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This free plan is more suitable for learning and testing, prototype validation, and small personal projects, and is not suitable for user-facing production services, because costs suddenly appear after the credit expires or is exhausted, and Vertex AI pricing is unfriendly for high concurrency.
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Medium-term (~90 days)
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10/21/2026
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Valid until: 1/19/2027
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