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You can get an API key and they don't bill you. Free tier rate limits for some models (even decent ones like Gemini 2.0 Flash) are quite high. https://ai.googl
by dcre 2y ago
You can get an API key and they don't bill you. Free tier rate limits for some models (even decent ones like Gemini 2.0 Flash) are quite high.
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits#free-tier https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits#free-tier
- NoahZuniga 2y agoThe rate limits I've encountered with free api keys has been way lower than the limits advertised.
- jmacd 2y agoI agree. I found it unusable for anything but casual usage due to the rate limiting. I wonder if I am just missing something?
- tempthrow 2y agoI think it's the small TPM limits. I'll be way under the 10-30 requests per minute while using Cline, but it appears that the input tokens count towards the rate limit so I'll find myself limited to one message a minute if I let the conversation go on for too long, ironically due to Gemini's long context window. AFAIK Cline doesn't currently offer an option to limit the context explosion to lower than model capacity.
- nolok 2y agoI'm pretty sure that's a google maps' level of free where once in control they will massively bill it
- dcre 2y agoThere is no reason to expect the other entrants in the market to drop out and give them monopoly power. The paid tier is also among the cheapest. People say it’s because they built their own their inference hardware and are genuinely able to serve it cheaper.