# Receiving high volume of block\_reason=\<BlockedReason.OTHER: 'OTHER'\>

**URL:** <https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/receiving-high-volume-of-block-reason-blockedreason-other-other/112433>\
**Category:** Gemini API\
**Tags:** bug, gemini\
**Created:** [December 17, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/receiving-high-volume-of-block-reason-blockedreason-other-other/112433 "2025-12-17T16:08:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Grant\_DeLozier](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/grant_delozier/32/77714_2.png) [@Grant\_DeLozier](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Grant_DeLozier)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/receiving-high-volume-of-block-reason-blockedreason-other-other/112433/1 "2025-12-17T16:08:32Z")

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Our gemini workload is innocuous. We send certain documents to gemini 2.5 flash/pro and ask for names and dates to be extracted.

Recently, we’ve noticed a higher volume of blocked responses with an "OTHER” explanation. This makes no sense?

example response with response\_id pasted below:

`sdk_http_response=HttpResponse(`  
`headers=`  
`) candidates=None create_time=None model_version=‘gemini-2.5-flash’ prompt_feedback=GenerateContentResponsePromptFeedback(`  
`block_reason=<BlockedReason.OTHER: ‘OTHER’>`  
`) response_id=‘GNRCaa3eDcbi_uMPw9XVsQo’ usage_metadata=GenerateContentResponseUsageMetadata(`  
`prompt_token_count=1582,`  
`prompt_tokens_details=[`  
`ModalityTokenCount(`  
`modality=<MediaModality.TEXT: ‘TEXT’>,`  
`token_count=550`  
`),`  
`ModalityTokenCount(`  
`modality=<MediaModality.DOCUMENT: ‘DOCUMENT’>,`  
`token_count=1032`  
`),`  
`],`  
`total_token_count=1582`  
`) automatic_function_calling_history=`` parsed=None`

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**Author:** ![Logan\_Kilpatrick](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/logan_kilpatrick/32/129_2.png) [@Logan\_Kilpatrick](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Logan_Kilpatrick)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/receiving-high-volume-of-block-reason-blockedreason-other-other/112433/2 "2025-12-17T16:27:26Z")

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Hey! Flagged to the team to see what might be going on.

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**Author:** ![Grant\_DeLozier](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/grant_delozier/32/77714_2.png) [@Grant\_DeLozier](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Grant_DeLozier)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/receiving-high-volume-of-block-reason-blockedreason-other-other/112433/3 "2025-12-17T17:41:09Z")

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I’m not sure why this matters, but I receive identical block responses when using 2.5 flash and 2.5 pro. BUT IT WORKS when I use the new 3.0 flash or pro preview

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**Author:** ![domctx](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/domctx/32/29791_2.png) [@domctx](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/domctx)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/receiving-high-volume-of-block-reason-blockedreason-other-other/112433/5 "2025-12-18T21:21:22Z")

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I’m also hitting this frequently as on this week it feels. I work for a group where we implement a lot of Gemini dependent workflows for AP processing and document extraction. It’s been a breeze but lately seeing a lot of the following:

```auto
{
  "promptFeedback": {
    "blockReason": "OTHER"
  },
  "usageMetadata": {
    "promptTokenCount": 1701,
    "totalTokenCount": 1701,
    "promptTokensDetails": [
      {
        "modality": "TEXT",
        "tokenCount": 411
      },
      {
        "modality": "DOCUMENT",
        "tokenCount": 1290
      }
    ]
  },
  "modelVersion": "gemini-2.5-flash",
  "responseId": "I2xEac2-NKuyjrEPsYvp2AI"
}

```

My major concern is I think cause it’s a 200 we’re being charged regardless of this “Other” fail. As Grant mentioned this happens with 2.5 Pro or Flash (we run both for different systems that have identical prompts). I tried to look at logging but think if PDF is apart of it I can’t look at logging from Studio.