Performance Regression & Aggressive Rate Limiting (429) following recent Google AI Studio UI Update.

Google AI Studio
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Description:
Since the recent UI update of Google AI Studio (from the basic B&W interface to the new colored gradient theme), there has been a severe degradation in API performance and aggressive rate-limiting for Web UI users.

Observations:

  1. Aggressive Throttling: The system hits the 429 Too Many Requests (Quota limited) limit significantly faster than the previous version, even with identical token usage and prompt frequency.

  2. Frontend Resource Drain: The new UI animations and aesthetic changes seem to cause unnecessary background lag, leading to latency in rendering the output.

  3. Peak Hour Drop: During GMT+7 peak hours (13:00 - 15:00), the token bucket algorithm appears to drop requests mercilessly, making the Web UI almost unusable for consistent testing.

Impact:
The new UI aesthetic does not justify the massive drop in actual performance and usability. It disrupts the context window and forces manual data clearing just to keep the session alive.

Request:
Please audit the rate-limiting algorithm (quota) tied to the new UI update, or provide an option to revert to the “Classic/Basic” UI to save browser resources.

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Hi

Thank you for reaching out

Would it be possible to share a few details with me

  1. Models you are seeing the 429s for
  2. UI animation, - could you share a recording of the same via DM ? Also if you could share the app Id where you are experiencing this ( Also via DM)