How to create a Gemini connection

To use AI Text generation in Channable, you need to connect your Gemini account that will be responsible for the tokens you spend on AI text generation.

Step 1: Create an API key in Google AI Studio

Note: Google AI Studio is available for all Google accounts without additional actions (except for some ages and corporate or regional restrictions).

• You may need access permissions if you use a corporate account: Please contact your company’ IT Support (or the team that owns AI Google Studio access) to request the key or if you see an error while creating a project.

1. Go to Google AI Studio > API Keys and choose the account from which you can spend tokens. It can be a company’s, agency’s or a personal account.

2. Click Create API Key.

1. Select an exciting project if you have one, or click Create project and enter a name for it.

2. Click Create key.

1. Click on the key title in the table and copy the API key. You will need this when creating a connection in Channable. You can also copy it from the list in Dashboard > API Keys later when you need it.

Step 2: Set up billing (if needed)

1. Check the ‘Quota tier’ for the key you created.

Important: If it is a “Free tier”, you need to set up billing information. The “Free tier” is not suitable for content generation because its limitations are too strict and there is a lack of data confidentiality.

Note: You may already have another tier if it is used for other tools in your organization. In this case, no additional action is needed.

1. Click Set up billing and follow the instructions. After adding a credit card, you need the Quota tier column to be set to a Tier 1 or another bidding. If so, continue to Step 3.

2. If you see an Activate bidding button there, click it and finish the setting process. For the majority of the accounts that use Gemini API for the first time, you can choose a free trial credit of $300 for 3 months (as of March 2026). Click Activate bidding to activate it.

Important: Google Billing works on a post-paid, pay-as-you-go model:

• Spending on AI text generation depends on the amount of input data, prompt length, length of output data and a number of products in the list for generation.

• You can check the expected tokens needed for generation in Channable while using the feature. The token costs are available here - Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview model.

Step 3: Create a connection in Channable

1. Go to [your company] > [your project] > Optimize.

2. Click +Generate text with AI to start the setup.

   1. Choose the type of content.

   2. At AI connection, click Gemini and Connect.

   3. Add a new connection and paste your API key you copied Step 1.

3. Finish the setup according to the instructions in the tab above.