Google Antigravity vs Qwen Code: Which AI Agent Is Better?
An in-depth comparison of Google Antigravity and Qwen Code across output quality, autonomy, reliability, speed, value, and ease of use. Vote for your favorite.
An in-depth comparison of Google Antigravity and Qwen Code across output quality, autonomy, reliability, speed, value, and ease of use. Vote for your favorite.
Either way, you pay for the model calls. A median coding-agent day on our gateway is 95 requests and 8.6 million tokens. The table prices every step at one model’s rate.
Qwen Code runs on Standard Compute, where each step goes to the cheapest model that can do it: routine steps go to efficient open models, hard ones to frontier models such as Claude Fable 5.1 or GPT-6 Astra.
| Model | Typical day | Busy day |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $7.34 | $59.10 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $3.67 | $29.55 |
| GPT-6 Luna | $0.23 | $2.43 |
Fixed monthly plans from $19. Eligible new accounts can try $0.25 of compute first, no card. Trial terms
Pick a winner in each category. You can change your vote anytime.
AntigravityQwen CodeChoose Google Antigravity if you are developers who want Google's agentic IDE or a free terminal agent backed by Gemini. Choose Qwen Code if you are developers who want a free, Claude Code-style terminal agent that runs Qwen models next to any other provider.
In our editorial scoring, Google Antigravity leads in 3 of six categories (output quality, autonomy and ease of use), while Qwen Code leads in 0. On price, Google Antigravity runs free plan (weekly limits) / google ai pro & ultra and is proprietary; Qwen Code runs free (apache 2.0), bring your own provider and is open source.
What it costs to run Qwen Code
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4 options compared, with prices and limits
Standard Compute sends each step to the cheapest model that can do it, on providers we vet for price, uptime and speed. Plans start at $19 a month, and eligible new accounts can try $0.25 of compute with no card. Choose your agent below to connect.
Antigravity is Google's agentic development platform: a VS Code-style IDE where an agent manager dispatches agents that work across the editor, terminal, and a Chrome browser they control, producing verifiable artifacts (plans, screenshots, browser recordings) as they go. Version 2.0 (May 2026) added Antigravity CLI, which replaced Gemini CLI for free and Google AI Pro/Ultra users on June 18, 2026, plus an SDK and IDE extensions. The Individual plan is free with weekly rate limits Google doesn't quantify; Google AI Pro ($20/month) and Ultra ($100 or $200) raise them. It runs Google's latest Gemini models. The browser-control surface still carries prompt-injection risk, so keep a human on the loop for production work.
Qwen Code is Alibaba's Qwen team's open-source coding agent. It was originally based on Gemini CLI v0.8.2, stopped syncing with upstream at v0.1 and has been developed on its own since, with frequent releases (v0.25.2 on October 15, 2026). It ships subagents, agent teams, skills, hooks, MCP, plan mode, LSP and git worktrees, plus VS Code, JetBrains and Zed plugins, a desktop app and Telegram, DingTalk, WeChat and Feishu channels. Unlike Gemini CLI it speaks the OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini APIs, so any compatible provider works through modelProviders in ~/.qwen/settings.json. The free Qwen OAuth tier ended on April 15, 2026: the tool is still free, and the models come from Alibaba's Coding Plan or Token Plan, a built-in third-party provider, a local model or a custom provider.
Qwen Code runs on Standard Compute
