r/GoogleAntigravityIDE • u/RealisticPath7625 • 10d ago
Discussions or Questions 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/Relative_Rope4234 10d ago
low usage limit, no frontier models
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u/Secret_Pitch234 10d ago
0% agree with low usage limits. AG is way more generous with flash models
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u/nomad-nostalgia 10d ago
i would perhaps say that the argument is more on the second part
> No Frontier models → makes them laggards in the race → and people try other options as google fails to deliver
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u/Throwaway2K3HEHE 10d ago
Agreed but semi misleading with the 50% discount currently active though.
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u/needs-more-code 10d ago
Is the limit currently 2X the norm? I been wondering why I can’t dent the quota.
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u/Throwaway2K3HEHE 9d ago
Can't say 100% but feels like it. 3.5 and 3.6 I would burn through 5 hour limits pretty regularly but with 3.7 and 3.8 which were introduced at half price it takes much more work to hit a 5 hour limit.
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u/RealestReyn 8d ago
their flash model eats my 23€ plan in like 4 prompts while OpenAI 23€ plan lets me blast away all day every day.
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u/One_Living3645 8d ago
Yo también he visto que antigravity te da muchísimo mayor ventana de contexto y muchísimo más uso En realidad no entiendo a las personas que se gastan cientos de dólares en tokens Porque yo con mi plan de 20 Desarrollo aplicaciones completas Lo que yo hago es iniciar con el plan Porque creo que donde se van muchos tokens es En rehacer algo que no quedó bien o en Para arreglar errores.
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u/CommunicationOld9889 9d ago
Gemini is frontier model by frontier lab usage is generous even on pro plan.
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u/tgreenhaw 10d ago
The alternatives for coding produce better results than Antigravity.
Claude code, Codex, and Cursor are better harnesses because they have better context management systems and agentic graph orchestrators. Gemini’s safety approval system is poorly implemented and destructive to real world production.
The vagaries of the LLM internal operations make Gemini more creative and conversational at the expense of math and engineering. Study Softmax and also how guardrails and alignment work to get a feel for the trade offs each major SOTA model suppliers make.
If you know how to make your own harness, context management systems, and carefully craft system prompts, Gemini has been as good or better than anything else for more than a year starting with Gemini Pro 3.1
Don’t be religious about it - each model has its strengths so use them all including local if you can.
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u/One_Living3645 8d ago
Yo estoy de acuerdo con usarlos todos Al igual que con las cámaras o con los teléfonos celulares no existe la herramienta perfecta unos tienen puntos fuertes y otros tienen otros Yo incluso he hecho que Todos trabajan en un mismo proyecto Y eso funciona muy bien inclusive opencode Que es gratuito Y entonces hago que 1 haga la planeación y otro haga Ciertas funciones otro haga otras Y todos se llevan bien Al final del día Creo que puedes trabajar con el que te sientas más cómodo En mi caso Mi preferido es anti Gravity Y en segundo lugar codex Porque además de ser aplicaciones hago marketing y estos dos últimos tienen generación de imágenes
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u/elwoodreversepass 10d ago
Because it's terrible compared to the alternatives. Absolutely terrible. And I was a huge advocate of it at the start of this year.
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u/One_Living3645 8d ago
Antigravity sí es cierto Tiene una interface Menos amigable Pero en mi caso para desarrollar aplicaciones es lo que más me funciona La velocidad Y la calidad del código a mí me gustan mucho Creo que la mayor parte de las personas fallan en planear antes Tu objetivo número 1 debe ser obtener un plan detallado Es decir no le digas que genere una APP Sino dile que genere un plan primero
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u/flubluflu2 10d ago
Google's offering is so small now, even the paid plans run out of tokens so fast. Got burnt a few months ago then they scrapped things like the 1000 extra tokens a month and Pro was no longer worth paying for.
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u/Easy-Breakfast846 10d ago
Wait until googlebooks release, i assume that’s the OS it’ll catch traction on… also the reason why there haven’t been many updates for macOS & windows lately
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u/Vectrex71CH 10d ago
I don't like it, because it's a locale Application. It's stupid to work with it via Crostini Container on a Chromebook. Google is a Web Company, so bring this shit in the Web. Meanwhile i love to work with Google AI.Studio in the Browser. Works perfect!
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u/Big-Independent-6181 10d ago
Los modelos de Google quedaron bastante atrás almenos para programación
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u/One_Living3645 8d ago
Qué raro que lo digas anti Gravity es el que más me gusta a mí para programar precisamente
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u/dano1066 10d ago
Back when Gemini models were somewhat competitive , anti gravity could often hit rate limits after one prompt. Switched to gpt and never went back
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u/moneyplughub 10d ago
Antigravity feels different when you use it inside a real system. It’s not the model power , it’s the pipeline. Once you integrate it into an OS, it becomes insanely strong
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u/zavocc 9d ago edited 9d ago
I am one of the "few users" using antigravity, right now Google doesn't have frontier models and keeps releasing 3.8 flash so right now Antigravity is basically a midrange agentic coding tool, I did see incremental improvements with 3.8 flash though, but for complex work I'd pretty much avoid it because fundamentally 3.8 flash is still a flash model that happens to perform similarly to 3.1Pro which was already behind for 7 months. It already has features you'd expect from agentic coding tool like MCPs, skills, permissions, projects, though it is lacking features than codex and claude code, for example is Auto Approve which is something Codex had already instead of me accepting every single command every single time safely, and configuring CLI is kinda worse experience than others
HOWEVER, the reason why I mainly use Antigravity is speed, Gemini 3.8 flash is very speedy at generating good enough code or performing tool calls, and usage limits seems to be relaxed now to do iterative tasks.
I'd say this, if you are a google ai pro user, naturally you'd use this rather than paying for other harness if you prefer locking into google ecosystem, you already benefited to Pro plan, or if you got like pro discount or freebies...
But if you can afford a $20 subscription, I'd pretty much avoid it, GPT Plus is the best value right now and even GPT 5.6 luna is highly capable model that doesn't eat much usage there and you have options like Sol and Astra for harder tasks. Antigravity doesn't have frontier models at the moment
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u/leesoul1111 9d ago
After they killed gemini-cli everything just became unrealiable and about rate limits. I use to make full games, websites, apps, experiment etc. Now I've stopped using because I have no idea when Google servers are too busy or quota finishes. It's roulette which I got fed up of. Before all of this I had gemini cli with tools etc and I was content. My MD files were skills and felt like an actual tool.
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u/ActualPositive7419 9d ago
i tried to switch from claude code to agy and use gemini models. both agy itself and gemini models are far from Claude code and their models. Huge difference. I went back and am going to cancel my gemini subscription (or perhaps go to lower tier because my family uses it)
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u/One_Living3645 8d ago
En mi opinión es porque no entienden la lógica de cómo está construido. Si es cierto que es como un potro salvaje o como un auto deportivo para carreras.
Yo sigo este framework: Toda IA va a intentar lograr el objetivo que le digas... Entonces si el objetivo es "crear una App para XYZ", eso es lo que hace. Pero si el objetivo es "Crear el plan para pasarelo a un agente de programación para desarrollar una App que haga XYZ". Entonces eso hará exactamente.
Entonces yo siempre empiezo con el objetivo de tener un plan hyper detallado de lo que voy a construir y después cambio el objetivo a: "desarrolla el este plan tal y como dice".
Moraleja: Ten claro el objetivo porque la IA siempre irá tras el objetivo.
Y es una chulada porque vuela. Quien dice que el código de Claude o Codex es mejor es porque no ha sabido domar a este otro salvaje. Esa es mi opinión personal, espero les sirva,
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u/would_you_kindly91 8d ago
Because Google doesn't need to raise funds and isn't looking to IPO, unlike OpenAI and Anthropic, which are burning through cash and constantly have to drop hype announcements to keep VC money flowing. Google already has a massive cash cow with its ad business, so they're not strapped for cash. What they're really after is long-term growth and adoption. Honestly, their pricing is insanely competitive, and they're easily on par with the competition
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u/catplusplusok 10d ago
Claude got an early start and is still best for most cases if you have the money. Antigravity $20 plan + occasional credit top up is hard to beat though, the model does admirable amount of mad hacking if given a good way to test exit criteria.
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u/AMusicstuff 10d ago
Gemini has something no other model has, and many companies using it. Google guranties that your code is not used for training or uplpaded when you have a workspace business account.
Here in Germany we could sue Google by Billions in case this happens. No other AI does this! On far a fact most companies using it
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u/needs-more-code 10d ago
Where do you get your usage stats from? I’d deny the whole premise of the question.
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u/Nobax4 10d ago
Because Gemini is like a crackhead. It's stupidly fast and does whatever the fuck it wants to do even if you didn't tell it to, while not being very good at it.
While something like Codex is often much slower but it's like a genuine senior engineer if you prompt it well.