Google has changed Gemini's usage limits starting May 17, 2026.
With the change, users are required to update the Gemini mobile app to the latest version on both Android and iOS devices to ensure the best user experience. Along with the update, Gemini's user interface has also been revamped, and personal usage limits can now be easily viewed directly in the app's settings.
Your own usage can be easily seen in the settings
However, the new restrictions only apply to users over 18, meaning that for minors, the usage limits remain unchanged.
The biggest change concerns how the consumption of the AI service is measured. Google is abandoning traditional fixed message limits and moving to compute-power-based usage restrictions that reset every five hours until a broader weekly limit is reached.
When calculating usage consumption, the complexity of the prompt, the features used, and the overall length of the conversation are taken into account. For the consumer, this means that complex and long conversations can exhaust the five-hour quota significantly faster than before.
Gemini's model and thinking level can be more comprehensively adjusted in the settings.
Premium models and special features consume the quota most efficiently, which can lead to hitting limits very quickly. Such heavier functions include, for example, creating images, videos, and music, Deep Research searches, utilizing the Pro model, as well as an extended thought process and the Deep Think function.
Paid users have higher limits than those without a Google AI subscription. Compared to the standard limits for free users, an AI Plus subscription offers a double quota, and an AI Pro subscription offers a quadruple quota.
The biggest difference has been made to the most expensive AI Ultra tier, whose usage limit is as much as 20 times higher than for AI Pro subscribers.
However, Ultra is much, much more expensive than AI Pro.
Your own usage can be easily seen in the settings
However, the new restrictions only apply to users over 18, meaning that for minors, the usage limits remain unchanged.
The biggest change concerns how the consumption of the AI service is measured. Google is abandoning traditional fixed message limits and moving to compute-power-based usage restrictions that reset every five hours until a broader weekly limit is reached.
When calculating usage consumption, the complexity of the prompt, the features used, and the overall length of the conversation are taken into account. For the consumer, this means that complex and long conversations can exhaust the five-hour quota significantly faster than before.
Premium models and special features consume the quota most efficiently, which can lead to hitting limits very quickly. Such heavier functions include, for example, creating images, videos, and music, Deep Research searches, utilizing the Pro model, as well as an extended thought process and the Deep Think function.
Paid users have higher limits than those without a Google AI subscription. Compared to the standard limits for free users, an AI Plus subscription offers a double quota, and an AI Pro subscription offers a quadruple quota.
The biggest difference has been made to the most expensive AI Ultra tier, whose usage limit is as much as 20 times higher than for AI Pro subscribers.
However, Ultra is much, much more expensive than AI Pro.
