Intermittent gemini-embedding-001 429 errors despite very low usage

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I am using the paid Gemini API with gemini-embedding-001, google-genai 1.75.0, and API-key authentication.

During a multi-hour period, more than 30 requests failed with:

429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED: Quota exceeded for aiplatform.googleapis.com/global_embed_content_requests_per_minute_per_base_model with base model: gemini-embedding

Successful requests occurred between failures. Visible usage peaked at approximately 10 RPM against a 20,000 RPM limit. The referenced Agent Platform quota shows a separate 100,000 RPM limit, but no usage or exceeded telemetry is available for it.

No Google Service Health incident was reported during the affected period.

This appears similar to this reported issue.

Could someone please confirm whether this is a known quota-routing or service issue?

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Hey! This was an intermitted issue, should be working fine now.

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Same problem here. Recurring error, and we aren’t even close to the rate limit.

“error”: {
“code”: 429,
“message”: “Quota exceeded for aiplatform.googleapis.com/global_embed_content_requests_per_minute_per_base_model with base model: gemini-embedding. Please submit a quota increase request. https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/generative-ai/quotas-genai.”,
“status”: “RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED”
}

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I’m having the exact same issue. I added retry logic for 429 errors, but it takes up to 30 seconds of retries just to get a single successful request. It’s been going on for over 12 hours now without a fix, and it’s severely impacting our service.

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Hello @Korea @Herbert1 ,

Can you please try again and let us know if you are still facing this issue?

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