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Google Antigravity vs Devin — Agent-First Google IDE or Autonomous Cognition SWE?

Google Antigravity and Devin both help teams ship software with AI, but they are different product shapes. Antigravity is Google’s agent-first IDE and CLI platform: Gemini-centered Agent Mode, a desktop agent manager, and Google AI or Cloud billing paths. Devin is Cognition’s autonomous software-engineer product line spanning Cloud sessions, Devin Desktop (the Windsurf successor surface), CLI handoff, Review, and automations. Use Antigravity when you want an agent-first Google IDE/CLI desk. Use Devin when you want a Cognition autonomous SWE workflow for longer cloud or desktop agent sessions. Existing aicoolies Score references: Antigravity Score tested 2026-09-05 (overall 88, speed 91, privacy 71, developer experience 89); Devin Score tested 2026-03-25 (overall 79, speed 85, privacy 62, developer experience 76). Treat those figures as dated evidence from the reviews — not as a substitute for current product surfaces.

analyzed by Raşit Akyol September 20, 2026

Google Antigravity reviewDevin review

Verdict

Google Antigravity is the better evidenced default for a Google agent-first IDE/CLI workflow, supported by the fresher Score tested 2026-09-05 (overall 88). Devin is the better fit when you want Cognition’s autonomous SWE product line; judge that fit on Desktop, Fusion, SWE-2, and current pricing, and treat Score tested 2026-03-25 (overall 79) as a re-pulse candidate rather than a complete picture of today’s Devin. Our pick: Google Antigravity.

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What each product actually is

Antigravity is built as an agent-first Google development surface: desktop app and CLI around Agent Mode, Gemini models, and Google AI Pro/Ultra or Cloud org paths. The product thesis is plan-and-execute work inside a Google-native agent desk, not hiring a separate cloud employee.

Devin is Cognition’s autonomous SWE line. Buyers get Cloud agent sessions plus Devin Desktop, CLI handoff into cloud runs, Review, and automation hooks. The thesis is longer-running agent work on well-scoped engineering tasks inside the Cognition stack — a different shape from an IDE-first Agent Mode desk.

Current surfaces (vendor-documented)

Antigravity: Agent Mode plus the Antigravity 2.0 agent-first desktop/CLI line (subagents, hooks, scheduled tasks). Through September 2026 the desktop/CLI changelog continued shipping polish such as Documents, /boost multi-agent reasoning on paid tiers, enterprise terminal/Git paths, and Gemini 3.8 Flash routes. Pricing language to prefer on aicoolies: Free with weekly limits; Google AI Pro about $20/month and Ultra about $100/month, with a higher Ultra tier at $200 in vendor May 2026 plans copy — confirm against https://antigravity.google/pricing. Sources: antigravity.google/blog (2.0 and plans), antigravity.google/changelog/, antigravity.google/pricing.

Devin: Since the March Score date, Cognition shipped self-serve Free / Pro $20 / Max $200 / Teams plans, Devin Desktop as the Windsurf successor surface, Windows VMs, Fusion harness, SWE-2, and continued Review / Outposts / Automations work. That surface is broader than what Score tested 2026-03-25 measured — flag Devin as a Score re-pulse candidate before treating overall 79 as a full picture of today’s Desktop/Fusion/SWE-2 product. Sources: cognition.com/blog (plans, Desktop, Fusion, SWE-2), docs.devin.ai/release-notes, devin.ai/pricing.

Scoreboard (from existing reviews)

Google Antigravity (Score tested 2026-09-05): overall 88, speed 91, privacy 71, developer experience 89.

Devin (Score tested 2026-03-25): overall 79, speed 85, privacy 62, developer experience 76.

These scores come from existing aicoolies reviews, not a paired session. Antigravity’s Score is recent; Devin’s Score is older than Desktop, Fusion, SWE-2, and the 2026 self-serve pricing overhaul.

Legacy note — Windsurf is not Devin’s score

Windsurf remains a graveyard listing that rebranded toward Devin Desktop. Its historical Score (tested 2026-03-27) stays on Windsurf only. Do not transfer those numbers to Devin or use them to invent parity with Antigravity’s 88.

Who should pick which


Quick Comparison

Google Antigravitywinner

Pricing
Google Antigravity Individual is free with basic weekly limits. Paid quota rides Google AI Pro (~$20/mo) and Google AI Ultra ($100/mo or $200/mo top tier, per Google’s May 2026 plan change). Organizations use Google Cloud / Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
Pricing Model
Freemium
Platforms
Desktop (VS Code-based) + CLI (Go)
Open Source
No
Telemetry
Concerns
Status
Active
Editorial Pick
✓ Recommended
Last Verified
Sep 3, 2026
Description
Google Antigravity is Google's AI-powered agentic development platform, announced in November 2025 and expanded with Antigravity 2.0 at I/O 2026, that places autonomous AI agents at the center of software development. Distributed as both a VS Code-based desktop app and the new Antigravity CLI, it runs planning, implementation, and verification agents — backed by Gemini 3.1 Pro/Flash, Claude Sonnet/Opus 4.6, and GPT-OSS 120B — across editor, terminal, and browser.

Devin

Pricing
Devin offers a Free tier for evaluation, a Pro tier at $20/month for individual developers, a high-capacity Max tier at $200/month for power users, and a Teams plan starting at $80/month plus $40/seat/month. Custom Enterprise plans are billed based on Agent Compute Units (ACUs).
Pricing Model
Freemium
Platforms
Devin Cloud, Devin Desktop, Devin CLI, Devin Review, Windows VM, GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, Linear/Jira, Slack/Teams, API/automations.
Open Source
No
Telemetry
Clean
Status
Active
Editorial Pick
✓ Recommended
Last Verified
Aug 29, 2026
Description
Devin is Cognition's managed AI software engineer for delegating engineering tasks to cloud and desktop agents. It can plan work, navigate codebases, write and run code, test changes, open PRs, review/autofix issues, and collaborate through GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Linear, Jira, Slack, and Teams. Current Devin surfaces include Devin Cloud, Devin Desktop, Devin CLI, Devin Review, Windows VM support, DeepWiki, Ask Devin, and team/enterprise controls.