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Set a request timeout (in seconds) for the Gemini model. The timeout is converted to milliseconds and passed via http_options to the underlying genai.Client.
timeout.py
"""
Gemini Timeout
==============

Set a request timeout (in seconds) for the Gemini model.
The timeout is converted to milliseconds and passed via http_options
to the underlying genai.Client.
"""

import asyncio

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.google import Gemini

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Agent with timeout
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

agent = Agent(
    model=Gemini(id="gemini-2.5-flash", timeout=30.0),
    markdown=True,
)

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # --- Sync ---
    agent.print_response("Share a 2 sentence horror story")

    # --- Async ---
    asyncio.run(agent.aprint_response("Share a 2 sentence horror story"))

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Run the Example

1

Set up your virtual environment

uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activate

uv venv --python 3.12
.venv\Scripts\activate
2

Install dependencies

uv pip install -U agno google-genai
3

Export your Google API key

export GOOGLE_API_KEY="your_google_api_key_here"

$Env:GOOGLE_API_KEY="your_google_api_key_here"
4

Run the example

Save the code above as timeout.py, then run:
python timeout.py
Full source: cookbook/90_models/google/gemini/timeout.py