Nvidia has announced that it will start to limit how much time players can spend on the GeForce Now streaming service. The news comes from the official GeForce Now blog and confirms that starting from 2025, everyone subscribed to the service will be limited to a 100-hour allowance per month.
These new playtime limits apply to both of the subscription tiers, Performance and Ultimate. The Performance tier is $9.99 per month and lets you play games at 1440p quality with ray tracing and allows 6-hour play sessions. The Ultimate tier costs twice as much as the Performance tier and allows 4K 120 FPS or 1080p 240 FPS gaming with ray tracing and HDR, and is limited to 8-hour play sessions.
This new limitation will allow shorter queue times and quicker performance overall, according to Nvidia. And although it may seem like a massive limitation, that isn’t the case. Nvidia says that 94% of the subscribers using GeForce Now “comfortably” fall below this 100-hour limit, so it shouldn’t be a problem for them at all.
To add to that, if you have up to 15 hours remaining at the end of the month, they will be rolled over to the following month, which could allow players to stream for 115 hours in one month. If you require an emergency play session, then users will have the option to either buy 15 hours of the Performance tier for $2.99, or 15 hours of the Ultimate tier for $5.99.
To soften the blow a bit for the people who are long-time users of Nvidia GeForce Now, active members or those who register before the start of 2025 will not be subject to these playtime limitations for another year. So if you’re already using GeForce Now, this time limit won’t apply to you until January 2026.
Those with the Founders membership of Nvidia GeForce Now will have unlimited playtime for life, but if they choose to upgrade their plan to another membership, like the Ultimate tier, the time allowance will be enforced. Those who want to try out the free version which is ad-supported and has the longest queue times will not be subject to this 100-hour allowance since their play sessions will be limited to under one hour. It will be interesting to see how this competes with other cloud gaming solutions from Xbox and PlayStation.
