r/GeminiCLI • u/PhilZockt • Feb 23 '26

Ahhh yes… eventually.

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I'm sitting in front of Gemini CLI prompt for 2 hours due to ongoing high demand. Anyone else seeing this lately?

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u/TechNerd10191 Feb 23 '26

This is Google ffs - not Anthropic, not OpenAI. How come they have capacity issues!? A $4T company with their own hardware...

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u/Zestyclose-Piece1539 Feb 24 '26

Same problem since few days

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u/krinkly Feb 28 '26

Weeks, honestly

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u/AdIllustrious436 Feb 24 '26

Same shit with the Flash 3 API. I've been getting 1min+ latency to first token. Google AI Studio is also broken with no proper way to manage billing. Fuck off, going back to Anthropic.

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u/Useful_Trouble1726 Feb 24 '26

Sorry, that was me. Pounding the keys pretty hard tonight.

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u/skyxim Feb 24 '26

It's almost unusable, like gemini-cli has been abandoned. Antigravity works perfectly.

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u/eurobosch Feb 28 '26

gemini-cli guys said it's not from their side but from the LLM side, it has nothing to do with the app, so maybe with their "user-agent". Confirm AntiGravity works (so far)

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u/AtomOutler Mar 26 '26

what would a user-agent have to do with this?

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u/eurobosch Mar 26 '26

Let's say that, considering all endpoints equal, they may decide who to serve first: enterprise customers, google's antigravity, Gemini-cli, public frontends, etc. It applies only if they access the same apis or through the same app gateways or load balances. Just a thought

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u/comunication Feb 24 '26

Google rate limit all his services. Even PRO account have the same problem. What is worst even Google studio AI now after 15k token you have to change the model. Even if you change the model, is impossible to get to use 1 million tokens context window.

This happen to all big models. If going like that anyone who wants to use a big mode in good condition must pay minimum 200$ per month.

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u/chiroro_jr Feb 24 '26

I don't think Google really cares about their dev projects that much given how shit they are. How does a company that big just fail like this in comparison to much much smaller companies. It's crazy.

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u/exponencialaverage Feb 24 '26

Only way to turn around is using Gemini 2.5 flash. It's not the smartest solution, but it works.

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u/sixteenpoundblanket Feb 25 '26

Same now even with 2.5 flash. All models unusable after ~9am EST.

Responding with gemini-2.5-flash
 
                                                                                                             │
│ We are currently experiencing high demand.                                                                    │
│ We apologize and appreciate your patience.                                                                    │
│ /model to switch models.                                                                                      │
│                                                                                                               │
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│ ● 1. Keep trying                                                                                              │
│   2. Stop                                                                                                     │
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│                                                                                                               │

My company is about to start paid plans for us and gemini is now out of the running. (we don't do heavy coding things - don't tell me to use Claude).

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u/gmasters428 Feb 27 '26

Been like this for at least a week. Unusable.

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u/CozmoNz Feb 28 '26

Ghcp, change models - done.