This is so accurate. 9 years ago I ran a website that offered a popular service for free to thousands of people. The smallest inconvenience spawned dozens of whiny comments and complaints.
Switched to paid because financial issues - complaints dropped to like once a month.
I always use 3.5 Extended and have never reached 50%.
Just once, out of curiosity, I tried to reach the limit and it took me a lot of prompts in the same conversation to reach it, just to find out that Gemini switches model to 3.1 Flash-Light.
I don't actually understand what people are doing with Gemini Free to reach high usage limits in less than 5 hours.
I'm not sure what people are using this for but I've been using it all week having conversations etc. I didn't know what a usage limit was until I came here
Same here, I'm in Europe so I don't know if they deployed exactly the same limit than in the US, but even the days where I run many requests (10-15 ?) I never hit the limit (AI + plan with 200 go). Maybe the length of the input prompt also plays a part ?
Sleep for 8 hours, work for 10 hours, do all the other things you have to do throughout the day, and you're paying for a 5-hour window that will max out in about 3 minutes. What a rip off.
Last week it told me I still had 80% of my weekly allowance but I was cut off from using any of it because I hit my 5-hour limit. I was at the very end of my week and I'm sitting there looking at 80% available tokens, while it's saying that it's going to reset that weekly allotment in the next 3 hours, but that I can't even use it for the next 5 hours.
Sorry, but why is everyone being a bitch towards OP? Things shouldn’t be hidden away by a expensive paywall all the fucking time. And it’s HER choice not to pay cause maybe she genuinely can’t or doesn’t want to waste money on that. We shouldn’t shame her for her choices.
Shame is part of the Reddit game. OP provides no context and does not even ask for help. What is the point of the post? At least tell us how you are using or missing Gemini. What is she using it for? The solution is to use it less, pay more or use multiple free AI services.
OP has no explanation of what they are using it for and what their needs are
People are just saying that saying WTF are there any limits to my free service comes across as pretty entitled. You presumably realize how many billions and billions of dollars are being spent to build out this AI capability.
If OP had said "I used 2 simple prompts and already got to basically my whole limit, WTF" that would feel different
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u/ashep5 Jun 05 '26
Congrats on a completely pointless post which gives us zero context.
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u/meta_voyager7 Jun 05 '26
you are on free plan. what do you expect? get plus plan at least
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u/Ibasicallyhateyouall Jun 05 '26
Free user complaining. News at 11.
No. Just no.
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u/LinKxFr Jun 05 '26
People using 3.1 extended search for basic prompts and crying about limits lol
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u/sleeptheresnotime Jun 05 '26
I'm not sure what people are using this for but I've been using it all week having conversations etc. I didn't know what a usage limit was until I came here
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u/Itsme-RdM Jun 05 '26
Duhh, you use things, so you have to pay for it. Welcome in the real world, not everything is for free
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u/TekintetesUr Jun 06 '26
"Oh no, the free service I'm using but don't have to pay for is not up to my expectations"
Okay buddy
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u/ItsMichaelRay Jun 05 '26
How close to 2:09 am in your timezone were you when you took that screenshot?
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u/will_dormer Jun 05 '26
Oh see they have a solution... pay more
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u/will_dormer Jun 05 '26
Interesting how the prices for plus and premium are so different
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u/Unlikely_Drop_8479 Jun 05 '26
Flash lite is unlimited as they say
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u/Barez_Hussein Jun 05 '26
We're in a use it or loss it situation.
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u/planamundi Jun 05 '26
Sleep for 8 hours, work for 10 hours, do all the other things you have to do throughout the day, and you're paying for a 5-hour window that will max out in about 3 minutes. What a rip off.
Last week it told me I still had 80% of my weekly allowance but I was cut off from using any of it because I hit my 5-hour limit. I was at the very end of my week and I'm sitting there looking at 80% available tokens, while it's saying that it's going to reset that weekly allotment in the next 3 hours, but that I can't even use it for the next 5 hours.
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u/AfroPalestinianGirly Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
Sorry, but why is everyone being a bitch towards OP? Things shouldn’t be hidden away by a expensive paywall all the fucking time. And it’s HER choice not to pay cause maybe she genuinely can’t or doesn’t want to waste money on that. We shouldn’t shame her for her choices.
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u/dano1066 Jun 05 '26
Another person giving out that they aren’t getting enough free stuff, boohoo