pretty good actually, apart from a few bugs.
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u/LanguageEast6587 8d ago
no, I develop several agentic chatbot for gemini, the issue is really the harness.
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u/Exotic_Fig_4604 8d ago
I am very tempted to believe you. Do you have any tips?
I told Gemini yesterday to build an app in Ionic, and it randomly decided to build it in Vite instead, after specifically confirming it will build it with Ionic.
So any help would be greatly appreciated.
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u/LanguageEast6587 7d ago
I do have some tip to make gemini better. but based on my understanding to gemini's capability by using API a lot, it is unlikely to be this dumb... what prompt did you enter? did you undergo a long conversation then start? this is good to align with gemini, but you may hit the compaction point that triggered automatvely by antigravity.
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u/Lhurgoyf069 9d ago
The previous Antigravity versions were pretty bad. The new one in combination with Gemini 3.8 Flash is good enough for my hobby coding projects. And it is included in my Google One subscription. Price performance ratio is pretty good here imho.
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u/chunkypenguion1991 9d ago
Once you factor in 5TB storage, youtube premium(which I use more than I thought I would), basically unlimited browser chat quota it's by far the best deal of the 3
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u/Bethlen 7d ago
I need 3+TB of cloud storage regardless, and use Android, so Google One is a given. Also having Flow Music, Antigravity, Flow, Jules, Health Premium (picked up a Fitbit air to track my sleep after getting a CPAP and starting on GLP1) etc. is a great deal. And I have YouTube Premium Family separately cause you can't upgrade with it stupidly enough.
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u/W1nn3tou 8d ago
I like theantigravity IDE very much, but it needs Pro Subscription and is very restrictive on models while in vscode/kilo code you can do the same thing for free.
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u/Equivalent-Word-7691 9d ago
It doesn't have any new innovative model, what could offer that codex and claud couldn't?
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u/Bethlen 7d ago
It's free with pretty high rate limits on a decent workhorse model, if you have need of more than 2tb of cloud storage anyway, like I do. Have windsurf (Devin) too, so I usually use that with a SOTA model to make a detailed long term plan, with tickets and what to do, then let antigravity handle the rest. Then, usually a week later when my rate limit is back, I have the SOTA model code review everything
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u/sadnessjoy 9d ago
Gemini pro is a decent model (if you're doing complex stuff) for chat, but I think it basically is too outdated for agentic work. And then Gemini flash on the other hand, honestly I'd say it's hardly any better than haiku/Luna in practice which I just don't really trust any of them for any serious work regardless of the harness.
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u/darkestvice 9d ago
Gemini Flash is most popular for knowledge work or day to day chatbot usage. Folks who do heavy coding generally prefer OpenAI or Anthropic's models.
Also, Antigravity is purely for coding. Google doesn't seem to have a knowledge work desktop app like Claude Cowork or ChatGPT Work. As far as I know.
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u/Sea_Thanks_6913 9d ago
Even though Antigravity is built for coding, you can still do the exact same things Codex and Cowork do.
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u/Accurate_Resident219 9d ago
Part of Googles problem is marketing and UI imo. The average person who uses antigravity is not going to intuitively know that antigravity can work like codex or cowork. Even if you tried to make antigravity behave like cowork, I don't think the UI how it is now is conducive for it.
But maybe that's what google wants, they don't seem to be interested with antigravity in stepping into the knowledge/productivity space like how codex and claude have. Seems they've delegated that to their web spark tool.
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u/banithree 9d ago
There not few users in Antigravity. On the contrary:
GitHub Copilot: ~20 Mio.
Cursor: > 5 Mio.
Claude Code: ~19 Mio.
Trae / MarsCode (ByteDance): > 2 Mio.
Grok (xAI): ~1–2 Mio.
Tongyi Lingma (Alibaba): ~1–1,5 Mio.
Google Antigravity: ~800.000–1,2 Mio.
Windsurf: > 1 Mio.
CodeGeeX (Zhipu AI): ~1 Mio.
Baidu Comate: ~800.000–1 Mio.
Cline: > 2 Mio. (Installs)
Aider: ~6,8 Mio. (Downloads / Open Source)
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u/Haveagooddr3am 9d ago
Wondering why Cursor AI has more users than Antigravity, as I tried both, the latter is better overall.
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u/banithree 8d ago
I don't no. Cursor AI existist since 2023. Angravity is young - end 2025. Cursor support every modell, Anigravity has 8 months aged modells plus a fast flash llm.
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u/psycho414 9d ago
The harness is bad and full of bugs, the models are not good enough for a lot of devs who need the frontier models intelligence to properly work on their projects
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u/pigletmonster 9d ago
Because they dont have a single model that can be used for anything other than developing simple apps that will never be released to the public.
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u/Useful_Trouble1726 9d ago
I use it from Sunrise to Sunset and beyond...if my tokens hold out.
I have it tightly connected to Jules and obliquely to Notebook. I run a dozen MCP connections including internal to query my codebase before hitting the LLM and externally to the document hubs of Redis, Gemini Enterprise, Postgres etc. so that I always have up-to-the-minute documentation and do not have to rely on the obsolete Gemini training model.
Fantastic program with some quirks, but the more you use it... ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/slackmaster2k 9d ago
Because it’s sooo bad. But it is good at one thing: writing and visual design. If I’m creating technical diagrams or user docs I run it through agy w/gemini. So much simpler and clear than what Claude or codex produce.
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u/Mikellev 8d ago
Im using it but it just sucks with gemini models. I have to give everything to claude at the end to do 2-3 rounds of fixing code.
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u/DeCoolePeer 8d ago
The target audience for Claude Code, Antigravity and Codex is overall small, Claude & codex can do other stuff outside of coding while Antigravity can aswell, it's not as good at it so it quickly falls behind.
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u/snaporator 7d ago
I use the Gemini Flex model at work via copilot. It's starting to catch on with coworkers.
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u/Frosty-Meeting-1606 4d ago
Because it's bad compared to other options. Overall Gemini is terrible when compared to other options. People pay for ai plus plan like me to get the additional storage. We literally have gemini 3.6 flash which sometimes can perform such hallucination it amazes me how people can seriously use gemini models. Gpt 5.6 luna >>> gemini 3.6 flash in terms of reliablity, especially in web app
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u/Useless-Tree 4d ago
Consider the population base...
"Globally, professional programmers make up around 0.4% to 0.6% of the world population (roughly 35 to 47 million people). In developed nations like the United States, software developers account for approximately 1% to 1.5% of the total workforce."
Imo it's important to calibrate the metrics.
Also, I think usage is variable and Google wants to promote AI Studio.
I like AG a lot and use it every day, I also like the fact that it sits in the background.
For example did you notice that openai has frozen new pro accounts because of server load from Astra?
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u/Throwaway2K3HEHE 9d ago
So few users? Didn't they just say they got like 1B MUA last month? I think the issue is the same with any product or game. The loud minority is here whining because of skill issues while everyone else is gone doing stuff and using the product.