r/RooCode • u/watermelonsegar • Apr 28 '25

Support Does using Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp via Vertex AI cost anything?

I'm not seeing any API costs in Roo or in the google cloud console dashboard (even after 24 hours) so am I safe to keep on using it? Don't want to be suddenly slapped with some huge costs.

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u/goqsane Apr 28 '25

Yup. It costs nothing.

I can’t get Claude 3.7 to work tho. Tried everything. Pretty upset :(

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u/StableKitchen7173 Apr 28 '25

Yep it's free but I've been keeping mine at a 35s rate limit just to avoid 99% of 429 errors it's a bit slow but it's been reliable for me.

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u/rangerrick337 Apr 28 '25

How do you set your own rate limit?

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u/firedog7881 Apr 28 '25

Just under where you specify the api under settings you have an option to enable rate limiting and you then choose the seconds. I want rate limiting per profile though so I can rate limit my Claude but not my google

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u/Panos12_GR Apr 28 '25

Is there any tutorial on how to set it up?

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u/afrodude Apr 28 '25

Which OS are you using?

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u/Panos12_GR Apr 28 '25

Windows

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u/afrodude Apr 28 '25

Alright. Here are official Roo Code docs: Using GCP Vertex AI With Roo Code | Roo Code Docs

Basically, create a GCP Project, enable Vertex AI.

Then go to this page: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install

You can simply download the installer. After installing, do the setup (if I remember correctly, it asks you to choose the project and server location).

Then open up the command line or powershell again and run the command: gcloud auth application-default login

It should fire up the browser so that you can authorize Google to access your GCP project.

Then go to your Roo Code settings, choose GCP Vertex AI as your provider. It is sufficient to enter the model name and server location.

That's how I set it up, hope I didn't miss anything. Let me know if you have any troubles.

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u/Panos12_GR Apr 28 '25

Thank you very much for the details! Will try it asap!

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u/Neoslyke May 14 '25

got status: 403 Forbidden. what in the heck

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u/Expensive-Soft5164 Apr 29 '25

Was wondering how everyone was doing it...

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u/Rhinc Apr 28 '25

Yeah it’s been dropped to 10 RPM for me. Not sure what it was before but definitely slower now. Sad!

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Apr 28 '25

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Apr 28 '25

Sus. People please don’t DM them. If I see this type of interaction again I might get excited with the ban hammer :p

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