# \[BUG\] Gemini CLI downgrades from Pro after 1 query + API dashboard delay (22 Oct 2025)

**URL:** <https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/bug-gemini-cli-downgrades-from-pro-after-1-query-api-dashboard-delay-22-oct-2025/107992>\
**Category:** Gemini API\
**Tags:** gemini-cli, gemini\_25\_pro\
**Created:** [October 22, 2025, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/bug-gemini-cli-downgrades-from-pro-after-1-query-api-dashboard-delay-22-oct-2025/107992 "2025-10-22T13:47:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![mike\_Campos](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/mike_campos/32/68880_2.png) [@mike\_Campos](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/mike_Campos)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/bug-gemini-cli-downgrades-from-pro-after-1-query-api-dashboard-delay-22-oct-2025/107992/1 "2025-10-22T13:47:42Z")

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**Summary**  
After a single prompt, Gemini CLI automatically switches from `gemini-2.5-pro` to `gemini-2.5-flash`, showing the quota-limit message even when only **1 query** was executed.

Additionally, there’s a **major delay** in the Google Cloud Console API dashboard  
where usage metrics have not been updating properly for several days — today the delay coincided with this quota-exhaustion problem.

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**Steps to reproduce**

1. Open Gemini CLI (v0.9.0)

2. Run a single command such as: gemini "hello

3. Immediately receive: Automatically switching from gemini-2.5-pro to gemini-2.5-flash…  
Possible reasons… daily gemini-2.5-pro quota limit

4. Check Google Cloud Console → API Dashboard  
→ notice extreme delay or missing updates for recent requests.

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**Expected behavior**  
Gemini 2.5 Pro should remain active for multiple queries within the daily Pro plan limits, and API Dashboard metrics should update normally.

**Actual behavior**

- CLI downgrades to Flash after the _first_ prompt.
- Cloud Console metrics appear stale or delayed by several hours.

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**Environment**

- OS: Windows 10 + WSL2 (Ubuntu 24.04)
- Gemini CLI version: 0.9.0
- Authentication: Gemini Advanced (Pro plan, personal Google account)
- Project: limiar-mcp-noticias
- Time observed: 22 Oct 2025 ~10:00 BRT

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**Additional context**  
Other users are reporting the same issue (e.g. [GitHub #10518](https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/10518) and [Forum #106962](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/gemini-cli-unusable-for-ordinary-users-instant-model-downgrade-and-constant-api-errors/106962)).  
Please investigate if the Pro-quota check or Cloud Console metrics are temporarily desynchronized.

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**Author:** ![Payal\_Sharma2](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/payal_sharma2/32/31911_2.png) [@Payal\_Sharma2](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Payal_Sharma2)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 5:11am UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/bug-gemini-cli-downgrades-from-pro-after-1-query-api-dashboard-delay-22-oct-2025/107992/3 "2025-12-30T05:11:12Z")

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