How about we stop DMing resolutions and share it. I find it wildly counter productive. This is absurd to be dealing with this when it supposed to be production ready.
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Hi @chunduriv,
I’m on a paid Tier 1 Gemini project but am still seeing behavior that looks like Free Tier limits, including 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED errors mentioning the generate_content_free_tier_requests metric in the error details. Could you please check whether this project is correctly mapped to the Tier 1 quotas on your side?
From the public docs, rate limits are tied to usage tiers (Free, Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3) at the project level, and Tier 1 should be active as soon as a full billing account is linked to the project. As I understand it:
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Free Tier has low RPM / RPD for preview models like Gemini 3 Pro, and very small daily request limits since the December 2025 changes.
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Tier 1 (Paid) should lift those limits substantially (roughly 150–300 RPM and around 1M tokens per minute for standard models), though preview models still have much stricter RPD caps and can still hit 429s quickly.
If anything in the backend still associates my project with Free Tier for generate_content_free_tier_requests, could you help get that corrected or advise what exactly I’m running into?
Thanks in advance!
Same problem here… Goes to free tier… Honestly, I see and endless stream of people with the same problem… Says Tier 1, seemingly connected to the correct billing account. Everything below threshold… And albeit, “Error code: 429”. Couldn’t you just come out with a solution that answered all of us that seemingly have the same problem, instead of DM:ing here and DM:ing there. I’m so tired….
Hey guys, same problem here since today. i am on pro plan and without tokens since yesterday. is there already a solution for users, or is google still working on it ? thx
I’m same boat. I also tried delete API key and create new one. It didn’t fix.