Google AI Studio / Gemini Developer API

Unpaid-service inputs and outputs may be retained and used to improve and train Google models.

Plan Scope

Gemini Developer API and Google AI Studio unpaid quota; paid services and EEA, Switzerland, or UK treatment differ.

Prompt Retention

Unpaid-service content may be retained and used for product and model improvement. Abuse-monitoring data is retained for 55 days. Feature-specific storage includes grounding data for 30 days and optional or stateful logs with configurable retention.

Response Retention

Generated responses follow the same unpaid-service, abuse-monitoring, and feature-specific rules.

Ordinary Logging

Google may log prompts, context, and outputs for abuse monitoring. Paid-project user logs are optional except stateful features and default to a maximum 55-day retention.

Model Training

Unpaid-service inputs and outputs may be used to improve and train Google models. Paid-service content is not used for product improvement without permission; EEA, Swiss, and UK unpaid use receives the paid-service data treatment.

Product Improvement

Allowed for unpaid services outside the stated regional exception. Paid logging datasets can be voluntarily shared for improvement and training.

Human Or Operator Access

Authorized human reviewers may read, annotate, and process unpaid-service content and content flagged for abuse review; Google says identifiers are disconnected before improvement review.

Subprocessors And Routing

Google and its service infrastructure process content; grounding and other integrations introduce feature-specific handling under the additional terms.

Deletion Controls

Paid-project logs can use 7, 14, 28, or 55-day retention; datasets persist without a fixed period, files remain until deletion or expiry, and stateful features require explicit configuration for zero-retention behavior.

Caveat

The free tier has materially different data-use terms from the paid tier, and users are told not to submit sensitive, confidential, or personal information to unpaid services.