"User location is not supported for the API use without a billing account linked."

Question

Hello GitHub community,

Executing the Gemini API code snippet causes an error in my Google Colab repository: code

** "User location is not supported for the API use without a billing account linked."**

Can anyone help?

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Answer 1

I post in case it could be helpful for others who landed here like me. I had the same error when testing Google AI Studio and Gemini API but on my local environment.

Because I'm based in Germany, I found out that in European countries the unpaid tier of Gemini API is not available (list here).

I didn't want to attach a billing account so I found as workaround to change region via VPN (e.g. switched to Turkey).