Google Antigravity vs Windsurf

Google Antigravity

Google's agent-first development platform, launched in November 2025, with a desktop IDE (a VS Code fork), a manager for running several coding agents in parallel, and a CLI that replaced Gemini CLI for individual users in June 2026. It runs Gemini models plus Claude and gpt-oss.

Windsurf

AI-native code editor from Codeium. Built as an agentic IDE with deep context awareness and autonomous coding capabilities.

Google Antigravity

• Free tier with unlimited tab completions and access to Gemini and Claude models
• Agent manager designed for supervising multiple agents at once
• Included in Google AI subscriptions many people already pay for
• Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux

• Rate limits are opaque and tied to a shared AI credit pool
• The CLI is closed source and launched without feature parity with Gemini CLI
• Plans, models, and limits change often
• Smaller extension and community ecosystem than Cursor or VS Code with Copilot

Windsurf

• Generous free tier with premium model access
• Cascade agent mode is powerful for complex tasks
• Good at following coding patterns in existing codebase
• Competitive pricing vs Cursor

• Newer and less polished than Cursor
• Smaller community and fewer resources
• Extension ecosystem not as mature
• Occasional context confusion in large codebases

Google Antigravity

• Running several coding agents in parallel on separate tasks
• Building and checking web apps with agents that drive a browser
• Terminal-based agent work through the Antigravity CLI
• Teams already paying for Google AI or Gemini Enterprise

Windsurf

• Agentic multi-file code editing
• Code generation with codebase context
• Automated terminal command execution
• Codebase exploration and Q&A