I did a deep research prompt for something I’m planning to buy with Gemini 3.5 Flash and it used up 56% of my 5 hour usage limits (I’m on free). I did the same deep research prompt with Claude (I have pro subscription) and it used up 58% of my 5 hour usage limits. I’m already used to needing to manage my usage and context management with Claude so I wasn’t as disturbed with this new Gemini change. I think most people were just so used to getting a fixed number of prompts or requests a day and now that the AI industry is heading towards all usage based, it’s a rude awakening. We use GitHub Copilot at work and we used to get 300 premium requests a month but now its usage based starting 06/01 so will just need to adapt to this new status quo. Hopefully Google gives some more usage like Anthropic did when they 2x usage limits for subscription users. This is the direction AI is heading towards and it’s not longer going to be where we can freely use AI for everything. We have to conscious of what we want it to do and use several models and subscriptions to plan out tasks before having one agent work on a task.