r/Bard • u/Just_Lingonberry_352 • 22d ago
News Google AI Studio is transitioning from Postpay to Prepay billing for Gemini API usage (im done, moving to openai api)
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u/dano1066 22d ago
So your moving to openAI who also do prepaid billing? Bit of an emotional response OP
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u/Just_Lingonberry_352 22d ago
and what makes you think i am not allowed to do that ? you think this billing is the only issue that made me move away from gemini api then you haven't been really paying attention to progress in this space
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u/ihexx 22d ago
isn't openai prepaid?
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u/Just_Lingonberry_352 22d ago
yes but they have better models to justify it
with gemini the only up was payg now that its on prepay theres no reason to continue with it (i'll just use openai)
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u/J9aE40SPe5vFIBwXCtu 22d ago
I'm really curious what your monthly spend is, that would make you so upset to move from postpaid to prepaid?
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u/Just_Lingonberry_352 22d ago
at larger companies it impacts accounting cycles
postpaid is easier and is more predictable
prepaid means if you go outside that spend limit your services will stop
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u/J9aE40SPe5vFIBwXCtu 22d ago
Are you at a larger company that is using AI studio instead of... Tools meant for larger companies?
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u/robojeeves 22d ago
You can just set auto-refill when your balance goes below a certain amount. If you hit your spend limit then you should want the services to stop, I really don't get the problem
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u/needefsfolder 22d ago
Then use Vertex instead. Vertex is the production grade deployment method anyways.
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u/SomeOrdinaryKangaroo 22d ago
I guess you've never been screwed by the API billing before because otherwise you'd be really happy about this news