Gemini API Errors

Are any of you experiencing 429 errors this morning? I’m seeing 35% of requests return quota errors (429), even though we haven’t made any code changes in production or experienced any spikes (yes, we have a paid api account; I also tested with 2 requests over 60 seconds).

This behavior is similar to the 503 errors we encountered a few weeks ago, which we resolved by implementing a backoff solution. The backoff worked well for over a week, but now this issue has surfaced.

Please let me know if you’re encountering similar errors.

Thanks,
Damian

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Same here, I noticed the issue this morning. And never experienced it before. I can also easily reproduce by sending consecutive requests containing an image.

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I’ve been having 503 errors, not 429 errors (although I have had weird 429 issues before)

Are you using context caching? Whenever this has happened to me it’s been when using caching

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No, I’m not using context caching

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I’ve been getting 429 error a bunch lately, too.

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Hi all,

Please follow the below instructions to troubleshoot:

Go to GCP console and click “APIs & Services”. Under Metric, search and select “Generative Language API”.. Under “Quotas & System Limits” tab, check for “Current Usage percentage”..

If it reaches 100%, then you have reached your quota limits.

If you think that there is any discrepancy, please DM me with a clear error message and Project ID to help us investigate further.

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I get it with Gemini 2.5 pro and flash while I have this $300 credit thing. I get one or two messages then it’s spams me with this: Google AI returned error code: 429 - Resource has been exhausted (e.g. check quota). Maybe because I send or request multiple times in 2 minutes?

@Krish_Varnakavi1 see above