AI Limit Watcher

• Jun 2026Windsurf—→Product identity shifts from code-first IDE to agent hub
• Jun 2026Cursor—↓Teams re-priced into two pools
• Jun 2026GitHub Copilot—↓Switched to metered AI Credits, no fallback
• Jun 2026GitHub Copilot—↓Agentic usage bills jump 10-50x
• May 2026Gemini—↑Partial walk-back after complaints
• May 2026Gemini—↓Moved to opaque compute-based limits

5 tightening · 3 shifting · 4 steady

• “Blew past my five-hour limit after a single Claude Code prompt.” Claude source
• “Limits feel inconsistent and change without notice.” ChatGPT
• “Quota changed without prior notice and is very confusing.” Cursor
• “Free Gemini Pro access disappeared overnight.” Gemini
• “You have exceeded your premium request allowance.” GitHub Copilot
• “Bought an annual Pro subscription and the limits got quietly gutted.” Perplexity
• “The credit-to-quota switch changed how much I can actually do per day.” Windsurf
• “My credits now expire after six months — they didn't before.” Replit
• “The $300 Heavy tier is steep for what you get.” Grok
• “Cheap per-token, but the model lineup churns — V3.1, then V3.2-Exp, now V4, with deprecation dates each time.” DeepSeek
• “Video eats fast hours fast — about 8x an image job, so a Basic plan drains in no time.” Midjourney
• “Pinned eleven_multilingual_v1 in production — then it got a December removal date and I had to re-validate every voice.” ElevenLabs

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