[Screenshot_186] This happened just a few mintues ago. We keep our API key in Google Secrets manager. I have deleted the api key since, and trying to figure out if this is on my end. Can someone check if this might be something on google’s end? Also where is the best to reach out to Google supp…

I have a similar question: when can I safely resume using the Gemini API? Due to this billing issue, I had to delete all my projects and lock my Visa card out of caution. I’m currently hesitant to create a new project. Additionally, I need to know when the threshold charged on my Visa card will be…

Here is the support team’s reply. [image]

[image] adding an image of my threshold charge here as well.

It seems to be caused when the API throws an error (it is doing this sproadically) and then goes into an ongoing loop. You can see from the logs below that what should have been a ~30 second call, is going on for hours. In this case it was looping for 135696 seconds or 37 hours 41 minutes!! [image…

I was treated similarly, but they finally acknowledged my issue after I provided them with the following information. Inform them that there is a Gemini billing bug. A bug in the billing system is causing erroneous charges on ‘Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Image Generation’ for some users. All such cha…

@Sardor_Islomov do you get this resolved? I’ve faced this problem on 2.5 pro also. [image] URGENT: Huge Bills - Infinite looping LLM Gemini API FYI here is my billing chart [image]

Hi, could you please assist: we have credited our account but it gone negative while the card has been charged. Moreover, the billing account is mentioned as closed! How it come?? [Screenshot 2025-09-03 at 17.37.13]

Any updates on this from Google’s team? I was told 2-3 days and its been over a business week.

Gemini API cost suddenly skyrocketed

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Tomohisa_Ikuta September 3, 2025, 10:42am 107

Thank you very much, this was very helpful in explaining this to Google billing support.

[CRITICAL-BUG] Massive Overbilling by Gemini API (Over $70k), Charges Still Increasing by $10k Daily Even After Deleting All API Keys

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