403 "Your project has been denied access" on Gemini TTS generateContent after 429 rate limit during dev testing

Hi,

My project gen-lang-client-06112682.. is getting a 403 PERMISSION_DENIED error specifically on the Gemini TTS generateContent endpoint. All other Gemini API calls work fine (model listing, etc.).

Error message: “Your project has been denied access. Please contact support.”

What happened: During development testing of our app, we hit repeated 429 rate limit errors because our test code didn’t implement exponential backoff. This appears to have triggered an automated Trust & Safety flag on the TTS endpoint specifically.

Steps taken since:

  • Added $10 in prepaid credits to the billing account (015839-5A5430-0E9…)
  • Updated app code to implement proper exponential backoff
  • Verified the Gemini API is enabled in Cloud Console

The project is actively being used to build a wellness app (Stillmend) and the TTS block is preventing development. No email was received from google-cloud-compliance@google.com.

Could someone from the team please review and restore TTS access to this project?

Thank you

Sorry to hear about this. We’re treating this as a potential bug in Gemini API. Could you please enter the details of projects receiving unexpected 403 errors into this form?