Antigravity vs Kiro: where developers land.
339 opinions. No direct preference recorded yet. Approval is 45% vs 59%.
If you want speed, choose Antigravity. If you want UX, choose Kiro. The direct preference is not clear yet; use the decision cards below.
Choose Antigravity if you…
- Want the larger evidence base, 301 opinions from 259 authors
- Care about speed and code quality, which both skew positive
- Already use Gemini CLI and want a Google-backed option
Choose Kiro if you…
- Value UX, rated 8 positive to 3 negative
- Want autonomy, rated 4 positive to 0 negative
- Accept a small sample of 38 opinions
Speed for Antigravity. UX for Kiro.
Net sentiment per topic: praise minus complaints, as a share of mentions. Positive means more praise than complaints. Hover a dot for the raw counts.
Net sentiment = praise minus complaints, as a share of each tool's mentions. The dot lanes are only for readability; position is the score.
View data table
| Topic | Antigravity | Kiro | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| UX | -45 | +45 | 40 / 11 |
| Reliability | -56 | -33 | 73 / 6 |
| Cost & pricing | -8 | +50 | 37 / 4 |
| Code quality | +30 | -20 | 23 / 5 |
| Autonomy | -10 | +100 | 20 / 4 |
The same decision, from both sides.
Paraphrased from comments where a developer named a preference or described a switch. Each links to the original.
Picked Antigravity 0 developers
No explicit switches recorded.
Picked Kiro 0 developers
No explicit switches recorded.
The numbers.
| Metric | Antigravity | Kiro |
|---|---|---|
| Approval | 45% | 59% |
| Last 90 days | 42% | – |
| Opinions | 301 | 38 |
| Developers | 259 | 30 |
| First-hand opinions | 238 | 26 |
| Direct picks | 0 | 0 |
| Type | AI IDE | AI IDE |
| Made by | AWS | |
| Website | Visit ↗ | Visit ↗ |
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How to read this comparison.
Approval is the positive share of opinions that took a side, with the rank based on the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval. Direct picks count comments where a developer explicitly preferred one tool or described switching. Small samples are noisier; check the opinion counts.
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