Antigravity vs Cline: what developers actually say
Based on 336 opinions on Hacker News from developers who discussed these two, most of them first-hand users.
Antigravity draws far more discussion: 301 opinions from 259 authors, 238 of them firsthand, against 35 opinions from 28 authors for Cline. Antigravity's approval is 45 overall and 42 over the last 90 days; Cline's is 73, with no 90-day figure and a small sample. Antigravity's weak spots are reliability (16 positive against 57 negative) and UX (11 against 29), and 12 people named Claude Code as their preference instead. Cline looks better on usage limits (4 positive, 0 negative), cost (6 to 1), customization (3 to 0) and UX (3 to 1), so pick Cline when cost control and provider choice matter, and Antigravity when speed (19 to 7) and code quality (15 to 8) matter and its limits are acceptable.
Choose Antigravity if
- Want a full AI IDE with 301 opinions and 238 firsthand reports behind it
- Weight speed (19 positive, 7 negative) and code quality (15 to 8) above UX
- Want the tool 10 people preferred over Gemini CLI and 6 over Claude Code
Choose Cline if
- Want 73 approval on 35 opinions, with no 90-day figure reported
- Care about usage limits (4 positive, 0 negative) and cost (6 to 1)
- Want to keep your setup and switch model providers mid-task