Cursor vs Google Antigravity: Which AI IDE Wins?

Short answer: In the Cursor vs Antigravity choice, pick Antigravity if you want a free start from Google. Its individual plan costs $0 a month and includes unlimited Tab completions. Pick Cursor if you want to choose among models from several vendors and work in a tool built around one coding agent. Cursor’s paid plans start at $8 a month.

Both tools put AI agents at the center of coding, and both go beyond autocomplete. Our Cursor page covers Cursor’s plans and features. Antigravity is Google’s agentic development platform and has no Klyvoo page yet, so this post uses Google’s own pages for it. Here is how they compare and who should pick which.

Cursor vs Antigravity at a glance

What is Cursor?

Cursor calls itself a coding agent for building ambitious software. You hand it a task and it does the work while you focus on decisions. Its cloud agents run on their own computers, building, testing and demoing features for you to review. It also works in your terminal, in Slack and on GitHub pull requests.

You pick the model. Cursor lists models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and its own team, plus an Auto option. Its docs add Plan Mode for scoping a change, plugins, skills, MCP servers and rules. It connects to GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, JetBrains, Slack and Linear. For a closer look at how Cursor differs from a terminal agent, read Cursor vs Claude Code.

What is Google Antigravity?

Google describes Antigravity as its agentic development platform, built for the agent-first era. It is a family of products rather than one app:

• Antigravity App: a command center for running several local agents in parallel.
• Antigravity IDE: the full development environment, with an agent manager, artifacts and codebase awareness.
• Antigravity CLI: a terminal interface for coding agents and shell commands.
• Antigravity SDK: a Python toolkit for building your own agents.

Artifacts are a distinctive part of it. Google’s docs describe structured visual reports that let you check what an agent did, such as implementation plans, multi-file diffs and browser session recordings. There is also sandboxed Chromium browser automation and support for MCP servers over stdio and SSE. If MCP is new to you, our guide to what MCP servers are explains it.

Editor extensions cover VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Zed and Xcode. The desktop app runs on macOS, Windows, Linux and Googlebook.

Cursor vs Antigravity pricing

Cursor pricing

Cursor’s plans are sold as part of the X Subscription, and paid plans share one weekly usage pool.

Third-party models from other vendors are billed at API list price on Premium and above, so the sticker price is not the whole bill. Usage refreshes weekly.

Antigravity pricing

Antigravity’s pages point to Google’s AI plans for Pro and Ultra, and the price text did not load when we checked, so check Google’s plan page before you budget for them. Google also says Pro and Ultra users can buy extra AI credits at standard Gemini Enterprise consumption pricing, and that limits may change as capacity changes.

Which one costs less?

At the free level, Antigravity gives you every product feature, including the CLI and scheduled tasks, with basic weekly limits. Cursor’s Free plan is limited, so Antigravity is the easier one to try for nothing. Once you pay, Cursor Plus at $8 a month is a low entry point, but it only includes Grok models. If you want models from OpenAI or Anthropic in Cursor, you need Premium at $30 a month plus usage at API prices.

Where Cursor wins

• Model choice. You can pick among models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Cursor.
• Cloud agents. They build, test and demo work on their own computers and hand it back for review.
• Where you already work. Slack, GitHub and Linear are part of the product.
• Clear tiers. Plans scale from $8 to $200 a month with stated multiples of usage.

Where Antigravity wins

• A free start. The individual plan is $0 a month and includes unlimited Tab completions.
• Artifacts. Plans, diffs and browser recordings make an agent’s work easier to check.
• More ways in. An app, an IDE, a CLI, an SDK and extensions for common editors.
• Gemini access. Gemini 4 Argon is available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

How a first session differs

In Cursor you open a project, scope a change with Plan Mode and let the agent edit across files. You review the diff before it lands. When a task is big, you can send it to a cloud agent and come back later.

In Antigravity you can start from the agent manager, give several agents their own tasks and watch their artifacts as they work. Or you can stay in your editor with the extension and use inline completions and a side panel. Which route you take depends on whether you want to supervise a team of agents or work beside one.

Neither tool decides this for you. Think about how much you want to watch. A single agent in your editor suits quick edits and code you know well. A team of agents suits larger jobs where you would rather review finished work than every step. The useful test is to give both the same small task on the free plan and compare how easy each makes it to see what changed.

Who should skip each one

Skip Cursor if you want the cheapest way to try an agent and have no budget at all. Skip Antigravity if you need a published price for every tier today, since Google’s Antigravity pages leave Pro and Ultra unpriced.

What neither does

Neither tool takes responsibility for the code it writes. Both can produce changes that look right and are not, so review diffs and run tests before you merge. Neither hosts your app for you, so you still need somewhere to run and deploy it. Treat model lists as a moving target too, because both vendors add and retire models often and each plan decides which ones you can reach. For a wider view of the category, see our best AI coding agents page, or compare Cursor with Codex and VS Code.

Which should you choose?

• You want to start for free: Antigravity.
• You want to pick models from several vendors: Cursor.
• You want to supervise several agents at once: Antigravity’s agent manager or Cursor’s cloud agents, so try both.
• You live in Slack and GitHub: Cursor.
• You use JetBrains, Zed or Xcode: Antigravity’s extensions cover them.
• You want the lowest paid price: Cursor Plus, if Grok models are enough.

FAQ

Is Antigravity better than Cursor?

Neither is better for everyone. Antigravity is the easier free start and offers artifacts for checking agent work. Cursor is stronger on model choice and cloud agents.

Is Google Antigravity free?

Yes for individual developers. Google lists an individual plan at $0 a month with basic weekly rate limits and unlimited Tab completions. Higher limits come with Google AI Pro and Ultra.

How much does Cursor cost?

Cursor has a free plan and paid plans at $8, $30, $100 and $200 a month. Teams start at $30 a user a month.

Does Antigravity work with VS Code?

Google lists editor extensions for VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Zed and Xcode. It also ships its own IDE.

Can Cursor and Antigravity use MCP servers?

Both support MCP. Cursor lists MCPs alongside plugins, skills and rules. Antigravity’s docs describe MCP clients for stdio and SSE servers.

Can I use both?

Yes. Both have free plans, so you can run the same task in each and compare the results.

Keep reading

Pricing here comes from Cursor and Google Antigravity, checked in October 2026. For more tools that write code, browse the Klyvoo AI coding agents page or the MCP servers directory.