i dont understand whats difference if its available free in ai studio can someone explaine please except rate limits?
asking as non developer
Welcome to the forum. The main difference besides more generous usage quotas is clearly shown on the pricing page Gemini API Pricing | Google for Developers
In the case of the free of charge use, Prompts/responses used to improve our products = Yes.
In the case of the pay-as-you-go model, Prompts/responses used to improve our products = No.
If the data you provide is valuable to you (more than the pay-as-you-go charge), then pay-as-you-go is cheaper. If the data you provide has no value to you, free of charge is cheaper.
Hope that helps.
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Welcome to the forums!
If all you’re using is the AI Studio UI and not the API, then there isn’t a difference - you are not billed for any work with the AI Studio UI, and you are subject to the rate limits and other license terms for the free tier.
My account says ‘Paid’ but I haven’t been billed for anything yet - either because im not hitting a limit or billing isn’t on or both - in this limbo mode prior to May 30th, will testing data submitted to the API through a ‘Paid’ account like mine be used to train?
The answer differs between Gemini 1.0 (for which nothing has changed) and Gemini 1.5. In the limbo period up to May 30, you have no option to enable billing. Therefore, your data will be used to improve the model if you choose to use Gemini 1.5 (either of the two, pro or flash).
Ok thanks so much. This is a bit of a strange choice for Googles, in my opinion, given Google’s apparent commitment to privacy, and, being laggards in the foundation model API space. I respect a lot of what Google and its team is doing but this one feels at odds with the ‘come build on gemini now’ message directed at us, developers. Thank you.
There is a workaround of sorts, you can use the API for 1.5 to develop code, and supply totally valueless data obtained from public sources on the internet. Does not tell you how the application will actually perform when using your proprietary data, but at least you get your code skeleton going. Until the 30th, when it should be possible to have the actual option of billed service.
You have always had the option to use Google Cloud Vertex AI, which offers the Gemini API in a paid tier with privacy guarantees.