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Community reports: unexpected Tier downgrades and failures to upgrade causing quota/regime outages (March 15, 2026)
Multiple community forum threads (Google AI Developers / Build with Google AI forum) dated March 15, 2026 report that paid Gemini API projects were automatically downgraded from higher tiers to Tier 1, causing sudden lower quotas and 429 errors. Separate threads report inability to upgrade from Tier 1 to Tier 2 despite meeting spend and time requirements. These posts indicate a possible platform incident affecting quotas and tier controls.