AI IDE War: VS Code vs Kiro vs Antigravity




How many of you know there is a new war starting in companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. This time it is not for browsers it is for IDEs for coders. Most people are now using VS Code, which is popular and supported by Microsoft. In VS Code we can use different AI models through extensions (like GitHub Copilot or others) and some have a free trial, after that we have to pay.

Recently we got Kiro by Amazon. When it was released, it was free during the public preview with basically unlimited or very high AI usage for many users, and it is powered mainly by Claude with other models also possible. Now it has pricing and limits, and the completely free unlimited version is no longer there.

Now we have a new tool, Antigravity by Google, which is supported by Gemini. For now, it is free for individual developers in public preview with very generous or almost “unlimited” limits, but in the future it will probably get normal pricing.​

For the past 3 years I have been using VS Code. When I saw Kiro, I jumped to it to see if there would be a change in my code or any real improvement, or a “prompt to product” experience. I did not see much there. Now I am using Antigravity and it is the same case. It can do small things like creating a Ludo game or helping to set up the project, but we still cannot really see full “prompt to product”.

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