Google Antigravity vs Zed (2026): Pricing, Features & Verdict

Why choose Google Antigravity

• Higher Analytics score (4/10 vs 3/10)
• Higher Scalability score (6/10 vs 5/10)
• Better fit for enterprise (6/10 vs 4/10)

Why choose Zed

• Lower estimated cost for 10 users: Free vs $300/mo
• Higher Cost score (9/10 vs 8/10)

Google Antigravity

Pros

• The free Individual tier includes agent access, unlimited tab completions and the CLI, which few competing agentic IDEs offer at no cost.
• The browser subagent runs Chrome to test a running app and feeds results back to the agent, so it verifies changes as well as writing code.
• Agents produce reviewable artifacts such as implementation plans and browser recordings, and Allow, Ask or Deny permissions control how much they do without sign-off.
• It ships as an app, IDE, CLI, IDE extensions and a Python SDK with MCP support, so teams can use the same agent harness in an editor, a terminal or custom tooling.
• Enterprise buyers get Google Cloud IAM, Workforce Identity Federation SSO, request logging, US or EU regional endpoints and VPC Service Controls.
• Development is fast: the changelog shows multiple releases a week in late 2026, including Gemini 4 models, voice mode, remote agents and partner plugins.

Cons

• Google publishes no absolute quota figures and says limits depend on capacity. In early 2026, Pro users reported quota cuts and weekly lockouts of up to 5 to 7 days.
• The standalone IDE uses Open VSX instead of the VS Code Marketplace, so Microsoft-licensed extensions such as C# Dev Kit do not work, and there is no JetBrains support.
• The standalone Antigravity IDE is not supported for enterprise accounts, which must use the app, the CLI or IDE extensions.
• Google's own terms acknowledge security risks such as data exfiltration and malicious code execution from autonomous agents and prompt injection.
• Pricing is spread across Google AI consumer plans, Google One credits and Google Cloud billing, and Google has not clearly explained what a credit buys in Antigravity.

Zed

Pros

• Very fast native app: one reviewer measured a 0.4 s cold start and 180 MB of idle RAM, against 3.0 s and 650 MB for VS Code with Copilot.
• No lock-in to one AI provider. The free plan works with your own keys from many providers, local Ollama models, or ACP agents such as Claude Agent and Codex.
• Cheap paid tiers: Pro is $10 a month, and hosted model usage is marked up only 10% over list price, with an optional spending cap.
• The editor, the Zeta edit-prediction model and ACP are all open source, and AI can be switched off entirely.
• Detailed agent controls: per-tool permissions and MCP profiles, plus agent changes shown as a reviewable diff.
• Privacy defaults suit companies: Zed keeps no prompts by default, hosted providers must apply zero data retention apart from some designated models, and data sharing is off by default on Business.

Cons

• About 1,000 extensions against more than 50,000 for VS Code, and users say most are language servers and themes.
• The debugger is less mature for some languages, such as .NET and Java.
• SSO, SAML, SCIM and SOC 2 were not yet available, which limits use in regulated companies and enterprises.
• Reviewers found rough edges in the agent experience: no built-in memory or skills feature, and inconsistent support across external agents.
• Settings and keymaps are edited as JSON, and there is no VS Code import wizard, so switching takes effort.
• Business seats include no AI credit, so hosted model costs come on top of the $30 seat price.