[Billing Usage_.PNG] Hi all, I’m posting here because I’m in the middle of a confusing and stressful billing situation, my support case is open and Google is investigating, and I’m hoping people in this community who have been through something similar can share what they’ve learned. I’ll lay out…

I am also facing a very similar issue. In my case, the billing suddenly spiked to approximately ₹14 lakh during the night of May 4th within a short period, and Google had proactively created an ACCOUNT_HIJACKED / suspicious activity case on my project. Some observations from my investigation: My…

I also faced the same issue, I had my webapp in firebase studio. 16 lakhs in Gemini 3 pro image charges in less than a hour. I dont even use Image model in my app

Hi all, same happened to me 2 days ago (6th May 26), in one hours something like 65k api calls to gemini services when we usually only make some. @Mustan_lokhand can you please help? We have a support case but I want to understand if it’s an issue on AI Studio side in general and if can happen ag…

Same issue here, over £1.6k in charges in 1 day very suddenly. I just got an email saying the key is compromised. I have made a support ticket… Hopefully this means they’ll wipe it for all of us as it’s not an individual’s mistake.

Hi If you experienced something similar, please DM me your case ID and what issue you faced

Hi, dming you. 11L in 6 hours of unauthorized activity. 90% usage was gemini-short-text model. Daily use is around 3K so this was a 300-350x spike of usual. Google support said billing is investigating but the rising number of cases on Google Cloud, especially just in this month itself, is getting o…

@Mustan_lokhand how do I dm you?

@Shekhar_Chatterjee DM’ed you

Opened up my billing page for GCP after my bank got in touch with me and found out that I had been charged for $6,486.81. [image] I keep the account associated with GCP insanely low b/c I have always worried about this nightmare scenario. I wasted so many hours setting up alerts and budgets that …

Hi everyone — I’m building a commercial application using the Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview API and came across this thread while researching security precautions. I wanted to ask if anyone has identified the root cause of these unauthorized charges. In a separate thread I saw one case was clearly…

Google AI Studio API key compromised ~₹8.3 lakh in Gemini 3 Pro Image charges in less than 2 hours, days after a suspension and reinstatement. Support is investigating, looking for advice from anyone who has been through this 🙏

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Alex_Barber July 6, 2026, 5:43pm 27

Hello @Mustan_lokhand I also have a simiar case could we please check?

Topic		Replies	Views
Urgent: Sudden ~$10k Gemini API spike in 2 days on internal project – need guidance on remediation (Cloud Billing case 71043607) Gemini API api	5	380	June 22, 2026
~$6,000 in unauthorized Gemini API charges from a Vite-built client bundle — requesting billing review Gemini API gemini-api , api-key , billing	5	321	May 30, 2026
Unrestricted API key + AI Studio silently enabled Gemini — $14k bill on a small family brazilian tire shop Gemini API ai-studio	16	1225	June 16, 2026
Unauthorized Gemini API charges on May 2, 2026 (MXN $40K+) — possible link to April Vercel incident — requesting community guidance and Google review Gemini API api , help-request , gemini-api , gemini , billing	2	269	May 16, 2026
Urgent: $4,897 Gemini API charge from anomalous traffic, support case #72430631, project suspended Gemini API ai-studio , api , gemini-api , gemini	4	126	July 2, 2026

Google AI Studio API key compromised ~₹8.3 lakh in Gemini 3 Pro Image charges in less than 2 hours, days after a suspension and reinstatement. Support is investigating, looking for advice from anyone who has been through this 🙏

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