We are working on enabling this for existing billing accounts, today it just works for new billing accounts. You can make a new billing account without making a new GCP project / regenerating keys or anything like that.
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Google Gemini Gets Spending Caps and International Rollout
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This along with spending caps, billing account caps, and more make building with Gemini much easier. Great work by @jastephx and so many folks across Google who pulled this off! We are also doing the international rollout over the next few days.
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Gemini API Launches Prepaid Billing for US Customers
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Excited to share that the Gemini API now has prepaid billing, rolled out to start for US customers!! We have been working hard across Google to enable this. It’s the default for new API users and existing users can opt in via a new billing account, all directly in AI Studio.
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Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Shows Strong Progress on TTS
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The progress from 2.5 to 3.1 has been super strong! Excited to see this much improvement for a Flash model. Learn more in our blog: https://
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Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: Advanced Text-to-Speech Model Launches
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Introducing Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS 🗣️, our latest text to speech model with scene direction, speaker level specificity, audio tags, more natural + expressive voices, and support for 70 different languages.
— Logan Kilpatrick (@OfficialLoganK) 15 avril 2026
Available via our new audio playground in AI Studio and in the Gemini API! pic.twitter.com/5PpBdhQMNgIntroducing Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS , our latest text to speech model with scene direction, speaker level specificity, audio tags, more natural + expressive voices, and support for 70 different languages. Available via our new audio playground in AI Studio and in the Gemini API!
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Google AI Studio introduces design previews with Gemini themes
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Introducing design previews in Google AI Studio's vibe coding experience 🎨! Now while you wait for an app to be built, Gemini will create custom themes you can easily choose from in seconds.
— Logan Kilpatrick (@OfficialLoganK) 14 avril 2026
Rolled out and available to everyone right now : ) pic.twitter.com/rYjw2InJcGIntroducing design previews in Google AI Studio's vibe coding experience ! Now while you wait for an app to be built, Gemini will create custom themes you can easily choose from in seconds. Rolled out and available to everyone right now : )
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Gemini Robotics ER 1.6 SOTA Model Now Available via API
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Introducing Gemini Robotics ER 1.6, our new SOTA robotics model which excels at visual and spacial reasoning, now available via the Gemini API!