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We just found an unexpected $4,730 Gemini API charge in our Google Cloud account. I also saw multiple posts on this issue (use Gemini API to generate image).

We have not intentionally used Gemini API for a long time. After noticing the charge, we disabled the Gemini API in the affected project and contacted Google Cloud Billing Support. They said billing data may take 24 hours to finalize, and the charge will be reviewed after that.

Has anyone dealt with this before?

I recently had a small website built by a freelancer, and everything looks fine at first glance.

The issue is I’m not very technical, so I’m not confident I’d catch things like a form not submitting, a button not working, or something breaking on mobile.

Right now I’m basically clicking around and hoping I don’t miss anything before launch.

How do you usually handle this?

1. test everything yourself?
2. just trust the developer?
3. or have someone else review it?

Curious what people actually do in practice.