Is Standard Paygo (for gemini 3 pro) unusable for scale?

Hello I have a few thousand users on my app and I am using gemini pro for image generation, throught i am constantly getting resource exhausted errors even at 1 RPM. I am wondering if this is normal and if so what people are doing and using for scale for image generation applications (without provision throughput as that's out of my budget right now)? There seems to be so many image generation applications and I'm wondering how they're doing it or what models theyre using? Please please please help me!😭🙏🙏 submitted by /u/New-Drop-7414 [link] [comments.