{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-10-17T02:25:00+02:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-09-google-ends-gemini-code-assist-sales-antigravity/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-09-google-ends-gemini-code-assist-sales-antigravity/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-10-09-google-ends-gemini-code-assist-sales-antigravity","date":"2026-10-09","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Google winds down Gemini Code Assist","deck":null,"takeaway":"From Oct 9, 2026 new Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise subscriptions can no longer be purchased.","category":"product","category_label":"Products","importance":2,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Google Cloud: Gemini Code Assist release notes (Oct 9, 2026)","url":"https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/release-notes","type":"docs","group":"primary","domain":"docs.cloud.google.com"},{"n":2,"title":"AI Weekly: Google ends Gemini Code Assist sales, points buyers to Antigravity","url":"https://aiweekly.co/alerts/google-ends-gemini-code-assist-sales-points-buyers-to-antigravity","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"aiweekly.co"}],"official":1,"filed":"2026-10-16","updated":"2026-10-16","orgs":["Google"],"title":"Google stops selling Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise and points customers to Antigravity","summary":"From Oct 9, 2026 new Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise subscriptions can no longer be purchased. Existing subscriptions auto-renew through the rest of 2026, but auto-renewal ends in 2027. Google's release note sends developers to Antigravity, its agentic coding environment, available through eligible Gemini Enterprise subscriptions and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.","key_facts":["Official release note (Oct 9, 2026): 'Sale of Gemini Code Assist subscriptions is ending … Existing subscriptions will continue to auto-renew through the rest of 2026, but auto-renewal will end in 2027'","Earlier step (Sept 4, 2026): new subscriptions could no longer be bought in the Cloud console by billing accounts without one; only via Google Cloud sales","Replacement: Antigravity through eligible Gemini Enterprise subscriptions and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform; the note gives no transition pricing or migration tooling (AI Weekly)","Secondary sources give Jan 31, 2027 as the last date to add licences and renew annual plans; we could not confirm this in the official note","Reported widely only on Oct 16 (TechInformed: 'Google ends Gemini Code Assist sales, sets renewal deadlines')"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["coding-agents","google","antigravity","developer-tools","deprecation"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nGoogle is folding its IDE-assistant product into its agent-first coding tool. Gemini Code Assist, launched as Google's answer to\nGitHub Copilot, stops being sold to new enterprise customers; Antigravity becomes the recommended tool.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nIt is a sign of the industry-wide move from autocomplete-style assistants to coding agents: a major vendor retiring its Copilot-style\nproduct rather than upgrading it.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2026-05-19-gemini-3-5-flash-io-2026","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-19-gemini-3-5-flash-io-2026/","date":"2026-05-19","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Google I/O 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Spark agent and Antigravity 2.0","deck":null,"takeaway":"3.5 Flash marked the moment Google's cheap tier overtook its previous flagship (3.1 Pro) on agentic coding benchmarks, and it opened a run of four Flash releases in ~106 days.","category":"model-release","category_label":"Model releases","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":6,"official":5,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Google DeepMind","Google"]}],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-10-16","type":"filed","text":"Created (read Google's release note)"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-10-16","run":null,"sources_read":"Read Google's release note","updated":"2026-10-16","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-16"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":162,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":101,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"gemini-4-argon","name":"Gemini 4 Argon","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":192,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":131,"in_training_data":false}],"short_url":null}