[URGENT] Nano Banana API Unusable: Excessive Free Tier Overload is Killing Paid Usage

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Hello Google AI Team and fellow developers,

I am raising a massive red flag regarding the current state of the Gemini API infrastructure, specifically concerning the Nano Banana models and their integration with third-party partners.

  • The Bottleneck: I am a paying Adobe subscriber utilizing the newly integrated Google Nano Banana 2 partner model inside the Adobe Firefly interface. For the past week, almost every attempt to generate an image—which costs 80 generative credits per prompt—results in an immediate failure: “Something went wrong. This model is experiencing heavy load.”

  • The Unacceptable Cause: It is painfully obvious that the issuance of excessive free trials and unrestricted free image generations on Google’s native platforms is actively cannibalizing the server infrastructure. The servers are collapsing under the weight of free-tier traffic, and it is entirely crippling the API pipeline for enterprise partners.

  • The Financial Impact: As a user spending actual money and credits through an integrated platform, my resources are effectively being burned. If Adobe is paying Google for API access, and I am paying Adobe for credits, why is my API request being throttled by the same server load as a free user? There is zero priority routing.

  • The Ultimatum: Google needs to make a definitive choice to protect its API partners. You must either aggressively expand your data center capacity to handle the actual demand of these models, or immediately throttle/stop the free generations. Paid API requests routing from enterprise partners MUST be prioritized.

We need scalable infrastructure and proper load balancing, not a perpetual traffic jam that wastes paid credits. Please address this backend routing issue immediately.

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This really sucks. But Adobe should not bill you for such credits. If the Gemini API fails with a 500 or 503 error, there is no billing from Google if I understand correctly. So you should not loose credits in your Adobe subscription.

I wrote a NB plugin for Photoshop that directly uses the Gemini API via an API key to avoid Photoshops integration. But I have similar issues with the API failing a lot lately. With 4k images using Pro and V2, I constantly get either 500 or 503 errors since more than one week.

I hope there will be some fix eventually.

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Adobe isn’t consuming credits for unsuccessful gens, but the subscription’s credit system refreshes monthly. One week is wasted; three more weeks remain with the same number of credits, but they won’t roll over if they are unused. Basically, time is money here, but the Banana 4K and V2 aren’t returning any results.