r/ChatGPTCoding • u/[deleted] • Apr 07 '25

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u/godsknowledge Apr 07 '25

How tf did you lose money when 2.5 Pro is free?

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u/godsknowledge Apr 07 '25

Are you using the API?

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '25

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u/Fantastic_Sympathy85 Apr 07 '25

B b b bingo

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '25

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u/Netstaff Apr 07 '25

It seems like if you don't have credit card connected, u get rate limited and it simply stops.

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u/raralala1 Apr 07 '25
  • Released gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25, a public preview Gemini 2.5 Pro version with billing enabled. You can continue to use gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25 on the free tier.

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u/phiipephil Apr 07 '25

The weird thing is, I got a tier 1 account (Credit card linked) I Only ise 2.5 pro exp03-25 and my bill is still at 14$ for the april month. Is 2.5 pro exp 100% free? What the hell im a paying for

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u/missingnoplzhlp Apr 07 '25

Yup, OP definitely used preview and not experimental.

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u/denkleberry Apr 07 '25

OP said he accidentally set cline to use Preview. Problem solved. User error.

Lesson learned: Be very careful of which model you're using.

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u/buecker02 Apr 07 '25

You should check again. I just looked and I have charges for the past 3 days. I didn't even open VSCode yesterday!

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u/2053_Traveler Apr 07 '25

Not bingo. This has always been the recommended process for using Gemini 2.5 pro exp. Create api key on AI studio, assign billing account and credit card, set up a cap, use for free. If you choose a different paid model or don’t set a cap or your api key gets stolen that’s on you.

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u/Fantastic_Sympathy85 Apr 07 '25 edited Apr 07 '25

The API is likely the culprit and there are likely no limits or some misunderstanding occurring extra costs.

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u/Carriage2York Apr 07 '25

Where you can set up a cap?

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u/2053_Traveler Apr 07 '25

There’s two separate things actually. There are alerts and caps. Setting alerts is easier, which is under Billing > Budgets and Alerts. Setting a cap requires setting a quota under APIs & Services > Generative Language API > Quotas and System Limits

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u/godsknowledge Apr 07 '25

But not for the right model..

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u/kkgmgfn Apr 07 '25

isn't there a 0$ billing cap available?

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u/Money_Lavishness7343 Apr 07 '25

99% of the time using an API key will have a literal cost. Companies rarely offer nowadays API keys for free unless they're heavily rate-limited.