| 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. | Highly rated for writing, coding and working with long documents, known for being careful and for usage limits you will notice. |
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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 / Pro $20/mo / Max $100/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
- Pro $20/month ($17/month billed annually: $200)
- Max $100/month (€90 in Europe)
- Ultra $200/month (€180 in Europe)
- Team / Enterprise Contact sales
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| AIAO score | 98/100 best | 98/100 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, Windows and macOS; Claude Code and an API for developers. |
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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.
| - Writes in a natural style and follows tone and format instructions well.
- Very strong at coding with Claude Code, which completes whole tasks on a project.
- Handles long documents well (1M-token context on the 5.5 models).
- Artifacts turn a request into a web page, chart or tool you can share.
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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.
| - Allowances run out in intense sessions, with five-hour and weekly windows.
- No image or video generator of its own.
- Training on by default for personal accounts (data kept up to 5 years unless you opt out).
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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.
| - Writing and editing; coding and automation; analysing long documents; building mini-apps without coding.
- Before a long job, create a Project with your documents and standing instructions (tone, format, audience): you won’t have to repeat them in every chat and you’ll use less of your allowance.
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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. | On personal accounts (Free, Pro, Max and Ultra) training on your conversations is on: if you leave it, Anthropic may keep them for up to 5 years; if you turn it off in Settings > Privacy, they are deleted in about 30 days. Business plans and the API are not used for training. |
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