Are you ending your subscription with v0 due to this pricing change?
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7 Likes
This new pricing model is absolutely ridiculous. Iāve blown away half of my credits in less than an hour, and 60% of my queries āstoppedā or resulted in broken updates. On average, my queries are in the 0.2 to 0.4 cents, which is insane. At this rate, using V0 is absurd and a huge financial burden, compared to other solutions on the market.
If the pricing model stays this way and doesnāt switch back to the old model, I will cancel my V0 subscription and take my business elsewhere. Iāve been using V0 for a few months and really loved it, but this pricing change is completely unsustainable and abusive.
I would understand if there was a limit of daily queries or some kind of other way to limit your costs, but this is just too greedy and screws us over substantially.
10 Likes
I tried the new v0 pricing system and, in less than an hour, it was clear my relationship with the platform was over: three simple prompts cost me almost $0.80. I cancelled right then and went back to the setup that gives me real predictabilityāVisual Studio Code, Cursor, and the OpenAIābecause paying twenty cents for a reply that also comes with errors makes no sense.
I understand perfectly where the change comes from: in May 2024 Vercel raised 250 million dollars and investors made it clear that v0 had to move from a ācool projectā to a āpositive-marginā product. Twelve months later, with a new CFO whose specialty is squeezing costs and an IPO window already pencilled in for 2026, the board needed to show healthy unit economics. And of course, the quickest way was to pass the real cost of inference on to users with a token meter that burns balance even when the AI repeats itself, hangs, or rewrites entire files for no reason.
The problem isnāt paying more; itās how they did it. Jumping overnight from a flat-rate plan to a variable model, with no clear caps and no refund for the tokens v0 itself wastes, is the perfect recipe for the community to feel theyāre being fleeced. On top of that, todayās competition is fierce: with VS Code and a cheap LLM I can iterate for pennies and keep full control of my spending; v0 no longer offers an advantage that justifies the premium.
The sad part is that there were less aggressive alternatives: letting users see the token cost for a couple of months before charging it, setting up a ātoken-guardā that refunds what the AI burns in retries, and above all, communicating the change with an honest apology and real numbers on what the old model cost. They chose the heavy-handed route, and until they backtrack and give predictability back, Iāll keep building elsewhere.
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Today I made TINY changes to my AI chat interfaceāliterally moved a button, tweaked a bubble. Nothing major. No new features. No fireworks. Just a little hello world-tier revision.
The cost? $5.00 GONE.
POOF ā into the abyss.
And guess what?
Iām on the free plan.
With $5 credits.
NO MORE DEPLOYS.
NO MORE TWEAKS.
NO MORE HAPPINESS.
Iām done. Iām OUT. This is my villain origin story.
To all indie devs, makers, AI dreamers: CHERISH EVERY PIXEL. Because every layout shift could cost you your dignity.
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Honestly, Iām really disappointed with the new pricing. I donāt mind paying more per month, thatās fair, but paying per use is such a frustrating model. Now Iām constantly watching my balance, and it just makes me hesitant to use v0 and Vibe Code at all.
It also feels wrong to be charged for the systemās own errors. This change feels like a step backwards, and to be honest, burning through $5 an hour just isnāt sustainable for me (and probably many others). Please rethink this, I want to keep using and supporting the product, but this makes it really hard.
8 Likes
21 votes over the weekend and during bank holidays, lets see what numbers we get when work commences and our dailies come back for an update , only to see, more radio silence from Vercel.
incredible how they maintain an automate copy and paste response each time.
@pawlean you said you provide feedback daily, to what avail? have you not had any updates? what information can you give us Today (i ask again).
Are they digging in their heels and maintaining sabotage or are we going to see some reimbursements / pricing change ?
@aryamank @anshumanb why havent you chimed in?
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When last month i could work on my app all month with little limitations, i now litterally have not been able to develop more than 12 hours and broke and finished all my credits paid for this morning, quite litterally half of it on errors that yielded other errors. I will not pay a service that is quite litterally so expenseive it demands me more money than it can give back to me in terms of value. I will go back to copilot which allows me to actually code: it will litterally work for the whole month for a fraction of the price i paid on v0.
This is how i predicted things to happen when first posting here, the first comment in this compounded thread of complaints, and it obviously when down that way,the way it has for al other company that did go the same way (at least Tempo does not chareg for error fixing, which makes it way fairer in token consumption to actual value ratio).
5 Likes
The new credits-based pricing system is a huge letdown. It makes the service not worth it anymoreātoo expensive for what you actually get. Paying more and getting fewer messages or actions feels like a step backward, not an improvement. Iām really disappointed and will be unsubscribing.
3 Likes
I donāt mind paying, but the way they did it, it was much, much more expensive than the competition. V0 is very good at creating layouts, but thatās it. The rest is just error after error, programming, integration with the database, etc. How am I going to pay for this? For example, when I got close to the 100% version, after a few attempts to correct errors, your system simply undoes the entire system and on its own implements a āsimplified versionā that is nothing more than a Hello Word with the justification that the error was eliminated. Another example, after a few attempts to correct an error in the database data list, it simply implemented a hardcoded fallback of my data saying that now we would no longer have errors because the data was integrated into the code. Ridiculous, and the worst part is that now we will have to pay for all these errors and much more expensive than the competition. We donāt, because I canceled my subscription, downloaded my project and continued with Cursor and I will continue only with my Free account to generate some screens when necessary. They charge, but a fair price, and who knows, the community will be able to trust you again. You transformed your project from the best to the most unviable on the market overnight, for small and medium developers.
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Iāve read the topic and then used the app to make my mind about the changes to see if the criticism is justified.
Wellā¦
1$ a minute while using lg model, simple tasks.
Less with the md model, but that one doesnt produce good results.
In that pace I will burn through money within three days, without producing much.
And I didnt even tried solving a complicated issue yet.
I already started using cursor. Im gonna wait three weeks before I cancel my subscribtion, hoping that you will find a better model.
Im okay to pay more, but within the previous model, currently v0 is too buggy to pay usage-based.
Good luck, dont waste the potential.
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before we can use v0 in 20$ unlimited monthly, now when its credits base we canāt ,its mean we have to pay daily , its not good,
3 Likes
Its good for them, quick money grab before they kill it off.
v0 is dead , end your sub and move on sadly
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I understand the frustration everyone is facing, but there really is no need to attack the staff members. They are only the middlemen in the process. Rather than attacking, cancel your subscription and drop constructive feedback about why you canceled.
Just like you and I, they are only doing what is needed of the job to be able to put food on the table for their families. So please be civil and not attack them. I do agree I am also anxious to hear the feedback there is regarding the issue. But do give it time.
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I came back from a trip and it was out of date, the payment for the $20 plan was made today, and today it has already run out, besides not meeting my needs, Iām out
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Fair well v0.
It has been a great ride
3 Likes
This is insane, most of my promt are getting stuck and i have to pay ?
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40usd just stucked on looping, changed to cursor, fixed in 4 sec, they dont care guys just move on
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Look at this:
Yes, he says he made the changes and all, but he didnāt even select any files from the projectā¦ and you guys are going to charge us per message?? What a joke.
2 Likes
I have a $30 subscription and it only gave me around 160 prompts, out of which 50 to 70 were completely useless, broken code, nonsense responses, files edited incorrectly, functions with clear errors.
This isnāt even 10% of what we used to get for the same price. Itās a complete rip-off, a massive downgrade in value and performance.
I opened a support ticket on the 24th asking to restore the credits lost due to system errors, and still no response.
Support Case ID: 531375
Youāre disrespecting the entire community that supported this platform from day one. Your silence while you keep charging us says everything. Fix this.
5 Likes
Hereās the reality - v0 is an awesome tool, and can build some great stuff, but it produces errors and the wrong result most of the time. Yesterday, I wanted to get it to do a simple thing (adding an email gate to accept a verification code) - i didnāt even want it functional, just producing the experience.
This took about 15 prompts, before I just gave up - and after reviewing I blew through about half my monthly budget.
I understand this tool chews up a ton of tokens, but unfortunately, it is very uncommon for v0 to deliver what you want on the first shot. It usually takes trial and error, which is fine with a flat monthly fee - but when you are being charged for errors, it becomes a broken experience.
I have also found that you basically need to yell at v0 to not make changes. Sometimes I want v0 to suggest a change, rather than execute one and this doesnt seem to be built into the model.
The product team could easily make this token based system a clearer ROI for their users through a few builds:
-charging people ONLY when they accept a change. If a change throws an error, or is wrong, it should revert back the previous session and not save. This way, people pay for builds they like, and I would assume v0 will get data back to improve their models.
-creating a feedback loop prior to executing a change to the code base. Meaning, the AI can see your request, suggest a change - and only implement if IF the user agrees itās right. This will dramatically save output tokens.
-suggesting which model to use. I see v0 implemented a medium and large model - and in my brief experience, it was not clear if either was better. I defaulted to the large one after frustration yesterday. I would imagine their systems could be smart enough to determine which model is most appropriate for either change - and again, confirm that change with the user.
-creating a better way to track credits/usage. There is simply no way an end user could see how many output tokens a change will take, so expecting a user to have a change of anywhere from a few cents to a dollar for one execution is a broken experience.
In one day, weāre already discussing new tools internally. Its a great product, and we may still use it for some prototyping, but to make such a dramatic change like this without letting users get a decent sense of what was coming is something I havenāt seen in all my years subscribing to SaaS products.
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