How Does billing work?

Hey guys, Recently moved to Gemini API, im used to OpenAI and Claude with the add funds to your account and boom it works.
For some reason if i connect a billing account, It just doesnt work?
Its wierd and is leading to alot of issues i cant properly dev because of “quota limits” but then the next day its fine, i want to put like 100$ in the account and dev but im really not sure how
thanks
Daniel

If your API Key is attached to a billing account, and you use that API Key, then you should be getting the quota limits described on the pricing page under “Pay-as-You-Go”. As long as you have a billing account setup, you should be good for the higher quotas.

You can learn more about billing here.

You can also see how much of your quota you’ve used (with about a 10-15 minute lag, last I checked) on the Generative Language quotas page for your project.

Its wierd, ive attached a billing account i found out how to add credit, But its not using it, im not sure what the issue is tbh

Turns out i was using the wrong API key, haha my bad

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