Google's AI offering is a complete nightmare to use. Three different APIs, at least two different subscriptions, documentation that uses them interchangeably.
For Gemini's API it's often much simpler to actually pay OpenRouter the 5% surchargeto BYOK than deal with it all.
I still can't use my Google AI Pro account with gemini-cli..
It's amazing how they can show useless data while completely obfuscating what matters.
Not enough brain cycles to figure out a way to give Google money, whereas the OpenAI subscription was basically a no-brainer.
The python library is not well documented, and has some pretty basic issues that need looking at. Terrible, unhelpful errors, and "oh, so this works if I put it in camel-case" sort of stuff.
I find Gemini is their first API that works like that. Not like their pre-Gemini vision, speech recognition, sheets etc.. Those were/are a nightmare to set up indeed.