junkx
April 11, 2026, 12:25pm
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Me and other devs had a similar issue since march 16th. It’s been almost a month and even though we asked Google team for help several times , we didn’t get a clear answer and it still hasn’t been fixed .
So I have to pay 4x as much as before. I don’t know what to do
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Hello,
Since March 16–17, 2026, I have noticed a significant increase in the costs for API calls using the gemini-3-flash-preview model. We do not use the caching system or the Google search system.
Our cost calculations (in terms of user credits UCR) based on the tokens (promptTokenCount, thoughtsTokenCount, and candidatesTokenCount) no longer match the associated costs displayed in Google AI Studio since March 16–17, 2026. The number of requests is valid and has not changed.
Before March 16…
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SKU: E181-DFF8-56CF
I have huge problems with cache calculation.
For test issue I created 5 cached contents with 5 seconds time to live. All that caches was invalidated/expired after 5 seconds (which is fine).
Cache check at 17 march 2026:
curl -s “https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/cachedContents?key={MY_KEYS}”
output:
{} - meaning No registered keys whole day.
And right now I see HUGE NUMBERS: 3,418,811.34 hours for $15.38 (in billing 17 march 2026). I’m 1000% sure I didn’…
