Our rating
4.7
4.6
4.3
Entry price
$20/mo
$20/mo
$9.99/mo
Best for
OpenAI's flagship conversational AI, built for everything from drafting emails to complex reasoning
Anthropic's AI assistant, known for long-context work, careful reasoning, and strong writing
Google's conversational AI with deep integration into Search, Docs, Gmail, and YouTube
Strengths
- Extremely broad capability set, from writing and coding to image generation and voice
- Deep Research and Agent Mode on Plus genuinely save hours on real tasks
- Huge library of custom GPTs for niche use cases
- Best-in-class for reading and summarizing long documents, up to 200K tokens on Pro
- Writing output tends to sound more natural and less formulaic than competing models
- Claude Code is included on Pro, making it the cheapest entry point for serious coding work
- Native integration with Google Workspace (Docs, Gmail, Drive) beats any third-party add-on
- Gemini 2.5 Pro offers a 1M-token context window on the Pro plan
- Real-time web access is reliable and pulls from Google Search indexing
Watch-outs
- Free tier now shows ads in the US and limits you to 10 messages per 5-hour window
- Pro tier jumped to $200/mo, which is hard to justify unless you hit Plus limits constantly
- Free tier hits daily limits faster than ChatGPT's free tier
- No image generation built in at the consumer tier
- Feels bureaucratic to navigate with Plus, Pro, and Ultra plan names constantly shifting
- Ultra at $99.99/mo is expensive unless you need the absolute top tier
Want a different mix? Build your own side-by-side with any tools in this category.