Gemini Pro – A Google AI Pro subscriber says a single failed Gemini avatar video-generation prompt consumed their entire five-hour compute-based usage cap within minutes. After the user posted proof on X and Google’s Gemini lead responded, the company acknowledged the issu
The first thing Ashutosh Shrivastava said to remember is that his five-hour limit started at 0%. The second is how quickly it vanished.
Shrivastava. a Google AI Pro subscriber. posted on X claiming that one prompt in Gemini’s app avatar-based video generation feature pushed his five-hour rate limit to 100% in just minutes. He said the video generation ran for around three to four minutes. then the rate limit hit its cap. and the video generation failed as well.
In the proof shared alongside the post. Shrivastava described the sequence plainly: he began with 0% usage. gave one simple prompt for video generation using the avatar feature. watched it run for three to four minutes. and saw it reach 100% of the five-hour rate limit before the attempt ended in failure.
The complaint didn’t stay buried. Gemini lead Josh Woodward responded on X with a short message: “Yikes, let us take a look!”
Google has since acknowledged the issue and said it is looking into it, as frustration grows around Gemini’s updated quota approach.
The change at the center of these complaints is compute-based limits on Gemini. Instead of a fixed prompt limit. Gemini now uses a credit-style system that accounts for the complexity of prompts. the features being used. and the overall length of conversations. Under the Google AI Pro plan, the limits refresh every five hours until users eventually hit their broader weekly quota.
For many subscribers, the new model has made usage feel less predictable. Shrivastava’s account is part of a wider pattern of people saying the system is more restrictive than what they saw before compute-based limits.
Before the update, users generally described Gemini usage as more predictable. Now. multiple complaints say it’s hard to judge how much a single task will cost in “credits. ” even for actions that seem straightforward. Some of that criticism has been showing up on the Gemini subreddit. where users complain that the updated limits are significantly tighter than the previous experience.
The tension for paying customers is simple: AI tools that depend on reliability are suddenly tied to caps that feel like they can drain instantly. With Woodward’s response and Google’s decision to look into Shrivastava’s report. the immediate question is what caused the five-hour allowance to be consumed so quickly—especially when the video generation attempt failed.
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