In case it's helpful to anyone, https://openrouter.ai/google/gemini-3-pro-preview is useful to know about.

Adding another layer on top of Google's own APIs adds latency, lowers reliability, and (AFAIK) doesn't allow batch mode - but if that's tolerable, it avoids the mess that is Google Service Account JSON and Cloud Billing.

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numlocked 2 days ago | parent [-]

(I work at OpenRouter) We add about 15ms of latency once the cache is warm (e.g. on subsequent requests) -- and if there are reliability problems, please let us know! OpenRouter should be more reliable as we will load balance and fall back between different Gemini endpoints.

	▲	btown 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Is batch mode on the roadmap? As the frontier model providers start to think more and more about profitability, and prices/latencies rise as a result, I can see batching becoming more and more necessary for many use cases. Would love to know we can build against the OpenAI batch API and (soon?) have a path towards being model-agnostic.