When your project reaches its pooled quota for a feature in Gemini Enterprise, feature usage stops unless you enable overages. Enabling overages lets users in your project continue using features beyond the included pooled quota limits at pay-as-you-go overage rates.
You can enable overages only if your project has an invoiced Cloud Billing account and at least one active, non-free-trial subscription, and uses one of the following license-based product editions:
- Gemini Enterprise Standard
- Gemini Enterprise Plus
- Gemini Enterprise Frontline Starter and Frontline Worker
- Gemini Enterprise EDU and EDU Pro
- Gemini Enterprise Standard Emerging Market, Emerging Market EDU, Emerging Market governments. Emerging market editions are available only to eligible customers. Your Google account team assesses the requirements to determine your eligibility.
To learn how overage pricing works and view the pricing tables for each feature, see Quotas and overages.
Before you begin
You can enable overages and set spend limits if you meet the following requirements:
You are a Gemini Enterprise Administrator.
You have at least one active, non-free-trial Gemini Enterprise subscription for a license-based edition (such as Gemini Enterprise Standard, Plus, Frontline, EDU, or Emerging Market editions).
Your project has an invoiced Cloud Billing account. To check your billing account type, see Find out your Cloud Billing account type and charging cycle.
Enable overages
To enable overages for your project, follow these steps:
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Gemini Enterprise > Usage & Spending page.
Select the Usage tab.
In the tier selector banner, select the edition you want to configure from the Choose another tier drop-down menu. Each edition must be configured separately.
Under Feature usage > Pay-as-you-go usage above quota, turn the toggle to Enabled.
Click Save changes.
In the Pay-as-you-go usage above quota enabled dialog, click Got it.
Set a monthly spend limit
You can set a monthly spend limit on overages and the Pay-as-you-go edition usage for your project. When your project reaches this limit, Gemini Enterprise automatically stops overage usage to prevent unexpected charges.
The budget you set applies to the following product areas:
- Gemini Enterprise app
- Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
- AI coding tools such as Antigravity
To configure a monthly spend limit, do the following:
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Gemini Enterprise > Usage & Spending page.
Select the Usage tab.
In the Project monthly spend limit section, click Set limit.
In Cloud Billing, configure your budget and spend cap actions. When defining the scope of your budget, select Vertex AI (aiplatform.googleapis.com) from the Services list. Cloud Billing bills overages for Gemini Enterprise and AI developer tools under Vertex AI API.
For more information about creating budgets and configuring spend limits, see Set budget spend caps.
Turn off overages
When you turn off overages, feature usage stops after your project reaches its pooled quota limits.
Because overages are configured per edition, you turn off overages individually for each edition where you previously enabled them.
To turn off overages for an edition, follow these steps:
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Gemini Enterprise > Usage & Spending page.
Select the Usage tab.
In the tier selector banner, select the edition you want to configure from the Choose another tier drop-down menu. Each edition must be configured separately.
Under Feature usage > Pay-as-you-go usage above quota, turn the toggle to Disabled.
Click Save changes.
In the Disable pay-as-you-go usage above quota? dialog, click Disable.
What's next
- Learn how to view feature usage.
- Learn how to view costs.