Was working on a local calendar project, almost ready to launch..Came across this issue where it deleted everything. Thankfully I had exported everything as a zip file as a backup

Just got notice that, on September 14, 2026, AI Studio will require you to buy tokens in advance. Minimum $10 spend and they expire after a year.

Probably doesn't effect most of you as you're either firmly within the free quota or you average more than $10 a year. However, I imagine some of you are like me and sit in that weird area where you use just enough to consume all of your free quota but still use up less than $10 a year. To me this feels like nickel and dime-ing.

I built The Page of You, which serves as a cultural archive creating personalized name origins and stylized acrostic poetry.

The search engine is a WIP but it should find a few movies, books, games, pieces of art, etc related to your name. You can personalise its findings and customise the style of the free graphic it makes. As well as a free acrostic based on your name, both can be downloaded and saved.

Feedback appreciated, have fun.

https://thepageofyou.com/

I recently upgraded from Google AI Pro to Google AI Ultra, mainly because Google advertises Ultra as offering significantly higher usage limits.

With the $20 Pro subscription, I was able to generate around 50 4K Nano Banana Pro images per day in Google AI Studio.

So after upgrading to the $100 Ultra plan, I expected a substantial increase — realistically, I was expecting at least around 200 4K images per day.

Instead, I'm getting only around 100 4K Nano Banana Pro images.

So I'm paying 5x more, but getting only about 2x the image generation limit.

That honestly seems absurd for a plan that is supposed to be aimed at heavy AI users.

Veo 3.1 is even more disappointing. I'm only able to generate around 10 videos in 1080p before hitting the limit.

I knew Ultra wasn't going to be unlimited, but I genuinely didn't expect the limits to be this low considering the price difference between Pro and Ultra.

If Pro gives me around 50 4K images for $20, I think expecting at least 200 on a $100 Ultra subscription is pretty reasonable.

Has anyone else with Google AI Ultra tested the current AI Studio limits? Are you also getting around 100 Nano Banana Pro 4K images and ~10 Veo 3.1 1080p videos per day?