Comment by raincole
6 months ago
Interestingly Gemini CLI has a very generous free quota. Is Google's strategy just overpricing some stuff and subsidizing the underpriced stuff?
6 months ago
Interestingly Gemini CLI has a very generous free quota. Is Google's strategy just overpricing some stuff and subsidizing the underpriced stuff?
It doesn't, it's not "1000 Gemini Pro" requests for free, Google misled everyone. It's 1000 Gemini requests, Flash included. You get like 5-7 Gemini Pro requests before you get limited.
I'm getting 100 Gemini Pro requests per day with an AI Studio API key that doesn't have billing enabled.
After that it's bumped down to Flash, which is surpisingly effective in Gemini CLI.
If I need Pro, I just swap in an API from an account with billing enabled, but usually 100 requests is enough for a day of work.
I created an AI Studio key (unbilled) probably over a year ago or so. Is it still good for the current models are should I be creating a new key?
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Obviously I'm not talking about API keys, this is what I would recommend though: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits#free-tier
I'm talking about "logging in with a Google Account".
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Whoa. I’m definitely getting just handful of requests via free, just like patent commenter…
This is the fundamental pricing strategy of all modern software in fact.
Underpriced for consumers, overpriced for businesses.
I've found the free version swaps away from pro incredibly fast. But our company has gemini but can't even get that - we were being asked to do everything by API key.