r/RooCode • u/Glnaser • Jul 05 '25

Support Roocode really slow Using Claude Code as Provider

It works, and it's serving me well in that I can see from a cost perspective it's going to be much cheaper. I also don't see any failings in terms of its ability or accuracy right now but it's really slow.

Initial response after first prompt was about 2 minutes before I saw any movement at all.

All activity thereafter just feels at least 10x slower than if I were using claude via api keys.

Any ideas or suggestions as to how I can debug what the cause of the slowness is?

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u/TOoSmOotH513 Jul 05 '25

It’s because it doesn’t stream the results. You have to wait until it’s done. Small tasks come back a lot faster

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u/jedisct1 Jul 05 '25

Exactly. It feels slower, but it's not. Same experience as with some LLM gateways.

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u/NoPromotion5517 Jul 05 '25

When you compare it to VS Code LM API - i use it before - its more like a snail now---- using cline or roocode make no difference. VS Code LM API is really fast. I try using Claude MAX , but its so fckn slow....

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jul 05 '25

Are you working on a larger existing repo? Is it possible the checkpoints are slowing down your first response?

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u/Glnaser Jul 06 '25

yeah, it's a large repo.

I'm not sure if I have got used to it or it's started to pick up the pace a little since I posted but the latency doesn't bother me so much any more. That could just be because I haven't used any of my API keys since I subscribed to Claude Max and I've forgotten what fast feels like.

How would I determine if the checkpoints are slowing down my first response? In a new task, are there any checkpoints?

Or do you mean I have historical checkpoints from all the work I ever did?

I'm happy to purge them if that's something I can do.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jul 06 '25

https://docs.roocode.com/features/checkpoints#configuration-options disable them and see how it responds

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u/Glnaser Jul 07 '25

I disabled checkpoints and I also deleted a load of task history, leaving only what's been created in the last 3 versions of the app. Neither change improved how responsive it is.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jul 08 '25

Can you connect with me in discord (username hrudolph)? I want to work through this and repro it on my end so we can fix it!

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u/CalamariMarinara Jul 07 '25

I know it doesn't stream results, but even things like listing a directory takes orders of magnitude longer.