Google Antigravity just raised its rate limits, but not for everyone

Google has just announced that it has increased the throughput limits of its Antigravity development platform. However, this benefit is mainly reserved for users who pay for Google AI Pro or Ultra subscriptions. Free users still have to work around the incredibly low limits.

If you are a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscriber, you now have priority access to Antigravity. This comes with the highest and most generous rate limits available. Keep in mind that these quotas refresh every five hours, so even if you use them up, they will come back.

For those still using the free plan, Google has instead opted for a higher weekly rate limit. This change should also minimize how quickly free users reach their quotas during a project. It is important to remember that usage is correlated to the actual work performed by the agent. Simple tasks will therefore take up less quota than complex reasoning or in-depth exploration.

Google emphasized that all users will retain access to Gemini 3 Pro. This includes unlimited tab code completion and access to all product features, including Agent Manager and browser integration.

The rate limit issue has been a major frustration since Antigravity launched in public preview. Even users like me who pay for the Google AI Pro subscription were reaching the quota surprisingly quickly, sometimes after just two or three prompts.

This high resource consumption occurs because the model generates hidden “thinking tokens” during its internal deliberation process. The problem is that these hidden tokens factor directly into your overall cost and quota usage, so you may be excluded from the second answer simply because of the reflection budget.

These new quotas should alleviate that, but not by much if you’re a free user. Previously, free users refreshed every five hours, just like paid users. With the new weekly cap, you risk burning through a large portion of your allowance in a single afternoon if you’re not careful. For a free user who isn’t careful, this would be devastating.

Using AI probably isn’t cheap for Google, so it makes sense that this type of use would be regulated and those who pay would be given privileged access. Anyone using it for free must limit tasks based on the AI ​​used. I think the low thinking mode is just as effective as the high option when doing simple queries, which will keep you from overusing your quota.

Relying heavily on the “high” level of thinking for complex reasoning is a trap; it burns through tokens quickly and can interrupt you before the agent finishes the job. In this case, just pay for a subscription, because you will find that the rates are too high.

These rate limits might ease over time, but I wouldn’t count on it. This preview was intended to give developers and hobbyists a good overview of what they might need. So it’s not unreasonable for Google to set limits on those who don’t pay to use it.

Source: Google