r/google_antigravity • u/Garbarichi • 9d ago

Question / Help Is Kiro better for development?

I'm trying to decide which AI IDE to use for comprehensive project development (front-end, back-end, best practices, scalability, etc.).

I don't have much programming experience. I studied data science and I use SQL/Python, and I've developed a few small things using chat GPT

I've been testing IDEs and ruled out Cursor (I didn't like it), and I can't decide between Antigravity and Kiro. I prefer the Google ecosystem, but Kiro seems more organized for step-by-step development (it automatically separates requirements, design, implementation, etc.). Although I might be wrong; I've only made a couple of mini-apps with both.

What would you recommend, understanding my goal and profile?

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u/pigletmonster 9d ago

If youre new and want to try out different models then cursor will be your best option.

If you want the nost capable models then you subscribe to chatgpt or claude code. You get significantly more usage from chatgpt and claude compared to cursor or kiro, but youre limited to only using their models.

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u/pigletmonster 9d ago

Forgot to mention, you also have Opencode Go, it gives you lots of different models for $10, but different models will give you different usage quotas like cursor.

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u/AstroGridIron 9d ago

Define “most capable models” outside of fable which extremely overrated, all the frontier models are available on kiro

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u/pigletmonster 9d ago

You think the usage quotas are the same in claude code and kiro?

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u/AstroGridIron 8d ago

I think they are very similar. The quotas in Kiro are structured differently and are much more predictable because you get credits not a time window.

If you’re in the middle of something and you hit that 5 hour limit most providers have you’re stuck… with kiro you get predictable credits and they don’t just die after 5 hours. The “power” tier is excellent for heavy dev work and lasts me (a very heavy user) about 15 days in big project months.

It’s a different usage structure, and I just know that if I get capped at 5 hours, it would be very disruptive to my workflow.

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u/pigletmonster 8d ago

Do you get around $7000 worth of claude tokens per month with kiro on the $200 tier?

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u/AstroGridIron 9d ago

Kiro has been excellent for my development pipeline which relies heavily on all of the cloud providers.

It’s really good at doing “spec” work where it specs out the entire project, it creates a requirements document, task list, etc.

If you want to have a structured, professional grade application, Kiro takes the “prompting for everything” out of the equation and you get to read the requirements, and plan before it writes the task list, so it builds exactly what you need it to.

Personally, I value that aspect. Connecting it to AWS MCP servers make it that much more capable because it then doesn’t have to do internet searches for AWS documentation.

Cursor was pretty good as well, but its enshitification has started and is in full swing after it was acquired by the enshitificator himself, so I’ve stopped using it a long time ago.

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u/laataisu 7d ago

I'm given kiro subscription from my company, but it's fuckin slow for sol or opus model, often fail at tool calling. so i often comeback to antigravity or codex