Grounding 1,500 RPD FREE is a Lie?

[Andrew_Ong]

Gemini is lying, its not free

Hey! Can you share where you saw this ^ ? AI Studio remains free even after you set up billing, but if you setup billing on the API for a project, it is no longer free.

the workaround is to use another, free API key instead of an API key with billing enabled. then if you get a 429 error, use another API key.