The Antigravity Crash: Google Purges $250/Month AI Subscribers for “Proxy Abuse”

Google has commenced a pervasive deactivation of accounts belonging to its premium subscribers, encompassing those invested in the AI Ultra tier at a monthly cost of $250. This disciplinary wave was precipitated by the utilization of company services via third-party conduits such as OpenClaw and OpenCode. These summary suspensions occurred devoid of prior admonition, sparking a surge of indignation among developers who are currently deliberating the fallout across various professional forums.

The crux of the controversy lies in a subset of users connecting third-party agentic interfaces to Google’s internal backend—specifically the Antigravity platform and Gemini CLI. Essentially, these subscriptions were transmuted into economical proxies for computationally intensive autonomous tasks, for which the service was never engineered, either technically or financially. Faced with a precipitous spike in overhead, Google opted for immediate, decisive intervention.

Varun Mohan, a co-founder of Windsurf and current DeepMind engineer, characterized these maneuvers as “malicious utilization,” asserting that they significantly degraded the quality of service for the broader user base. In a recent social media dispatch, he pledged to reinstate certain deactivated accounts—specifically those belonging to individuals who were ostensibly unaware of their transgressions. However, the affected community vehemently disputes this interpretation.

“Individuals paid for a quota, operated within the confines of those limits, and were subsequently banished. This does not constitute malicious use; it is the legitimate consumption of a product as marketed,” remarked AI engineer Mohan Prakash in a public post. He further noted that the service terms did not explicitly proscribe integration with OpenClaw, thereby leading users to reasonably assume its legitimacy. As a paradigm of corporate etiquette, he cited Anthropic, which, in analogous circumstances, simply issues an error message rather than resorting to total account termination.

This saga mirrors a recent episode involving Anthropic, which similarly penalized users for bridging subscriptions to external services in lieu of utilizing the more costly, official API. Both instances illuminate a systemic fragility within the sector: AI corporations are currently subsidizing tokens at rates significantly below their production cost to seize market share, gambling on future price escalations. When users engage with these services at high intensities, the underlying business model proves unsustainable. Ultimately, the cost of these structural failures is borne by the company’s reputation and the erosion of consumer trust.