Google Antigravity is an AI-powered integrated development environment launched in November 2025 that fundamentally rethinks how developers interact with AI. Built on a modified fork of Visual Studio Code, it looks familiar on the surface — but underneath, it's an entirely different beast. Instead of offering a chatbot sidebar that suggests code line by line, Antigravity deploys autonomous AI agents that can independently plan tasks, write code, execute terminal commands, and even open a built-in Chrome browser to visually test your application. It's available on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and ships with access to models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI.
What sets Antigravity apart from tools like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Windsurf is its two-view architecture. The Editor View gives you the hands-on coding experience you already know. The Manager View — dubbed "Mission Control" — lets you dispatch up to five agents to work on different tasks in parallel. One agent can refactor your backend while another builds a UI component and a third runs tests. Each agent reports progress through structured artifacts like task lists, implementation plans, and screenshots, so you always know what happened and why.
Antigravity supports multiple AI models including Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Claude Opus 4.6, and GPT-OSS 120B — giving developers the flexibility to pick the right model for each task. It also features a self-improving knowledge base where agents learn your coding style and project conventions over time, plus custom "Skills" that let you codify your team's best practices into reusable agent instructions.
The platform currently offers a free tier with rate limits, a Pro plan at \(20/month bundled with Google AI Pro, and an Ultra plan at \)249.99/month for heavy users. While the free access to premium models like Claude Opus makes it one of the most accessible ways to try agent-first development, the pricing has been a point of controversy — with developers reporting tightening quotas and an opaque credit system since the initial preview period. Despite these growing pains, Antigravity has reached 6% developer adoption worldwide within months of launch, making it one of the fastest-growing AI dev tools in 2026.