My billing account was previously approved and operating on Paid Tier 3. However, it has been silently downgraded to Paid Tier 1 without any notification. I am currently hard-capped at a($250 USD) limit, and my service has been unexpectedly paused. We have spent more than 2000 USD on this account a…

Yes, i was told my google support to post here. Is there any one from Google support that can help. We have live active project with more than 3000 concurrent users, our billing account has spent upwords of 2000 USD in last 3 months with expected spends 1000 USD per month, this downtime hurts the pr…

I have the same issue today. When I manually deposit any amount in the AI Studio, it triggers a refresh to upgrade my account from Tier 1 to Tier 3 again. However, this only fixes the issue temporarily. The automatic downgrade happens after a short period; for me, it takes about an hour.

@ Mustan_lokhand @Pooja_Kapse Can you guys please help

Same here, briefly got back to Tier 2, but then downgraded to Tier 1 again without notice. All services are halted.

I am experiencing the exact same issue. My account was unexpectedly downgraded from Tier 3 to Tier 1 without any billing problems. This sudden downgrade is causing continuous 429 errors and completely halting our production pipeline. Could you please check my account and restore the tier as well? …

Same issue - was on 3, back to 1

I have the same exact problem. Downgraded from 3 to 1 without warning and for no reason. Spending around $1k a month for the last few months.

Same problem here. I was in Tier 3 and today I was downgraded to Tier 1 and my service is in pause. How can I fix this? Thanks

Downgraded from tier 3 to tier 1

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ducbao414 July 17, 2026, 7:27am 2

I have the same issue, my billing account was silently downgraded from Tier 2 to Tier 1 causing all requests to fail.
(posted on an old bug report thread, post it here in case the old thread has been buried)

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Downgraded from tier 3 to tier 1

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