Error : Unlock AI Analysis To securely process your bank statements, please select a paid API key from your Google Cloud project

I have a small project in google studio ai with convert a list of transactions in the PDf to and excel sheet with columns and row. I don’t have any bank info in the pdf after precessing. it worked yesterday ( before 1/10/2026). Now I rerun the same apps without any change, and I got this “
Unlock AI Analysis

To securely process your bank statements, please select a paid API key from your Google Cloud project.”

Is this new? I’m using free tier and definitely not exceeding any quotas

Hi @Duc ,

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Hi @Mrinal_Ghosh ,
Here is the screenshot, nothing in my code has this UI. This shows up only in google studio, this doesn’t show up when I run this code locally or on github

Close this thread since this doesn’t happen when I create a new project with the same prompt. Will open this back if I see this again