Rate Limit / Free tier is unusable with this action

[Samuel-Morgan-Tyghe]

What happened?

With a new account with 0 usage I hit the 'rate limit' I assume this is something like a burst limit which makes sense as locally it works fine and I can easily get 30mins - 1 hour of back and forth.

Attempt 4 failed with status 429. Retrying with backoff... 
ApiError: 

{
  "error": {
    "code": 429,
    "message": "You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, head to: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits.",
    "status": "RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED",
    "details": [
      {
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.QuotaFailure",
        "violations": [
          {
            "quotaMetric": "generativelanguage.googleapis.com/generate_content_free_tier_input_token_count",
            "quotaId": "GenerateContentInputTokensPerModelPerMinute-FreeTier",
            "quotaDimensions": {
              "location": "global",
              "model": "gemini-2.5-pro"
            },
            "quotaValue": "250000"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.Help",
        "links": [
          {
            "description": "Google developers documentation.",
            "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits."
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}


    at throwErrorIfNotOK (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.16.0/x64/lib/node_modules/@google/gemini-cli/node_modules/@google/genai/dist/node/index.mjs:13187:30)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)
    at async file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.16.0/x64/lib/node_modules/@google/gemini-cli/node_modules/@google/genai/dist/node/index.mjs:12978:13
    at async Models.generateContentStream (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.16.0/x64/lib/node_modules/@google/gemini-cli/node_modules/@google/genai/dist/node/index.mjs:14308:24)
    at async retryWithBackoff (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.16.0/x64/lib/node_modules/@google/gemini-cli/node_modules/@google/gemini-cli-core/dist/src/utils/retry.js:62:20)
    at async GeminiChat.sendMessageStream (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.16.0/x64/lib/node_modules/@google/gemini-cli/node_modules/@google/gemini-cli-core/dist/src/core/geminiChat.js:299:36)
    at async Turn.run (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.16.0/x64/lib/node_modules/@google/gemini-cli/node_modules/@google/gemini-cli-core/dist/src/core/turn.js:40:36)
    at async GeminiClient.sendMessageStream (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.16.0/x64/lib/node_modules/@google/gemini-cli/node_modules/@google/gemini-cli-core/dist/src/core/client.js:311:26)
    at async runNonInteractive (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.16.0/x64/lib/node_modules/@google/gemini-cli/dist/src/nonInteractiveCli.js:32:30)
    at async main (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.16.0/x64/lib/node_modules/@google/gemini-cli/dist/src/gemini.js:229:5) {
  status: 429
}

What did you expect to happen?

When i run my prompt to not hit the burst (RPM?) limit, or for it to switch to a cheaper model which allows for a more generous usage. Or even to specify the model beforehand.

Anything else we need to know?

No response