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		film42 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber It depends on how you're querying Gemini models. OpenRouter is the fastest by far. I'm guessing they bought the dedicated pipe from Google. Gemini via VertexAI and consumer API has pretty bad latency.
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kamranjon 9 days ago [–]

Yea I am testing through OpenRouter - have you noticed 3.7 flash being significantly faster?

film42 9 days ago | [–]

I guess it might be relative, but switching from VertexAI endpoint to OpenRouter was like 2-3x faster for us.

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