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The API can be used both via your normal Google account, or via API key?

Because it says in the README:

> Authenticate: When prompted, sign in with your personal Google account. This will grant you up to 60 model requests per minute and 1,000 model requests per day using Gemini 2.5 Pro.

> For advanced use or increased limits: If you need to use a specific model or require a higher request capacity, you can use an API key: ...

When I have the Google AI Pro subscription in my Google account, and I use the personal Google account for authentication here, will I also have more requests per day then?

I'm currently wondering what makes more sense for me (not for CLI in particular, but for Gemini in general): To use the Google AI Pro subscription, or to use an API key. But I would also want to use the API maybe at some point. I thought the API requires an API key, but here it seems also the normal Google account can be used?






It's firmly on the radar - we will have a great answer for this soon.



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