Google imposes new restrictions for free users of Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana Pro due to high demand.
Google recently launched its latest AI model Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro. At the launch of Gemini 3 Pro, free users, or those without a Google AI subscription, received “up to five prompts per day”. This is now being changed to “basic access”. Google has limited access restrictions as a result of excessive demand.
Basic Access
Without a paid Google AI plan, users only get basic access to the Thinking with 3 Pro model. The daily limit varies and can change frequently. With Google AI Pro, this increases to a maximum of 100 prompts per day. Google AI Ultra raises this further to 500 prompts per day. For the faster 2.5 Flash model, general access applies within those limits.
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An important difference lies in the context window. By default, this is 32,000 tokens. In Google AI Ultra, this increases to 1 million tokens. This is relevant for longer conversations and larger files.
Nano Banana Pro
Image and video generation receive their own limits. Google: “Image generation and editing are very popular. Limits can change frequently and are reset daily.”
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Images with Nano Banana are limited to 100 per day, or 1,000 per day in Ultra. For Nano Banana Pro, this increases from two images per day without a plan to 100 in Pro and 1,000 in Ultra. Video generation with Veo 3.1 is set at a maximum of three videos per day in Pro (Fast-preview) and five videos per day in Ultra.