# Personal account blocked: "organization does not allow API keys" despite no organization

**URL:** <https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/personal-account-blocked-organization-does-not-allow-api-keys-despite-no-organization/183074>\
**Category:** Gemini API\
**Tags:** api, gemini, google-cloud\
**Created:** [September 15, 2026, 10:35am UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/personal-account-blocked-organization-does-not-allow-api-keys-despite-no-organization/183074 "2026-09-15T10:35:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Aaryan\_Mishra](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/aaryan_mishra/32/149927_2.png) [@Aaryan\_Mishra](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Aaryan_Mishra)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 10:35am UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/personal-account-blocked-organization-does-not-allow-api-keys-despite-no-organization/183074/1 "2026-09-15T10:35:58Z")

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Hello Gemini API team,

I am requesting a manual review of what appears to be an account-level restriction on a personal Google account.

Affected project:

- project-1b2eae81-5c04-4832-9..

The project is ACTIVE, has no organization parent, and billing has been recently  
upgraded from Free Trial to a standard active billing account. The account is a  
personal Gmail account, not Workspace or enterprise.

When attempting to create a Gemini API key via Google cloud console, I receive:  
“Your organization’s security policy disallows API keys. Please use Application Default Credentials (ADC) instead.”

Troubleshooting completed:

- Verified there is no organization or folder parent on this project.
- Confirmed IAM & Admin \> Organization Policies shows no relevant constraints  
enforced at the project level.
- Upgraded billing account from Free Trial to standard/active.
- Confirmed I hold Owner-level IAM permissions on the project.
- Issue persists after all of the above.

This strongly suggests an account-level flag rather than a project configuration  
issue. Could someone review and confirm whether this is a false positive that  
needs manual clearing?

Happy to provide redacted screenshots or logs privately if needed.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Mahesh\_Sutar](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/mahesh_sutar/32/31644_2.png) [@Mahesh\_Sutar](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Mahesh_Sutar)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2026, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/personal-account-blocked-organization-does-not-allow-api-keys-despite-no-organization/183074/2 "2026-09-17T10:53:09Z")

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Hello @Aaryan_Mishra,

Thanks for reaching out!

You have the below 2 options:

- **Google AI Studio:** Visit [Google AI Studio API Keys](https://aistudio.google.com/apikey), click **Create API key** , and select your project `project-1b2eae81-...`. This generates your Gemini API key directly without requiring organization policies. Please note that you’ll need to add some prepayment credits to AIS wallet here: [aistudio.google.com/billing](http://aistudio.google.com/billing) before AIS starts using your billing account, else it will throw 429 errors.
- **Google Cloud Console:** If you want to do this in GCP UI and continue encountering errors, please reach out to [Google Cloud Support](https://cloud.google.com/support) for assistance.