The rate limits apply only to the Gemini API. There is also Vertex from GCP, which offers the same models (and even more, such as Claude) at the same pricing, b

The rate limits apply only to the Gemini API. There is also Vertex from GCP, which offers the same models (and even more, such as Claude) at the same pricing, but with much higher rate limits (basically none, as long as they don't need to cut anyone off with provisioned throughput iiuc) and with a process to get guaranteed throughput.