Bug Report: Individual AI Pro Subscription Hijacked by Zero-Quota GCP Project

[houman-babai]

Subject: [SERVICE IMPACT] Paid Individual AI Pro Tier ignored in favor of empty GCP Project metadata (Error 429)

Summary:
The Gemini Code Assist plugin (v1.49.4-253:261) discovery logic seems to prioritizes Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project metadata over active Individual AI Pro subscriptions.

I do not have a paying cloud subscription or project. But I did have empty cloud projects. The plugin defaults to the Enterprise route (/v1beta/), attempts to use a project-level quota, and fails with Error 429 because the project is empty/non-paying.

Environment:

IDE/Plugin: WebStorm 2026.1 / Gemini Code Assist 1.49.4-253:261.  

Account: h******@gmail.com with active AI Pro (AI Premium).  

Verification: Confirmed persistence on clean installations of both Arch Linux and Windows, proving this is an account-level metadata issue on the backend.  

Technical Log Evidence:

Forced Project Association: Upon startup, the plugin ignores the Individual tier and forces a project-level check:
INFO: FetchAdminControls request: {"project":"proud-sound-ftj12"}  

Request Hijacking: Functional requests are tagged with the GCP project ID, triggering a project quota check instead of a user quota check:
INFO: Complete code request: {"ideContext":{...},"project":"proud-sound-ftj12"}  

The 429 Failure: The backend returns a resource exhaustion error for the specific model gemini-3.1-pro-preview with a massive reset delay (19H), characteristic of a zeroed-out GCP project quota:
GoogleJsonResponseException: 429 Too Many Requests
"reason": "QUOTA_EXHAUSTED", "domain": "cloudcode-pa.googleapis.com"
"metadata": { "model": "gemini-3.1-pro-preview", "quotaResetDelay": "19H" }  

Expected Behavior:
The plugin should verify the presence of an Individual Paid Subscription instead of relying an empty or non paying project.

Windows 11 install:
I event installed webstorm for the first time on a windows 11 system, and got the exact same issue.

Project deletion:
I have deleted the projects they're pending removal but I am not sure if that will help at all.

Workaround:
If there is a workaround please do let me know.

Related Issue:
#3300

[ivanporty]

@houman-babai thank you for the report. If you look into the settings (Tools -> Gemini), do you see the GCP project in there? Are you able to clear it? If you clear it and restart, does the plugin offer you a "free tier" option, or always goes to the GCP project selection?

[houman-babai]

Hi @ivanporty, thank you very much for looking into this.  

• To answer your question, if I clear it, save, invalidate cache, restart, go back into the setting it is there.
• After deleting all the GC projects (they're pending deletion currently) and installing webstorm & the plugin for the first time on a gaming pc, the plugin shows a project name.
• I am going to attach 2 log files from gemini-backend.log generated by the plugin (found in .cache/Jetbrains/Webstorm.../logs)
  • quota-reset-log-sample.txt: I got this after about an hour of use
  • log-sample-indicating-project-name.txt: please note, the {"project":"proud-sound-ftj12"} on every request, etc
• I am also going to include screenshots of the code assistant plugin setting & my google cloud settings (to be honest, I know nothing about google cloud).
• If you like further information please do let me know.

Thank you for your kind attention!
Houman

log-sample-indicating-project-name.txt
quota-reset-log-sample.txt

[ivanporty]

Thank you for the details. It looks like the project gets persisted.
Please try manually removing the settings (when IDE is not running):

• Sign out of GCA
• Exit IDE
• Find you settings (please use https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/directories-used-by-the-ide-to-store-settings-caches-plugins-and-logs.html#config-directory for help finding them), and remove options/aiPluginSettings.xml file name.
• Start IDE again.
• Sign in and see what options are proposed to you or you are signed in as a individual user right away.

Let us know the outcome, thank you.

[houman-babai]

Hi Ivan I tried again, no luck. Ivan please note, that even installing a brand new IDE on an OS that has never had the IDE installed, I get the same issue (as mentioned above).

[ivanporty]

When you sign in to this new IDE, do you get prompted to select a GCP project?

[ivanporty]

It would be most helpful if you could submit the full logs (Gemini status bar -> Submit Feedback), and add link to this issue in the report description, we could then take a better look at this. Thank you

[houman-babai]

That's a great point. No I don't get prompted but when I look at the plugin the project name is filled. When I clear the project name, save exit return. It is still there. And it is not just a visual bug as you can see in the log samples I provided the project name piggybacks in the requests etc

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[houman-babai]

Sure think, submitted feedback and included the link to this ticket in the description.

[houman-babai]

@ivanporty today I once again tried to reset the project-name, etc. I logged out of the plugin and logged back in. I captured the result of gemini-code-assist/auth/auth_success_gemini in case it is helpful:
`
The authentication was successful, and the following products are now authorized to access your account:

[Gemini Code Assist](https://developers.google.com/gemini-code-assist/docs/overview)
[Cloud Code with Gemini Code Assist](https://cloud.google.com/code/docs/shell/write-code-gemini)
[Gemini CLI](https://geminicli.com/)
[Antigravity](https://antigravity.google/docs/get-started) (available only for free, Google One AI Pro, Google One AI Ultra, and Google Workspace AI Ultra for Business)

You can close this window and return to your IDE or terminal.
`