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Things really escalated quickly in the past month and PPLX really needs to acknowledge this.
susuia_sa March 10, 2026
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Let’s see how badly things have got for the paid users (especially Pro):
1. Secretly switching models: TBH, they have been doing this for some time before, but now they just default to “best”, which is their cheapest (and crappiest) model whenever a limit is hit
2. Secretly cutting Pro Search and Deep Research quotas: from 600 searches to 200 per week and from 50 to 20 per month, respectively. Sorry bro, but expecting people to pay 1 dollar for 1 research is simply ridiculous
3. Secretly restricting image generation in certain regions (eg Vietnam)
4. Secretly limiting videos generation, as well!
5. Secretly deleting complaint posts on Reddit. In the same time, there are a bunch of “users” popped up and praise how awesome PPLX has become (who knows if they are bots/ PR / PR bots?)
6. The overall answer quality is getting shorter, lazier and thus, shittier
7. A large portion of users who received their Pro free for 1 year now reports that they have been downgraded to Free tier for no reason
8. And now the fxxking file upload limitation: 50 to 3, the same as Free tier users? Do you even know what “pro” means?
9. Worst of all, absolutely no response from dev team? Hello? Are you still there? We need some answers, mate!
PPLX was my favourite AI tool, the Space, the “Turn Chat to File”, the freedom (no heavy censorship as ChatGPT)…and it is really sad seeing it goes down a spiral like this! Turns out gifting 1 year Pro subscription for free like it were free isn’t really a good business practice, and we all now pay for the price of it 🤷🏻♀️
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