Google Raised Antigravity Limits Ninefold. In the Same Announcement, It Killed the Free Tier.

Google expanded its AI antigravity tool limits ninefold in two days last week — then quietly eliminated the free credits that had let users experiment without spending anything.

The package arrived in a single May 19 announcement from Google DeepMind. Varun Mohan, Google's director of product, told users the rate limits on the $20/month Pro plan would triple immediately, then tripled again 48 hours later. That brought Pro limits to nine times their post-January level, a permanent reversal after users protested a severe quota cut that left some users hitting weekly limits after a handful of complex tasks.

But the announcement also discontinued 1,000 free monthly AI credits for Google Flow — the company's agentic AI workflow tool — and replaced them with a pay-as-you-go top-up system. Where Flow credits had once let Pro users run background tasks and longer prompts at no extra cost, the new model puts those operations on a metered basis from day one. Google framed the 9x limit increase as a customer win. The credit cut appeared in the same announcement (Android Authority).

Google declined to comment on the Flow credit discontinuation beyond the announcement.

Users on Reddit and Google's support forums had a sharper read. One top comment on the Antigravity forum called it "the gift that takes back what you already had." Another described the new limit math as "fine print you have to read twice to understand what you lost."

Under the new system, usage is measured in tokens — units that correspond to the complexity of a prompt, the features a user engages, and the length of a conversation. A single text prompt can burn through 13% of a Pro user's sprint quota, according to Android Authority, and one complex task can consume the equivalent of 50 to 100 standard chat prompts worth of tokens. More powerful models compound the problem: Claude Opus 4.6, available through Antigravity, consumes roughly eight times more quota than lighter models like Sonnet in the same conversation.

The changes landed amid broader frustration. Before January 2026, Pro users could process more than 300 million input tokens per week in Antigravity, according to The Register. After Google's January cut, some users hit weekly limits below 9 million input tokens — a 97% reduction in effective usage for the heaviest users.

Google's new tiered structure offers more capacity than January, but at higher cost and with metering that carries into background work. The $20/month Pro plan now includes a 250-unit sprint limit with a five-hour refresh window, plus a 2,800-unit weekly hard cap. The $100/month Ultra plan offers five times that baseline, with the same rate limits applying across both Gemini apps and Antigravity.

What Google removed was harder to find in the announcement. The 1,000 monthly Flow credits — which applied separately from Antigravity's session quotas — were gone. The new pay-as-you-go top-up option lets users add credits at retail price when they exceed their plan limits, a structure one longtime Google AI user described as "a credit card on a metered plan."

Google has not disclosed what top-up pricing will cost or when the paid option launches. The company declined to comment on the Flow credit discontinuation beyond the announcement.

The sequencing matters. Google's first quota reversal came the same day the January limits took effect, suggesting internal surprise at how restrictive the new caps were. A second increase followed within 48 hours, a rapid course correction that won praise on social media. The Flow credit cut survived both reversals intact.

The 9x increase is real. The free credits are gone. Google's announcement presented both as customer-friendly moves, but they pull in opposite directions — one opens the paid door wider, the other closes a free one that had been there for two years. What to watch next is whether the paid top-up option arrives at a price point that makes Antigravity feel like a subscription with a ceiling, or a subscription with a floor.