Ultra Subscriber Since Day 1 — You’re Losing Us, Google.
I’ve been an Antigravity Ultra subscriber since its launch. I run a multi-tenant SaaS platform serving ~100 construction inspection companies in Turkey. AI-assisted coding isn’t a hobby for me — it’s production infrastructure.
Here’s what my $250/month Ultra subscription looks like right now:
10-15 Prompts = Done for the Day
I hit my weekly cap after roughly 10-15 meaningful prompts on Claude Opus 4.6. Not toy prompts. Not “write me a poem.” Production-grade architectural discussions, debugging sessions, multi-file refactors. The kind of work your marketing materials specifically advertise Ultra for.
10 prompts. That’s not a daily limit — that’s a coffee break.
Cognitive Capacity Has Visibly Degraded
The models feel dumber. Same prompt patterns that produced sharp, architecturally-sound responses 2 months ago now return shallow, generic, sometimes completely wrong output. Either:
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You’re silently routing to cheaper model variants behind the same label
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You’re truncating context windows under load
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Or you’re throttling inference quality as users approach their invisible caps
Whichever it is — it’s dishonest. If I order a steak and you serve me a hamburger on a steak plate, it’s still a hamburger.
The Silence is the Worst Part
No changelog. No email. No banner. No acknowledgment. You just… quietly made the product worse and hoped we wouldn’t notice? We noticed. The entire forum noticed.
When your paying customers are literally discussing chargebacks and migrating to standalone Claude subscriptions — and your response is silence — that’s not a communication failure. That’s a strategic choice. And it’s a terrible one.
What We Actually Need (It’s Not Complicated)
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Transparent quotas. Show us exactly what we’re paying for. Tokens per day/week/month. No hidden caps. Show a usage meter — Claude does this on their own platform, why can’t you?
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Consistent model quality. If I’m paying for Claude Opus 4.6, give me the real Claude Opus 4.6. Not a throttled, context-stripped shadow of it.
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Communicate changes BEFORE they happen. This is basic SaaS hygiene. Every $10/month tool does this.
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Respect the contract. We’re paying premium prices. Deliver premium service, or refund the difference.
The Bottom Line
I don’t want to leave. Google’s ecosystem (Vertex, Firebase, Cloud Run) powers my entire stack. Antigravity was the missing piece that made it all click. But right now, I’m paying Google $250/month to use Claude Opus — and getting a worse experience than if I just paid Anthropic directly for a $200 Claude Max subscription with no surprise throttling.
You’re not competing with “other AI tools” anymore. You’re competing with the trust your paying users placed in you. And you’re losing.
Fix it, or watch your Ultra subscriber count drop to zero. We talk to each other. We compare notes. And right now, the consensus is: Ultra is a scam.
An Ultra subscriber who’s running out of patience, not prompts.