I dont’t know when this happen. yesterdy I want to use gemini and it said 429 error. and I went to gemini api key page, nothing on the page, I have to import the project I created months ago and it shows the api key is unavailable, It’s used to be free tier. I created a new project and new api key, it’s also unavailabel. that means my account is being banned right? what happened? I just haven’t use the api key for several days and it’s been banned? I find others also encounter this problem. It’s not a single problem only with me.
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same error。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。
same here. my project and API keys simply disappeared this morning. During the night everything still worked. No support from google side. ALL my app users have no service atm. really frustrating
me too…………………………………………..
same problem bruh(((
Hello,
Apologies for the inconvenience, could you please share your key tier for more detailed analysis?
Free tier. On the console.cloud.google.com/apis/dashboard page, I have 4 projects, but only 1 is displayed on the aistudio.google.com/api-keys page….
i have same problem too , until now.
Same here. Got another api key from another account and getting the same. Feels like free tier just broke
Same problem here (429). I have credits left from free tier, but my billing page says “Paid account“, I have a valid credit card registered. There’s something strange on “Billing/Credits“ page: there’s a expired plan that goes from September 3 to September 4 and a valid plan from September 4 to December 3. Today is still September 3…
I have a similar problem I’ve been consistently getting 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED on two specific Google accounts when calling the Gemini API. What’s unusual:
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Other accounts in the same environment work fine (HTTP 200).
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On the problematic accounts:
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Creating a new API key in the same project → still 429
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Creating a brand-new project (enabled Generative Language API) + new key → still 429
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The usage charts show plenty of remaining quota (not near limits).
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The 429 response contains no
detailsand noRetry-Afterheader.
This makes me suspect an account-level throttle / risk control rather than visible RPM/TPM quotas.
Me too. On my long-used Google account, creating a key shows as unavailable, but I can create a free key on a new account.
Hello,
We have escalated this issue to the concern team. They are woking on resolving it.
Thank you for your patience.
I found a problem — Free project returns 429 on the very first request; missing “GenerateContent free tier input token count limit per model per day” quota
My Free-tier project consistently returns 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED on the very first request to gemini-2.5-flash-lite:generateContent.
On the Quotas page for this project, the metric “GenerateContent free tier input token count limit per model per day” is absent, while another working account/project shows this metric (value = 1000). This suggests my free input-token entitlement was not provisioned (effectively 0), causing every request to be rate-limited immediately.
Please check for a producer override / entitlement misconfiguration on generativelanguage.googleapis.com for the above project/account, and provision/restore the Free “GenerateContent free tier input token count limit per model per day” quota (and related Free entitlements), or remove any override that sets the effective quota to 0
Same issue here continues, very strange to say the least.
It was working fine for ages and then suddenly stopped.
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Same issues. Did anyone resolve it?
Has this issue been resolved on your end?
The problem still exists..... Two accounts, both in Free Tier, one of which is missing a significant amount of quota. 
The last 2.0-flash-exp can’t be used either, with both the daily request limit and daily input token count reduced to zero.
I’m encountering the same issue. The quota tier for my project has become “unavailable”, and all requests to any model are returning a 429 error. This also happens with new projects and new API keys.
{“error”: {
“code”: 429,
“message”: "You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, head to: ``https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits``. To monitor your current usage, head to: ``https://ai.dev/usage?tab=rate-limit``. ",
“status”: “RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED”
}}
In AI Studio, I get the notification: “Project quota tier unavailable. Please contact your project administrator for assistance.” However, I am the project administrator.
Furthermore, I’ve noticed that many projects named “My First Project” have appeared in my Google Cloud. It seems new ones are created when I use AI Studio, and I have been continuously deleting them, keeping only the first one.
I tried to set up billing, but I couldn’t add my Visa card successfully, even though I use it normally with Google Pay.(I’m not sure if it’s related to this issue)