Google Antigravity falls to Earth under compute burden

Google Antigravity falls to Earth under compute burden

By Thomas Claburn
Publication Date: 2026-02-23 20:49:00

Google customers paying $250 per month for AI Ultra subscriptions and less extravagant spenders have been surprised to find their accounts suspended for using the company’s Antigravity agent development app and Gemini services with third-party agent tools like OpenClaw and OpenCode.

Over the past few weeks, Google has been cutting off customers for terms of service violations, often with no warning. The problem for Google is that when third-party agent wrappers or harnesses rely on Google AI under the hood, the company’s software isn’t necessarily priced or provisioned for heavy autonomous usage.

Many of the software developers who subscribed to these AI services have expressed surprise in various discussion threads, claiming that they were unaware their actions violated contractual agreements they’re unlikely to have actually read.

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