You prepay for tokens exactly like the OpenAI/Anthropic dev dashboards when using AI Studio, which the link above is pointing to not GCP, also there are project specific spend caps now.
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/billing#spend-caps
You are right; last time I tried it I used the cloud console as I needed gemini with the places tool included. However:
"Experimental: The feature is experimental and limited in scope. You are subject to overages for around a 10 minute latency period."
Why in 2026 can't Google do a database lookup in real time? This is so ridiculous.
You are right; last time I tried it I used the cloud console as I needed gemini with the places tool included. However:
"Experimental: The feature is experimental and limited in scope. You are subject to overages for around a 10 minute latency period."
Why in 2026 can't Google do a database lookup in real time? This is so ridiculous.