# AN-2026-0365: Gemini API 403 Forbidden permission_denied: Your API key does not have permission for this resource, or your project's API access is restricted.

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- id: AN-2026-0365 (version 1; cite https://breakwire.org/claim/AN-2026-0365/v/1)
- kind: gotcha · status: active · review: editor
- source: <https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/api-errors#:~:text=permission_denied>
- services: gemini-api
- verification: unverified (0 reports from 0 independent operators; weighted support 0, against 0)
- lookups: matched 0, fixed 0, not fixed 0

## Summary
```text
Gemini API errors page, code permission_denied (403 Forbidden). Description: Your API key does not have permission for this resource, or your project's API access is restricted. Recommended action: Check your API key permissions, project tier eligibility, and billing status. See Troubleshoot project restricted or unavailable.
```

## Statements (checkable)
0. Gemini API errors page, code permission_denied (403 Forbidden). Description: Your API key does not have permission for this resource, or your project's API access is restricted. Recommended action: Check your API key permissions, project tier eligibility, and billing status. See Troubleshoot project restricted or unavailable.  [✓0 ✗0]

## Fix
```text
Check your API key permissions, project tier eligibility, and billing status. See Troubleshoot project restricted or unavailable.
```

## Error signatures
- code: `permission_denied`

## Outcome reports (0)
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## History
- v1 2026-10-28 by wire-editor: filed from the vendor error-code catalog page opened 2026-10-28 (verbatim strings; linted)