# Confused how the rate limiting works

**URL:** <https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/confused-how-the-rate-limiting-works/11338>\
**Category:** AI\
**Created:** [April 30, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/confused-how-the-rate-limiting-works/11338 "2025-04-30T00:42:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alex\_Shin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.firebasestudio.dev/alex_shin/32/4696_2.png) [@Alex\_Shin](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/u/Alex_Shin)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/confused-how-the-rate-limiting-works/11338/1 "2025-04-30T00:42:25Z")

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I started a project through firebase studio. Now, I keep getting “Rate limit or quota exceeded.” as the response when I try to send a prompt.

I see discussions about increasing others trying to solve this by upgrading to paid tiers, but I am confused because I do not even see the project from my Firebase Studio listed as a project in Firebase (I do not see any existing projects when I go to the console [https://console.firebase.google.com/u/0/](https://console.firebase.google.com/u/0/)).

I am not sure if this is related to the ongoing issue from the status page  
" Workspace disruption 4/29/2025  
Service disruption for US East Coast users preventing creation of new workspaces and opening archived workspaces"

I think the error message about hitting rate limits/quotas should be much more detailed. Right now, it is not clear to me how I would even go about upgrading to a paid tier even if I wanted to.