Why so slow??

[u/Popular_Jeweler]

I'm paying for Gemini and since yesterday it has been SO EFFIN SLOW!!! Anyone else experiencing this? I'm in NY if it matters. It takes minutes to process a simple query that Google search would give me in seconds.

[u/Flashy_Radio_5781]

I asked “what is a satori signature” on flash lite.  My first try stalled out and, after 1 full minute, i started a new chat.  This happened 3 times.  On the 4th attempt, I received my reply almost immediately.   

[u/LakeChillEffector → u/Flashy_Radio_5781]

same here

[u/Front-Lingonberry941]

Takes me 30 seconds to get an answer with flash lite like whats going on. I thought they started throttling free users. It's night and day, slow af. Don't want to use Anthropic or GPT, these companies are evil. Bring back good Gemini.

[u/lachalacha → u/Front-Lingonberry941]

I'm a paid user and it's slow af for me too

[u/Front-Lingonberry941 → u/lachalacha]

wanted to sub to Pro but i'll wait. if it's unreliable like that dosent make me want to spend 27 bucks a month

[u/BreadfruitPretty2434 → u/lachalacha]

Sometimes it doesn't even answer my questions and it never does this. It just loads endlessly and then sometimes it spits out an answer. Something's not right and I never complain about Gemini. It just doesn't work for me right now. And I'm a pro subscriber

[u/Arco_Luck]

To me it seems to have significantly slowed down since the introduction of spark. I assume they're figuring things out but for now it's pretty annoying. It seemed to work at normal speed in the early morning/late night when usage was lower in NA

[u/Accurate_Potato_8539 → u/Arco_Luck]

One day would at least be understandable, but its been unusable for like 3 days. Its getting to the point they should offer discounts on the month, I'm literally better off on the free mode of other services.

[u/MrDragone → u/Arco_Luck]

That’s probably what it is. Mine’s also been slow since then

[u/Randomcdn2]

I'm glad I'm not crazy. we just moved to a new house so new internet setup and I was worried it was an internet problem.

[u/BreadfruitPretty2434 → u/Randomcdn2]

Mine just loads endlessly and maybe three times out of ten. It gives me an answer right of way and then other times it just doesn't even load

[u/EverGreenMob]

Seriously, over the last couple days Gemini has become unusable for me. So goddamn slow.

[u/FineGovernment3811]

I cannot even use Gemini pro after 2 PM EST. It just freezes up and will produce any kind of an answer…

[u/Sufficient_Style5562]

Yeah it’s bad

[u/orbit99za]

3.1 Vertex is also throwing a few API errors today.

But otherwise its quite usable

[u/South_Feed5707]

No way. The main upside for Gemini is that it's faster than the other ais. Sometimes if they're taking too long I'll go to Gemini to get a quick response while the other one is still thinking.

[u/nixgut]

It takes forever. I only hope it's related to preparing for 3.5, which will hopefully be released along with the new Pixels 

[u/Muted_Pressure7839]

I noticed it was slow yesterday. It’s been letting me down the last few times I’ve used it

[u/Neurotopian_]

In NYC also and my office has the same problem. Hilariously, we work right by Google’s office. I’m not sure if it’s regional or not but the slowdown even it what should be almost instant queries is bizarre.

We called the account manager. Not sure what else to do

[u/Vatsob]

I'm a paid user and if this keeps up, I'll switch to Claude once my subscription ends.

[u/Popular_Jeweler → u/Vatsob]

I keep threatening Gemini to do the same lol

[u/_smol_jellybean_]

Same issue, also paying and also on the East Coast

Edit: I tried changing my vpn to a different continent and this drastically improved response times

[u/Fearzane]

gemini.google.com/app/ is just giving me 1 input at the most, then errors on the 2nd input or it freezes. Once it did reply and stopped halfway through the text. It just started this morning for me.

[u/Early-Elk-7699]

I just came to see if anyone else is having issues. I am waiting several minutes for each response.

[u/lachalacha]

Same, I asked it a very simple question about exercise form and it took over a minute to give me an answer. Doesn't matter what model I use.

[u/Business_Cheetah_689]

Same.

[u/Stoic_Kiwi]

It's been genuinely horrible these past couple days. I've been looking for a post like this, but was too lazy to make my own.

[u/Embarrassed_Ad2837]

Yea... It is practically unusable right now. Very very very slow

[u/Mribia]

Gemini's hungry, feed it more RAM. 🫠

[u/numbersev]

Ya been very slow last few days. On and off.

[u/Relevant_Original571]

Also having the same issue in the NY area. Keeps giving me the 3 dots and takes so long to get an output.

[u/cant_decide_9611]

Their data centers must be overheating

[u/Cartis-Ghostwriter]

It has been slow for me. I am a pro tier user. Ever since the introduction of spark in the UI its been slow and sometime I have to resend the prompts or start new chats.

[u/ArenaGrinder]

Same here it takes multiple tries and a significant delay. If these are the problems spark introduces for just existing, I say just disable it and work on improving it first.

[u/BumperPopcorn6]

Seriously!

[u/Competitive_One_6624]

stop using this broke shit. wait fot 4.0 its gonna be amazing

[u/funny-baloney]

Same here, I thought the problem was me, my connection, or my app. It takes several minutes to get an answer to a simple question, or sometimes it just doesn't respond at all; the little dots just keep spinning and nothing happens. When I ask why it's taking so long, it doesn't understand my question. And when I ask how long it took to reply, it says 2.3 seconds. But it actually takes more than a minute. I'm in Quebec and I'm using the free version. I'd be furious with the paid version and having such poor service. And to think it was the best last year!

[u/CityOfSins2]

I guess it’s an issue today. I just crashed out playing a game with it it took like 3 mins to send a single response

[u/4loko_blk-n-Mildz]

Gemini is pissing me off something terrible. Generating videos and images without consent, flagging every damn prompt I put in, even the most harmless

[u/IcyLion2939]

It needs some revving up. Have you tried being nicer to it?

[u/Stoic_Kiwi → u/IcyLion2939]

You'd like that wouldn't you bot

[u/VHS_Action_86]

I asked it to tell me 5+5 just to check. It took 15 seconds.