Google Probes Gemini 5-Hour Cap After 1 Video Prompt Drains User Allowance

6 articles · Updated · Android Authority · May 26

A Google AI Pro subscriber said one avatar-based video prompt used 100% of a five-hour Gemini allowance in about 3 to 4 minutes, and the generation failed.
Google Gemini lead Josh Woodward replied, “Yikes, let us take a look,” after the user posted video evidence on X showing the cap was exhausted from a single prompt.
The complaint highlights Google’s new compute-based quota system, which now charges by prompt complexity, feature use and conversation length instead of a fixed prompt count.
Users on X and Reddit say the revised limits are harder to predict and more restrictive than before, even as Google has raised some Antigravity quotas by as much as 9x.

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