Is Quota on Google APIs per Account or per Project?

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In console.developers.google.com, projects show quota and usage of their associated keys. Unused projects under the same account (for the same api) show no quota usage. Yet, when a request is made from a project with "no usage" the quota jumps up to full and the request is denied.

This leads me to believe that quota is per account and not per project, is that true?

Specifics, on youtube data api my console quota is:

  • Queries per day 50,000,000

  • Queries per 100 seconds per user 300,000

  • Queries per 100 seconds 3,000,000

So now I see that even if I made 20 projects, I would still be rate limited by user quotas. But that should only matter if I'm using a client token on behalf of a user and I think I've seen this behavior when using an API server key.

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We have noticed this as well. The only thing that can really explain this is this wording from google: "If the quota of requesting a Google Analytics API is exceeded, the API returns an error code 403 or 429 and a message that the account has exceeded the quota." Not a generic message, but presumably this is how it works for every API. – user3610691

1 Answers

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Based from Google documentations (which basically applies to all Google APIs), daily usage is tracked per project.

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