2 posts tagged with "llm"

The Gemini API is moving to prepaid billing — keeping Gemini and Nano Banana behind one key

October 11, 2026 · 10 min read

api.aicu.ai

At a wooden desk by a window, green-haired Nao Verde points at a laptop while pink-haired Elena Bloom leans in, smiling. On the desk: a gauge with its needle in the green, a stack of coins and a single brass key

Google AI Studio is moving Gemini API billing from postpaid to prepaid. For accounts that received the notice, the deadline is October 12, 2026. Two AiCuty characters, Nao Verde and Elena Bloom, walk through both options: keep using your own Google key, or put Gemini and Nano Banana behind one key on api.aicu.ai.

One key, six calls, 1,185 AP — the whole AICU API in one sitting

September 22, 2026 · 8 min read

AICU API Team

api.aicu.ai

A brass key with five coloured threads fanning out to a sound wave, a paintbrush, a ticked checkbox, a speech bubble and a film frame

Speech, images, typed decisions and OpenAI-compatible chat all sit behind one key on api.aicu.ai. This post calls every one of them, in order, and prints what each call actually cost — read straight off the X-AICU-AP-Cost response header, not from a price list.

Total for the whole post: 1,185 AP, about US$0.12.