Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2026/03/12/users_protest_as_google_antigravity/
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The company [1]posted to X that it is "evolving Google AI plans to give you more control over what you can build."
According to the new post, AI credits can now be used for Antigravity, with subscriptions providing some built-in credits while further credits are available for purchase as needed, at a cost of $25 for 2,500. Exactly what a credit is worth when used with Antigravity is [2]not described in the documentation.
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Google's AI for Developers forum is filled with complaints, especially from those with AI Pro ($20.00 per month) subscriptions. According to the [4]plan description , still current at the time of writing, AI Pro plans offer a "high, generous quota, refreshed every five hours until weekly limit reached." However, users report that this appears to be no longer the case (other than with the cheapest model), with a weekly wait between refreshes, rather than five hours, during which time they cannot continue work without purchasing credits or upgrading the plan.
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Developers in Google's AI forum have only one thing on their mind: quotas – click to enlarge
Antigravity supports five LLMs (large language models): these being Gemini 3.1 Pro (with High and Low options), Gemini 3 Flash, Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Claude Opus 4.6, and OpenAI's GPT-OSS 120B. Flash is the cheapest model, tuned for efficiency. With its latest post, Google states that the Pro plan is suitable for "hobbyists, students and developers who live in the IDE," as opposed to relying on agents, and that these users can use Flash as a "taste test" for more advanced models. Professional developers are pointed towards the AI Ultra ($249.99 per month) plan, for "consistent, high-volume access to our most complex models."
On Reddit, a developer on AI Pro who has tracked their token usage [6]posted that "before January I could use over 300 million input / 1-2 million output in a week for the Gemini Pro models," but that "this week I hit my weekly rate limits at less than 9 million input / 200 thousand output tokens."
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Antigravity was [9]launched in preview in November 2025, at which time pricing was not yet announced. The company soon pointed users towards its Google AI Pro and Ultra subscriptions, using vague terms such as "high", "generous" and "meaningful" to describe quota limits. This wording makes it hard to know the actual limits and how they may change.
[10]AWS backs Open VSX as Rust survey shows VS Code decline
[11]Google Antigravity falls to Earth under OpenClaw-fueled compute load
[12]Anthropic: No, absolutely not, you may not use third-party harnesses with Claude subs
[13]Google germinates Gemini 3.1 Pro in ongoing AI model race
Although the latest post appears to indicate new pricing, complaints about unexpected quota drops and inadequate limits are not new.
"Unacceptable Antigravity Quotas for Gemini 3.1 Pro – Workflow Completely Blocked" [14]said another developer towards the end of last month. "We need a transparent explanation of how these Antigravity quotas are calculated and an immediate fix for these ghost-drains on our limits."
AI processing makes intensive use of compute resources, and how much resource will be used by any one prompt is unpredictable, making pricing a difficult problem for both users and providers. Another unknown is the extent to which providers are willing to subsidize users while building market share, though we have seen [15]sudden , [16]sharp increases in prices before.
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We have asked Google to clarify what has changed and what an AI credit buys, when used with Antigravity. ®
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[1] https://x.com/antigravity/status/2031835833716625883
[2] https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/16287445?hl=en
[3] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/aiml&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2abLxOEbwe9rnvBWTl0zI7AAAAg8&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[4] https://antigravity.google/docs/plans
[5] https://regmedia.co.uk/2026/03/12/googleai2.jpg
[6] https://old.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1rr9n6x/mark_my_words_google_is_moving_towards_the_credit/
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[9] https://www.devclass.com/ai-ml/2025/11/19/we-take-a-look-at-googles-antigravity-agentic-ai-development-but-some-frustrations-for-early-adopters/1727764
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/open_vsx_aws/
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/google_antigravity_compute_burden/
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/20/anthropic_clarifies_ban_third_party_claude_access/
[13] https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/19/google_germinates_gemini_31_pro/
[14] https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/unacceptable-antigravity-quotas-for-gemini-3-1-pro-workflow-completely-blocked/124971
[15] https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/aws_updated_kiro_pricing/
[16] https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/15/augment_pricing_model/
[17] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/aiml&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44abLxOEbwe9rnvBWTl0zI7AAAAg8&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[18] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: This is what drug dealers do
I remember being invited to group market research that quickly became evident to be Google in a trenchcoat wanting to feel out a push for Chromebooks (based in GCloud) to professional environments against lower-level laptop use. I stayed remarkably reserved until the facilitator probed a lack of trust I had in GCloud when I mentioned Google Graveyard. When poked again, I spilled a previous (12,000 user, 650 site) UK based experience where shared files disappeared on a regular basis because the (admittedly badly setup) environment had users sharing files left and right from their own Drive which then disappeared when they left and Google's lack of interest in helping us fix it. Surprisingly, the other participants (similar high-level IT leaders) hadn't heard of the Google Graveyard website but were not impressed at the trend demonstrated and viewed the offerings in a much dimmer light after that point.
Re: This is what drug dealers do
I'm no longer surprised by people not being surprised by something like this happening, since it seems like a cocktail of "survivorship bias" and good ol' "there's a sucker born every minute"
I really should be, but since it feels like a tale as old as time now, I can't even say I'm jaded and cynical.
I don't want to say it...
... but people bloody KEPT TELLING THE WORLD this would happen.
It had to happen at some point, they were operating at a loss.
I'm not going to talk about the problems I see with LLMs, that's beside the point here.
Fuck Google
nothing to do with this. But Google Home has been completely borked - millions of man hours wasted - since Tuesday.
I first became aware when my wheelchair bound wife was unable to use voice control as all the home devices had forgotten where they were.
Fuck Google
Re: Fuck Google
As someone who has smart thermostat from Google, that I have to turn on or off manually, because it doesn't work and there is no help, I agree with the sentiment.
Re: Fuck Google
I have taken the 30 pieces of silver from Amazon and got a couple of Alexa devices and much happier with them.
Is it perfect? No
Better than Google? Much better
Re: Fuck Google
I won't downvote, but all you have done is moved your testicles from Googles grasp to Amazons.
Markov
Users of Gemini could just switch to Markov chain generator. It makes little difference regarding quality of output.
Feels quite heavy, this Antigravity
This is what drug dealers do
This is exactly the same model of drug dealers use, get the users hooked on cheap/free product then put the slow squeeze on
This is Google the company with dozens of abandoned projects, why is anyone surprised at this?