I think gemini-1.5-flash is EOL'd from tomorrow (Sep 25th) https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/learn/...
RIP gemini-1.5
That probably explains why it was so much faster than others in my testing (everyone else had migrated off of it)
That probably explains why it was so much faster than others in my testing (everyone else had migrated off of it)