Billing Account ID: 0150F9-D8F1CF-E5C4..
Project: Linkedin-Automation (gen-lang-client-08206410..)
Issue: AI Studio shows “The billing account type is inactive or unsupported” despite having an active Google Cloud billing account with $9.96 in prepaid credits. The Gemini API Billing page says “Free tier” and requires an active billing account to upgrade, but the billing account is already linked and funded.
Impact: Imagen 3/4 API calls fail with:
Imagen 3 is only available on paid plans. Please upgrade your account at https://ai.dev/projects.
Requesting a manual billing sync to move this project to Tier 1. Thank you.
Exact Error:
Imagen 4 failed (400):
{
“error”:
{
“code”: 400, “message”: “Imagen 3 is only available on paid plans. Please upgrade your account at https://ai.dev/projects.”, “status”: “INVALID_ARGUMENT”
}
}