I can genuinely feel that pain. You should honestly try a few alternatives if you want — like Opencode, Kimi, MiniMax, and some of the newer cheaper models too.
If your work is more focused on writing, coding, architecture, or deep reasoning workflows, Claude still honestly feels on top in many cases. But DeepSeek V4 and a lot of newer models are becoming surprisingly good as well, especially considering the pricing difference.
Right now the smartest thing is probably not staying loyal to just one ecosystem. Try different tools, test what actually fits your workflow, and keep switching depending on what gives you the best experience for the cost.
Why can’t we easily integrate gemma4:e4b, e2b, or other models to be able to continue working when we hit that stupid hourly limit? Gemma4 is a google product.
I tried all the most popular AI companies for a month each and came back to Google just today, thinking “ok, I’ve found my favorite”. One of my biggest gripes against Claude was running into rate limits maybe once a week. Now with Google I ran into rate limits after just 4 hours! Until that time, 3.1 Pro was less help on the mathematics side than I hoped, so being forced to use Flash is a no-go.
You should post your prompts. It would be interesting to know what you were doing that managed to use this much quota this quickly. (And you should include in the screenshot what plan you’re on.)
The Google AI Pro plan is useless now. The last couple of days, I was hitting the 5-hour block limits in less than 2 hours. I had to take 3-hour breaks all the time. So I used less than 6 hours per day. And now it says I have to wait 3 days. I was on Gemini 3.5 flash low.
This feels like a 20X or 30X reduction on what it used to be. Before, I could be working non-stop for 4 hours, then would hit the limit. I would take a 1-hour break and be fine. Never hit any weekly limits. Now you can blow through a week’s limits in less than 2 days, and that is taking long breaks on each 5-hour block.
It’s time to reconsider paying for a Google’s coding plan. I can’t stop doing work for 3 days. Today I’ll move the project to another IDE or continue with an extension (in that case, I may just use VSC). And in 3 days, I won’t be back. No one wants to move their project around every few days. So most likely this is the end of my relationship with Google.
