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I purchased Google Developer Program Premium membership (priced at $299 USD per year) to take it to the next level with Gemini Code Assist. I can’t get Gemini code assist to enable on any of my projects. I have installed the VS code assist plugin, gemini cli, gcloud cli, logged in and out of both with my gmail account. I have billing enabled. I have gemini for google cloud api enabled. I’ve created multiple projects and none of them are able to get code assist enabled. Whenever i try to use code assist it bumps be to gemini-2.5-flash after just a few minutes. I go and check quotas and nothing indicating I’m anywhere close to any quota. Anyone else have this problem and fix it?

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@CyberBrown - We have escalated this internally. Someone will be reaching out to you via PM.

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this is the error i’m getting after a few minutes with gemini cli: ✕ [API Error: [{
“error”: {
“code”: 429,
“message”: “Resource exhausted. Please try again later. Please refer to
Error code 429  |  Generative AI on Vertex AI  |  Google Cloud for more details.”,
“errors”: [
{
“message”: “Resource exhausted. Please try again later. Please refer to
Error code 429  |  Generative AI on Vertex AI  |  Google Cloud for more details.”,
“domain”: “global”,
“reason”: “rateLimitExceeded”
}
],
“status”: “RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED”
}
}
]]
Possible quota limitations in place or slow response times detected. Switching to the
gemini-2.5-flash model for the rest of this session.

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I tried something that didn’t work - just posting it here so others don’t try this approach. This is my personal account, but on my work account I signed up for Gemini Code Assist Standard. In my project that I created on my personal account, I assigned my work account as owner. I then logged in as work account and accessed the project but still did not have code assist active. Turns out it is tied to the billing account or the user who created the project, not the user who is accessing the project. So even if you have code assist on your account it only works if you are accessing a project that is connected with your billing account (or if you created the project, not sure which). Gemini CLI is basically unusable without code assist.