Gemini API costs skyrocketed overnight (x4 in 3 days)

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Mutliple devs affected…

URGENT: The cost of API access has increased since March 16-17, 2026

Hello, Since March 16–17, 2026, I have noticed a significant increase in the costs for API calls using the gemini-3-flash-preview model. We do not use the caching system or the Google search system. Our cost calculations (in terms of user credits UCR) based on the tokens (promptTokenCount, thoughtsTokenCount, and candidatesTokenCount) no longer match the associated costs displayed in Google AI Studio since March 16–17, 2026. The number of requests is valid and has not changed. Before March 16…

URGENT: Huge cost cache increase issue

SKU: E181-DFF8-56CF I have huge problems with cache calculation. For test issue I created 5 cached contents with 5 seconds time to live. All that caches was invalidated/expired after 5 seconds (which is fine). Cache check at 17 march 2026: curl -s “https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/cachedContents?key={MY_KEYS}” output: {} - meaning No registered keys whole day. And right now I see HUGE NUMBERS: 3,418,811.34 hours for $15.38 (in billing 17 march 2026). I’m 1000% sure I didn’…