diff --git a/apps/fabro-web/app/routes/run-detail/failure.test.ts b/apps/fabro-web/app/routes/run-detail/failure.test.ts
index b24eefd87..f489e7b76 100644
--- a/apps/fabro-web/app/routes/run-detail/failure.test.ts
+++ b/apps/fabro-web/app/routes/run-detail/failure.test.ts
@@ -50,6 +50,15 @@ describe("buildRunFailureView", () => {
     expect(failure?.nextStep).toBe("Add credit or raise the spend limit with Anthropic, then choose Retry from Actions.");
   });
 
+  test("reads a spent quota as billing, though the provider answered 429", () => {
+    const failure = view(
+      failedRun({
+        message: "model request failed (quota_exceeded): provider gemini Quota exceeded for metric generate_content_requests [provider gemini, status 429, code RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED]",
+      }),
+    );
+    expect(failure?.headline).toBe("gemini declined the request for billing reasons");
+  });
+
   test("names an unknown provider by its id", () => {
     const failure = view(
       failedRun({ message: "model request failed (authentication): provider acme bad key [provider acme, status 401, code unauthorized]" }),
diff --git a/apps/fabro-web/app/routes/run-detail/failure.ts b/apps/fabro-web/app/routes/run-detail/failure.ts
index 7e3618f48..35a76d081 100644
--- a/apps/fabro-web/app/routes/run-detail/failure.ts
+++ b/apps/fabro-web/app/routes/run-detail/failure.ts
@@ -141,7 +141,11 @@ function parseModelRequest(message: string): ModelRequest | null {
 }
 
 function requestAdvice({ kind, status, code }: ModelRequest, message: string, who: string): Advice {
-  if (/credit balance|insufficient[_ ]quota|payment required|billing|spend limit/i.test(message) || status === 402) {
+  if (
+    kind === "quota_exceeded" ||
+    status === 402 ||
+    /credit balance|insufficient[_ ]quota|payment required|billing|spend limit/i.test(message)
+  ) {
     return {
       headline: `${who} declined the request for billing reasons`,
       nextStep: `Add credit or raise the spend limit with ${who}, then ${RETRY}.`,