Playground cuts Free tier limits: downloads 10→2/day, window cap 10→5/3h
Playground cut Free tier limits: downloads fell 10→2/day and its rolling-window generation cap fell 10→5 images/3h. Pro and Pro Plus pricing is unchanged.
Free tier: 10 downloads/day; PGv3 model capped at 10 images per 3-hour window (per 2026-06-04 snapshot).
Free tier: 2 downloads/day; PGv3 model capped at 5 images per 3-hour window (per 2026-07-29 live capture). Free's own plan-card copy still advertises 'up to 10 images every 3 hours' — an unresolved discrepancy on Playground's live page.
This is the first time Playground’s pricing surface was captured live rather than via Wayback Machine snapshot — the automated-access block that had returned HTTP 403 to direct fetches and headless browsers since at least mid-2026 was not encountered during this run. Alongside the Free-tier entitlement cuts, Playground also removed the Coupon-code/Apply promo-code field from its Pro and Pro Plus checkout cards. Headline pricing is unaffected: Pro remains $15/mo ($12 annual) and Pro Plus remains $45/mo ($36 annual), and the shared monthly credit pool (3/150/1,000 credits) with its per-model credit costs (1 credit standard, 4 for Nano Banana Pro) is unchanged.
First successful LIVE capture of playground.com/design/pricing (the site's automated-access block was not encountered this run). The compare-plans table now shows Free's daily download cap cut from 10 to 2 and the PGv3 rolling-window generation cap cut from 10 to 5 images per 3 hours — while the Free plan card's own bullet copy still reads 'up to 10 images every 3 hours,' an unresolved discrepancy on Playground's live page. The Coupon-code/Apply promo field was also removed from the Pro and Pro Plus checkout cards. Pro ($15/mo, $12 annual) and Pro Plus ($45/mo, $36 annual) pricing and credit pools (3/150/1,000) are unchanged.