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For Services with a fixed base charge, the charges are due at the beginning of each billing period.
You will be billed for any Subscription Fees due at the beginning of each Billing Cycle.
Google may change its offering of billing options (including by limiting or ceasing to offer any billing option) upon 30 days' notice to Customer and any such change will take effect at the beginning of Customer's next Order Term.
"Billing and payments for Paid Services are handled by Cloud Billing in the Google Cloud Platform.Excerpt from Google AI Studio's Gemini API Terms of Service
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The clause states: “Billing and payments for Paid Services are handled by Cloud Billing in the Google Cloud Platform.”
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