[BUG] Google AI Pro - Baseline quota refresh showing 7-days lock instead of advertised 5-hour reset in Antigravity

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Hello Google Team,

I am an active Google AI Pro subscriber, and I am experiencing a severe quota issue in Antigravity that contradicts the official documentation.

According to Google Antigravity

Users on Google AI Pro receive: High, generous quota, refreshed every five hours.
However, my actual experience is as follows:

Error message: “Your plan’s baseline quota will refresh on 16.03.2026, 19:10:46. To continue using this model now, enable AI Credit overages.”

This means a lockout of approximately 3-4 days (from March 1, 2026), not the advertised rolling 5-hour refresh.

Quota display in settings/models: N/A (or 0%).

I have exhausted the quota quickly due to normal usage in Antigravity (e.g., agent tasks, coding, etc.), but the reset is not happening every 5 hours as promised.

Flash model is available but unusable for my needs (performance too low for complex tasks).

This is not the first time; similar lockouts have occurred recently, and I’ve seen multiple reports from other Pro users with 4-10 day resets instead of 5 hours (e.g., threads on discuss.ai.google.dev like [BUG] Google AI Pro — 5-day Gemini lockout, or quota not resetting every 5 hours).

Expected behavior:

Quota should refresh every 5 hours on a rolling basis for Pro plan users, allowing continued access without multi-day waits.
Actual behavior:

Multi-day lockout applied (baseline quota treated like weekly/free tier reset).

Prevents effective use of Pro-tier models (Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude, etc.) in Antigravity.

Steps to reproduce:

Use Antigravity with Pro-tier models until quota is exhausted.

Receive the baseline quota refresh message showing a future date several days away (in my case: 2026/3/16 19:10:46).

No access to high-tier models until that date, despite active Pro subscription.

Request:

Please investigate this as a systemic bug affecting many Pro users in 2026.

Manually reset my quota to restore immediate access.

Ensure my account returns to the correct 5-hour rolling refresh cycle going forward.

Provide any workaround or ETA for fix if known.

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Hello @Rijeka, welcome to AI Forum!

To provide you with greater control and a seamless path to scale, we are evolving our Google AI plans by introducing built-in AI credits that can now be utilized directly within Antigravity.

Under this updated structure, our Google AI Pro tier is tailored for practical builders, offering generous limits for Gemini Flash alongside a baseline quota to experience our most advanced premium models. For developers operating at the highest scale who require consistent, high-volume access to our most complex models, Google AI Ultra serves as the ideal comprehensive solution.
Furthermore, we’ve designed these plans with maximum flexibility in mind; if you are on the Pro plan and require additional capacity or deeper premium access for intensive development sprints, you can seamlessly top up your AI credits to customize your limits and continue shipping your best work without interruption.

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Welcome to the club buddy

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When offering a powerful product like Gemini and pairing it with Antigravity that can run multiple agents, it seems unfair to have such strict quotas when the next upgrade option from Pro 10 TB to Ultra 20 TB is almost 5 times more without strictly advertising this in any of your documentation! Waiting 7 days to wait for a quota refresh is absurd and completely arbitrary. As much as I love the product I am feeling embarrassed by not realizing sooner that we are the product.

Even your own product cannot find this documentation. Qoting from Gemini, "There is no official documentation for Google Gemini (Google AI Studio / Vertex AI) or Google Antigravity that states quotas require a 5 to 7-day waiting period to refresh.

If you are experiencing a multi-day lockout or have encountered references to a 5 to 7-day delay, it is typically caused by one of three specific operational scenarios rather than a standard rolling quota reset:

1. The Standard Quota Reset Window

Official documentation specifies that standard Gemini API rate limits and quotas operate on short, rolling windows:

  • RPM: Requests Per Minute

  • TPM: Tokens Per Minute

  • RPD: Requests Per Day (Resets completely every 24 hours)

Standard quotas do not have a weekly cyclical reset window. If your account is completely blocked for longer than 24 hours, it is not a standard rate-limiting event.

2. Manual Appeals and Limit Increase Requests

The only time a 5 to 7 business day window explicitly applies in the context of Google Cloud / Vertex AI quotas is during a manual quota increase request.

  • When a developer requests an increase for Tier limits or production capacity via the Google Cloud Console, the request triggers a manual review by Google’s trust, safety, and engineering teams.

  • The standard automated boilerplate response for these compliance and capacity reviews states that approval may take several business days to process.

3. Account Safety Suspensions vs. Quota Exhaustion

If an automated system flags an account for a potential terms of service violation (such as rapid, repeated exhaustion of the free-tier limits or hitting safety filters), the account can be placed in a temporary cooldown or administrative lock. These safety holds often last a week while the account status is evaluated, but this is an administrative suspension rather than a documented “quota refresh period.”

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I have the same issue , I am blocked for 5 days , this mean that I lost 5 days from my monthly subsriptions and I can’t utilize the AI agents !!! and if I am blocked another 5 days during the month this mean that 30% of my subscription period I am blockeed !!!..

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Hi @Husam_Abu_Zahra,

Welcome to the Forum,

The AI Pro subscription has a 5 hour rolling limit for daily tasks, but it also has a weekly baseline limit. If your usage hits that weekly limit, the system triggers a cooldown until the next weekly cycle starts. That is why you are experiencing such a long block.

If you’re regularly hitting that weekly limit, you can turn on AI Credits in your settings. That way, you can just pay for the extra usage you need during high demand tasks instead of getting blocked.