I used the curl restful api of the gemini api free tier.curl
https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1/models/gemini-2.0-flash:generateContent"
and the response is
{
"error": {
"code": 429,
"message": "Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Generate Content API requests per minute' and limit 'GenerateContent request limit per minute for a region' of service 'generativelanguage.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:1048300423651'.",
"status": "RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED",
"details": [
{
"@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.ErrorInfo",
"reason": "RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED",
"domain": "googleapis.com",
"metadata": {
"consumer": "projects/1048300423651",
"quota_limit_value": "0",
"quota_metric": "generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_content_requests",
"service": "generativelanguage.googleapis.com",
"quota_location": "us-south1",
"quota_unit": "1/min/{project}/{region}",
"quota_limit": "GenerateContentRequestsPerMinutePerProjectPerRegion"
}
},
{
"@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.Help",
"links": [
{
"description": "Request a higher quota limit.",
"url": "https://cloud.google.com/docs/quotas/help/request_increase"
}
]
}
]
}
}
But I haven't used any api resource, it failed every time. And the used resources showed in console is zero.
What should I do to figure out the reason?