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Error: Gemini 2.5 Flash - Unknown error
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Description
Error Details
Model: Gemini 2.5 Flash
Provider: gemini
Status Code: N/A
Error Output
{"error":{"message":"{\n \"error\": {\n \"code\": 429,\n \"message\": \"You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, head to: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits. To monitor your current usage, head to: https://ai.dev/rate-limit. \\n* Quota exceeded for metric: generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_content_free_tier_requests, limit: 20, model: gemini-2.5-flash\\nPlease retry in 22.991448336s.\",\n \"status\": \"RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED\",\n \"details\": [\n {\n \"@type\": \"type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.Help\",\n \"links\": [\n {\n \"description\": \"Learn more about Gemini API quotas\",\n \"url\": \"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits\"\n }\n ]\n },\n {\n \"@type\": \"type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.QuotaFailure\",\n \"violations\": [\n {\n \"quotaMetric\": \"generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_content_free_tier_requests\",\n \"quotaId\": \"GenerateRequestsPerDayPerProjectPerModel-FreeTier\",\n \"quotaDimensions\": {\n \"location\": \"global\",\n \"model\": \"gemini-2.5-flash\"\n },\n \"quotaValue\": \"20\"\n }\n ]\n },\n {\n \"@type\": \"type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.RetryInfo\",\n \"retryDelay\": \"22s\"\n }\n ]\n }\n}\n","code":429,"status":"Too Many Requests"}}
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Research direction
Start by locating the Gemini provider entry point and its handling of HTTP 429 responses, then reproduce the reported Gemini 2.5 Flash quota error. Done means the quota response is represented clearly rather than reported only as an unknown error, with a test covering the reported payload.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- ai, api
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100