Issue: Persistent 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED on Paid Tier 1

Gemini API
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Hi team,

I’m experiencing persistent 429 errors on my Tier 1 paid account despite being well within quota limits, but can’t see any deviations in my ai studio rate limit.

Error response:

{
  "error": {
    "code": 429,
    "message": "Resource has been exhausted (e.g. check quota).",
    "status": "RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED"
  }
}

Environment:

What I’ve already tried:

  • Switched from gemini-3-flash-preview → gemini-2.5-pro — issue persists
  • Verified billing is active and account is confirmed Tier 1
  • Regenerated API key
  • Exponential backoff retry — does not resolve, same error on every attempt
  • Tested manually in AI Studio — same 429 returned

Key observation:
The error response contains no quotaMetric field, which suggests this is not a personal quota exhaustion but a backend capacity/infrastructure issue on Google’s side.

This is blocking my production application. Could someone from the team please investigate and confirm whether there is an ongoing infrastructure issue affecting Tier 1 users ?

Happy to provide Project ID via DM if needed.

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same here iam getting the same error i have not wven used 1000 rs of credits from my cloud i still have 27k but unable ti use it’