Gemini API defaulting to Free Tier despite being tier 1

I’m on a paid plan (Tier 1). Despite this my API request are going to a free tier and I’m getting a 429. This just started today.

I’m definitely using the same API key as in AI studio
@type**”: “type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.QuotaFailure”,
“violations”: [
{
“quotaMetric”: “generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_content_free_tier_requests”,
“quotaId”: “GenerateRequestsPerDayPerProjectPerModel-FreeTier”,
“quotaDimensions”: {
“location”: “global”,**
So I was hoping for some help to figure out how to solve this

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