AI Studio Build Agent says “Quota exceeded” despite Paid Tier 1 and 0/30 Antigravity usage

[Shifat]

I am experiencing a persistent “Quota exceeded. Please try again later.” error in Google AI Studio Build.

My Google Cloud project is Paid Tier 1 with an active billing account and available prepaid balance.

However, AI Studio Build/Antigravity repeatedly fails with:

“Quota exceeded. Please try again later.”

My AI Studio Rate Limit dashboard currently shows:

• Gemini API Rate Limit: Tier 1
• Antigravity RPM: 0 / 30
• TPM: 0 / 200K
• RPD: 0 / 1K

The displayed quota is therefore not exhausted.

Normal Gemini usage is available, but AI Studio Build is unable to continue working on my project.

The problem is happening while I am working on a React/TypeScript SaaS application in AI Studio Build. The Build Agent was previously working normally, but now it repeatedly returns the quota error.

I have already checked the billing status and the AI Studio Rate Limit dashboard. The displayed usage does not explain the error.

Could the AI Studio team please investigate:

1. What exact quota/metric is being exceeded?
2. Is AI Studio Build/Antigravity using a separate quota that is not visible in the standard Rate Limit dashboard?
3. Is my Paid Tier 1 entitlement correctly attached to the Build Agent?
4. Which Google Cloud project/consumer project is actually being used for the failing Build request?
5. Could there be an account-level, project-level, or model-provider entitlement issue?

I can provide my Google Cloud Project ID, AI Studio App ID, screenshots, and timestamps via DM if required.

Please investigate whether the Build Agent quota/entitlement needs to be reset or corrected.

[Yomanit_Online]

Paid Tier 1 here as well. Worth checking the TPM column on your project’s rate-limit dashboard right after the failure, not just RPM. Mine showed 2.44M / 2M on Gemini 3.8 Flash. Opening a New chat in the same app and waiting 60-90 seconds got me unstuck. Details:

The real cause behind AI Studio Build "Quota exceeded": the agent burns your project's TPM, and Google stays silent

To everyone who has been stuck for days with “Quota limits exceeded” in Build mode despite a paid key and a dashboard that looks almost empty: I took this apart in my own project. Here is what I found. What happened Build mode, Gemini 3.8 Flash, paid API key, project on Tier 1. Three consecutive agent runs (about 110, 48 and 36 seconds) edited files, and then each one failed with the same error. At the same time, the UI said “using Gemini without limits.” What the Rate Limit dashboard showed …

[Payal_Sharma2]

Hello @Shifat,

Please try the below steps:

• Check the Usage section in the AI Studio Build mode chat settings to verify that a paid Gemini API key from your Tier 1 project is selected, as AI Studio uses free tier requests unless a paid API key is linked (Google AI Studio billing FAQ).
• Start a new chat in your existing app instead of retrying in the same conversation thread (your existing application files remain intact).
• If the issue persists after selecting your paid API key and starting a new chat, please share your Applet ID and a screenshot of the Build chat settings Usage section via direct message.