Antigravity CLI vs Claude Code
Antigravity CLI (Google) and Claude Code (Anthropic) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
Claude Code shipped 74 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Antigravity CLI | Claude Code |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 33 | 80 |
| Overall rank | #92 | #3 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | — | 14.8M |
| Downloads, 7-day change | — | up 11.6% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | — | down 36.4% |
| VS Code installs | — | 27.1M |
| Marketplace rating | — | 3.7 / 5 (894) |
| GitHub stars | — | 150K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | 3,581 | 28.3K |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 9 | 1,350 |
| Latest stable release | — | 2.1.290 · yesterday |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 74 | |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | 57.9% · v4.0 |
| Price | Free | $20/mo |
| License | Proprietary | |
| First released | May 2026 | February 2025 |
| Interfaces | CLI | CLI, IDE extension, Desktop, Web, Mobile, SDK |
| Models | Anthropic Claude models via Claude plans, a Console API key or supported third-party cloud providers |
Trends
Antigravity CLI
Google's terminal interface (`agy`) to the Antigravity agent platform, built in Go and announced at Google I/O on 2026-05-19 as the replacement for Gemini CLI. It supports background and multi-agent workflows.
Pricing: Antigravity's Individual plan is free with basic weekly rate limits; Google AI Pro and Ultra add higher limits and a credit pool (prices not shown on the pricing page); Business via Google Cloud starts at $30 per seat per month or pay-as-you-go.
Claude Code
Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads a codebase, edits files and runs commands from the terminal, with VS Code and JetBrains integrations plus desktop, web and mobile access. It runs Claude models through a Claude subscription, an Anthropic Console API key or supported third-party cloud providers.
Pricing: Included in paid Claude plans: Pro $20/month ($17/month billed annually), Max from $100/month (5x and 20x tiers), Team standard seat $20/seat/month annual ($25 monthly) and premium seat $100 annual ($125 monthly). The Free plan does not include it; pay-as-you-go API credits via a Console account are an alternative.
Latest release 2.1.290:
- Added serverToolUses to the result of a mod's turn.step hook: the tool calls the API ran itself (the advisor), each with its id, name, input, start and end
- Added agentId to the tool.check event of plugin hooks, so a hook can tell a subagent's permission check from the main session's
- Added ceiling to the question and verdict a mod's tool.check hook reads, naming the approval an organization requires for a tool
- Added ThemeKey and Color types to the plugin hooks typings, so an editor lists the theme colors a mod's drawing can name