# Antigravity vs Cursor in 2026: Google's agent app or the AI editor?

Antigravity reviews work at milestones and runs on your machine; Cursor reviews after the fact and runs in the cloud too. Which suits how you work.

Published 2026-10-07 by Richard Kaminsky and Mitchell Lipyansky, the co-founders of Poly. Canonical: https://usepoly.co/antigravity-vs-cursor
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**Google Antigravity and Cursor both put AI agents at the center of coding, but they work differently. Antigravity is Google's agent app, free to start with a weekly quota: in Planning mode its agent writes a plan you approve, shows its work as artifacts such as screenshots and browser recordings, and runs everything on your machine. Cursor is a full AI editor, from $20 a month, whose agents run locally or in cloud machines and are reviewed after the fact through diffs, checkpoints and its Bugbot reviewer. Antigravity's paid tiers add Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5; Cursor runs many companies' models, though OpenAI is pulling its own.**

## Key takeaways

- **Price:** Antigravity is free with a weekly quota, and Google AI Pro at $19.99 gives five-hour refreshes and Claude models. Cursor has a free Hobby plan and Pro at $20.
- **Models:** Antigravity runs Gemini, plus Claude Sonnet and Opus 5.5 on paid Google AI plans. Cursor runs Composer, Grok, Claude, Gemini and others.
- **Review style:** Antigravity stops for you to approve a plan; Cursor works and lets you review and roll back.
- **Where agents run:** Antigravity runs on your machine only. Cursor also has cloud agents that work while you're away.
- **Data:** Google may use free and paid individual users' code and prompts to improve its models, with human review, unless you opt out in settings.

*Google Antigravity and Cursor, from each company's docs and pricing pages, October 7, 2026.*

|  | Google Antigravity | Cursor |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Made by | Google | Cursor, owned by SpaceX |
| What it is | Agent app, CLI and editor extensions | AI editor with agents and a CLI |
| Free plan | Weekly quota, unlimited Tab | Hobby, limited agent requests |
| Paid from | Google AI Pro, $19.99 a month | Pro, $20 a month |
| Models | Gemini; Claude Sonnet and Opus 5.5 on paid plans | Composer, Grok, Claude, Gemini and others |
| Review style | Approve a plan; artifacts and walkthroughs | Review diffs and roll back; Bugbot |
| Cloud agents | No; runs on your machine | Yes |
| Individual data used to improve models | Yes, unless you opt out | Privacy mode available |

## What are Antigravity and Cursor?

**Antigravity** launched in November 2025 as an agent-first editor. Antigravity 2.0, in May 2026, became a standalone desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux that works independently of an editor, with projects spanning several folders, subagents, scheduled tasks and hooks ([Google](https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravity-2)). It also has a CLI and extensions for VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Zed and Xcode.

**Cursor** is an editor built on VS Code with agents throughout: the Agents Window runs several local and cloud agents in parallel, a CLI runs them in the terminal, and Bugbot reviews pull requests. It has been owned by SpaceX since August 2026.

## How much do Antigravity and Cursor cost?

**Antigravity** ([Google](https://antigravity.google/docs/plans)):

- **Free:** "a meaningful quota, refreshed weekly," with unlimited Tab completions.
- **Google AI Pro, $19.99:** refreshes every five hours up to a weekly limit, and adds Claude Sonnet and Opus 5.5 on non-trial subscriptions.
- **Google AI Ultra, $99.99 or $199.99:** the highest quotas.
- **AI credits:** Pro and Ultra can buy extra usage.

Google publishes no quota numbers.

**Cursor:** Hobby is free with limited agent requests; Pro is $20, Pro+ $60, Ultra $200, and Teams $40 a seat ([Cursor pricing](/cursor-pricing)).

## Which models can you use?

- **Antigravity:** Gemini 3.8, 3.7 and 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.1 Pro on every plan; Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 on Pro (non-trial) and Ultra. The free tier's Claude 4.6 models and GPT-OSS-120b are being removed on November 2, 2026 ([Google](https://antigravity.google/docs/models)). It has no proprietary OpenAI models.
- **Cursor:** its own Composer 2.5 and xAI's Grok in one usage pool, and Claude, Gemini and others at their API prices in another. OpenAI plans to stop supplying its models, with a proposed transition to November 12, 2026.

## How do they handle autonomy and review?

**Antigravity reviews at milestones.** In Planning mode the agent writes a task breakdown and implementation plan; with the "Request review" policy it stops until you approve, and you can comment inline on the plan. It ends with a walkthrough that can include screenshots and browser recordings. Separately, permission presets govern commands: Default runs them in a sandbox limited to the workspace with no network, Request Review asks every time, and Turbo allows everything ([Google](https://antigravity.google/docs/permissions)). A browser agent can open and use a separate Chrome profile, asking first by default.

**Cursor reviews after the fact.** Its default Auto-review mode runs allowlisted commands, sandboxes other shell commands, and sends the rest to a model that decides, which Cursor says "is not a security boundary." Checkpoints let you roll back, Plan Mode gives you a plan to edit first, and cloud agents run without asking and hand back a branch or pull request.

## Where do the agents run?

Antigravity's agents run on your computer; Remote Control lets you drive those sessions from a browser. Cursor's run locally or in its cloud machines, which keep going when you close your laptop and can be started from Slack, GitHub, Linear or a phone.

## What about your data?

Antigravity's terms for individual accounts, free and paid alike, say Google uses "Interactions" to improve its products and machine learning, and that "Google employees and contractors may access, view, review and use" them; you can turn this off in settings ([Google](https://antigravity.google/terms)). Enterprise accounts' code and prompts aren't used for training. Antigravity's FAQ also says using third-party tools such as Claude Code or OpenCode with an Antigravity login breaks its terms. Cursor offers a privacy mode that teams can enforce.

## Who uses which?

In Stack Overflow's 2026 survey, 16.0% of agent users had used Antigravity and 25.5% Cursor; as an editor, Cursor was used by 14.9% of developers and Antigravity by 0.4%.

## Which should you choose?

- **You want to start free, approve a plan before the agent builds, and see its browser testing:** Antigravity.
- **You want a full editor, cloud agents and team features:** Cursor.
- **You want Claude's strongest agent:** Claude Code, which leads the independent benchmarks ([Antigravity vs Claude Code](/antigravity-vs-claude-code), [Claude Code vs Cursor](/claude-code-vs-cursor)).
- **A team that wants to approve each change together:** Poly (usepoly.co) runs Claude Code and Codex in a shared browser room where everyone sees each step and any member can approve a change before it happens. Free to start. [What is Poly?](/what-is-poly)

## Common questions

**Is Antigravity better than Cursor?**

They suit different work. Antigravity is free to start and stops for you to approve a plan; Cursor is a fuller editor with cloud agents, team features and many models.

**Is Google Antigravity free?**

Yes, with a weekly quota and unlimited Tab completions. Google AI Pro at $19.99 a month adds five-hour refreshes and Claude Sonnet and Opus 5.5.

**Can you use Claude in Antigravity?**

Yes, on paid Google AI plans: Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 on Pro (non-trial) and Ultra. The free tier's older Claude 4.6 models are being removed on November 2, 2026.

**Does Google train on Antigravity code?**

For individual accounts, Google's terms let it use your interactions to improve its products and models, with human review, unless you turn this off in settings. Enterprise code isn't used for training.

**Does Antigravity have cloud agents like Cursor?**

No. Antigravity's agents run on your computer, and Remote Control lets you drive them from a browser. Cursor's cloud agents run in its own machines and keep working when you're offline.

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