If you work with the Gemini API, this news matters to you: Google announced Project Spend Caps and a revamp of the Usage Tiers inside Google AI Studio so you have more control over what you spend and how you scale your projects. Tired of surprise bills or setting limits blindly? This aims to bring order and visibility.

Project Spend Caps: granular control for your budget

Now you can set a monthly dollar limit per project inside Google AI Studio. You configure it from the Spend tab, under Monthly spend cap, and that cap stays active until you change or disable it.

This is useful if you manage several applications or environments (production, staging, testing) and want to prevent one project from eating the budget for the others. One practical detail to keep in mind: Project Spend Caps have an approximate 10-minute delay and users are responsible for any overages generated during that window.

Quick example: if your startup runs a bot and an analytics tool, you can put a small cap on the testing project so a bug doesn't blow up the bill, while giving more room to the production project.