Also, usage and billing takes a DAY to update. On top of that, there are no billing caps or credit-based billing. They put the entire burden on users not to ensure that they don't have a mega bill.

> there are no billing caps or credit-based billing.

Was really curious about that when I saw this in the posted article:

> I had some spare cash to burn on this experiment,

Hopefully the article's author is fully aware of the real risk of giving Alphabet his CC details on a project which has no billing caps.

there's prob a couple ppl out there with an Amex Black parked on a cloud acct, lol

Usage updates much quicker in the AI Studio UI, near realtime (but can take ~5 min in edge cases).

We are working on billing caps along with credits right now. Billing caps will land first in Jan!