By Samuel Willetts
Publication Date: 2025-12-22 13:32:00
From January 2026, Nvidia is curbing access to its GeForce Now cloud streaming service with a 100 hour usage cap per user. This change in policy affects all subscribers across all tiers, free and premium.
This playtime cap has been on the cards since November 2024. At the time, Nvidia imposed this 100 hour limit on new subscribers and provided a grace period to existing customers. However, the time has come for everyone to get in the same boat.
Well, almost everyone. If you’re one of the few out there with a Founders Edition subscription to GeForce Now, then you’ll be able to play for as long as you like per month. Just make sure to keep your membership active as any lapse will see this perk disappear.
A 100 hour limit may not seem like much to some, but I can easily see most people navigating this threshold without much issue. Speaking from my own point of view, I probably spend less time than that gaming locally on my own hardware, let alone via GeForce Now. You can purchase additional playtime for a fee, regardless, if push comes to shove.
Even with this cap in place, GeForce Now still presents good value. At £20 a month for its most-expensive tier, you’ll spend £240 a year and have access to a GPU akin to a GeForce RTX 5080, a £1,000 graphics card. That’s not forgetting any additional cost savings of electricity and other incidental expenditure that comes part and parcel with a powerful PC.
While this playtime cap doesn’t diminish the…
