{"id":471946,"date":"2026-03-12T18:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471946\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:31:08","slug":"users-protest-as-google-antigravity-price-floats-upward-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471946\/","title":{"rendered":"Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developers using Google&#8217;s Antigravity agentic AI coding tool are complaining about higher prices following an announcement yesterday that the company is evolving its AI plans.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/antigravity\/status\/2031835833716625883\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted to X<\/a> that it is &#8220;evolving Google AI plans to give you more control over what you can build.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the new post, AI credits can now be used for Antigravity, with subscriptions providing some built-in credits while further credits are available for purchase as needed, at a cost of $25 for 2,500. Exactly what a credit is worth when used with Antigravity is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/googleone\/answer\/16287445?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">not described<\/a> in the documentation.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s AI for Developers forum is filled with complaints, especially from those with AI Pro ($20.00 per month) subscriptions. According to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/antigravity.google\/docs\/plans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plan description<\/a>, still current at the time of writing, AI Pro plans offer a &#8220;high, generous quota, refreshed every five hours until weekly limit reached.&#8221; However, users report that this appears to be no longer the case (other than with the cheapest model), with a weekly wait between refreshes, rather than five hours, during which time they cannot continue work without purchasing credits or upgrading the plan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2026\/03\/12\/googleai2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/googleai2.jpg\" alt=\"Developers in Google's AI forum have only one thing on their mind: quotas\" title=\"Developers in Google's AI forum have only one thing on their mind: quotas\" height=\"477\" width=\"648\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_center\">Developers in Google&#8217;s AI forum have only one thing on their mind: quotas \u2013 click to enlarge<\/p>\n<p>Antigravity supports five LLMs (large language models): these being Gemini 3.1 Pro (with High and Low options), Gemini 3 Flash, Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Claude Opus 4.6, and OpenAI&#8217;s GPT-OSS 120B. Flash is the cheapest model, tuned for efficiency. With its latest post, Google states that the Pro plan is suitable for &#8220;hobbyists, students and developers who live in the IDE,&#8221; as opposed to relying on agents, and that these users can use Flash as a &#8220;taste test&#8221; for more advanced models. Professional developers are pointed towards the AI Ultra ($249.99 per month) plan, for &#8220;consistent, high-volume access to our most complex models.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Reddit, a developer on AI Pro who has tracked their token usage <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/google_antigravity\/comments\/1rr9n6x\/mark_my_words_google_is_moving_towards_the_credit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted<\/a>\u00a0that &#8220;before January I could use over 300 million input \/ 1-2 million output in a week for the Gemini Pro models,&#8221; but that &#8220;this week I hit my weekly rate limits at less than 9 million input \/ 200 thousand output tokens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Antigravity was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.devclass.com\/ai-ml\/2025\/11\/19\/we-take-a-look-at-googles-antigravity-agentic-ai-development-but-some-frustrations-for-early-adopters\/1727764\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">launched in preview<\/a> in November 2025, at which time pricing was not yet announced. The company soon pointed users towards its Google AI Pro and Ultra subscriptions, using vague terms such as &#8220;high&#8221;, &#8220;generous&#8221; and &#8220;meaningful&#8221; to describe quota limits. This wording makes it hard to know the actual limits and how they may change.<\/p>\n<p>Although the latest post appears to indicate new pricing, complaints about unexpected quota drops and inadequate limits are not new.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unacceptable Antigravity Quotas for Gemini 3.1 Pro \u2013 Workflow Completely Blocked&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/discuss.ai.google.dev\/t\/unacceptable-antigravity-quotas-for-gemini-3-1-pro-workflow-completely-blocked\/124971\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> another developer towards the end of last month. &#8220;We need a transparent explanation of how these Antigravity quotas are calculated and an immediate fix for these ghost-drains on our limits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AI processing makes intensive use of compute resources, and how much resource will be used by any one prompt is unpredictable, making pricing a difficult problem for both users and providers. Another unknown is the extent to which providers are willing to subsidize users while building market share, though we have seen <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2025\/08\/18\/aws_updated_kiro_pricing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sudden<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2025\/10\/15\/augment_pricing_model\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sharp<\/a> increases in prices before.<\/p>\n<p>We have asked Google to clarify what has changed and what an AI credit buys, when used with Antigravity. \u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Developers using Google&#8217;s Antigravity agentic AI coding tool are complaining about higher prices following an announcement yesterday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-471946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}