✕ [API Error: You have exhausted your daily quota on this model.] WHEN NOT

[RoberttoZappiain]

What happened?

✕ [API Error: You have exhausted your daily quota on this model.]

hola

✕ [API Error: You have exhausted your daily quota on this model.]

hola?

✕ [API Error: You have exhausted your daily quota on this model.]

que?

✕ [API Error: You have exhausted your daily quota on this model.]

que pasa?

✕ [API Error: You have exhausted your daily quota on this model.]

que?

✕ [API Error: You have exhausted your daily quota on this model.]

HOLA

✕ [API Error: You have exhausted your daily quota on this model.]

no es cierto

✕ [API Error: You have exhausted your daily quota on this model.]

dejame trabajar

✕ [API Error: You have exhausted your daily quota on this model.]

HOLA?

✕ [API Error: You have exhausted your daily quota on this model.]

What did you expect to happen?

couta not full

Client information

• CLI Version: 0.22.2
• Git Commit: 9bc9a31
• Session ID: 25cf5227-fc95-41bb-b1ec-e444878657bd
• Operating System: darwin v20.19.6
• Sandbox Environment: no sandbox
• Model Version: auto-gemini-3
• Memory Usage: 232.4 MB

Login information

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Anything else we need to know?

No response

[angelobernardi]

Same problem here, and have a coworker who presents the same issue, with just 1 request it says that I have reached the limit.

• About Gemini CLI
• CLI Version 0.22.4
• Git Commit 9bc9a31
• Model auto-gemini-3
• Sandbox no sandbox
• OS win32
• Auth Method gemini-api-key

I'm using an ApiKey, and the usage is clearly below the limit

[summusdev]

the same problem. New API key and "API Error: You have exhausted your daily quota on this model" after the first request.

[dm9tr0]

I’m seeing the same issue. I just downloaded the CLI and wanted to try the Free tier. I generated a fresh API key from
https://aistudio.google.com/app/u/2/api-keys

Within the first 46.3 seconds, I started getting:
[API Error: You have exhausted your daily quota on this model.]

From the logs, it looks like the CLI automatically switches between different models. The quota limits themselves seem fine, but this raises a bigger question for me:

Why is there a “Free tier” if it doesn’t work as described in the project?

If model switching is expected behavior, it would be helpful to clearly document:

• which models are used by default,
• how quotas are applied across them,
• and what “Free tier” realistically allows a user to do.

Right now, the experience is confusing for a first-time user trying to evaluate the project.

At this point it feels like nobody really cares — with 90K+ stars on GitHub, is this a joke or just an accepted state of things?

[nicklhy]

+1.

Got this error just after gemini-cli installed with the api-key from ai-studio

[canhuzmeli]

+1
The same problem with the API-KEY from ai-studio + gemini-cli. It can't be a quota issue because my usage was zero.

[bdmorgan]

Closing for now as we believe quota management is now working properly. If this is still an issue that you are currently experiencing, please reopen and supply more details if possible.