Google Antigravity vs Cursor: apps, CLIs, models and plan limits

Google Antigravity vs Cursor comes down to ecosystem and billing: Antigravity is Google’s agent platform built around Gemini models, with a desktop app, a CLI, an IDE and editor extensions, and a free plan with weekly limits. Cursor is a standalone AI code editor with a CLI and cloud agents, sold through The X Subscription with a weekly pool for its own models and third-party models billed separately.

Applies to: Google Antigravity 2.0 and Antigravity CLI v1.2 or later; Cursor plans on The X Subscription. Based on both vendors’ documentation. Last checked: October 22, 2026.

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At a glance

Each row is sourced in the sections below.

Where each agent runs

Google’s Antigravity docs home lists four surfaces: Antigravity 2.0, a standalone desktop app for running agents in Projects across workspaces and worktrees; Antigravity CLI, a terminal interface; the Antigravity SDK for Python; and Antigravity IDE. Google says every surface runs on the same agent harness. The get started guide also lists extensions for VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio, Zed and Xcode.

Cursor is an editor first. Its CLI docs add a terminal agent with Agent, Plan and Ask modes, a print mode for scripts and CI, and a handoff to Cloud Agents by prefixing a message with &.

Install commands from each vendor’s docs:

# Antigravity CLI (macOS / Linux)
curl -fsSL https://antigravity.google/cli/install.sh | bash

# Cursor CLI (macOS, Linux, WSL)
curl https://cursor.com/install -fsS | bash

If you want an agent inside an editor you already use, Antigravity documents extensions for several IDEs; Cursor’s documented surfaces are its own editor, the CLI and Cloud Agents.

Models

Antigravity’s plans page says every plan can use Gemini models, including Gemini 3.8 Flash, as the core agent model. Access to third-party models is listed as a Google AI Ultra benefit. Google also says Antigravity does not currently support bring-your-own-key or a custom endpoint for extra rate limits.

Cursor’s Models & Pricing page says paid plans include a weekly pool for Cursor models: Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5 and Composer 2.5. Third-party models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others are available on Premium and above at API list price, paid from prepaid credit. Plus covers Cursor’s own models only.

In short: Antigravity bundles Gemini usage into the quota and reserves other models for its top tier; Cursor bundles its own models and bills every third-party model per use.

Plans and limits

Antigravity. The pricing page lists a $0 plan for individuals with unlimited Tab completions and basic weekly rate limits. Paid access comes through Google AI plans. According to the plans page, Google AI Pro gets a quota refreshed every five hours until a weekly limit is reached, Ultra gets the highest quota and weekly limits, and free users get a quota refreshed weekly. Google’s May 2026 plan update names a $20/month Pro plan and Ultra plans at $100/month and $200/month, with 5x and 20x Pro’s token allowance. Pro and Ultra users can buy AI credits for overage.

Cursor. The Models & Pricing page lists Free ($0), Plus ($8/mo), Premium ($30/mo, 4x Plus usage), Super ($100/mo, 15x) and Ultra ($200/mo, 50x), plus Teams seats and Enterprise. The included pool refreshes weekly; extra usage and third-party models are paid from prepaid credit. The full breakdown, including legacy plans such as Pro at $20, is in Cursor AI pricing.

Both vendors measure usage by work done rather than a fixed request count: Google says its limits correlate with the amount of work the agent does, and Cursor says different models draw from the pool at different rates.

For Antigravity’s free tier in detail, see Is Google Antigravity free?. Current listings for both tools are in the plans tracker.

Rules, skills and MCP

Antigravity. The migration guide says the CLI reads GEMINI.md and AGENTS.md in the workspace and ~/.gemini/GEMINI.md globally. Workspace skills live in .agents/skills/ and global skills in ~/.gemini/antigravity-cli/skills/. MCP servers go in .agents/mcp_config.json for a workspace or ~/.gemini/config/mcp_config.json globally, and remote servers use the serverUrl key. Moving an existing setup is covered in Migrate Gemini CLI to Antigravity.

Cursor. The rules docs describe project rules as .mdc files in .cursor/rules with description, globs and alwaysApply frontmatter, plus User Rules, Team Rules and AGENTS.md as a plain-markdown alternative. The MCP docs configure servers in mcp.json, with stdio, SSE and Streamable HTTP transports; remote servers use the url key.

A repository that keeps shared instructions in AGENTS.md can serve both tools. MCP definitions need converting, because the two products use different file locations and a different key for remote servers.

Safety controls

Google lists tool approval gates, safe defaults and local proxying as part of the Antigravity harness (docs home), and the CLI asks you to confirm workspace trust before it indexes files (get started).

Cursor’s CLI has a sandbox you toggle with /sandbox or --sandbox enabled|disabled, including network access controls (CLI docs). On the plan side, Cursor lists auto-run, browser and network controls, plus repository, model and MCP access controls, as Enterprise features on its pricing page.

Which one fits

Based only on what each vendor documents:

• You want Gemini models with a free tier and a desktop agent manager: Antigravity.
• You want to keep your current IDE (VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, Zed or Xcode): Antigravity’s extensions.
• You want an AI-first editor with cloud agents and Bugbot review: Cursor Premium or higher.
• You want Claude or GPT models billed per use without a top-tier subscription: Cursor Premium, paying API list price from credit.
• You already maintain Cursor rules: keep .cursor/rules; move shared guidance to AGENTS.md if you also run Antigravity.

For another Antigravity comparison, see Antigravity vs Claude Code.