Model is currently experiencing high demand
The Gemini API is currently facing high demand, causing delays for users relying on it for summarization tasks. As a result, some users have switched to alternative models like OpenRouter and DeepSeek. While these alternatives provide some benefits, they also come with their own challenges, such as slower response times.
- ▪The Gemini API has been experiencing high demand, leading to frustration among users.
- ▪Users have started switching to alternative models like OpenRouter and DeepSeek to avoid dependency on Gemini.
- ▪DeepSeek 4 Flash has been noted as one of the best models, despite slower response times compared to Gemini.
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This model is currently experiencing high demand 23 May, 2026 Recently, I have been running into the "This model is currently experiencing high demand" message using the Gemini API. This is frustrating since my side-project ikka requires Gemini to perform some summarisation and ranking of the day's news articles. This has me on some days waiting for an opportune time to try to run my scripts so that I can give my users some articles to read. The worst of this was when the Gemini API was experiencing high demand for over 4 days. I ended up creating a workaround in which I would switch to Gemini 2.5 Flash. But even then, sometimes the Flash model experienced high demand. So, out of pure necessity, I decided to switch to OpenRouter.
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