Antigravity alternatives in 2026: 7 coding apps to use instead

Disclosure: Enjoy is our product, and it runs Antigravity. We checked every app below against its maker’s own pages on October 27, 2026, and we say where another app is the better pick, Antigravity included.

Antigravity alternatives compared

Google’s Antigravity App is, in its own words, “your dedicated platform to work with agents,” available “on macOS, Windows, Linux, and Googlebook,” with a CLI and extensions for other editors beside it. Its agent runs Google’s Gemini models, and Anthropic’s Claude on some plans. These are the apps people weigh against it.

App	Best for	Price, checked October 27, 2026	Runs on	Models
Google Antigravity	Gemini, with Claude on a paid plan	Free; Google AI Pro $19.99 a month; Ultra from $99.99	Mac, Windows, Linux	Gemini; Claude Sonnet and Opus 5.5 on paid Pro and Ultra
Claude Code	Claude, from the company that makes it	Included in Claude Pro ($20 a month) and Max (from $100)	Mac, Windows, Linux	Anthropic’s Claude models
Codex, in the ChatGPT app	OpenAI’s models, with a free start	Free and Go ($8) in the desktop app; Plus $20; Pro from $100	Mac, Windows, Linux	GPT-6 Luna on Free and Go; GPT-6.1 Sol from Plus
GitHub Copilot	Going back to VS Code, with several labs’ models	Free; Pro $10 a month; Pro+ $39	VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, Eclipse	Claude, Gemini and GPT; Opus 5.5 and Gemini 4 Argon from Pro+
Cursor	An AI editor, with Grok included	Free; Plus $8 a month, Grok only; Premium $30, other labs’ models at API prices	Mac, Windows, Linux	Grok; Claude, GPT and Gemini billed separately
Kiro	A written spec before the code, and Claude on a free plan	Free, with 50 credits; Pro $20 a month, with 1,000	Mac, Windows, Linux	Claude Sonnet 4.5 and open-weight models free; Claude Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 on paid plans
OpenCode	Free and open source, with any provider	Free; other providers at their prices	Mac, Windows, Linux	75+ providers, free models and local ones
Enjoy	Antigravity beside Claude Code and Codex	A monthly subscription, free for 7 days, with your phone and other computers (pricing)	Mac, Windows, Linux	Antigravity, Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Muse Code, OpenCode

Prices are per month as each maker lists them in the US, before tax. Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor and Kiro come with their makers’ own plans; OpenCode and Enjoy run on the plans, keys and free models you choose.

Why people look for an Antigravity alternative

Three things on Google’s own pages send people looking:

• Claude leaves the free plan on November 2. Google’s models page marks Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6 “Will be removed on November 2, 2026.” They’re the only Claude models on Free and Google AI Plus, and Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 are “Available on Google AI Pro for non-trial subscriptions only.” After that date, a free account has Gemini 3.8 Flash. Our memo on the change has the details.
• The free quota refreshes weekly. The plans page gives accounts without Pro or Ultra “A meaningful quota, refreshed weekly,” and Pro “A high, generous quota, refreshed every five hours until the weekly limit is reached.” It adds: “Usage limits for this service are subject to modification.”
• You can’t bring your own plan. The same page says “There is currently no support” for “Bring-your-own-key (BYOK) or bring-your-own-endpoint for additional rate limits,” so more usage comes from Google’s plans and AI credits, not from a Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for.

Claude Code

Best for: Claude, from the company that makes it, on a Claude plan.

Claude Code is Anthropic’s coding agent. It runs in a terminal, and, in Anthropic’s docs, “In the Claude Desktop app, Claude Code is the Code tab,” on macOS and Windows, with Linux in beta. It runs Anthropic’s current models, Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 among them, on your own Claude account instead of Google’s quota.

Price: Claude’s pricing says “Claude Code is included in all paid plans”: Pro at $20 a month, or $17 a month billed yearly, and Max from $100. The free plan leaves it out.

Watch for: Anthropic’s limits replace Google’s. “Both Pro and Max plans have a five-hour session limit and a weekly limit,” says its help center, and “These limits are shared across Claude and Claude Code, meaning all activity in both tools counts against the same limits.” It runs only Claude, so Gemini stays behind. Our Claude Code vs Codex guide compares it with OpenAI’s agent.

Codex, in the ChatGPT app

Best for: OpenAI’s models, with a free way to start.

OpenAI’s Codex runs in the ChatGPT desktop app, which its docs sum up as “Run projects in parallel, work with files, use your computer, and keep long-running work moving from one desktop workspace.” It’s for “macOS, Windows, or Linux.”

Price: “ChatGPT Work and Codex are included in your ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Edu, or Enterprise plan,” says Codex’s pricing. Free, and Go at $8 a month, get “GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the desktop app, subject to rollout.” Plus, at $20, adds “Codex on the web, in the CLI, in the IDE extension, and on iOS” and GPT-6.1 Sol, and Pro starts at $100.

Watch for: OpenAI estimates 15 to 160 local messages every five hours with GPT-6.1 Sol on Plus, but says “These estimates are not fixed message limits,” and “Weekly limits may also apply.” It runs only OpenAI’s models, and the free plans get neither Sol nor the CLI.

GitHub Copilot

Best for: going back to VS Code, with Claude, Gemini and GPT in one plan.

GitHub Copilot works in VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode and Eclipse, and its plans page says “All plans include Copilot CLI and the Copilot app.” Its model list puts the labs side by side: Pro includes Claude Sonnet 5.5, Gemini 3.8 Flash and GPT-6 Luna, and Pro+ adds Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-6.1 Sol.

Price: Copilot Free costs nothing. Pro is “$10 USD per month (free for some users),” with 1,500 GitHub AI Credits a month, at a cent each, and Pro+ is $39 with 7,000. Past that, “additional usage is billed in GitHub AI Credits at the per-token rates” on its pricing page, where Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, as on Anthropic’s own API.

Watch for: “On Copilot Free and Copilot Student plans, access to models is available through auto model selection only,” so you can’t pick Claude there, and inline suggestions are “Limited to 2000 completions per month on Copilot Free.” Claude Opus 5.5 and Gemini 4 Argon need Pro+.

Cursor

Best for: an AI code editor, with Grok’s models included and other labs’ at API prices.

Cursor is an AI code editor for macOS, Windows and Linux, and its plans are now “part of The X Subscription, one subscription for Grok, Cursor, and X,” per its models page. Its pricing says “Plus includes Grok models only. Premium and above include generous usage of Grok models but do not include an allowance for third-party models.”

Price: Free, with “Limited agent requests”; Plus at $8 a month; Premium at $30, with “4x more usage compared to Plus”; Super at $100; and Ultra at $200. On Premium and above, Claude, GPT and Gemini are “available in Cursor at the model’s API list price from the first request, paid from your prepaid credit.”

Watch for: “Plus and Free don’t include third-party models,” so Claude in Cursor takes Premium, at $30 a month, plus what you use at API prices. And OpenAI has proposed November 12 as the end of its models in Cursor: “We have proposed a transition period of November 12, 2026,” says its help center.

Kiro

Best for: turning a request into a written spec before the code, with a Claude model on the free plan.

Kiro, “Built and operated by AWS,” says it “turns your prompts into requirements, architectural designs, and sequenced tasks, then implements them with parallel agents.” The Kiro IDE “supports Open VSX extensions, themes, and VS Code settings,” with downloads for macOS, Windows and Linux, and there’s a CLI too.

Price: its pricing has Kiro Free at $0, with 50 credits and “Access to open weight models and Claude Sonnet 4.5”; Pro at $20 a month, with 1,000 credits; and Pro+ at $40, with 2,000. Paid plans get “premium models, including Auto, Claude Sonnet 5 and Claude Opus 5,” and add-on credits are $0.04 each.

Watch for: the free plan’s Claude is for “Users on the Free Tier who signed up with social logins or AWS Builder ID,” and “Access is subject to rate limits.” On paid plans, “Not all premium models are available in all countries/regions.”

OpenCode

Best for: free, open-source coding with any provider, including free and local models.

OpenCode is “The open source AI coding agent,” under the MIT license on GitHub, “Available as a terminal interface, desktop app, and IDE extension” on macOS, Windows and Linux, with the desktop app in beta. Its homepage lists “75+ LLM providers through Models.dev, including local models,” and you can “Log in with GitHub to use your Copilot account” or “Log in with OpenAI to use your ChatGPT Plus or Pro account.”

Price: “OpenCode is 100% free to use.” It “comes with a set of free models that you can use without creating an account,” and “There might be additional costs if you connect any other provider.”

Watch for: its free models are free “for a limited time,” and for some of them, “The team is using this time to collect feedback and improve the model.” Its homepage says “Your data and information is only stored when you use our free models.”

Enjoy

Best for: keeping Antigravity, with Claude Code, Codex and other labs’ agents beside it.

Enjoy runs Antigravity itself, on its free weekly quota or your Google AI Pro or Ultra plan, along with Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Muse Code, and local models through OpenCode, on Mac, Windows and Linux. Each agent signs in with its own lab’s account. What it adds:

• Switch agents mid-conversation. Start a job with Antigravity and hand it to Claude Code when it needs Claude: “The new agent gets the conversation so far, including replies from other agents, before it works on your message.”
• Antigravity’s limits, in view. Enjoy shows its “weekly and five-hour limits for each group of models.” When it runs out, the conversation waits for the reset and carries on, or you hand it to another agent.
• Every project at once. Each conversation runs its own agent, and JOY keeps an eye on all your projects: ask it what needs you, or start work in any of them.

Price: Enjoy is one monthly subscription, and the first seven days are free, with a card to start. It includes your phone and any browser and your other computers, and each teammate you invite needs a subscription of their own. See pricing.

Watch for: Enjoy doesn’t add Claude to a Google account. Claude Code needs a Claude plan, and Enjoy runs the Codex CLI, which OpenAI includes from Plus. Enjoy “can’t show Antigravity’s own approval requests,” so in its default mode, Antigravity “approves every tool, including commands and file changes,” as our Antigravity guide explains. Enjoy isn’t open source, it’s a monthly subscription on top of your AI plans once the free week ends, and scheduled workflows run only while your computer is awake with Enjoy open.

When to stay with Antigravity

If Gemini does your work, none of this is a reason to move. Antigravity stays free with Gemini 3.8 Flash, every plan gets “Access to all product features, such as scheduled tasks and the CLI,” and its docs list extensions that bring its agent to VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Zed and Xcode.

If Claude is what you’d miss, Google’s own fix may be the cheapest. A paid Google AI Pro plan, at $19.99 a month, keeps Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 in Antigravity and adds Gemini 4 Argon, for about what Claude Pro costs, though with Google’s limits instead of Anthropic’s. Pay for it rather than starting a trial: the Claude models are “Available on Google AI Pro for non-trial subscriptions only.”

Move when you want Claude on Anthropic’s own plan, an editor you choose, or one app for several labs’ agents.

How we compared

We read each maker’s homepage, pricing, plans and docs on October 27, 2026, and every one is linked below. We quote their own words for the limits, and we don’t count features a maker hasn’t documented. Plans and models in this category change often, so we recheck this guide against its sources at least once a month, and the date at the foot of the page says when we last did.