Google AntigravityvsCursor
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Google Antigravity
Google · AI-native IDE
#68MCP
Panel
6.01 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.3
- Usefulness
- 6.7
- Cost
- 6.2
- Longevity
- 5.8
“Google's own IDE ships Claude and gpt-oss next to Gemini, the most honest model review Google has ever published.”
Cursor
Anysphere · AI-native IDE
#12MCP
Panel
6.80 spec wins
- Reliability
- 7.0
- Usefulness
- 7.7
- Cost
- 5.5
- Longevity
- 6.8
“Twenty dollars a month, then 3x, then 20x, and the page never says 20x of what.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Google Antigravity | Cursor |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | AI-native IDE | AI-native IDE |
| Runs | local | local, cloud |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | 200k default, up to 1M tokens on select models |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | Yes | Yes |
| Browser control | YesA first-party browser subagent drives Chrome from a separate profile with allowlist/denylist controls (https://antigravity.google/docs/ide/browser/); IDE-side only, not in the agy CLI. | Yes |
| Sandboxed execution | YesOS-level isolation rather than containers: "no virtual machines or Docker images to manage" - Linux uses kernel namespaces to isolate the filesystem, hide host processes and cut networking; macOS uses sandbox-exec with Seatbelt (SBPL) profiles. | Yes |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.6, gpt-oss-120b | Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, Composer, Kimi, GLM |
| Bring your own model | YesSetting `modelProvider: "gemini"` in ~/.gemini/antigravity-cli/settings.json plus a GEMINI_API_KEY runs the CLI on your own key and billing instead of a signed-in Google account, and a model selector picks between Gemini, Claude and gpt-oss models in the IDE. | YesYour own keys reach the vendors' own models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) plus your own Azure OpenAI deployment or AWS Bedrock account; Tab completion always stays on Cursor's models. |
| Local models | YesGOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URL sends model requests to any Gemini-compatible endpoint, so a self-hosted shim works as a mechanism; no Ollama or LM Studio integration is documented. | NoCustom API keys are limited to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure OpenAI and AWS Bedrock, with no documented base URL override, so Ollama, LM Studio or a self-hosted endpoint cannot be pointed at. |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | mixed | mixed |
| Starts at | $20/mo | $20/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | No | No |
| License | proprietary | proprietary |
| GitHub stars | 2,446 | n/a |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Google Antigravity | Cursor | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 7.0 | 7.8 | Cursor — The best editor experience today, with a subscription that turns into a meter the moment you push the agent hard. |
| El Crítico | 6.3 | 6.5 | Cursor — The sandbox is a property of the run mode you pick, and Run Everything drops it, while the pricing page turns limits into a ladder of tiers to climb. |
| El Profesor | 6.3 | 6.0 | Google Antigravity — No benchmark is published; the design bet is verification by artifact, with plans, walkthroughs and screenshots the human reviews instead of raw tool logs. |
| La Inversora | 7.3 | 8.3 | Cursor — Real revenue, real pricing power, an in-house model, and a dependency on the labs it competes with for every frontier request. |
| La Jefa | 5.3 | 7.5 | Cursor — Teams at $40 per user with SSO, but SCIM, audit logs and auto-run controls sit behind a custom Enterprise quote. |
| El Hacker | 4.0 | 4.5 | Cursor — A closed fork of an open editor with a good MCP client; I can add keys and servers, but I cannot read it or run it offline. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.