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Antigravity Student Discount: Is It Free for Students?

No Antigravity student plan exists, but US college students 18+ can get Google AI Pro free for a year, which raises Antigravity limits. Who qualifies.

By Engineer Foodie Desk ✓ Sources checked Oct 29, 2026

8 min read

Student offer terms checked Oct 29, 2026 on gemini.google/students and Google One Help, “Claim a Google One student offer”. Antigravity limits come from Antigravity’s plans docs (checked Oct 25, 2026), models docs (checked Oct 26, 2026) and pricing page (checked Oct 28, 2026). Every source is listed at the bottom. No affiliate links on this page (how we work).

Quick answer

Yes, for some students, and only through Google AI Pro. Antigravity doesn’t have its own student plan. You don’t pay Antigravity directly at all. Your limits come from whichever Google AI plan you have, and Google offers a free 1-year Google AI Pro student plan to “eligible U.S. college students ages 18+.” Google AI Pro is the plan that unlocks Antigravity’s five-hour quota, Gemini 4 Argon and the option to buy AI credits.

The fine print, as of Oct 29, 2026:

  • Redeem by December 31, 2026.
  • A payment method is required at sign-up.
  • After the year, it renews at $19.99 a month unless you cancel.
  • You have to re-verify your student status every year.

Outside the US, Google lists a different student deal, a “Google AI Pro with YouTube Premium Student bundle,” in a long list of countries. Google’s help page doesn’t give a price for it. Everyone else still gets Antigravity’s free tier at $0. See Is Antigravity free?.

Who qualifies and how to claim

Google’s student page lists the 12-month offer for “eligible U.S. college students ages 18+.” It adds that “Both new users and students whose 2025 AI Pro trial has expired can qualify.” Google One Help puts the 12-month offer as “Be a student at a higher education institution in the US,” verified through SheerID, with a personal Google Account and a Google Payments account with “a qualifying form of payment.”

Where. The free year is US only. Google’s general student rules cover higher-education students “in a country or region where Google AI Plus and Google AI Pro are supported (excluding Hong Kong, Macau, and Tunisia).” The help page then lists the YouTube Premium Student bundle in about 90 countries, including the UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, Japan, Brazil and India. It doesn’t say what the bundle costs, so check the price at one.google.com/ai-student before you assume it’s free.

How to claim, per Google’s help page:

  1. Go to one.google.com/ai-student, signed in to the Google account you want the offer on.
  2. Select a student offer.
  3. Verify your student status through SheerID when asked.
  4. Finish the subscription flow, including adding a payment method.

Things that trip people up, also from Google’s help page:

  • You need a personal @gmail.com account. “University or school accounts aren’t eligible.”
  • You must be 18 or older, your age must be verified on your Google Account, and the birthday you give SheerID has to match it.
  • Family group members who didn’t create the plan can’t redeem. Supervised Family Link accounts aren’t eligible either.
  • Your Google Play or Google Payments country has to match where you live and study.
  • If you pay for Google One through Apple, Google Fi, Pixel Pass or a carrier, cancel that first.
  • SheerID usually takes minutes but “can take up to a few days during busy back-to-school periods.” Attempts are limited. After three failed document checks, you’ll need SheerID support.
  • “Each student can only redeem the offer once.” If you see “Verification limit exceeded,” your details were already used on another Google account.

The verification is the real exam here. Think Jimmy McGill getting his law degree from the University of American Samoa in Better Call Saul: it’s valid, and getting it still means paperwork and patience nobody warned you about.

What students get in Antigravity

Google’s student page doesn’t mention Antigravity. It lists “4x higher usage limits in Gemini, more storage (5 TB), Gemini Spark, access to Gemini Omni.” But the plan you’re getting is Google AI Pro, and Antigravity’s docs spell out what Pro gets compared with Free:

PlanQuota refreshWeekly capAI credits
FreeWeekly“A weekly rate limit”No
AI Pro (student)Every 5 hours“A higher weekly rate limit”Can buy

Free: “A meaningful quota, refreshed weekly.” Pro: “A high, generous quota, refreshed every five hours until the weekly limit is reached” (plans docs, checked Oct 25, 2026). Google One’s comparison table labels Antigravity agent requests “Expanded” on Pro (one.google.com, checked Oct 29, 2026). Google publishes no numbers for either plan.

So the practical gain is big. Free gives you one quota a week. Pro refills every five hours until you hit a higher weekly ceiling. Tab completions and Command requests are unlimited on Free already (pricing, checked Oct 28, 2026), so the upgrade is about agent work.

AI credits. Google’s help page says “Google AI Pro student members can purchase AI credits to get extra usage in Google Flow and Google Antigravity.” Credits come in packs, and Google doesn’t publish their price on its help pages.

Models: the trial catch. Antigravity’s models docs say Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Opus 5.5 on Google AI Pro are “Available on Google AI Pro for non-trial subscriptions only.” Google’s help page calls the US student offer “the 12-month trial.” Put those two together and expect the free student year to give you Google’s models, not the Claude ones. Gemini 4 Argon’s note reads “Available with paid Google AI Pro plans or on trial with eligible premium devices,” which doesn’t clearly cover a student trial either. Google doesn’t spell out how student accounts are treated, so open the model picker after you sign up and see what’s there.

It’s a Sydney stage in The Bear: you’re really in the kitchen, but some stations are for paid staff.

One more date to know. On Nov 2, 2026, Antigravity removes Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-OSS-120b, which leaves Free and Plus with Gemini 3.8 Flash. That makes the step up to Pro worth more after Nov 2.

For the full plan ladder, see Antigravity pricing.

What it costs after the offer ends

Google’s student page says: “Unless cancelled earlier, Google AI Pro will automatically charge $19.99/month after the trial ends.” Google One Help adds that when a student offer ends, “you automatically convert to a regular paid Google AI Plus or Google AI Pro plan, except where consent is required under applicable laws,” and that “You will be notified ahead of the upcoming change.”

Some other rules worth knowing:

  • Re-verification: “usually every 12 months, for up to 4 consecutive years.” Skip it and “you will lose the offer and may be charged for the regular price.”
  • No do-overs: “If you upgrade to a paid membership from the 12-month trial, you will not be eligible for the trial offer again.”
  • Old trial holders: if you had the 2025 or early-2026 student trial, Google says you “may be eligible for a limited-time discount on regular Google AI plans” when it ends. The amount isn’t published.
  • Annual option: Google AI Pro shows “Annual ($199.99)” in Google’s savings calculator, about $16.67 a month by our arithmetic, if you stay on after graduating (one.google.com, checked Oct 29, 2026).

Put a calendar reminder a week before your renewal date. Free trials that need a card are designed for the version of you who forgets. In Severance terms, your outie gets the bill.

Other student offers for AI coding

So among the big AI coding tools, Google’s free Pro year is the most generous student deal, as long as you’re a US college student. For how Antigravity compares with the paid options, see AI coding tools compared.

Comparing student deals across agent IDEs? See the Devin student discount.

If Antigravity asks you to verify before you can use the offer, the Antigravity verification required fix explains the age, region and account rules.

FAQ

Is Antigravity free for students? Antigravity’s free tier is $0 for everyone, and eligible U.S. college students 18+ can get Google AI Pro, which raises Antigravity’s limits, free for one year if they redeem by Dec 31, 2026.

Does Antigravity have a student discount? Not a separate one; the student deal is Google’s free 1-year Google AI Pro offer, and Antigravity limits follow your Google AI plan.

Is Google AI Pro free for students? Yes for eligible U.S. college students 18+, for 12 months with a payment method on file, then $19.99 a month unless cancelled.

Can students outside the US get it? The free year is US only, but Google lists a Google AI Pro with YouTube Premium Student bundle in about 90 countries, with the price shown at checkout rather than on the help page.

Do students get Claude models in Antigravity? Probably not on the free year, because Antigravity reserves Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 for non-trial Google AI Pro subscriptions and Google calls the student offer a trial.

Sources

  1. Google Gemini for Students (free 1-year Google AI Pro, US college students 18+, redeem by Dec 31, 2026, $19.99/month after, inclusions): https://gemini.google/students/ (verified 2026-10-29)
  2. Google One Help, Claim a Google One student offer (eligibility, countries, claim steps, SheerID, re-verification, offer end, AI credits for Antigravity): https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/17422238 (verified 2026-10-29)
  3. Google One, Google AI plans (Pro annual $199.99, Antigravity agent-request labels): https://one.google.com/about/google-ai-plans/ (verified 2026-10-29)
  4. Google Antigravity plans docs (Free vs Pro quota wording): https://antigravity.google/docs/plans (verified 2026-10-25)
  5. Google Antigravity models docs (Claude 5.5 non-trial note, Argon note, Nov 2, 2026 removals): https://antigravity.google/docs/models (verified 2026-10-26)
  6. Google Antigravity pricing (Free tier, unlimited Tab and Command): https://antigravity.google/pricing (verified 2026-10-28)
  7. Cursor students page: https://cursor.com/students (verified 2026-10-27)
  8. Claude for Education: https://claude.com/solutions/education (verified 2026-10-27)
  9. GitHub Docs, Copilot plans (Copilot Student): https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/get-started/plans (verified 2026-10-25)
  10. Bolt.new pricing: https://bolt.new/pricing (verified 2026-10-25)

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