I’m yet to see any means to view the quota of free grounding, nor the costs due associated with grounding searches beyond that free grounding requests limit.
Docs (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing) state for, for example, gemini-3-flash-preview;
- Standard = 5000 monthly grounded requests
- Batch = 1500 daily grounded requests
Exceeding either of these is stated to charge at a rate of $14/1000 searches made. I presume these limits are entirely independent, applying strictly to the standard or batch processing method respectively.
Questions;
- When search grounding tool is enabled in the request, but the response is provided showing zero searches, does this contribute towards these “grounded request” limits?
- When do these limits reset? I presume daily is at 00:00 in some timezone (PST?), so is monthly resetting at 00:00 (PST?) on the first day of each calendar month?
- How can I see how far I am to exhausting that free limit, or even just how many requests I’ve made which have been considered as contributing to the limit?
The only current solution I have is to compare actual charges against calculated charges, but I’m not confident this is suitable, nor interested in finding out only by the next day that I’ve shot through a limit after potentially 5000 requests each with average 3 searches, to the tune of $210.