How to create a Gemini connection

Before you start

• Access to an Gemini account
• A Core Pro Channable plan

• You may need access permissions if you use a corporate account. Contact your company's IT Support (or the team that owns AI Google Studio API access) to request the key or if you encounter an error when creating a project.
• Google AI Studio is available for all Google accounts without additional actions (except for some ages and corporate or regional restrictions).
• Google Billing works on a post-paid, pay-as-you-go model.

  • Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite model token costs

1

Create an API key in Google AI Studio

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 existing project or click Create project to make a new project.
2. Click Create key.
3. Click on the key title in the table and copy the API key to your clipboard. Immediately make note of your key and put the information in a safe place, as you will need it in the next step.

Tip: You can also copy it from the list in Dashboard > API Keys later when you need it.

2

Set up billing (if needed)

In API keys, check the Quota tier for the key you created.

• If it's marked as a Free tier, you'll need to set up billing information.
• If you already have another tier for different tools in your organization, continue to the next step.

1. Click Set up billing and follow the instructions. After adding a credit card, make sure the Quota tier column is set to Tier 1 or higher. If so, continue to Step 3.

Tip: New Gemini API users can get a $300 free trial credit for 3 months (as of March 2026).

1. Click Activate bidding.

How do I know how much I'll end up spending?

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.

The Estimated generation cost will be indicated in the prompting and finalizing steps of the feature you're using it with.

3

Create a Gemini 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.

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.
3. In the pop up, select the type of content that you want to create. The content type you select defines the prompt template that you will work with in the Prompting step.

   • Titles: Generate AI text suggestions to improve product titles.
   • Descriptions: Generate AI text suggestions to improve product descriptions.
   • Free text: Generate AI text suggestions for specific text fields.

   
4. Click Continue.
5. You will be directed to the Settings step to configure your generator. Fill in these details:

   1. At Name, add a descriptive name so it's easier to find your AI generated text set later.
   2. At AI connection, select Gemini > Connect. A pop-up will appear.

      1. For Connection type, click the dropdown and select Gemini.
      2. For Label, give your connection a descriptive name (like 'Gemini connection')
      3. For API key, paste the key you noted from Step 1.
      4. Click Connect with Gemini.
6. Click Save.

Continue setting up a generator