Gemini 2.5 Pro has been returning this issue TIME & TIME again, its a huge issue when your using this as a system to run a business & clients expect the AI to work. “[503] This model is currently experiencing high demand. Spikes in demand are usually temporary. Please try again later.” Also I find i…

Same here, often 5 retries before getting an answer…

same - I’ve been experiencing this for the past 24hours.

I can’t believe that Google can’t afford to add more capacity to solve this problem!

Been also experiencing this for the past few days…the service is effectively unusable. I get that these things happen, but any kind of official communication would be tremendously helpful. The Gemini status page shows all green…which can’t be right given the number of reports? Even just a simple “w…

It makes me so mad cause I am paying for a product they can’t deliver

Its been a full week and i’ve gotten almost all my prompts rejected, 2.5 pro is so inconsistent at this point its basically unusable, but 3.1 pro has a new problem that 3.0 didnt where its generated text is super robotic unless you stipulate, prompt by prompt, every time, for it not to be, its absur…

Same here, no idea when this could be resolved :disappointed_face: I end up by setting up retry logic in my app, & it worked on 6th try which is very bad, i am using 2.5 flash

same goes here, which is quite disappointing. The issue persists across gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview, and gemini-2.5-flash-image. gemini-3-pro-image-preview does return an image sometimes, but it is significantly slower and much more expensive compared to the other models.

[503] This model is currently experiencing high demand. Spikes in demand are usually temporary. Please try again later

Gemini API

Peter_Schroder April 10, 2026, 3:48pm 8

There are so many threads on this topic. The forum moderation is actively silencing the issue like in this discussion Handling 429 / 503 errors from the Gemini API - #20 by Albert_Sunjaya

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[503] This model is currently experiencing high demand. Spikes in demand are usually temporary. Please try again later

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