If you were hoping to create silly pictures this long holiday weekend with Google’s new Nano Banana Pro model, I have some bad news: the company is restricting free use of the AI system. In a supporting document spotted by 9to5Google, Google notes that free users can currently generate two images per day, up from three per day. “Image generation and editing is in high demand,” the company writes. “Limits may change frequently and will be reset daily.”
It appears that Google is also limiting free usage of Gemini 3 Pro, with the document stating that non-paying users will also get “basic access – daily limits may change frequently.” When the company started rolling out Gemini 3 Pro on November 18, it guaranteed five free prompts per day. This was consistent with Gemini 2.5 Pro. If you pay for the Google AI Pro or AI Ultra plan, your usage limits have not changed. They remain at 100 and 500 prompts per day respectively.
Google isn’t the first company to impose stricter usage following a popular release. You may remember that OpenAI delayed rolling out ChatGPT’s built-in image generator to free users after the feature proved more popular than expected. However, OpenAI finally brought image generation to free users.
