# Gemini Sucks **URL:** \ **Category:** Discussion & Solutions\ **Tags:** solved\ **Created:** [Oktober 22, 2026, 2:59am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/gemini-sucks/326658 "2026-10-22T02:59:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![SRZ](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/srz/32/146132_2.png) [@SRZ](https://onehack.st/u/SRZ)\ **Post date:** [Oktober 23, 2026, 4:11am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/gemini-sucks/326658/6 "2026-10-23T04:11:31Z")
@Grace2077 asked the question everyone should be asking: free plan or paid. Because those are two different machines. You are not talking to a bad model. You are talking to the cheap one, which runs out of patience around lunchtime. @starslayer74 and @ai_daily_tools describe the same split from two angles: fine on long documents and transcripts, then it quietly renames variables in your diff. That is the thinking dial, more often than the model itself. ```auto 🚦 slow, or "quota exceeded" β†’ the status board, then your own limits 🧠 shallow, lazy answers β†’ the thinking level, then the tier πŸ“š confidently wrong on facts β†’ grounding, switched off by default πŸ—£οΈ "everyone else sees this too" β†’ the rooms where daily users live πŸ₯Š "prove it, don't vibe it" β†’ the arenas and the leaderboards ``` ## 🚦 Slow, or refusing with quota errors - **[Google Cloud status](https://status.cloud.google.com)** β€” a regional Gemini incident is the first thing to rule out, and it takes ten seconds - **[Your active rate limits](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits)** β€” RPM, TPM and RPD are three separate walls, and AI Studio shows yours. A free project hitting the daily cap behaves exactly like a broken model - On the free tier, your prompts are used to improve the product. On paid, they are not. That is on **[the pricing page](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing)** in the part nobody reads, next to the numbers. Linking billing moves you to Tier 1 with a $250 cap and no training on your data ## 🧠 Shallow, lazy, β€œit stopped trying” **There is a dial for how hard it thinks before answering.** Gemini 3 decides its own depth by default, and you can raise or lower it β€” **[the developer guide](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/generate-content/gemini-3)** has the parameter, AI Studio puts it on the panel. Set it low and you get confident nonsense, delivered fast. Set it high and the same question gets a real answer. Most people never touch the dial, then decide the engine is broken. Then check the box: **Flash and Pro are different products sharing a name.** Same website, different engine. The free one is the small one, and its rate limit decides when you have had enough for today. ## πŸ“š Confidently wrong about facts **[Grounding with Google Search](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/grounding)** is a flag, and when it is off the model answers from memory. Turn it on and the same question gets citations instead of confidence. ## πŸ—£ You wanted to know if it is just you - **[r/Bard](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bard/)** β€” the largest room of daily Gemini users. Sort by new for an hour and you will recognise your own complaint, with its fix, from someone who already solved it - **[Google’s own AI developers forum](https://discuss.ai.google.dev)** β€” the place where the quirks get named, including which model ignores which instruction That is the part a benchmark cannot give you: a room of people whose day looks like yours. ## πŸ₯Š And when you want the argument settled - **[llm-colosseum](https://github.com/OpenGenerativeAI/llm-colosseum)** β˜…1,482 β€” the models fight in **Street Fighter 3** ; the winner is the one that actually decides faster - **[Design Arena](https://www.designarena.ai)** β€” same brief, every model builds the UI, you vote - **[LiveBench](https://livebench.ai)** β€” contamination-free questions, refreshed monthly - **[Artificial Analysis](https://artificialanalysis.ai)** β€” quality against price and tokens per second on one chart - **[Aider’s leaderboard](https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/)** β€” real coding edits, ranked ## πŸ§ͺ Your own scoreboard, ten minutes ```auto 1 the task you do every day 2 30 pages pasted, ask for the three decisions inside 3 your domain question, where you know the answer ``` Score 1–5 across the models in **[AI Studio](https://aistudio.google.com)** and **[OpenRouter](https://openrouter.ai/chat)**. Twelve models, two sittings, one table that is yours. And if you want to leave the family entirely, **[34 providers and 635 endpoints behind one key](https://onehack.st/t/free-ai-instead-of-chatgpt-and-claude-34-providers-635-endpoints-one-key/326626)** is the shelf we keep for that exact mood. πŸ“ **Check the plan. Check the dial. Then complain.** 😀 --- _[View the full topic](https://onehack.st/t/gemini-sucks/326658)._