Google Replaces Gemini Prompt Caps With Compute-Based Limits, Adding 5-Hour and Weekly Quotas
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Updated · Android Police · May 20
Google Replaces Gemini Prompt Caps With Compute-Based Limits, Adding 5-Hour and Weekly Quotas
4 articles · Updated · Android Police · May 20
Google said at I/O 2026 that Gemini will no longer count daily prompts, shifting usage limits to a compute-based system tied to prompt complexity, features used and chat length.
Five-hour and weekly caps will now govern access, bringing Gemini closer to ChatGPT and Claude; heavy users running coding, Deep Research or media-generation tasks may hit limits faster than before.
Standard limits apply without a plan, while AI Plus raises capacity 2x, AI Pro 4x and AI Ultra 20x above Pro. Once users hit a cap, Gemini will switch them to a smaller model.
AI Pro and Ultra subscribers will also be able to buy pay-as-you-go AI credits to keep working, with those credits slated for Gemini, Flow and Antigravity.
The change lands alongside Google's new $100 AI Ultra offering and a $50 cut that brings the top-tier plan to $200 a month, underscoring a broader reset of its AI pricing and usage model.
Google claims its new AI limits are about cost, but are users just being quietly pushed towards more expensive plans?
As Google's AI Pro plan shifts to a credit system, is the era of unlimited, flat-rate AI subscriptions coming to an end?