https://getaitools.dev/changelog Every change to AI free tiers we catch: limit cuts, new free tiers, killed plans. Hand-verified, dated. Subscribe once, stop getting surprised by silent cuts. en Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:41:36 +0000 https://getaitools.dev/service/perplexity https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-perplexity-limits Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 chat Before: ~5 Pro searches / day -- After: ~5 Pro searches / day, a few Deep Research runs / day https://getaitools.dev/service/perplexity https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-perplexity-catch Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 chat Before: No Deep Research, Labs or premium model picker on the free plan. -- After: No Labs or premium model picker on the free plan; Deep Research is capped to a handful of runs a day. (Correction: Perplexity's own Deep Research announcement says non-subscribers get a limited number of runs per day, so 'No Deep Research' was too absolute.) https://getaitools.dev/service/cerebras https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-cerebras-whats_free Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 api Before: Fastest inference around (~2,000 tokens/sec) on Llama-family models. -- After: Fastest inference around (~2,000 tokens/sec) on a rotating lineup of open-weight models (Llama, Qwen, GPT-OSS). https://getaitools.dev/service/cerebras https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-cerebras-catch Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 api Before: Small model selection compared to other providers. -- After: Small model lineup that rotates often: a model you rely on can disappear from the free tier. https://getaitools.dev/service/ideogram https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-ideogram-whats_free Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 image Before: Daily credits, no watermark, best-in-class text rendering inside images. Commercial use explicitly allowed. -- After: Weekly credits, no watermark, best-in-class text rendering inside images. Commercial use explicitly allowed. https://getaitools.dev/service/ideogram https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-ideogram-limits Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 image Before: 10 credits/day, slow queue -- After: 10 slow credits/week, resets Saturday 00:00 UTC (Correction: Ideogram's official pricing page lists the free allowance as weekly, not daily. Flagged by a ChatGPT cross-check.) https://getaitools.dev/service/ideogram https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-ideogram-catch Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 image Before: Free generations are public in the community gallery. -- After: Free generations are public in the community gallery, and the weekly allowance is a fraction of the old 10/day. https://getaitools.dev/service/google-flow-ex-imagefx-whisk https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-google-flow-ex-imagefx-whisk-limits Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 image Before: Monthly credit allowance -- After: 50 credits/day, no rollover; free credits cover Veo 3.1 Lite/Fast/Quality only (Pinned down from Google's official Flow help page (support.google.com/flow/answer/16526234).) https://getaitools.dev/service/stable-diffusion-flux-local https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-stable-diffusion-flux-local-catch Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 image Before: Needs a GPU (8GB+ VRAM for comfort) and some setup patience. Check each model's license. -- After: Needs a GPU (8GB+ VRAM for comfort) and some setup patience. Licenses differ per model: FLUX.1 schnell is Apache-2.0, FLUX.1 dev is non-commercial. https://getaitools.dev/service/luma-dream-machine https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-luma-dream-machine-whats_free Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 video Before: Small daily credit pool in the Dream Machine app. -- After: Small monthly credit pool in the Dream Machine web and iOS apps. https://getaitools.dev/service/luma-dream-machine https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-luma-dream-machine-limits Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 video Before: Roughly one short 720p clip per day, no audio -- After: Monthly credits: web amount unpublished, iOS app lists 250/mo. 720p drafts, no audio (Correction: Luma's official pricing support page describes monthly credits, not a daily pool.) https://getaitools.dev/service/luma-dream-machine https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-luma-dream-machine-catch Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 video Before: Permanent watermark, non-commercial only, and unused daily credits don't roll over. -- After: Permanent watermark, non-commercial only, and Luma doesn't publish the web free credit amount. https://getaitools.dev/service/claude https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-claude-limits Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 chat Before: Daily message cap, varies with demand -- After: ~15-40 msgs per 5 h session window, varies with demand (Wording clarification, not a Claude change: the cap is a 5-hour session window, not daily.) https://getaitools.dev/service/gemini-api https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-gemini-api-whats_free Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 api Before: Real ongoing free tier on most Gemini models via AI Studio, including multimodal. -- After: Real ongoing free tier on Gemini Flash models via AI Studio, including multimodal. https://getaitools.dev/service/gemini-api https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-gemini-api-limits Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 api Before: Per model, e.g. Flash ~1,500 req/day, Pro ~50 req/day. Resets midnight PT -- After: Flash only, e.g. Gemini 3 Flash ~1,500 req/day; exact per-project quotas shown in AI Studio (Pro models left the free tier in April 2026; Google no longer publishes exact free-tier quotas.) https://getaitools.dev/service/gemini-api https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-gemini-api-catch Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 api Before: Enabling billing on the project kills the free tier instantly. Free-tier data may be used for training. -- After: Pro models were pulled from the free tier in April 2026. Enabling billing on the project kills the free tier instantly. Free-tier data may be used for training. https://getaitools.dev/service/openrouter https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-openrouter-limits Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 api Before: 200 req/day across free models -- After: 50 req/day (20 req/min) across free models (Correction: the 200/day figure was outdated. OpenRouter's cap is 50/day without a one-time $10 credit purchase, 1,000/day with it.) https://getaitools.dev/service/antigravity-cli https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-antigravity-cli-added Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 code Now tracked: Terminal coding agent on Gemini models with a personal Google account. Successor to Gemini CLI, which Google shut down for consumer accounts on June 18, 2026. (Replaces the Gemini CLI row. Free quota is roughly 20 agent requests/day, shared with the Antigravity IDE.) https://getaitools.dev/service/windsurf-free https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-windsurf-free-limits Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 code Before: ~25 agent (Cascade) actions/month -- After: Daily/weekly quota, ~5 agent (Cascade) actions/day (Correction of our earlier listing: the March 2026 quota is daily, not monthly.) https://getaitools.dev/service/windsurf-free https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-windsurf-free-catch Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 code Before: Pricing was overhauled in March 2026 (credits replaced by quotas); premium models stay gated to paid plans. -- After: Pricing was overhauled in March 2026 (credits replaced by daily/weekly quotas); premium models stay gated to paid plans. https://getaitools.dev/service/suno https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-suno-catch Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 audio Before: No commercial use, no stem separation, shared (slower) queue. -- After: No commercial use and no downloads: free songs are listen-only inside Suno since the late-2025 Warner deal. Shared (slower) queue. (Downloads were removed for free accounts after the late-2025 Warner licensing deal; recorded when caught.) https://getaitools.dev/service/antigravity-cli https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-04-gemini-cli-removed Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 code Was: Full terminal coding agent with a personal Google account. (Shut down by Google for consumer accounts on 2026-06-18; successor is Antigravity CLI. Flagged by a reader via the corrections form.) https://getaitools.dev/service/groq https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-02-groq-limits Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 api Before: ~30 req/min, 14,400 req/day (llama-3.3-70b) -- After: ~30 req/min, 1,000 req/day, 100K tokens/day (llama-3.3-70b) (Cut happened earlier in 2026; recorded when verified.) https://getaitools.dev/service/openai-anthropic-apis https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-02-openai-api-whats_free Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 api Before: One-time $5 welcome credit for new accounts (discontinued mid-2025) -- After: Daily free-token allowance with API data-sharing opt-in: up to ~1M tokens/day on frontier models, ~10M/day on mini models (Recorded when verified; the data-sharing program replaced the welcome credit.) https://getaitools.dev/service/google-flow-ex-imagefx-whisk https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-02-google-imagefx-whisk-removed Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 image Was: Free Imagen-family generation with a Google account (Shut down April 2026, folded into Google Flow.) https://getaitools.dev/service/google-flow-ex-imagefx-whisk https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-02-google-flow-added Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 image Now tracked: Imagen image generation and limited Veo video with a Google account, monthly credit allowance (Successor to ImageFX and Whisk.) https://getaitools.dev/service/windsurf-free https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-02-windsurf-limits Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 code Before: Monthly prompt-credit allowance -- After: Unlimited Tab autocomplete, ~25 agent (Cascade) actions/month (Pricing overhauled March 2026: credits replaced by daily/weekly quotas.) https://getaitools.dev/service/gemini https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-02-gemini-limits Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 chat Before: Daily message caps, unpublished -- After: Compute-based caps refreshing every 5 h with a weekly ceiling; 5 Deep Research uses/month (Google switched the free app plan from message counts to compute-based limits.) https://getaitools.dev/service/chatgpt https://getaitools.dev/changes#2026-07-02-chatgpt-catch Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 chat Before: Limits are dynamic -- After: Limits are dynamic; opting out of personalized ads can cut the free cap to as low as ~5 msgs / 3 h (Ads opt-out penalty verified 2026-07-02.)