Gemini 3.1 Pro Is the Best Model You Can't Use: 99-Hour Lockouts, Phantom Quota Drain, and Broken Tool Calling
Four days after launch, Gemini 3.1 Pro's benchmark-topping performance is overshadowed by 90-hour lockouts for paying subscribers, quota draining while idle, and tool-calling bugs that break LangChain, n8n, and RooCode. Developers are switching to Claude.