Hidden and Inconsistent Usage Limits Across AI Tools Cause Surprise Lockouts Mid-Task

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Summary

Every AI tool buries its usage limits in a different place, if it shows them at all. Users get cut off mid-work at 1am with 'resets at 6am,' limits get merged across products without notice (ChatGPT/Codex sharing quotas), and free tiers can trigger 'without using any model at all.' The result is unpredictable capacity, blown deliverables, and no way to plan whether a tool will get them through a session, let alone a week. Existing answers are fragmented (a third-party iOS tracker for paid plans) and no neutral directory explains, side by side and in plain language, what each free tier actually allows, how limits are counted, and when they reset. This is a severe, unsolved blockage for anyone choosing free tools by task.

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