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Best Antigravity alternatives

8 tools developers use instead of Antigravity, ranked by popularity. 8 offer a free plan and 3 are open source. Updated October 2026.

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  1. Claude Code logo

    Claude Code

    Free plan

    Anthropic's agentic coding tool, running in the terminal, IDE, desktop app, and browser, reading your codebase and editing files with explicit approval.

  2. Cline logo

    Cline

    Free Open source

    Open-source VS Code extension that turns the editor into an autonomous coding agent, using your own API key and an approval gate before each action.

  3. Cursor logo

    Cursor

    Free plan

    AI-first code editor forked from VS Code, with Tab autocomplete, multi-file Agent mode, Composer, and background agents running on Claude, GPT, or Gemini.

  4. GitHub Copilot logo

    GitHub Copilot

    Free plan

    GitHub's AI pair programmer for code completion, chat, PR review, and an autonomous coding agent, built into VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, and more.

  5. OpenAI Codex logo

    OpenAI Codex

    Free plan

    OpenAI's cloud-based autonomous coding agent, powered by the GPT-5 family, reading a codebase and opening pull requests from written instructions.

  6. Windsurf logo

    Windsurf

    Free

    Cognition AI's agentic IDE (formerly Codeium), built on VS Code, with the Cascade agent handling codebase-wide reasoning and multi-file edits.

  7. Kilo Code logo

    Kilo Code

    Free Open source

    Open-source agentic coding platform with five agent modes, support for 500+ models at no markup, an MCP marketplace, and parallel subagents.

  8. Gemini CLI logo

    Gemini CLI

    Free Open source

    Google's open-source terminal coding agent built on Gemini models with a 1M-token context window. Shut down for free consumer accounts June 18, 2026.