Hi @wirrywoo,

The page shared by @balajij8 is the best resource to understand the limitations in Free Edition. Resets daily under normal conditions. 

In Free Edition there isn’t a separate published "Agent Mode quota", but Agent Mode does run on a more constrained free-tier LLM/Genie pool than the notebooks themselves. That pool has soft per-workspace limits (for example, Genie supports about 20 questions per minute via the UI and around 5 per minute via the API in the free tier), and agentic flows tend to use that capacity faster because they do multi-step reasoning and retries behind the scenes. You may also want to check this page for Genie limits which is applicable to both Free and Paid workspaces.

When those LLM guardrails kick in, Databricks intentionally degrades Agent Mode rather than shutting down your workspace. You’ll see slower or partial answers and, in some cases, the UX will fall back to chat mode even though your regular compute (running code in notebooks, etc.) still works. That’s why it feels like only Agent Mode is affected.

These are soft, rolling limits, not a permanent flag. The per-minute limits constantly reset, and the overall Free Edition fair-usage quota resets over time as well. There is also some ongoing backend work right now to tighten abuse protections for agentic features in Free Edition, which may temporarily make Agent Mode less available there than in full Databricks trials.

If you want sustained, heavy use of Agent Mode (for example, letting it drive a lot of multi-step coding tasks), the most reliable path today is to do that in a regular Databricks trial workspace, and reserve Free Edition for lighter, occasional agentic use and normal notebooks/SQL.

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