I want to deploy my poc app. I like a project level settings that will stop gemini api usage once it hits say $30 and not code level like counting tokens or api call. Any good documentation you can refer me to? I don’t see any about it on ai studio unlike openAI where I can set a budget for a proje…

It is absolutely ridiculous. And we are supposed to trust these companies with AGI robotics when intentional greedy practices like this? The people who are hit like these are often small people without knowledge. But no, one of the richest company in the whole world intentionally do not include a li…

Hello everyone! Please accept our apologies, we understand how frustrating it can be to have to manage unpredictable and excessive costs. We are actively working on the budget caps feature.

Thank you so much! Really appreciated and will help new builders.

Yes, please, the fear of receiving a high bill is really worrying.

Thank you. I just want to chime in that a hard cap is extremely important for me too. It’s something so basic, it’s almost hard to believe this is an oversight - but I truly hope it is, and it’s only a matter of time before we get the hard caps. The problem is that none of the “official” proposed s…

+1 Looking forward to this feature

Hi, as many others, I just dropped my Gemini API keys until there is some budget limiter in place. Not having this, it is simply the greatest way to go bankrupt while sleeping and the api key gets stolen, the AI agent goes crazy, your website AI feature gets a spike of use… and any other thousand o…

This is a clear roadblock for me to use Gemini cli and their products. Very sad :cry:

Same for me, I’m not using Google API anymore because of this. And their budget limit notification is useless because of the latency…

How to limit my budget cost say $30 a month spent for Gemini api?

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jasteph February 26, 2026, 6:44pm 35

Hi all, working on spend caps, so hopefully we’ll have a solution in AI Studio here soon!

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How to limit my budget cost say $30 a month spent for Gemini api?

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