What is the best alternative to Google Antigravity?

Visual Studio Code is the one we can answer for in full. Run Anthropic's agent without installing a second product: the Claude harness is enabled by default and bills either through a GitHub Copilot subscription or through your own Anthropic key. The editor is free but the agents are not: reaching the Claude Code and Codex harnesses through a Copilot subscription starts at Copilot Pro, $10 per user a month. Every part of that answer is quoted from a page we read; the links are on this page beside each claim.

Which Google Antigravity alternatives are still actively developed?

Visual Studio Code (newest commit 8 Oct 2026). Those dates are the newest commit on each project's default branch, read from the GitHub API on 8 Oct 2026. We read the default branch rather than the repository's push timestamp, because a push to any branch moves the second one and makes a finished project look active.

What do Google Antigravity alternatives cost?

Visual Studio Code: The editor is free but the agents are not: reaching the Claude Code and Codex harnesses through a Copilot subscription starts at Copilot Pro, $10 per user a month. Prices we have not read ourselves are marked "not verified" in the table above rather than copied from our catalogue, which is out of date on 43 of our 190 rows.

How many Google Antigravity alternatives do you track?

We name 12 on this page. 1 carry judgments and prices we read and quoted, 5 carry live repository data with no judgment yet, and 6 are catalogue entries we have not researched. We say which is which on every row rather than presenting all of them as reviewed.

Best Google Antigravity alternatives (2026)

Google Antigravity is an IDE that runs as a desktop app: Google's agent-first IDE with mission control and multi-agent workflows. We name 12 alternatives below.

Status

Antigravity changes week to week and Google reserves the right to move the limits: 2.11.0 shipped on 2026-08-26 and the IDE extensions on 2026-08-20, so read every quota statement here as read on 2026-08-27.

“Usage limits for this service are subject to modification. These adjustments may be necessary to manage system capacity and maintain service stability.”

antigravity.google/docs/plans · · read 8 Oct 2026

Quick answer

Of the 12 alternatives here, 1 have been researched claim by claim. Start with Visual Studio Code.

Choose Visual Studio Code when: Run Anthropic's agent without installing a second product: the Claude harness is enabled by default and bills either through a GitHub Copilot subscription or through your own Anthropic key. [code.visualstudio.com/docs/agents]

It costs: The editor is free but the agents are not: reaching the Claude Code and Codex harnesses through a Copilot subscription starts at Copilot Pro, $10 per user a month. [github.com/features/copilot]

How this list is ordered. Tools whose claims we have read and quoted come first, then tools whose repository we track, then catalogue entries we have not researched. Within each band the order is category and workflow overlap. A tool that has stopped is never the first answer. We publish no score out of five: every claim here traces to a source, and a number we could not justify would undermine the ones that can.

Why people leave Google Antigravity

You cannot point Antigravity at a model key you already hold: the plans page states there is no bring-your-own-key or bring-your-own-endpoint path, so the quota Google grants you is your only supply.

“There is currently no support for: · Bring-your-own-key or bring-your-own-endpoint for additional rate limits · Organizational tiers via contract”

antigravity.google/docs/plans

The Antigravity sign-in works in Antigravity alone: reaching it from Claude Code, OpenCode or any other third-party client breaks the Terms of Service and can end the account.

“Using third party software, tools, or services to access Antigravity is a violation of our Terms of Service, and severely degrades the experience for legitimate product users. Such actions may be grounds for suspension or termination of your account.”

antigravity.google/docs/faq

The CLI runs agent shell commands on the bare machine until you switch the sandbox on yourself, because `enableTerminalSandbox` ships set to false.

“enableTerminalSandbox (boolean, default: false): Restricts all local execution commands launched by agents to OS containment rings.”

antigravity.google/docs/cli

An enterprise should not standardise on the Antigravity IDE: Gemini Enterprise supports Antigravity 2.0, the CLI and the IDE extensions, of which Visual Studio Code is the first, and excludes the standalone IDE.

“Enterprise integration is supported for Antigravity 2.0, Antigravity CLI, and Antigravity IDE Extensions. Antigravity IDE (standalone) is currently not supported for enterprise deployments.”

antigravity.google/docs/enterprise

1 researched alternatives to Google Antigravity

Visual Studio Code

code.visualstudio.com

What it is: Visual Studio Code is the host, not the agent: one Session Target control switches a session between five harnesses — Local, GitHub Copilot, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI Codex and Cloud — so the editor stays fixed while the agent behind it changes. [code.visualstudio.com/docs/agents]

Where it hurts: The app you download is not the MIT repository: Microsoft ships Visual Studio Code as a licensed distribution of the open-source Code - OSS tree, and says the product is built on open source rather than being open source. [code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting]

Price: The editor is free but the agents are not: reaching the Claude Code and Codex harnesses through a Copilot subscription starts at Copilot Pro, $10 per user a month. [github.com/features/copilot]

Stars: 193,660; Verified 8 Oct 2026
Last commit: 8 Oct 2026; 0 days old when we read it; Verified 8 Oct 2026
License: MIT; Verified 8 Oct 2026

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Google Antigravity alternatives at a glance

Tool	Price	State	Newest commit
Visual Studio Code	$10	Active	8 Oct 2026
Windsurf	not verified	Not tracked	not tracked
Cursor	not verified	Slowing	12 May 2026
Zed	not verified	Active	8 Oct 2026
Replit	not verified	Not tracked	not tracked
GitHub Copilot	not verified	Not tracked	not tracked

Also close, not yet researched

These match Google Antigravity by category and workflow, and we have not read their vendor pages. We publish no judgment and no price for them, because we have no source to put beside one.

WindsurfAgentic IDE where developers and AI flow together (formerly Codeium)Website checked
CursorSlowingAI-powered IDE designed to replace VS Code with predictive editing and project contextRepository tracked
ZedHigh-performance code editor designed for collaboration with humans and AIRepository tracked
ReplitBrowser-based development environment with AI agent that builds and deploys appsRegistry tracked
GitHub CopilotAI pair programmer with code completion chat and agent mode for agentic codingRegistry tracked
Amazon KiroAI IDE from AWS for prototype to productionCatalogue entry
OrchidsAI-powered IDE and full-stack app builder (YC W25) that generates production-ready web, mobile, and desktop apps from natural language conversations with support for React, Next.js, Python, Swift, Flutter and built-in deploymentCatalogue entry
Firebase StudioGoogle's agentic cloud-based dev environment for full-stack AI appsCatalogue entry
DevikaOpen-source AI agent breaking tasks into stepsCatalogue entry
OpenClawFree personal AI assistant running locallyCatalogue entry
Wispr FlowAI dictation app for speech-to-text codingCatalogue entry

Questions people ask

What is the best alternative to Google Antigravity?: Visual Studio Code is the one we can answer for in full. Run Anthropic's agent without installing a second product: the Claude harness is enabled by default and bills either through a GitHub Copilot subscription or through your own Anthropic key. The editor is free but the agents are not: reaching the Claude Code and Codex harnesses through a Copilot subscription starts at Copilot Pro, $10 per user a month. Every part of that answer is quoted from a page we read; the links are on this page beside each claim.
Which Google Antigravity alternatives are still actively developed?: Visual Studio Code (newest commit 8 Oct 2026). Those dates are the newest commit on each project's default branch, read from the GitHub API on 8 Oct 2026. We read the default branch rather than the repository's push timestamp, because a push to any branch moves the second one and makes a finished project look active.
What do Google Antigravity alternatives cost?: Visual Studio Code: The editor is free but the agents are not: reaching the Claude Code and Codex harnesses through a Copilot subscription starts at Copilot Pro, $10 per user a month. Prices we have not read ourselves are marked "not verified" in the table above rather than copied from our catalogue, which is out of date on 43 of our 190 rows.
How many Google Antigravity alternatives do you track?: We name 12 on this page. 1 carry judgments and prices we read and quoted, 5 carry live repository data with no judgment yet, and 6 are catalogue entries we have not researched. We say which is which on every row rather than presenting all of them as reviewed.

How we check this page

Stars, licences, the newest commit on each default branch and the latest stable release are read from the GitHub API, and each one shows the day it was last confirmed rather than the day this page was built. Every judgment and every price is quoted from a page we read, and that page is linked beside the claim. Where a link is missing we wrote no claim. We have researched 1 of the 12 tools named here.