Hello, we are having issues with gemini-3-flash-preview with grounding, showing an enormous amount of search groundings. We are just starting with Gemini API and really don’t understand why we were billed this much.
The AI Studio dashboard shows about 200 requests made that day with about 100 tool calls to ground search. I don’t know why the billing dashboard shows 37000 calls, but I highly doubt every tool call had about 370 individual searches.
These costs are very high and something we did not expect in our budgeting when starting with the Gemini API. Is there any way to fix this?
