Upgrade to continue your flow

Google AI Studio
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I am completely stuck in the “Upgrade to continue your flow” loop in AI Studio.

I have a valid API key attached to an active Google Cloud Pay-as-you-go billing account. When the upgrade prompt appears, my key is already listed. The “Select key” button is greyed out, and I only have the options to “Unlink” or “Change.” However, when I close the modal, the AI Studio agent still treats me as a Free Tier user and refuses to generate code.

Troubleshooting already attempted:

  • Confirmed the API key is correctly added to the App Secrets tab.

  • Toggled the “Save paid API key” switch on and off.

  • Hard refreshed the browser/cleared session state.

  • Tried linking the key globally in settings rather than just the project workspace.

Nothing works. This is a complete blocker for development right now. Any updates on a timeline for a fix would be hugely appreciated!

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I am experiencing the same issue and hope it gets resolved soon. I am using both a Google AI Pro monthly subscription and a Pay-As-You-Go billing account. However, once a certain daily limit is exceeded, I receive the error messages “Encountered retryable error from model provider: Agent execution terminated due to error.” and “Upgrade to continue your flow”. After this occurs, I am completely unable to use AI Studio until the next day.

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Hi, did you get any resolution on this. I am experiencing the same issues.

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Hi, one thing I did do was sign out/sign back in again and since then I have not had any further issues. worth a try if you have not tried that already. be nice to get an official update that the issues have been resolved.

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Thanks Mark. It did not help at all.

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This issue persists over a week now and still not fixed

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Hi Everyone

This should now be addressed, are you still experiencing this issue ?

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Just had this happen to me for the first time, 3 hours after you asked this question.

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DM’ed for more details

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no, everything is fine at the moment. thanks