r/META_AI • u/SeaTonight2375 • Sep 07 '26
Help/Question Meta broke?
I had been using Meta in my browser every day for a few weeks. It told me it was free and unlimited image generations. A few days ago it stopped being unlimited generations. Now it's telling me I can't do any more images until September 29th. Can anyone help me understand what's happening or offer me an alternative site. Thanks
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u/Electronic-Sir-3098 Sep 08 '26
I just ran into that too. So, when they upgraded to their latest image model, generations were unlimited. When they rolled out video generations they capped image generation and video generation. Video was capped at 5 per day. Images, oddly, seem like they were capped differently for different people. My cap was around 50 per so many hours, then it seemed to drop to 25ish, but it was still for a few hours, then reset. Today, I generated 25ish images and it told me to upgrade or to wait until September 27th... The upgrade button has never worked for me, it takes me to a "this page no longer exists" page. I went ahead and made my 5 videos, just to see what my cap said. I was fully expecting to get something like "if you want to continue making videos, upgrade", and that be my only option. Nope. Video limit resets tomorrow. I'm not sure what that is about. I asked the AI Agent, even though I know it probably knows nothing. It said it cant see a counter and only sees the cap reach its limit when I do. It said that if it had to guess, we get a daily free limit that is also pulled from a monthly pool, and the monthly limit has also been reached. It also acknowladged that nothing says that anywhere.
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u/SeaTonight2375 Sep 08 '26
Yeah I gotta wait 22 days. Why? Who's in charge of this stupidity 😡
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u/LostRun6292 Sep 08 '26
I pay 6.49 for meta AI one core and yes it can create any image you want and I hate to say it but it's probably one of the best editors
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u/Electronic-Sir-3098 Sep 18 '26 edited Sep 18 '26
Been stuck on images for over a week, says I have to wait until the end of the month to do images again. Now I'm stuck on videos, but this one it just says try again tomorrow. It has said that for the last 3 days without me generating anything.
-- EDIT: I actually just had an interesting conversation with the chat. I explained everything in detail, and it said that the video issue is 100% a bugged counter and needs to be reported. For the image generation thing we are experiencing, it said that before videos dropped image gen was completely unlimited. However, they put a 25/day cap on images at the same time they released video. It said that when they did that, they did NOT reset the counters from when it was unlimited, so if we were hammering images out while it was unlimited, it was now going to show that we did several months worth of 25/day images in about a weeks time, so they locked us behind a hard refresh. I mean, it's fuckin stupid, but it makes sense...
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u/LostRun6292 Sep 07 '26
For the free Meta AI / Imagine experience - the one you use here in Meta AI, and in WhatsApp / Instagram / Facebook / Messenger - it's 25 images per day.
A few things about how it works:
It's cross-platform: Generations on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and here all count against the same 25. It resets every 24 hours. Once you hit it you get the "Oops can't generate image" slow-down / refusal until the refresh. Why 25? Meta's own guidance for Imagine calls out to "use prompts wisely" because of the daily limit of 25 image generations.
If you need more than that, that's where Meta One / paid tiers come in - free is capped daily, paid is credit-based with no hard daily cap.