Apple Creator Studio AI Usage Limits
Apple buries the fact that its Apple Creator Studio bundle’s generative AI features come with any usage limits, but the limits are real and now appear to be significantly less than expected.
Apple (via Ben Lovejoy):
The exact number of images, slides, and presenter notes that you can generate varies based on the complexity of the queries, server availability, and network availability. At a minimum per month, if used exclusively, you can:
Generate 50 images
Generate 50 presentations (with approximately 8–10 slides each)
Generate presenter notes for 700 slides
Usage limits reset each month.
This entire app used 7% of my weekly Codex usage limit. Compare that to a single (awful) slideshow in Keynote using 47% of my monthly Apple Creator Studio usage limit 👀
Something feels off here, by at least an order of magnitude (maybe two?), that creating an entire good app costs way less than creating one shitty slide deck in Keynote.
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It’s hard to rely on AI features when they might be priced out of your league in the future, or they risk your project delivery letter in the month. So I’m awaiting better local models.
The limits seem reasonable for normal users, perhaps excepting the image generation. What normal person is creating more than 50 presentations a month? But there probably should be a higher tier, and it might make more sense to have weekly limits rather than monthly.
The cost is too high, but Apple needs to protect its 70% services profit margin.
@Plume Given Steve’s experience, I think the question is whether the limit actually works as Apple describes.
