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We have spend caps at the billing account level and the project level (developer set) in the Gemini API now. There is up to a 10 minute delay in processing everything but this should significantly mitigate the risk here: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/billing#tier-spend-cap...

By default, new Tier 1 paid accounts can only spend $250 in a given month.

We have a bunch of different protections in place, every account has a billing account cap by default (see: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/billing#tier-spend-cap...), in the addition to the ability to set more granular developer spend caps.

we are bringing billing into AI Studio and adding hard caps by default so you don't overspend

nope, at least dev rel in deepmind is part of my product team

my team is responsible for building the worlds best product, every piece of feedback directly influences what we do : )

cart out in front of the horse a bit on this one, lame hype building at best

hmmm

2. Not at all what I want the team focusing on, they don't seem to have a clear mission

allow anyone to build with Google's latest AI models, be the fastest path from prompt to production with Gemini

email me and I can get you bumped, but we are also working on prepay to get higher quota up front! Lkilpatrick@google.com

I've been using the AI Studio with my personal Workspace account. I can generate an API key. That worked for a while, but now Gemini CLI won't accept it. Why? No clue. It just says that I'm "not allowed" to use Gemini Pro 3 with the CLI tool. No reason given, no recourse, just a hand in your face flatly rejecting access to something I am paying for and can use elsewhere.

Passing along this feedback to the CLI team, no clue why this would be the case.

AI Studio is meant to be the fast path from prompt to production, bringing billing fully into AI Studio in January will make this even faster! We have hundreds of thousands of paying customers in production using AI Studio right now.

You can check your usage, inclusive of Gemini 3 here: https://aistudio.google.com/usage?timeRange=last-28-days just make sure you have the right project selected

Added a big button on: https://googledevai.devsite.corp.google.com/gemini-api/docs/... to make this more clear

we will have this fixed soon : ) thank you for the patience, have wanted this in AI Studio directly since the day I joined Google!

That should not be the case, if so it is a bug, if we load shed (which does happen some what frequently given the demand our systems are under) we should be returning a 503, not 429. If you suspect something is amiss and you get a 429 even though your limits don't show it in https://aistudio.google.com/usage?timeRange=last-28-days&tab..., pls email me: Lkilpatrick@google.com

We built a new rate limit and quota experience right inside Google AI Studio, along with a way to see your details logs: https://aistudio.google.com/usage?timeRange=last-28-days&tab...

pls send feedback if this is helpful!

4. If you read about a new Gemini model, you might want to use it - but are you using @google/genai, @google/generative-ai (wow finally deprecated) or @google-ai/generativelanguage? Silly mistake, but when nano banana dropped it was highly confusing image gen was available only through one of these.?

Yeah, I hear you, open to suggestions to make this more clear, but it is google/genai going forward. Switching packages sucks.

Gemini supports video! But that video first has to be uploaded to "Google GenAI Drive" which will then splices it into 1 FPS images and feeds it to the LLM. No option to improve the FPS, so if you want anything properly done, you'll have to splice it yourself and upload it to generativelanguage.googleapis.com which is only accessible using their GenAI SDK. Don't ask which one, I'm still not sure.

We have some work ongoing (should launch in the next 3-4 weeks) which will let you reference files (video included) from links directly so you don't need to upload to the File API. We do also support custom FPS: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/video-understanding#cu...

6. Nice, it works. Let's try using live video. Open the docs, you get it mentioned a bunch of times but 0 documentation on how to actually do it. Only suggestions for using 3rd party services. When you actually find it in the docs, it says "To see an example of how to use the Live API in a streaming audio and video format, run the "Live API - Get Started" file in the cookbooks repository". Oh well, time to read badly written python.

Just pinged the team, we will get a live video example added here: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/live?example=mic-strea... should have it live Monday, not sure why that isn't there, sorry for the miss!

7. How about we try generating a video - open up AI studio, see only Veo 2 available from the video models. But, open up "Build" section, and I can have Gemini 3 build me a video generation tool that will use Veo 3 via API by clicking on the example. But wait why cant we use Veo 3 in the AI studio with the same API key?

We are working on adding Veo 3.1 into the drop down, I think it is being tested by QA right now, pinged the team to get ETA, should be rolling out ASAP though, sorry for the confusing experience. Hoping this is fixed by Monday EOD!

8. Every Veo 3 extended video has absolutely garbled sound and there is nothing you can do about it, or maybe there is, but by this point I'm out of willpower to chase down edgy edge cases in their docs.

Checking on this, haven't used extend a lot but will see if there is something missing we can clarify.

On some of the later points, I don't have enough domain expertise to weight in but will forward to folks n the Android / Play side to see what we can do to streamline things!

Thank you for taking the time to write up this feedback : ) hoping we can make the product better based on this.

We are updating the API to be REST centric. Very fair feedback, see the new Interactions API we just shipped, very REST centric and all future work we do will be REST centric : )

Usage updates much quicker in the AI Studio UI, near realtime (but can take ~5 min in edge cases).

We are working on billing caps along with credits right now. Billing caps will land first in Jan!

Will take a pass with the team to see what we can do to tighten up this experience, very valid feedback on the confusion between the three APIs.

Hey! Very valid feedback on setting up a billing account. This is something I have been pushing for over the last 2 years at Google. The good news: setting up billing directly in AI Studio tested internally and will be shipped in January : )

Will follow up on some of the other threads in here!

For new users in AI Studio, we make a cloud project and key for you automatically. Hear you on the billing setup, we are working on it, landing in January!

yes

You can test gemini in 3 clicks at https://ai.studio

I know not accessible across all API's, but the point of AI Studio is you can sign up and we just make an API key for you automagically, no extra button clicks or the like.

Any feedback on mobile in the meantime? pls send it: Lkilpatrick@google.com, we have a revamp coming soon.

yes, that is the goal : )

Pls email me if you can on the latter, we can update whatever pointers we have to the cloud console and make them more contextual. We are also pushing on the north star of the P99 user experience not needing to leave AI Studio. We have landed a lot of stuff to make this possible already!

We use Google Cloud's billing service, but given the super global nature of our customer base, there is a lot of complexity in moving this into AI Studio. Though we are making great progress!

yes, we are working on this : )

We are working on hard billing limits! Should land in late Dec or early Jan!

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