Hi! as I’ve been here to this forum I have to say I am a student developer and really need to scale my bot/apps to production, but unfortunately I cannot upgrade my account to paid tier due to dependence on Google cloud billing which It cannot accept my debit card due to having 2FA on my card…
For the Gemini API teams, I hope this brings much attention closer to you guys. I had been using OpenAI API before and credits served me well, helped me scale and predict my OpenAI API usage monthly and I was able to use my card with it
But when I try to enable billing to Gemini API in GCP, it couldn’t accept my debit card which I’m stuck with the free tier… I am willing to pay as much as money to scale my apps… So far I can use OpenRouter but its just missing some things like Imagen, native image generation, and its shared usage across users.
@Logan_Kilpatrick would it be nice to have this type of payment along with pay as you go with gvp?, where I can just use Google Pay or Stripe with my debit card to use the paid Gemini API tier with fixed amount of credits to be used.
Thanks so much in advanced, hoping that this feedback would make more users feel more inclusive