Comparison from first-party sources, read Oct 22, 2026

Skyflo vs Google Antigravity

Google Antigravity runs Google's own agent across a desktop app, a command line, IDE extensions, and an SDK. Skyflo runs Antigravity, Claude Code, Codex, and other agents you already use from one Mac app.

What Antigravity is, what it costs, how it compares with Claude Code and Cursor, and when to run it inside Skyflo.

At a glance8 dimensions, no winner score

Google AntigravityDocumented strength

Antigravity spans a desktop app for managing background agents, the agy command line, extensions for VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, Zed, and Xcode, and a Python SDK. It documents concurrent subagents that can work in their own Git worktree, projects that span several folders, a permission engine with Deny, Ask, and Allow lists, Remote Control from a browser, and Teamwork agent teams in preview on paid plans.

SkyfloWhere it sits

Skyflo runs Antigravity as one of seven external agents beside its own, so one mission can mix it with Claude Code or Codex under one access mode, with an append-only record and source-linked memory on your Mac.

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The decision.

Use Antigravity directly, or run it through Skyflo next to other agents?

Antigravity is Google's agent platform: a desktop app, the agy command line, IDE extensions, and an SDK, on Gemini models, with a free tier. Run it inside Skyflo when a mission should mix it with Claude Code, Codex, or Skyflo's own agent under one access mode and keep its record on your Mac.

Runs inside Skyflo. Skyflo runs Antigravity inside its missions through its agy command line, on your Mac, with your own Antigravity sign-in.

Choose Google Antigravity when

  • Gemini models and Google's plans are where you want to work, starting from a free tier.
  • You want one vendor's desktop app, command line, IDE extensions, and SDK, or Teamwork agent teams for long projects.
  • Your organization uses Gemini Enterprise and wants access under Google Cloud terms.

Choose Skyflo when

  • Antigravity, Claude Code, and Codex should work on the same mission, each with its own sign-in.
  • One access mode should govern every agent on the mission, and each decision should be recorded.
  • Memory learned from finished missions should link to its source, and you should be able to keep, dismiss, or remove it.

You might use both when

Use Antigravity directly for Gemini-centered work, and run it inside a Skyflo mission when the same work also involves Claude Code, Codex, or other agents.

What is Google Antigravity?

Google Antigravity is Google's agentic coding platform. It has four surfaces: the Antigravity app, a desktop app for starting and watching background agents; the Antigravity command line, run as agy; extensions that bring its agent into VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, Zed, and Xcode; and a Python SDK for building custom agents.

The desktop app, on its 2.x version line, grew out of Antigravity's Agent Manager into a standalone app. Its latest release is v2.24.0, from October 14, 2026, and new versions roll out gradually.

In Skyflo

Skyflo runs Antigravity through agy inside a mission, beside its own agent and other external agents, under one access mode.

SourcesChoose your AntigravityGoogle AntigravityChangelogUsing the Antigravity CLI

How much does Google Antigravity cost?

Antigravity has a free individual tier with basic weekly rate limits, unlimited Tab completions, and every feature, including scheduled tasks and the command line. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers get higher quotas that refresh every five hours, and Ultra adds third-party models. Pro and Ultra users can buy AI credits for usage above their quota.

For organizations, Gemini Enterprise plans start at $30 per seat per month, with a pay-as-you-go plan at no seat fee. Bring-your-own-key is not supported, as listed on October 22, 2026.

In Skyflo

Skyflo Free runs Antigravity on your own Antigravity account, with no charge from Skyflo. Agent subscriptions and model keys you bring are billed by their providers.

SourcesAntigravity pricingPlans and quotas

Antigravity vs Claude Code vs Cursor: what is the difference?

All three run a coding agent that edits files and runs commands. Antigravity is Google's, centered on Gemini models, with a free tier and a desktop app, command line, IDE extensions, and SDK. Claude Code is Anthropic's, on Claude models across the terminal, IDE, desktop app, web, and Slack, and it needs a paid Claude plan or a Console account. Cursor is an editor and agent platform whose own agent uses models from several providers, with cloud agents on Premium plans and above.

Each one runs its own vendor's agent. Antigravity and Cursor can use some other vendors' models, which is not the same as running those vendors' agents.

In Skyflo

Skyflo runs all three agents, Antigravity, Claude Code, and Cursor Agent, in one mission under one access mode, with one record on your Mac.

SourcesChoose your AntigravityPlans and quotasClaude Code productClaude Code setup and accountsClaude Code: run agents in parallelCursorCursor Projects

What is the Antigravity CLI?

The Antigravity CLI is the terminal client for Antigravity, run as agy. Its settings live in ~/.gemini/antigravity-cli/settings.json and open with /config; /permissions manages approvals, /rewind goes back in the conversation, and /fork branches it into a separate workspace. Flags such as --sandbox override settings for a session.

In Skyflo

This is the command Skyflo runs when a mission uses Antigravity.

SourcesUsing the Antigravity CLI

Skyflo vs Google Antigravity, dimension by dimension.

The same 8 dimensions run on every engineering comparison, including the ones where Google Antigravity is stronger. A row reading “not addressed” means the reviewed documentation does not cover it, which is not the same as the product lacking it.

Google Antigravity and Skyflo across 8 dimensions
DimensionGoogle AntigravitySkyflo
Primary unit of workA conversation in the Antigravity app or command line, organized into projects. Agents can work in the background, and a parent agent can start several subagents at once.A mission: one goal with its conversation, the agents working on it, their approvals, and its record. It persists across sessions and goes idle rather than closing.
Execution environmentA desktop app, the agy command line, extensions for five IDEs, and a Python SDK. Remote Control drives desktop and command-line sessions on your machines from a web browser.Agents run on your Mac by default. On a paid plan you can start or move a mission to Skyflo Cloud, a machine Skyflo runs for that mission, which keeps working while your Mac sleeps. Only Codex and Skyflo's own agent run there; Claude Code stays on your Mac. A mission started there from a GitHub repository opens a pull request.
Agent and model choiceGoogle's own agent, on Gemini models such as Gemini 3.8 Flash, with Gemini 4 Argon on Google AI Pro and Ultra. Ultra adds third-party models; the model list includes Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Claude Opus 4.6. You choose a thinking level per conversation.Skyflo's own agent plus seven external agents: Codex, Claude Code, Cursor Agent, Antigravity, Grok CLI, OpenCode, and Pi, and one custom ACP agent added through a manifest file. External agents use their own sign-in and models; Skyflo's own agent uses included models on paid plans or your Moonshot or Z.ai key. Orchestrate runs several on one mission and can pick the lead.
Cross-repository coordinationA project is a configuration of one or more folders, for example a frontend and a backend repository, with its own settings and permissions. A subagent can work in the parent's folder or in its own Git worktree.A workspace is an ordered set of up to eight registered Git checkouts, and one mission can span them. In Skyflo Cloud a mission spans one to five. Each writing specialist works in its own worktree, so edits stay apart while the work runs; integrating them is still a change you review.
Approval and mutation boundariesA permission engine checks each sensitive action against Deny, Ask, and Allow lists layered on a preset, and Deny takes precedence. The updated engine covers macOS and Linux; Windows keeps the previous system. The command line also has a sandbox mode and a flag that skips permissions.One access mode governs every agent on a mission, Skyflo's own and the external ones. Skyflo answers each agent's permission requests by that mode and records the decision. In Full access, the default for a new Auto mission, prompts are off and folder confinement is lifted. Orchestrate starts at Ask for approval, and Plan mode waits for you to approve the plan.
Independent reviewTeamwork agent teams, in preview on paid plans, run independent verification checks at every milestone, with a Success Auditor before the work wraps up.In Orchestrate missions, Skyflo adds a separate reviewer by strategy and risk, and Skyflo's own agent can start one. The reviewer can read, search, ask, and report, but cannot edit files. Not every mission is reviewed, and a review is a second opinion, not a guarantee.
Browser, terminal, and automation evidenceA browser subagent tests in sandboxed browsers through the /browser command, scheduled tasks run on a cron schedule in the background, and a terminal sandbox isolates shell commands inside OS-level boundaries.Code, browser, terminal, and automations share one workspace, where you and Skyflo's own agent work in the same browser and terminal. Each mission keeps an append-only record on your Mac of approvals, Skyflo tool calls, including external agents' calls through Skyflo's tools, and review findings, every event hash-linked to the one before it.
Cross-mission memory, provenance, and user controlRules and agent skills provide persistent instructions across conversations. Subagents start with a clean context rather than the parent's history.Personal memory stored on your Mac, learned from finished missions with a link to its source. Skyflo keeps a memory when the evidence supports it; otherwise it waits for you to keep, correct, or dismiss it, and you can remove any memory later. A workflow verified in two repositories can become a Skill once you or an independent agent approves it. Reverting a Skill or a routing change alters what Skyflo does next, not past work.

Try both on the same objective.

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