Antigravity vs Claude Code in 2026: which to use, and when to use both

Disclosure: Enjoy is our product, and it runs both Antigravity and Claude Code. We checked every fact below against Google’s and Anthropic’s own pages on November 3, 2026, and we say where you don’t need Enjoy at all.

Antigravity vs Claude Code, compared

Antigravity and Claude Code both take a task, read your project, change files and run commands until it’s done. Antigravity is Google’s: an app, a CLI, an IDE and extensions for other editors, with Gemini models for free and Anthropic’s Claude on some paid plans. Claude Code is Anthropic’s coding agent, in a terminal, Claude’s desktop app, editor extensions and the browser, on a Claude plan. So the choice is mostly about which models do your work, and which company’s plan pays for them.

Option	Best for	Price, checked November 3, 2026	Runs on	Models
Antigravity	Gemini at no cost, and Claude on a paid Google plan	Free; Google AI Pro $19.99 a month; Ultra $99.99 or $199.99	Mac, Windows, Linux; extensions for VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Zed, Xcode and Eclipse	Gemini 3.8 Flash on every plan; Gemini 4 Argon, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 on paid Pro and Ultra
Claude Code	Handing whole tasks to Claude, on a Claude plan	Included in Claude Pro ($20 a month, or $17 billed yearly), Max ($100) and Ultra ($200)	Mac, Windows, Linux; in VS Code and JetBrains IDEs	Anthropic’s Claude models, Opus 5.5 by default
Both, side by side	Gemini for free, and Claude on Anthropic’s plan	Antigravity free, plus a Claude plan from $20 a month	Mac, Windows, Linux	Gemini in Antigravity; Claude in Claude Code
Enjoy	Antigravity and Claude Code in one conversation	A monthly subscription on top of your plans, free for 7 days (pricing)	Mac, Windows, Linux	Antigravity with Gemini; Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Muse Code, OpenCode

Prices are each company’s US list prices per month, before tax. Both sell more than coding: Google AI Pro also brings the Gemini app and 5 TB of storage, and a Claude plan brings Claude’s own apps, whose chats share Claude Code’s limits.

How the two differ

	Antigravity	Claude Code
What it is	Google’s agent app, with a CLI, an IDE and editor extensions	Anthropic’s coding agent, in a terminal, a desktop app, editor extensions and the browser
Free plan	Yes, with Gemini 3.8 Flash and a weekly quota	No; Claude’s Free plan leaves it out
Claude’s models	Sonnet and Opus 5.5 on paid Pro and Ultra; Sonnet and Opus 4.6 on free accounts until November 18	Every current Claude model, Opus 5.5 by default
Gemini’s models	Gemini 3.8 Flash on every plan; Gemini 4 Argon from Pro	None
Cheapest paid plan	Google AI Pro, $19.99 a month	Claude Pro, $20 a month
How usage refreshes	Weekly without Pro or Ultra; every five hours on them, under weekly limits	Every five hours and weekly on Pro and Max; weekly only on verified Ultra
Past the limit	AI credits, on Pro and Ultra	Usage credits, or API credits through a Console account
Suggestions as you type	Tab completions in its IDE, unlimited on every plan	None; you give it a task
Scheduled work	Automations, run alongside the app	Scheduled tasks on your computer, or in Anthropic’s cloud
From your phone	Remote Control, in any browser, with your computer awake	The Claude app, through Remote Control or cloud sessions
Project instructions	AGENTS.md or GEMINI.md	CLAUDE.md, or AGENTS.md in its place
Your data	Used to improve Google’s products; you can opt out in Settings	Used to train Claude while a setting is on

Antigravity

Best for: Gemini at no cost, and Claude through Google if you already pay for Google AI Pro.

“The Google Antigravity App is your dedicated platform to work with agents,” says its product page, “Available on macOS, Windows, Linux, and Googlebook,” where you “Orchestrate multiple autonomous agents working in parallel across independent projects.” Beside it are Antigravity CLI, the Antigravity IDE, whose Editor view “offers tab autocompletion,” and extensions that bring its agent to VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Zed, Xcode and Eclipse. Its features include worktrees, a built-in browser and a browser subagent that “drives Google Chrome to test and debug web pages,” and Automations that send “messages to your agents on a schedule, even while you’re away.” Every plan gets “Access to all product features, such as scheduled tasks and the CLI.”

Price: free, with Gemini 3.8 Flash and, per Google’s plans page, “A meaningful quota, refreshed weekly.” Google AI Pro, at $19.99 a month, gives “A high, generous quota, refreshed every five hours until the weekly limit is reached,” Gemini 4 Argon, and Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5, which its models page marks “Available on Google AI Pro for non-trial subscriptions only.” Ultra costs $99.99 a month for “5x higher usage limits vs. AI Pro” or $199.99 for 20 times, and on Pro and Ultra, AI credits cover “additional overage usage above the baseline quota.”

Watch for: the free Claude has a new end date. Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6, the only Claude models on free and Google AI Plus accounts, are now marked “Will be removed on November 18, 2026,” along with GPT-OSS-120b; the page gave November 2 until this week, as our memo on the change reported. Google publishes no quota sizes, and “Usage limits for this service are subject to modification.” You can’t bring a Claude plan: there is “currently no support” for “Bring-your-own-key (BYOK) or bring-your-own-endpoint for additional rate limits.” And Google’s terms say “We use Interactions to evaluate, develop, and improve Google and Alphabet research, products, services and machine learning technologies,” and “Google employees and contractors may access, view, review and use Interactions,” though its FAQ says “You can opt out of data collection at any point from the Settings panel.”

Claude Code

Best for: handing whole tasks to Claude, on the Claude plan you already pay for and Anthropic’s limits.

Anthropic calls Claude Code “an agentic coding tool that reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and integrates with your development tools,” available “in your terminal, IDE, desktop app, and browser.” Its setup guide lists macOS 13 and later, Windows 10 and Linux. In Claude’s desktop app, on Mac and Windows with Linux in beta, it’s the Code tab, where you can run several sessions in parallel, and its extension “provides a native graphical interface for Claude Code” in VS Code, with others for Cursor and JetBrains IDEs. A cloud session “keeps running after you close your laptop,” and a cloud scheduled task “runs even when your computer is off.”

Price: Claude’s pricing says “Claude Code is included in all paid plans,” and its Free plan leaves it out. Pro is $20 a month, or $17 billed yearly ($200 up front); Max is $100, for “5x Pro usage every 5 hours and every week”; and Ultra is $200, with “10x Pro usage every week” and “No 5-hour limit” for verified accounts. Every plan runs Opus 5.5 by default, per its model guide. Our Claude Pro vs Max guide covers which to buy.

Watch for: the limits. “Pro and Max plans have a five-hour session limit and a weekly limit,” says Anthropic’s help center, and “These limits are shared across Claude and Claude Code, meaning all activity in both tools counts against the same limits.” Its pricing page says “there’s no fixed message count.” There’s no free way in, no Gemini, and no suggestions as you type: you describe a change and review what it did. On your data, its docs say Anthropic “will train new models using data from Free, Pro, Max, and Ultra accounts when this setting is on.”

Both, side by side

Best for: Antigravity’s free Gemini for routine work, and Claude Code for the work that needs Claude, without paying Google for Claude.

Nothing stops you from installing both, and one file can brief them. Antigravity’s rules say “You can place an AGENTS.md or GEMINI.md file” in your project and its parent folders, and if a repository has an AGENTS.md, Claude Code “can read that in place of a CLAUDE.md,” says its overview. They can share an editor too: Antigravity’s VS Code extension is a “Lightweight extension in the VS Code Marketplace for macOS, Linux, and Windows,” and Claude Code’s installs beside it. Elsewhere, Anthropic’s docs say “The CLI works in any terminal.”

Price: Antigravity’s free plan, plus a Claude plan from $20 a month.

Watch for: they don’t share conversations. When you move a job from one to the other, the second starts fresh, so tell it where things stand, or keep notes in a file both can read. You watch two quotas, Google’s weekly one and Anthropic’s five-hour and weekly ones. And don’t sign one in with the other’s account: Google’s FAQ says “Using third-party software, tools, or services to access Antigravity is a violation of our Terms of Service,” which “can result in suspension or termination of your account.”

Enjoy

Best for: Antigravity and Claude Code in one conversation, handing a job from Gemini to Claude when it needs Claude.

Enjoy is a desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux that runs Antigravity on your Google account and Claude Code on your Claude plan, along with Codex, Grok Build, Muse Code, and local models through OpenCode. What it adds:

• One conversation, either agent. Start a job with Antigravity and hand it to Claude Code: “The new agent gets the conversation so far, including replies from other agents, before it works on your message.”
• Both limits, in view. Enjoy shows “the limits Google shows for each group of models, such as Gemini · Weekly,” and Claude Code’s. When an agent runs out, the conversation waits for the reset and carries on, or you select Stop waiting and choose the other agent. For Claude Code, Enjoy can also switch to another of your Claude accounts with usage left.
• Your Claude Code history, brought along. Open your projects in Enjoy and import their Claude Code conversations.

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: Antigravity in Enjoy runs “the Gemini models Google offers your account,” as our Antigravity guide says, so for Claude through Google, use Google’s own app; Claude Code in Enjoy needs a Claude plan. Enjoy runs Antigravity through the server Google offers “for Xcode, JetBrains IDEs, Zed, and custom ACP clients,” as its changelog puts it, with one Google account in every project, and its default mode, Bypass permissions, “approves every action, including commands and file changes.” Waiting out a limit needs “Your computer must be on, with Enjoy open, when the usage resets,” and scheduled workflows also run only while it’s awake with Enjoy open. Enjoy isn’t open source, and it’s a monthly subscription on top of your AI plans once the free week ends.

When to stay with the one you have

Stay with Antigravity if Gemini does your work: it’s free, and its agent, browser and Automations come with every plan. If you already pay for Google AI Pro for its storage or the Gemini app, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 come with it too, as long as it isn’t a trial. On a free account, plan now for November 18, when its last Claude models go.

Stay with Claude Code if Claude is the model you rely on. Getting Claude through Antigravity costs about what Claude Pro does, $19.99 against $20, but it runs in Google’s agent, on Google’s quota, not in Claude Code, with its cloud sessions and scheduled tasks that run while your computer is off.

Move from Antigravity to Claude Code when you want Claude after November 18 without paying Google. Add Antigravity to Claude Code when you want a free second agent for routine work, or somewhere to keep going when Claude’s limits run out.

How we compared

We read Google’s Antigravity product, pricing, plans, models, features, Remote Control, sidecars, rules, extensions, IDE, FAQ, terms and changelog pages and its Google AI plans, and Anthropic’s pricing, help center and Claude Code docs, on November 3, 2026, and every one is linked below. We quote each company’s own words for its limits and leave out what it hasn’t documented, such as the size of any plan’s quota or how many messages a Claude plan allows. Plans and models 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.