Google Cloud Console's billing console for Vertex is so poor. I'm trying to figure out how much i spent on which models and I still cannot for the life of me figure it out. I'm assuming the only way to do it is to use the gemini billing assistant chatbot, but that requires me to turn on another api permission.
I still don't understand the distinction between Gemini and Vertex AI apis. It's like Logan K heard the criticisms about the API and helped push to split Gemini from the broader Google API ecosystem but it's only created more confusion, for me at least.
I couldn’t have said it better. My billing friends are working to address some of these concerns along with the Vertex team. We are planning to address this issue. Please stay tuned, we will come back to this thread to announce when we can
In fact, if you can DM me (@chrischo_pm on X) with, I would love to learn more if you are interested.
100% this. We actually use OpenRouter (and pay their surcharge) with Gemini 2.5 Pro just because we can actually control spend via spent limit on keys (A++ feature) and prepaid credit.
Gemini’s is no better. Their data can be up to 24h stale and you can’t set hard caps on API keys. The best you can do is email notification billing alerts, which they acknowledge can be hours late.
I still don't understand the distinction between Gemini and Vertex AI apis. It's like Logan K heard the criticisms about the API and helped push to split Gemini from the broader Google API ecosystem but it's only created more confusion, for me at least.