Gemini Quota Monitor & Fallback Router

See your free-tier usage before Gemini goes paid, and auto-fall back to other models

Problem

Gemini announced that Flash and Pro on personal accounts move to paid tiers starting October, leaving unsubscribed users with Flash-Lite only. Many indie devs' scripts, bots, and side projects depend directly on the free quota; when it's cut off they'll fail silently, and they neither know their monthly consumption nor have a fallback route.

Solution

A lightweight local proxy/monitor: track Gemini calls and cost per API key, warn against official quota thresholds, and automatically route requests to fallback models (Claude Haiku, local Ollama, etc.) when the free tier is exhausted—plus a dashboard showing what it would cost to go fully paid.

Users

Indie devs running side projects on Gemini free quota, small teams, bot authors

MVP

OpenAI-compatible local proxy; per-key call and token accounting; quota-threshold alerts via email/Telegram; rule-based fallback to backup models; a single-page cost dashboard

Revenue

Per-key subscription, or a free base tier plus paid advanced routing rules; a hosted version billed monthly

Why now

Gemini's move to paid is a concrete deadline event, and users are anxious right now about what happens to their free projects—a high-urgency, low-barrier tooling window; a routing/accounting proxy is perfectly in reach for a solo dev without training models