Agentic Index
Cursor vs Google Antigravity (2026)
Cursor and Antigravity are both agentic IDEs with multi model support; the split is maturity against integration. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Cursor is the proven market leader with parallel agent orchestration and enterprise deployment at scale. Antigravity is Google's play, spanning desktop, CLI, and SDK with a built in browser so agents can see the app they are building, free at entry with Pro at 20 dollars.
On the Agentic Index coding agent ranking, neither Cursor nor Google Antigravity clears the bar, which asks for all five merge loop capabilities documented in full. Neither documents knowledge grounding and RAG in full, nor testing, debugging and optimization. 2 of the 65 vendors in the lane clear it. See the coding agent ranking
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Cursor and Google Antigravity are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 956 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Cursor if
- You want the most battle tested agentic IDE, adopted across much of the Fortune 500.
- Parallel background agents with worktree isolation are central to your workflow.
- You need enterprise privacy controls that are shipped and enforceable today.
Choose Google Antigravity if
- Front end work benefits from the built in browser, letting the agent observe and act on what it builds.
- You want one product spanning desktop IDE, CLI, and SDK, replacing the retired Gemini CLI.
- You are in the Google ecosystem and want a free entry with a 20 dollar Pro tier.
| At a glance | Cursor | Google Antigravity |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Coding agent | Coding agent |
| Entry price | From $20/mo · free Hobby tier | Free for individuals · Google AI Pro $19.99/mo · Ultra from $99.99/mo |
| Free / trial | Free Hobby tier (no credit card, limited Agent requests) | Free tier |
| Pricing confidence | public partial | public exact |
| Feature | C Cursor |
G Google Antigravity |
|---|---|---|
| Action & orchestration | ||
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
Full / Explicit |
Full / Explicit
A sidecar schedule runs agent commands on a cron expression with no user starting them, and agents are also invoked from the desktop app, the CLI, the SDK and IDE extensions. |
| Knowledge & context | ||
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
Partial
Context is assembled per run from a local Instant Grep index, Explore subagents and @ mentions, and Cursor states it stores no codebase embeddings. |
Partial
The agent grounds on the project's code through codebase search, rules and installed skill bundles, plus outside data through MCP, but no persistent index over the customer's code is named. |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
Partial
Past agent transcripts can be searched and attached with @Chats, but no memory layer with a stated scope and lifetime is documented. |
Partial
Projects and /resume carry session history, but no memory store with a stated scope, lifetime and delete path is documented. |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
Full / Explicit
Run Modes set when the agent stops for approval on shell, MCP and fetch calls, and a team configuration in the dashboard overrides user and project settings. |
Full / Explicit |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Full / Explicit
Hooks fire on every step of the agent loop and can feed the buyer's own audit log, while the Admin API audit log covers logins and settings changes rather than agent actions. |
Full / Explicit
The agent records its work as reviewable artifacts, including plans, walkthroughs, screenshots and browser recordings, and enterprise deployments log requests and responses for audit trails. |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
Full / Explicit
Self-Hosted Machines run Cloud Agent tool execution on customer-managed machines while Cursor keeps the agent loop, inference and planning, and Enterprise can enroll in US only residency. |
Full / Explicit
Enterprise deployment runs inside the organization's own Google Cloud project with global, US or EU multi region endpoints and VPC Service Controls. |
| Solution readiness | ||
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
Full / Explicit
Reviewed plugins bundling rules, skills, agents, MCP servers and hooks install from the Cursor Marketplace, with private team marketplaces on Teams and Enterprise. |
Full / Explicit
Google publishes named bundles such as Modern Web Guidance, a Firebase bundle, Android CLI and DeepMind Science skills, installed and managed from the Customizations tab. |
| Platform extensibility | ||
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
Partial
Bugbot and a verifier subagent test the customer's code, but no harness evaluates the agent's own behavior. |
Partial
The agent verifies its own work in a browser with screenshots, recordings and walkthroughs, but no harness for evaluating agent behavior is documented. |
| Specialist automation | ||
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
Full / Explicit
The agent drives a browser pane inside Cursor to navigate, click, type, scroll and take screenshots, with approval required by default and an admin origin allowlist. |
Full / Explicit |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
| Pricing | C Cursor |
G Google Antigravity |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
From $20/mo · free Hobby tier | Free for individuals · Google AI Pro $19.99/mo · Ultra from $99.99/mo |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, partial | Public, exact |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
hybrid | hybrid |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | Low variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
Free tier
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Free tier
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Mixed | Self-serve |
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