CRITICAL BUG: Paid Project (Tier 1) but stuck on Free Tier Token Limit

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I’m in Free Tier and haven’t used the API keys, it’s the first request with the new key and get the 429 Issue.

Didn’t work for me the method of creating the Project from Google Console and Enabling Gemini API Service aka Generative Language API to then import it into Google AI Studio.

As seen in: API Quota Tier “Unavailable” despite active billing
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Project details

Name: MacroLogTest

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I have even created another Gmail account but it didn’t work either.

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Shell Input and Output

curl "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-2.0-flash:generateContent" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'X-goog-api-key: [CENSORED_API_KEY]' \
  -X POST \
  -d '{
    "contents": [
      {
        "parts": [
          {
            "text": "Explain how AI works in a few words"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }'
{
  "error": {
    "code": 429,
    "message": "You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, head to: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits. To monitor your current usage, head to: https://ai.dev/rate-limit. \n* Quota exceeded for metric: generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_content_free_tier_requests, limit: 0, model: gemini-2.0-flash\n* Quota exceeded for metric: generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_content_free_tier_requests, limit: 0, model: gemini-2.0-flash\n* Quota exceeded for metric: generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_content_free_tier_input_token_count, limit: 0, model: gemini-2.0-flash\nPlease retry in 27.416418769s.",
    "status": "RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED",
    "details": [
      {
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.Help",
        "links": [
          {
            "description": "Learn more about Gemini API quotas",
            "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.QuotaFailure",
        "violations": [
          {
            "quotaMetric": "generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_content_free_tier_requests",
            "quotaId": "GenerateRequestsPerDayPerProjectPerModel-FreeTier",
            "quotaDimensions": {
              "model": "gemini-2.0-flash",
              "location": "global"
            }
          },
          {
            "quotaMetric": "generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_content_free_tier_requests",
            "quotaId": "GenerateRequestsPerMinutePerProjectPerModel-FreeTier",
            "quotaDimensions": {
              "location": "global",
              "model": "gemini-2.0-flash"
            }
          },
          {
            "quotaMetric": "generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_content_free_tier_input_token_count",
            "quotaId": "GenerateContentInputTokensPerModelPerMinute-FreeTier",
            "quotaDimensions": {
              "location": "global",
              "model": "gemini-2.0-flash"
            }
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.RetryInfo",
        "retryDelay": "27s"
      }
    ]
  }
}