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TL;DR Google’s new compute-based Gemini limits are frustrating users who say they are hitting usage caps far too quickly.
One Google AI Pro subscriber shared video proof showing that a single failed video-generation prompt consumed their entire five-hour allowance in just minutes.
Google has acknowledged the complaint and is looking into the matter.
Google recently rolled out new compute-based usage limits for its AI plans, changing the way usage quotas are calculated. Instead of a fixed prompt limit, Gemini now uses a credit-style system that takes into account the complexity of prompts, the features being used, and the overall length of conversations.
Under the Google AI Pro plan, these limits refresh every five hours until users eventually hit their broader weekly quota. However, many subscribers say the new system is far more restrictive than before, with one user now reporting that they exhausted their allowance after a single prompt and a few minutes of use.
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A frustrated Google AI Pro user recently shared their experience on X, catching the attention of Google’s Gemini lead, Josh Woodward. The user, Ashutosh Shrivastava, claimed he hit Gemini’s five-hour rate limit after just a single prompt using the app’s avatar-based video generation feature. He even posted a video as proof of how quickly he exhausted his usage limit.
“I started with 0% usage on my five-hour limit, then gave one simple prompt for video generation using the avatar feature,” the user wrote. “It ran for around three to four minutes, hit 100% of the rate limit, and the video generation failed as well.”
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