Google AI Studio API has been unreliable for the past 2 ...

div Something weird is going on with Google's Gemini via their AI studio API. I've been using it for a lot of random projects, with Flash 2.5 being a great model and it has a generous free tier - with the ability to not enable billing, so random side projects can't accidently run up an enormous bill. … I've noticed both Claude Code and Gemini's API gets *much* worse at this time in general. Gemini has a real problem though - AI studio is just not working right, and frustratingly the status page isn't reporting it at all: Looking into it more, we can see huge problems on OpenRouter's reliability graph especially on Pro: … ## It's all went bananas? To make matters worse, a lot of GitHub repos that Google is responsible for have had issues for 2 weeks with not much communication: *Gemini CLI GitHub Issue #7227* *Python GenAI GitHub Issue #1373* Strangely, if you use Gemini CLI with a personal auth token, its pretty reliable (perhaps that is served via Vertex?).