Giving you more transparency and control over your Gemini API costs

Usage Tiers: Less friction and more transparency as you scale

We’ve completely revamped our Usage Tiers to get you higher capacity faster. While we rely on these tiers to manage aggregate load and help to ensure equitable API access, your progression through them is now automated and transparent. Here is what’s changing:

• Lower spend qualifications: To make it easier for users with a strong payment history to get higher quotas, we are also reducing the spend qualifications for higher tiers.
• Automatic and faster upgrades: The system now automatically upgrades you to the next tier as your usage grows and your payment history matures. You get access to higher rate limits and increased monthly quota as soon as the criteria is met.
• Billing account tier cap: Each Usage Tier will now have a maximum monthly spend limit ($) enforced across your entire billing account (similar to other platforms in the industry). This system-defined cap automatically increases as you graduate to higher tiers,…