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Ask HN: My Gemini bill shot up suddenly to 2500 USD in one day

1 points by kinj28 ↗ HN
our usage of gemini is very limited. using 2.5 flash or similar models. at a hackathon in bay area i used the api key in my google app script. from that day my usage overshot to insane amounts.Google started charging y card every 30 mins or so. Google support said they will help significantly waive this off but they havent been swift. any one else experienced anything similar?

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happyPersonR
Yeah, api useage

But I figure they would just say “no” when you exhaust the tokens you have

mindslight
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stuaxo
Exactly. I use this stuff at work, but why would I ever risk this for my own stuff ?
kinj28
update -- been over 5 days and google has just kept pushing their time lines. saying it needs cross team evaluation. I had similar experience with AWS and they were swift to give back credits to us. this tells me some serious issues with google and their org structure if this 2500$ is taking them a long long time to decide and involves cross functional teams. or maybe they have many more such incidents and adding up many more $$ or this is the 1st of its kind and are now putting an SOP. any one from google here?