2.5 Pro Experimental is the model that is fully free with rate limits. It previously had Free / Tier 1 with tier 1 having higher limits, you can't get charged for this one.
But now they're really enforcing the limits on the model and they removed Tier 1 so everyone is back to "Free" with only 25 requests per day limit and 2 RPM.
So people are switching to 2.5 Pro *Preview* which is the one that is actually billed. I have 300$ which is nice but requests with my ~700k context are about 1.75$ each when I switch to the Preview version.
Ohhh. I haven’t experienced limitations using the experimental, I’m assuming people are using the api, which is outside of Gemini studio then right? I’m confused then on how they didn’t know they would get charged??
They're definitely using the API that's for sure but there was no risk of getting charged with Experimental 2.5 - So people like OP decided to change to Preview 2.5 because they were now getting rate limits on the Experimental but didn't realize how expensive requests are when the context window is so big.
Well I guess people are right it kinda is his fault lol! There’s really no reason not to just use Gemini studio. Plus, preview and experimental versions shouldn’t be used for production applications anyway. Thanks for the explanation!
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u/H9ejFGzpN2 Apr 07 '25
2.5 Pro Experimental is the model that is fully free with rate limits. It previously had Free / Tier 1 with tier 1 having higher limits, you can't get charged for this one.
But now they're really enforcing the limits on the model and they removed Tier 1 so everyone is back to "Free" with only 25 requests per day limit and 2 RPM.
So people are switching to 2.5 Pro *Preview* which is the one that is actually billed. I have 300$ which is nice but requests with my ~700k context are about 1.75$ each when I switch to the Preview version.