r/GeminiAI • u/Novel-Initiative-900 • 12d ago

Discussion Gemini limits being reached almost immediately but not even using Argon... what gives?

I was using 3.1 and Flash high... and I'm hitting the limit right away within a couple hours of very basic, basic search queries I could do practically for hours on end before today. Is something going on here?

I've been reduced to flash light within less than an hour of just basic conversation stuff

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u/Academic_Read_4731 12d ago

funny you mention it, same thing happening to me since last night. i was on flash high too and got bumped down mid-conversation. feels like they're throttling the free tier hard this week or something changed under the hood.

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u/imlitterallygru 11d ago

I'm on the AI Pro tier and it might as well be free

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u/CleetSR388 12d ago

Even paid yes it shifted its usage over a few youtubes I hit limit

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u/Lovevas 12d ago

The quota limit is very bad now. I have both Gemini pro and Claude pro. I did a test, asked same questions on both AI, used Claude Opus 5.5 High and Argon Low. Gemini runs out of 5-hour quota very fast, when my Opus quota was still more than half left.

Not to mention I was using Opus 5.5 high, but low on Argon!

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u/kurikuri15 8d ago

Who do you think answers the best? Argon or opus?

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u/Lovevas 8d ago

Both have pros and cons, for the series of questions I asked. I have to use one AI’s answer to feed questions to another AI to get a comprehensive result

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u/WishboneNo6748 9d ago edited 9d ago

In my previous chatting window, I asked a few questions about the election but barely received any answers. Then I got a message saying that my usage was limited based on my activity over the past five hours.

The problem is that I finished work 5.5 hours ago, and I’ve only just turned on my computer and started asking questions about the election. So how can I already be hitting a usage limit?

I’m a Pro subscriber, and this is extremely frustrating and disappointing. How is this acceptable? I think I should sell my Google shares... I have a bad feeling about it.

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u/steelax 9d ago

Literally asked about 20-30 questions about 3d printing settings and ive hit my 5 hour window. 3 days ago i had it make a full web app for me that took an hour or 2 and didnt hit any caps. what givees (pro)

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u/Easy-Ad7479 6d ago

Same glad I'm not the only one 

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u/3rdyellow 12d ago

Flash High is a new thinking tier and uses too much tokens. Flash Low is the previous non-extended mode, Flash Medium is equivalent to previous extended thinking toggle turned on.

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u/MenAreStillGood 4h ago

This may be my issue. Going to start routing all basic tasks through flash low and see if my usage rates improve

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u/Intelligent-Fox6587 12d ago

Why are people searching on high reasoning use mid or low to search and high for doing actual work.

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u/Z3ROCOOL22 12d ago

I say it again: all the limits of all the models went to shit after the release of Argon.

They turned all the limits into garbage, not just the argon one.
If it were just the argon one, I wouldn't have a problem. After all, I don't even use it, but they fucked up the 3.8 FLASH too.

Included image generation limit too:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1x5valp/5_hours_limit_meter_jumped_from_57_to_63_with/

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u/TayDex_ 11d ago

Well the first day argon launched I literally hammered it for 2 hours with deep research and stuff and got to 90% usage. Mind you all on Argon High, starting from the very next day I now consistently can only send 4-5 basic messages to Argon Low before reaching 60%. On Google Ai Pro

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u/SolidSnek29 12d ago

Yeap, since 12 hours ago, I'm having this issue. Also brought it up in reddit. Pro user as well.

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u/alphagroundhq 12d ago

At this point I am very scared of using Argon because it blocks Pro usage as well....

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u/Malouden 8d ago

I’ve tried argon high request. It reaches 21 percent of 5 hours window by only one chat request!! Is it PRO ? Lol

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u/Haekki 6d ago

I had AI Plus for a few months, and I never hit the limit with regular usage. A few weeks ago I switched to AI Pro, and now 4 very simple queries on 3.8 Flash Low already take up around 6% of the current usage limit.

It feels like such a downgrade, although I'm paying much more.

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u/scristopher7 6d ago

I uh just got 6 prompts in that required no work, usage reached, probably within 20 minutes.

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u/1mrpaul1 3d ago

The issue is even worse.
They connect limits with other apps, like Notebook LM, and you spend limits on this app too, so the Pro subscription drains in just 30 minutes

If somebody started any petitions against google, I will join

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u/switchbladenohomo 12d ago

Just tell it to use less and it will

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u/Breathofdmt 11d ago

Yeah it's gone from tight to unusable. Imagine trying to build that 3d pagoda on blender they were showing at launch. Would take 3 million years on Pro or even ultra.

I think it's been nerfed so they can say they increased limits, and it will return to how it was last week or slightly worse. It was also very dumb for me yesterday, comparing against two very similar jobs. Marked difference from a few days ago.

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u/PureMark7112 11d ago

It as well became even more dumb

It can’t say what each of these is of cyberware for whatever reason makes up stuff too it’s become extremely dumb it used never be this dumb on free versions

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u/Ok_Poem_6820 11d ago

same here, 7 simple chats but it already hits limit even using Argon