I tried searching the topics for similar cases, but as I’m not a developer, certain concepts are beyond me.
I Hello ! I recently subscribed to Google’s Ai Studio, but I feel like my paid subscription is no different from the free one. When I paid for the subscription, I tried to make another request on Ai Studio, but it kept asking me to use my API key, which should already be set up correctly. I noticed in the Gemini API limits that there was a “Maximum number of input tokens per minute (TPM)” and that this had exceeded one million at its peak. Is this because I had reached the daily limit and only then subscribed to the offer, and this still didn’t unlock the limit?
Hello! Are you using Google AI studio with a Paid API key or Gemini API? In Google AI Studio you would link your paid API key after which the regular Gemini API rate limits would apply. This is not a subscription mode but a pay per API call model. Billing Tiers and daily request/token limits per model are outlined in this doc: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits
Thank you for your quick response! Okay, I understand better now. It really wasn’t clear to a novice and it was very counterintuitive to link your API key in Google Studio AI.
But then, what is the reason for the limit? Because I had made too many free requests, and when I switched to the paid version, the limit was still there?
I had $125 of Google’s $300 free credit when I created my cloud account, which was apparently used up even though I didn’t do anything. Again, I wonder what caused this, and the information on the cloud console doesn’t help me figure out why. (Because I can now see myself being charged a large amount of money, since it’s pay-as-you-go and there’s no way to set a limit to avoid going over, and by no limit, I mean of course having a simple and suitable option, not a developer solution that will create an alert and then something else that will monitor that alert to automatically disable payment, which is completely nonsensical for novices).