I Hit a 429 Before I Got a Bill — Managing Gemini API Limits in Spring Boot
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I didn't get a surprise bill. I got a 429. Requests started failing. The app was returning errors instead of responses. I opened the Gemini AI Studio rate limit page and saw it — quota exhausted. I'd burned through my daily request limit without realising it. That's when I understood that token usa…
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I Hit a 429 Before I Got a Bill — Managing Gemini API Limits in Spring Boot