What changed on 9 October
Google stopped selling new Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise subscriptions on 9 October 2026. The change is recorded in the Gemini Code Assist release notes on Google Cloud documentation, and coverage at toolboxkart.tech reports the same date. The restriction covers the two paid tiers only. It is a change to subscription sales, not a statement that existing installations stopped working on that date.
The documentation language is narrow. Current subscriptions remain supported until the end of each contractual agreement, which means the product's life is now bounded by paperwork already signed rather than by a central shutdown date. A customer on an annual contract and a customer on a monthly plan hold different effective end dates for the same product. Google's page states the support commitment; it does not publish a single termination day.
The structural reading is straightforward: Google has closed the front door while leaving the interior lit. New revenue on Standard and Enterprise stops immediately; existing revenue continues on schedule. That suggests a managed transition rather than an abandonment, with the destination named in the same documentation. What the record does not state is why the two tiers were pulled together, or whether any replacement SKU occupies their price points.
Deadlines for existing customers
The deadlines for existing customers are not identical. Google's documentation distinguishes between license additions and renewal options, and assigns each a different deadline, according to the summary at toolboxkart.tech. Monthly and annual customers likewise face different dates. The practical consequence is that an organization's exposure depends on where it sits in its own contract cycle, not on any company-wide cutoff. Two organizations running the same SKU can therefore be months apart in their obligations.
The documentation's instruction is to check the renewal date and contract terms for your own organization rather than assume every plan ends at the same time. That instruction shifts the discovery burden to the customer. Procurement teams must read their agreements to learn when their Code Assist subscriptions lapse, because Google has not announced a consolidated schedule. The evidence available does not state whether renewals will be honored beyond current terms.
Contract-end support also distributes the sunset across an unknown number of dates. A customer whose agreement runs well past October keeps a supported product for months after the sales channel closed; one near renewal confronts the decision now. That asymmetry is the operative fact for buyers. The public record gives the rule — support to the end of each contractual agreement — and leaves the arithmetic to each account.
Antigravity as the stated path
Google points customers toward Antigravity for future agentic coding assistance, delivered through eligible Gemini Enterprise editions. The migration path therefore runs through Gemini Enterprise rather than through a standalone Code Assist purchase. A buyer who wants Google's stated agentic coding direction must land in an edition of Gemini Enterprise that includes it. The documentation names the destination; it does not, in the material reviewed, map tier-by-tier pricing from old subscriptions to new ones.
Activity on the Google AI Developers Forum's Antigravity category dated 9 October 2026 shows a product under active use and active debugging. One bug report describes rapid log file growth at gigabytes per minute caused by an unthrottled fsnotify error spin loop in projects.go:108; it had 7 replies and 142 views. Another, on a remote control bug in the agy CLI, had 6 replies and 119 views.
A third thread, a personal sandboxed wrapper around the unmodified agy CLI, stood at zero replies and 17 views. The forum traffic suggests developers were exercising Antigravity's tooling on the same day Google closed the Code Assist sales channel. The open question is fit: whether Antigravity, with visible open bugs in its CLI, matches the enterprise commitments that Standard and Enterprise customers hold. The evidence does not answer that.
Sources
- google.com — Google Ends Gemini Code Assist Sales — Developers Are Being Steered to Antigravity
- google.dev — Google Antigravity (2026-10-10)
- linkedin.com — AI-Assisted Development Workflow with Gemini and ...
- toolboxkart.tech — Gemini Code Assist Sales End: Renewal Dates and Options
- New Horizon daily digest, 2026-10-11 (topic provenance)