Want a refund, this became totally unusable
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be interesting to see the numbers by the time they make an annoucement about this , IF they do.
if anyone is still on one old plan and hasnāt switched yet run that bill up on the big model, you have 150+ messages per day, so make them feel them burn
I just created a vercel community account to make my first post, saying Iāll be quitting v0 the hour before my billing updates.
Iāve stuck with v0 while many of the new tools have come out, mainly because I know the experience of these tools is poorer. What most of the tools have in common, is they require many small iterative fixes to get a working product. This will burn through the new billing system immediately, Iām sure of it.
Iāve got 12 days on the existing billing, Iāll round out all my ideas and then cancel my subscription, like many others seem to be doing.
I wanted to share some thoughts on the recent shift to a usage-based system and why I think a message-based model makes a lot more sense, especially for builders and indie developers like myself.
Under the previous message-based system, I was able to develop and launch two solutions for the Brunei public:
usmscalculator.brunei.app ā A user-friendly tool for calculating electrical and water utility support for my country- carloan.brunei.app ā A car loan estimator
Actually i have about 2-3 other solutions but its not made for public yet, but you get what i mean.
These were both built in just 2ā3 weeks, entirely through rapid prompting and iterative testing of course. The message-based structure gave me the flexibility to experiment freely without constantly worrying about token usage or hitting a usage cap too early. The design of the v0 will always a win in my heart.
With the new usage-based model, I genuinely doubt I could build even one of these tools end-to-end on just $20 worth of credits. It discourages exploration, which is key to refining prompts and building smart, helpful solutions.
Just wanted to add my experience here in case others feel similarly or if the team is open to feedback to revise back their pricing structure.
The harsh reality is that those days are probably behind us. Pricing will likely stay where it is, though hopefully costs will drop as AI becomes more efficient to run. V0 was almost certainly bleeding money during the early days when everyone was using it heavily but that phase served its purpose. We were essentially beta testers, helping train their AI through countless iterations and problem-solving sessions. Now that the model is more mature and requires less hand-holding, theyāve moved to a sustainable pricing structure I get it though the current pricing sucks for most people. But V0ās team is clearly prioritizing product development and better outputs over keeping it cheap. If the cost is a dealbreaker, learning traditional coding is still free and will always be valuable. Otherwise, youāll need to get creative with budgeting or look at alternatives like Cursor. Itās not as user friendly as V0, but it might fit your budget better. The bottom line is weāre dealing with a maturing product thatās moved past the āloss leaderā phase. Adapt or find workarounds thatās just how these things go in tech. Everything must end up profit.
Totally understandable that they played the lost leader technique by having us vigoroualy test their ai and report on it, however their pricing for tokens doesnt fall in line with anything else on the market.
happy to use the token system, but not when it exceeds the budgetting of other services by nearly 20x minimum.
the v0 AI does not warrant such a price hike and given the recent issues and bugs, was far from ready from the vigorous testing phase.
This is going to be hugely negative. A single prompt today cost be $1.00? Is that really what is costing you, this is going to make the product almost useless and is making me question whether we should continue with our enterprise account. Iām seriously considering recommending moving our contract to Lovable.
Couldnāt agree more. Hate the new model. Seems way more error prone. Spending and wasting all of the tokens on fixing the sh*t code. v0 use to be perfect to deal with when the cost of errors wasnāt the expense of users. This may very well be the death of v0.dev with this new model. No matter the jargon used by the team the pricing sucks and somehow the development model is worse than it ever was. I use to love v0.dev but time to search elsewhere. Ps: Admin: its not a particular chat. its the entire product and pricing that sucksā¦
1 day use and my $30 top off credit is already done with - and most of my prompts were just design edits - this pricing structure is absolutely garbage!
WAY TO BE GREEDY VERCEL!!! Nice move targeting people who have vested so much into their work. Trap and Bait. Success. Your interns im sure will finally be paid.
The new update will be the death of this page. Canceled my subscription and looking into moving my projects to other systems who treat there customers fairly. Hope others do the same until the issue is fixed or reverted to subscription.
-One message can take up to several dollars.
-It will fail and take credits either way.
Trash update. Trash communication from team.
v0.dev is horrible now. I get 15-20 messages from the premium subscription, half of the time I am spending all of my credits/tokens on fixing problems that werenāt even there to begin with. The new model ignores most of your instructions now. Vercel needs to get rid of this and go back. Itās just not worth the cost anymore. You would think paying more meant better product. This is not the case at all. I think it is time to explore alternatives. So if anyone has any recommendations please comment them.
Agree, they need to go back or fix whatever is going on with the new models
Free account was limited to 10 message daily but at least it wasnāt charging $.20-40 for each message.
Id like to understand their pricing strategy on this, there was no conversion difference mentioned in their pre announcements, no clearview comparison of what we had to what we were being moved too.
Just that a token system would be put in place, also thr fact their is no visual reference to the credits spent on the chat / project itself is painful, having to check profile credits back n fourth makes it tiresome.
but the part i fear most is knowing v0 is going to incoherently add new files, wasting a ton of tokens, which it does alot even when prompting carefully with strict instructions.
Like Bolt.new that once was great and now doesnt, v0 is going to same path.
Thatās really sad that we need to pay $1 dollar for message that is way worst than pure claude.
When eye is bigger than mouth, the destiny is pretty much known.
Rest In Peace, v0.
Ive pulled all my code and looking at using just Cursor , ill deploy solo.
RIP v0
Made some math here and before I hade something like 6k messages per month with 30 dollars and now I have in best case 50 messages. 6000 ā 50. No words for this. Worst business move I ever seen.
Exactly. Itās outrageous. We went from being able to build, iterate, and test freely, to now counting tokens like weāre defusing a bomb.
This isnāt innovation, itās regression. No tool should punish its loyal users this hard overnight. The new system is completely unsustainable, especially for freelancers and small teams.
They need to roll this back or drastically change it before they lose everyone.
#SaveV0