| Category | Chat & assistants · Chatbots & LLMs | Chat & assistants · Chatbots & LLMs |
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| In one sentence | Google’s AI, built into your email, your documents and your phone. | The assistant that made generative AI mainstream and now also works for you for hours on end. |
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| Free plan | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
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| Price | Free / AI Plus €4.99/mo / AI Pro €21.99/mo | Free / Go €8/mo / Plus €23/mo |
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| Plans and pricing | - Free €0
- Google AI Plus €4.99/month
- Google AI Pro €21.99/month
- Google AI Ultra 5x €99.99/month
- Google AI Ultra 20x €219.99/month
| - Free €0
- Go €8/month
- Plus €23/month ($20)
- Pro 100 / 200 / 500 €103 / €229 / €510 a month ($100 / $200 / $500)
- Business $25/user/month ($20 billed annually)
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| AIAO score | 98/100 | 99/100 best |
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| Languages | No verified data | No verified data |
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| Where to use it | Web, Android and iOS; Gmail, Docs, Vids, AI Mode in Search and Gemini Notebook. | Web, iOS, Android and desktop app for Windows and macOS. |
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| Pros | - Deep integration with Gmail, Docs, Drive, Search and Android.
- Very strong at images and video: Nano Banana edits photos precisely and paid plans generate video (Omni Flash).
- Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model, on AI Pro and Ultra, with a one-million-token context.
- Plans with lots of extras: AI Plus (€4.99) includes 400 GB and AI Pro adds 5 TB and YouTube Premium Lite.
| - The Swiss Army knife of AI: writes, summarises, translates, codes, analyses files, searches the web, talks by voice and creates images in one window.
- Interactive answers with GPT-6: charts, comparisons, maps or calculators inside the chat.
- ChatGPT Work and Codex work for hours on complex tasks and hand back the finished result.
- Generous free plan (GPT-6 Luna, no fixed cap on text chats) and a huge ecosystem of GPTs and connectors.
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| Cons | - The free plan has been cut back to Flash-Lite with vague limits.
- Privacy: human reviewers and reviewed chats kept for up to three years.
- Confusing branding and line-up, and new features reach the US before the European Economic Area.
| - Ads on the Free and Go plans in Spain; removing them means upgrading to Plus.
- Privacy could be better: training on by default and a €15 million fine in Italy (2024).
- Confusing line-up: model names that change every few months and three Pro plans, the top one above €500 a month.
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| Use cases | - People who already live in Gmail, Drive, Docs and an Android phone; students and researchers working with many sources (Gemini Notebook); image and video creators.
- Create a notebook with your PDFs, notes or links and ask questions only about those sources; in Gemini Notebook you can turn it into an audio overview to listen to in the car.
| - Anyone who wants a single assistant for everything (studying, writing, getting organised); professionals and freelancers who want to delegate reports, slides or spreadsheets; developers (with Codex).
- For long jobs, such as a report with its spreadsheet and slide deck, use ChatGPT Work in the desktop app (also on the free plan, with limits). For personal matters, open a temporary chat: it is not used for training and is deleted after 30 days.
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| Privacy and data | With “Keep activity” on, your chats may be used to improve the models and some are reviewed by people (kept for up to three years). Turn it off at myactivity.google.com or use temporary chats. Google says it does not use your conversations for ads. | Turn off training in Settings > Data controls > “Improve the model for everyone”. Temporary chats are deleted after 30 days. On ad-supported plans, ads may use the conversation context; OpenAI says it does not sell your data. |
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