Antigravity: loved for speed, held back by reliability.
301 Hacker News opinions from 259 developers, Nov 2025 – Nov 2026. 238 come from people who say they use it. Here is what they praise, what they complain about, and who switched.
Where Antigravity is strong — and where it is not.
Antigravity earns 45% approval across 301 opinions. Developers praise its speed, while reliability is the recurring complaint. In the last 90 days it sits at 42%.
Pick it if you
- Want fast code generation on short, well-scoped tasks
- Already pay for a Google AI plan and use the CLI
- Are leaving Gemini CLI for a more agentic setup
Look elsewhere if you
- Stalled or slow runs would block your work
- Need predictable weekly quotas
- Want polished UX and stable rollouts
Where it wins and loses.
Mentions across 301 opinions. Bars are counts, not votes; a tool can be both praised and criticized on the same topic.
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| Topic | Praise | Complaints | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed | 19 | 7 | 26 |
| Code quality | 15 | 8 | 23 |
| Autonomy | 9 | 11 | 20 |
| Cost & pricing | 17 | 20 | 37 |
| Usage limits | 18 | 31 | 49 |
| UX | 11 | 29 | 40 |
| Reliability | 16 | 57 | 73 |
How opinion has moved.
Monthly approval, Nov 2025 – Oct 2026. Bars show opinion volume; low-volume months are still included but faded.
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| Month | Approval | Opinions |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 2025 | 21% | 14 |
| Dec 2025 | 50% | 21 |
| Jan 2026 | 56% | 33 |
| Feb 2026 | 55% | 30 |
| Mar 2026 | 61% | 22 |
| Apr 2026 | 45% | 22 |
| May 2026 | 34% | 43 |
| Jun 2026 | 50% | 24 |
| Jul 2026 | 33% | 9 |
| Aug 2026 | 54% | 13 |
| Sep 2026 | 45% | 38 |
| Oct 2026 | 33% | 30 |
What developers say.
Summaries are paraphrased. Each links to the original Hacker News comment.
Praise
4 selectedThey're starting to use Antigravity as their daily driver, citing Google being less prone to stunts.
A multi-agent workflow was very effective when they tried it through Antigravity.
Has mostly used the Antigravity CLI for a week and is fairly satisfied with it.
Antigravity with Flash 3.8 solved the same puzzle easily, crediting its harness for the result.
Complaints
4 selectedAntigravity's usage has already been noticeably cut back and expects subsidized access to tighten.
Antigravity used up their weekly quota in ten minutes and gave nothing useful.
Gemini struggles in Antigravity, skipping simple tools, but performs far better in third-party harnesses.
Antigravity found a workaround for a printer task but then refused to continue because of security blocks.
Questions developers ask.
Is Antigravity worth it?
Is Antigravity better than Claude Code?
How bad are Antigravity's usage limits?
The data behind this page.
Developers give Antigravity 45% approval across 301 opinions from 259 authors. Approval is 42% over the last 90 days. Speed and code quality draw more praise than criticism (19 vs 7 and 15 vs 8), and users like the multi-agent workflow and the agy CLI. Reliability is the main problem at 57 negative comments against 16 positive, with stalled runs, security blocks and slow sessions; usage limits and UX also skew negative, and the thin November sample of 52 opinions leans sharply negative.
Every number comes from public Hacker News comments collected through the HN Search API. A language model tagged each comment for sentiment, first-hand use, topic and switches; a human spot-checks samples. No vendor can pay for placement.
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