Google AI Studio API has been unreliable for the past 2 weeks
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- Google AI Studio API is experiencing unreliability, especially during European afternoons/US mornings, with 'Transatlantic Timeout' periods.
- Gemini Flash 2.5 is a good model with a generous free tier, but recent issues include frequent 503 errors and degraded performance.
- OpenRouter's reliability data shows significant service degradation, while Google's status page fails to report problems.
- Google's Python GenAI GitHub repository has unresolved issues for two weeks with minimal communication.
- Using Gemini CLI with a personal auth token is more reliable, possibly due to Vertex serving.
- Suggested workaround is monitoring OpenRouter's graphs for transparency until Google improves its status reporting.