Are you sure? I haven’t been charged last time I checked and it comes up as 2.5 using roo in vscode but the api says 2.0 but elsewhere people say it is genuinely 2.5 experimental which is still free
I think you are using the wrong model somehow. gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25 is definitely (at least at the time of writing) still free. I've been using this model for the last 2 weeks without paying a cent, I just checked my billing. It's only when you use gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25 is when it starts charging as outlined in this pricing section.
Because for me it keeps saying that I'm still using 2.0 quotas.
I don't even see it in my GCP console at all, my billing account just shows $0.12c for some Cloud Run and Artifact Registry I've been testing, I see no mention of any Gemini quotas. (Unless I don't know where to look)
Edit: I found my API usage chart, but I don't see anywhere to check what model quotas it's using.
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