Woke up today to find out a very frustrating and baffling issue: the API quotas for accounts within the same Family Group are now silently forced into a SHARED pool, instead of being calculated independently as they always were.
I can’t believe this is how Google operates now. If your team wanted to adjust the usage policies for the Free Tier, you could have just sent out an email notice or written it clearly in the official Changelog. People understand business decisions.
But you said absolutely nothing! You just silently cut off the quota in the background. Many of us are simply exploring and testing your APIs alongside our family members, and suddenly today everyone is getting blocked with rate limit errors without any prior warning.
This kind of silent “shadow-nerfing” is incredibly arrogant and unprofessional. Do you guys even care about basic user experience anymore? We deserve a transparent explanation for this unannounced change.
I can only speak for what I’m seeing on my end. The quota in my Family Group is now clearly shared — I have screenshots confirming this. This was not the case before today.
And this is not just me. There are multiple community groups and forums right now flooded with reports from users experiencing the exact same issue overnight. This is clearly a widespread, server-side change — not an isolated case.
This silent “shadow-nerfing” of Family Group quotas is completely unacceptable.
For months you explicitly stated — and users confirmed — that family members on a shared Google AI Pro/Ultra plan each received independent rate limits and quotas. Developers have been relying on this to test and build with Antigravity. Today, without any notice, changelog entry, email, or announcement, you unilaterally flipped the entire system to a shared pool. Now entire families are getting rate-limited together with zero warning.
This is not a minor backend tweak. This is a material change that directly impacts paying customers and free-tier testers. The lack of transparency is arrogant and disrespectful. If you decided to end the independent quota benefit to stop “abuse,” then own it publicly. Don’t just flip the switch in the dark and hope nobody notices until the complaints flood in.
We deserve clear answers immediately:
When exactly did this change take effect?
Is this permanent, or will independent quotas be restored?
Why was there zero communication?
Stop treating your users like they’re too stupid to notice or too powerless to complain. This kind of underhanded policy change destroys trust. Either explain yourselves properly or roll it back.
As you can see, this is not a matter of debate — multiple users are independently reporting the exact same issue. The Family Group quotas have been merged into a shared pool without any prior notice.
@Logan_Kilpatrick We now have multiple confirmed reports with screenshots. This thread, along with several related ones on this very forum, makes it clear that this is a widespread, unannounced change.
We are not asking for anything unreasonable. We simply need:
An official acknowledgment that this change was made.
A clear explanation of whether this is intentional or a bug.
If intentional, a proper announcement with a reasonable transition period — not a silent overnight switch.
What irritates the most is that there is no proper notice or any response on the issues raised with Google developers. Then why purchase the pro plan? We could have used the free developer plan. What is the use of community posts?
The zero-quota display issue you’re seeing is actually a separate problem from the shared quota change.
From what I’ve observed, even when the quota bar shows nothing or appears empty, the account may still have usable quota — it seems to be a display/UI bug rather than an actual hard block.
My guess is that when they modified the backend to merge Family Group quotas into a shared pool, they accidentally broke something in the quota display logic as well. Classic case of tightly coupled code — you touch one thing, something else breaks.
If your account should have quota right now, try using it anyway despite what the UI shows.
I asked Google Help now they told me that:
I have checked the details from my end and exhausted all of my resources to provide you with relevant information.
As per my resources, the baseline quota is shared among all the members of the family plan.
Even if you or your family member exceed the quota, no other family member will be able to use it.
I am truly sorry for the inconvenience caused to you because of this.
That what they told me I don’t know how is that even possible
Thank you @Seif_Moustafa for reaching out to Google Help directly.
So there we have it — official confirmation straight from Google support:
“The baseline quota is shared among all the members of the family plan.”
This is exactly what I reported in my original post. The quota is now shared. One family member exhausts it, everyone gets locked out.
And yet — there was ZERO prior announcement. No email. No changelog. No transition period. Nothing.
This is no longer speculation. This is a confirmed, unannounced policy change that directly impacts every single Family Plan user. We need an official public statement from the team, not a quiet admission through a support chat.
