Has Gemini API Completely Stopped Its Free Tier?

Gemini API
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In September this year, the [GenerateContent free tier input token count limit per model per day] quota was removed for all models except gemini-2.0-flash-exp. Since then, models other than gemini-2.0-flash-exp have been returning 429 errors.

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Then today, the last gemini-2.0-flash-exp, also had two of its quotas reduced to zero, rendering it unusable.

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Hi @JiangBoHu,

Yes, * gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp and gemini-2.0-flash-lite-preview and couple of other models have been deprecated on Nov 4th 2025.

Please keep following Release Notes for all updates regarding gemini models.

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Currently I have no other models available to use because none of them have the [GenerateContent free tier input token count limit per model per day] quota, and my API key shows ‘unavailable’.

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Hi @JiangBoHu,

Apologies for the delay in response.

Are you still facing this issue?