Google Antigravity vs Devin Desktop
Pricing
Google Antigravity: Free for individuals with weekly limits; higher limits with Google AI Pro ($19.99/mo) or Ultra (from $99.99/mo)
Devin Desktop: Free tier, Pro $20/mo, Max $200/mo
Description
Google Antigravity: Google's agent-first coding platform: a desktop app for running several coding agents at once, plus an IDE, a CLI and a Python SDK
Devin Desktop: AI IDE (formerly Windsurf) with an agent mode (Cascade) and a command center for running local and cloud coding agents across your project
Pros
- The free plan for individuals includes unlimited Tab completions and every product feature, including scheduled tasks and the CLI
- Run several local agents in parallel and group the conversations into projects across workspaces
- Browser-in-the-loop agents can take over repetitive front-end tasks
- Cascade agent mode handles multi-file changes without hand-holding
- Agent Command Center lets you start, track and review several local and cloud agents from one board
- Free tier with unlimited Tab completions and inline edits, enough to evaluate before paying
Cons
- The free quota refreshes only once a week; Google AI Pro refreshes it every five hours
- Third-party models are reserved for Google AI Ultra; the other plans run on Gemini models
- You can't add your own API key to get more usage
- Had a messy 2025: acquisition talks with OpenAI fell through, and talent split between Google and Cognition
- Smaller community means fewer tutorials and troubleshooting resources
- Context window can hit limits on larger projects
Details
Antigravity is Google’s development platform built around agents rather than an editor with a chat panel. The main app is a command centre where you start and steer several agents at once, group conversations into projects and schedule recurring messages. There is also a full IDE, a terminal CLI and a Python SDK for building your own agents on the same harness.
The free plan for individuals is the main draw. You get the agent, unlimited Tab completions and every feature without paying, within a weekly quota, which makes it easy to try next to Cursor or Claude Code.
Limits are the catch. Google sets them by available capacity and by how much work the agent does, so the number of prompts you get varies from task to task. Google AI Pro ($19.99/month) raises the limits and refreshes them every five hours, and Pro and Ultra users can buy AI credits for usage beyond the quota. Teams can get it through Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise, with seats from $30 a month.
Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf, the AI IDE that started as Codeium’s editor. It is now made by Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent. It still combines regular code completion with Cascade, an agent mode that can plan out multi-step tasks and execute them across your project. Tell it “add user authentication to this app” and it will create files, install packages, and wire things up.
The rename put an Agent Command Center at the front: a board where you run and review local and cloud agents, including Cascade, Codex and Claude Agent, while the full IDE stays available. Pro costs $20/mo and adds higher usage quotas, frontier models and Devin Cloud agents. The company had a turbulent 2025, when a $3B acquisition by OpenAI fell apart and talent ended up split between Google and Cognition, but the product now has a clear owner. If you want a capable AI IDE that can also manage several coding agents at once, it is worth trying.
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