Running Gemini 2.5 Pro with grounded search sometimes returns empty response.text with finish_reason of STOP and no other reason. When I inspect the response dict it shows evidence of the search with some web meta information, but nothing else. Any ideas on what is going on? Here is my code: def …

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Thanks for the update. Do you have any response to the fact that for many of us getting empty responses back, that it seems like we are still be charged. Unfortunately because Google Cloud does not do billing on a per prompt basis, it is hard to isolate other that it feels like I am getting charged.…

For me, the model suddenly began returning an empty text with finishReason set to MAX_TOKENS. Switching to the lite model temporarily resolve the issue, but it started failing again the next day. { "Response Body": { "candidates": [ { "content": { "parts": [ …

I’ve been using the same prompt setup with 2.5 Pro for several weeks. Just started getting this same problem of a response with no content but finish_reason stop a few days ago. I have a retry loop already set up, and it works, but yeah, it’s getting worse, and are we being charged? I suspect that t…

I’d like to chime in as well. My observation is that this seems to be related to sending similar/identical prompts in close succession, rather than a MAX_TOKENS issue. I suspect it might be due to how the system handles highly repetitive requests, perhaps involving caching or deduplication. My tempo…

This issue is still persistent, really unpredictable, sometimes 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR, sometimes empty content parts. I have implemented retry with exponential backoff and jitter but still gemini-2.5-pro “Modified by moderator” to use in production.

ChatVertexAI incompatible with pre-built ReAct agent when responses are blocked · Issue #886 · langchain-ai/langchain-google It seems this issue happens when Gemini API recieves any blocked or finished message with empty content. Although it is a problem they should solve, since it makes no sense t…

@Wing_zeng Does having a random prefix with each request reliably fix the issue for you?

I found this worked for me, thanks for rec

Gemini 2.5 Pro with empty response.text

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Caetanyyy August 11, 2025, 11:37pm 97

this bug is infuriating and ridiculous, 100% sure they are not solving this since it has been happening from MONTHS and basically makes it impossible to deploy a functional chat agent with gemini 2.5

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Gemini 2.5 Pro with empty response.text

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