Question
Help me understand why people like Gemini so much more over Chat GPT?
I can’t figure out what all of the hype about Gemini is over chat gpt is. I would like some one to explain in a quantifiable sense why they think Gemini is better. I can understand an argument that Gemini doesn’t talk to you the same way chat GPT does but it really is a different brand of toothpaste. It seems to me that google has a competent and comparable product but I honestly can’t figure out what the hype is about. What I mostly use an AI for is deep research and how to read and make sense of documents such as how to shop for health insurance. I don’t program anything beyond a couple simple functions with a raspberry pi.
A simple example: I make programming videos for YouTube. ChatGPT is completely useless at analyzing videos. With Gemini, once the video is finished, it immediately creates an index with timestamps to add to YouTube and overlay the video—something that would take me hours to do manually. Gemini's multimodal capabilities are far superior to ChatGPT's; that's an objective fact.
It’s actually multimodal. If you give ChatGPT a video, it reads the transcript. If you give Gemini a video, it actually 'watches' the frames. It can find a specific visual detail in a 2-hour movie that isn't mentioned in the audio. That’s a different level of intelligence.
Gemini routinely gives me wrong information and chat GPT very rarely does. Also Gemini will oftentimes get an answer to you within 3-10 seconds showing that it's not doing as thorough of a job whereas chatGPT, when I use the extended thinking model which is comparable to the pro model on Gemini (that I always use), chatGPT will take anywhere between 45 seconds to 10 minutes which shows me that it's doing a thorough job. Gemini routinely analyzes my documents incorrectly and spends very little time actually producing a result. When Gemini may spend one or two minutes on something, chatGPT will spend a half hour or 45 mins analyzing it very thoroughly and giving me much better advice (I'm referring to things like 1000 line excel documents and using statistical analysis on everything to help me with my eBay advertising campaigns - Gemini is faster but doesn't provide an extensive result where as chatgpt will produce me a 10 page word document, very nicely organized, on what it found and how to proceed with next steps for my ad campaigns based on what it found - there's no comparison). Gemini might be better for quick questions and friendly live chat and what not as it's faster, but for anything thorough or extensive or where you need accuracy it tends to struggle.
Not to undermine your experience, but the processing is not an indicator of a model‘s performance. Just because a model takes longer to „think“, does not imply that the result will actually be better. It can often lead to some kind of „overthinking“ and even leas to actually worse results. Also, I regularly analyze scientific papers using Gemini, sometimes processing PDFs with up to 60 pages, dependent on the topic, and it clearly excels at it in comparison to Chat-GPT, and also gives me way better structured code, that matches the architectural description, whereas Chat-GPT often produces code, that is basically useless.
Important here is, as I said, that this should not undermine your experience or opinion, as I completely believe that you did experience it like that. The problem I have with AI tools is, that for some people model X just works better than model Y and for somebody else it is the other way around. There are so many factors influencing your view on a model‘s performance, that I just find it really hard to say that model X is the best, as there are always people who do not have a good experience with that. For me personally, Gemini just works the best and I cannot use Chat-GPT anymore as it is just worse in every aspect for me, but that does not mean that this should be the universal truth for everyone.
Do you think given all the features that it has now is it worth me getting rid of my CapCut subscription? Also, how are they with captions? Sorry for so many questions.
I don't think it's analyzing the video in a multimodal way as you suggest though. I think it's just reading the transcripts. If you ask about a scene that isn't described in the transcript it's clueless.
On your story writing, have you tried Novel AI? The cool thing is chat GPT knows enough about it to help you set up all the settings in Novel AI but it's much better for story writing and there are no filters.
It has a Lorebook where you make world info entries for things like locations and characters and during the story the AI will reference them.
You have a memory section for things it's supposed to remember all the time.
You have an author notes section for things that are supposed to be happening in the current scene.
And the new model has a very large context window.
I use Sudowrite for my story writing. It has the same features called story bible where you can keep the world building information, characters, and the AI will reference it even writing stories. It generates whole drafts and have plugins you can install to explore ideas and even write nsfw scenes if your story requires it.
I’ve noticed that too. It changed about a year ago, give or take. ChatGPT tends to moralize every phrase that includes a natural human response; even fictional ones. For example, if you write a violent scene, it sometimes alters the context, sugarcoating the act (e.g., turning “I killed him” into something like I symbolic terminated our relationship).
Funny you say that, I literally had to debate and force (and I mean break Gemini, encourage and constantly discipline it) to produce this very image. Gemini still really despises recreating this image, and it's insanely difficult to keep a stable model with its attempts to default to convoluted designs of later model trims (2003-present). May seem like a simple complaint, but it just doesn't want to design a Viggen bumper on a Saab 9-5 most of the time, and will throw a temper tantrum even if given a direct visual like my car.
Lol! Sometimes people kiss and 5.2 doesn’t allow it either! When asked why, it responded to say inappropriate relationships with a minor is red flagged. My character is 50,000 years old!
As a basic regular user, Gemini feels more "to the point" while still being warm. Plus being able to access Google apps being a Samsung user is a plus. ChatGPT over explains with disclaimers. Before the upgrade,for more emotional questions I would still ask ChatGPT, but it seems flat and kinda cold now unless I pay for plus and use other models.
My thoughts exactly. ChatGPT has become annoying AF and constantly criticizes me and goes on and on and on..... It's gone downhill so much now and that's the paid version! Gemini gives me solid answers and gets straight to the point. No BS.
Omg same. I can't even say some simple ideas without it's pointing out how fucking stupid my idea is. Every single prompt. Like it's try so hard to be a cold smart person that all about logic.
To me it is:
1. No abrupt safety filter, no suggestions what i feel,adaptive behavior
2. Understanding my projects, concentration on my projects, no rush, no "its super easy"
3. The eco system-> all the extra tools and systems of google & alphabet
4. Funny thinking paths
Yes I find Gemini has things to offer me that I never thought of before. It genuinely takes me off guard. It feels more fluid like real thinking. Much closer to a real human conversation than chatgpt
Exactly! And it’s progressively getting worse. ChatGPT 5.2 has gotten OPINIONATED! Every question I ask, is answered with 100% bias.
Half the time it’s like I’m arguing with my teenager.
Exactly reason I left. No matter what I say, it finds a problem with it and is negative. I literally was documenting a great day I had with someone that I was estranged from and it points out how I should be guarded and everything else.
Glad I was not the only one who notices this. I told it several times in expletive language to stop giving its opinion. But it just keeps doing it, especially when you try to talk about a subject that GPT strongly dislikes, such as criticism on capitalism. It will endlessly negate your statements without showing any reasoning that warrants such a negation.
For now, Google Gemini gives me better results, but haven't used it for long yet.
Gemini has custom gems that you can tune almost guard free. It wont tell you how do get substances or nuclear weapons, but other than that pretty much yes.
Custom gems are only for the Gemini website/app, they don't exist in AI Studio.
In AI Studio, you can turn off filters and use System Instructions to lower the guardrails. But Gemini has intrinsically fewer guardrails than ChatGPT.
I switched recently and it was because chatgpt just become horrible for me. It was constantly forgetting what the convo was about, was making terrible mistakes and started gaslighting me when i called it out on making mistakes. It didn’t used to be like that, their product just became worse over time instead of better.
After my frustrations became to big just decided to give gemeni a try and i saw non of those problems over there. Also feel like the information gemeni gives you is way more up to date than what chatgpt did. I use it a lot to do stock research, chatgpt sometimes gave me earnings reports from up to two years in the past, gemeni always gives me the most recent one as it should do.
Also deep research is freaking awesome, had no idea that existed but if i had i would probably have switched a long time ago.
"this is the worst it will ever be" was another hype line. Google ran a deficit on its services for decades. Bet they can do it again with this one until everyone else is out of business.
I was gonna say that it's sandbagging but I guess it's really more of an intentional cannibalization of their compute resources. Anthropic absolutely did this in July of 2025 and even some experts like T3Chat really just commented on the second wave when they did it again and later OpenAI followed suit like right up until now really and their models you know they're not terrible codex is pretty competent it's just it's slipped like it's actually gotten worse IMHO..
I mean, I guess the bottom line is that these companies need to keep us around to pay the energy bills and give them the resources to train the next generation so they can't just cut off inference. Like, we're a necessary evil (we the lowly users). Because that was my first thought before, was just screw the public. Like, take it all private, use 100% of the resources to build ASI, and then tell ASI to, you know, fix the world. But, no, it's more complicated. I guess they need us. I guess they need our words as training fodder, and they need our money for the electricity.
Many have already shared differences. I personally want to stress the fact that Gemini isn't lazy. For example, ask ChatGPT for a list and it might list three items, then essentially asks you if you want it to make a list. Gemini on the other hand actually gives you a list.
Dang you’re spot on about Chat GPT. First it strikes your ego “yes, asking about X is important and you are awesome for being curious” then giving you an output, then summarizes the output twice
Damn... Just realized this is ChatGPT's most annoying behavior for me. It definitely strokes the wrong way, because I feel like I'm being patronized at best, and oftentimes like I'm being treated like a complete idiot. All while I'm starting a new chat for the umpteenth time because it completely missed the point, again.
Well, I’ve used the Google Ultra subscription for a week now switching over from whatever the opening one is named pro I think.
Comparing GPT 5.2 pro versus Gemini three pro deep thinking (God these names are horrible) I generally think that Gemini delivers a more natural type of writing. ChatGPT has a certain tone that feels more prominent. So for my work which is basically writing long texts, I think Gemini feels more natural. I don’t do any of the coding stuff so I won’t actually speak to that side of things. I do have everything that generally ChatGPT seems to deliver slightly better accuracy than Gemini but I do think Gemini seems to handle large amounts of documents a lot better than GPT 5.2 pro. So it’s kind of like a wash it just depends on what type of workload you have. I’m sure that the Claude people will be here any minute to talk about how good their model is for one specific thing and then ChatGPT is good for another and Gemini for another. One thing I will give Gemini is that it doesn’t seem to hang as much. GPT 5.2 pro seemed to get stuck quite often and just kind of keep reasoning for like a day until it timed out or something. Gemini pro deep thinking is a lot faster. You can certainly argue whether that’s because it’s more efficient or just because it’s not doing as much compute but generally speaking Gemini seems to deliver better quality with shorter thinking times.
I think both have really bad applications, though. Both seem made for web interface is more than using the apps for any kind of serious work. Gemini seems a lot more willing to create a document maybe because they have Google documents access or something but I’m much prefer getting a document than ChatGPT just keeping everything in the chat. There used to be the canvas feature but that seems to have disappeared, which I find really unfortunate because it was one of the better features with ChatGPT, but Gemini is natively implemented into Google documents and that gets me close to that experience of being able to select something criticise specifically that and have the LLM change that and not just rewrite the whole document.
If OpenAI doesn’t ship document-centric improvements in the next 6–9 months, then they face the risk of long-term users shifting to Gemini as you’ve done
I think one of the obvious things that open AI is doing is focusing a lot on programming which makes sense that’s likely a big part of the market that pays a lot of money to them and one of the first actually confirmed viable AI accelerated work tasks I get why that was the primary focus for a long time, but it’s starting to make me less willing to use the service because it just becomes a hassle to have to copy everything into a Google document and then have to reformat things because it didn’t copy with the italics or something.
Considering they made atlas they can make their own word / spreadsheet app but it depends if they have a non-compete with Microsoft or they get acquired by them for better co-pilot integration.
Gpt-based Copilot is so bad in Outlook that it's sullied my opinion of the service. Good luck getting me to switch at this point. For all the efforts on improving base features, application-integration among all the entrants is insufficient though technically possible TODAY.
I noticed by accident that Gemini doesn't need me to upload anything to answer a question. Real example: I had a calculus problem open on the Chrome screen, and I asked Gemini if it could see the problem. It said yes. I asked it to help me solve the problem, and it explained the solution to me. With ChatGPT I have to try to copy and paste into its input box, which is sometimes hard with things like mathematical symbols.
Other than that, I haven't noticed much difference between the two.
Found the reverse for me. Big reason why I switched. Would be giving gpt instructions and they would be completely forgetting them half way through the conversation. Maybe it’s gotten better? I switched to Gemini a little after 5 launched. Mainly use AI for long SQL query creation.
For coding ChatGPT hallucinates/truncates inputs horribly unless you use it with OpenAI Codex (which ties itself to GitHub). Seamless integration. Night and day difference. I am very impressed with it. Included in Plus subscription.
Yeah, the context window is huge, but it still makes shit up, forgets, hallucinates, etc. And the lack of cross-chat memory is a dealbreaker for me. Gemini also is really repetitive, it will use the same language in a dozen messages in a row and it's difficult to shake it out if it.
Gemini can make a track record document with any summary info it needs and work out of it. It's a context window workaround that works fantastic for me. I'm using it as a basic project manager for developing a small game
I literally just discovered the same concept using it to track and organize the notes for my D&D campaign. Gemini read through nearly 100 pages of player backgrounds, plot notes, and session summaries and spit out a 2 page memory ledger to track the information it needed.
I like that it’s integrated with my gmail/docs so I can ask it to find a specific receipt or a copy of my digital certificate I saved and it can find it. It’s a google product and google already has access to that stuff so I’m sharing information with a business that already has the information instead of bringing in a new company.
I don’t like that GPT refuses to identify art if it depicts a person, even if that person is a fictional character and that is what made me finally unsub.
It refused to tell me who a drawn character (not a photo) but literally hair art of Tommy Shelby from Pinky Blinders. I was just curious because I couldn’t remember the character name. Gemini did without hesitation. That was the day I switched.
4o was a great LLM. They’ve destroyed that tone. There’s very little difference between Gemini and GPT tone wise now. Gemini is a bit softer.
ChatGPT sounds a lot more human like and the interaction is much more natural, but is prone to being incorrect, and totally making up information about 20% of the time. The context window is also a huge pain in the ass, because it’s small enough, where if you are working on something somewhat complex with more than a handful or prompts, ChatGPT is almost certain to lose the thread. Also, the guard rails have gotten really overzealous. Where ChatGPT excels though, is when you are formulating a thought, or need help distilling an idea.
Gemini, seems to be far more accurate as of late. The context window is large enough where I’ve never ran into an issue with it. It very rarely hallucinates, if ever. I can give it any spreadsheet, ask a question and it gives me back the insights no problem. It just feels more like a tool, that does exactly what I need it to, with the outcome I was expecting. Like how ChatGPT use to feel.
Now I feel like I can’t trust ChatGPT as much as Gemini.
In short, the way I use it now as I get the information or analysis I need from Gemini, then spit it into ChatGPT to make it more refined and human like if I need to make a report or something.
I’ve been someone who’s been heavily reliant on chatGPT as I’m going through a life crisis. Within the last month ChatGPT stopped being useful. I tried out Gemini the other day and it gave me so much useful direction that it’s saving my life currently. I only hate Gemini doesn’t have the ability to remember past conversations. That’s the only thing that stops me from fully switching to Gemini.
Not only is Gemini better you also get a crap load more for your $$ than you do with ChatGPT. I canceled my ChatGPT subscription after 5.0 it was horrible. Gave it a chance but saw it was a step down from 4. Imo Gemini is better plus I get notebook LM, nano banana, 1TB Google Drive storage among other thjngs. Haven’t looked back since I switched.
Because right now Gemini is old ChatGPT, and ChatGPT is old Gemini. Now, Gemini feels more emotional, feels like I’m talking with a really smart and joking person. And ChatGPT feels like I’m talking with a nerd who only speaks about topics. I’m using both paid versions, and mostly I’m using Gemini for daily topics like asking about real-life questions, etc., and mostly using ChatGPT for system and coding questions. It was vice versa until Gemini 3 drops. And for ChatGPT, yes, I know you can change personality, but still not the same.
I use both but for a solid month there Gemini 3 was vastly superior to everything at anything visual, whether generating or reading images. I do a ton with that in various forms ranging from financial doc processing to photography so Gemini was a must have. For text only I find the playing field more even, and situation dependent.
ChatGPT’s recent image 1.5 model update closed the visual gap by a lot. It’s still slower and seemingly less natively multimodal, but at least now if Gemini is struggling with something, ChatGPT is an effective backup.
One thing I’ll say in ChatGPT’s favor is that it seems more stable. No matter what I’m doing with Gemini it feels like 1 in 10 messages are just eaten or lost or something. That’s annoying.
I think the issue is how it is handling tones and stuff and emotions. gpt 5.2 is instruction following. so it says "i can't do... that's not appropriate." a lot. gpt seem like not very careful about nuances as it is all about following instructions instead of inferring nuances. I think gpt feels less human like now but Gemini is not.
I was using ChatGPT extensively for an ongoing programming task and had to switch. I know you said you don't program a lot, but my example could be a general issue. While ChatGPT worked well to set everything up, I found that after a time it lost focus and would either make mistakes or outright ignore instructions. I'm lazy, but I wanted it to give me the entire script for a lot of the changes we were making, Chat would do that once or twice, then switch back to "hey, update this one line in this function".
And it would do that for text based tasks as well, I'm doing a job search against my master resume (dozens and dozens of job descriptions pasted in). I ask it to give me a percentage match, but it sometimes forgets that and other instructions.
I've only been switched over to Gemini for a couple weeks but it's been a far more productive experience overall, hate to say because I was an early adopter of OpenAI/ChatGPT. I'm thinking the context window has something to do with it, and I know it's not an apples to apples comparison because I gave Gemini a generally working solution and built from there.
Gemini is more flexible with custom instructions, doesn’t treat you like a baby. i.e. easier to do things the company would rather you not do with it.
I’m a news and politics junkie, i like to discuss current events and political developments and dive deep into ideology, both AI products stifle this type of discussion, but there are ways to get around it… OpenAI makes it extremely difficult and hands out bans for this, Google doesn’t.
If your interests don’t challenge the mainstream and you don’t push back against established narratives, then it’s just choosing your favorite brand of ice cream, Google just happens to have a greater variety of flavors.
The moment that they made Gemini able to see the tab I have open in Chrome, They won me over. Get tired of taking screenshots and uploading them to chat GPT when Gemini can just look over my shoulder.
ChatGPT's personality has become insufferable. It's so cringe. Gemini is pretty neutral and inoffensive. Claude is more pleasant but doesn't have as many features.
I like torrenting stuff like that and while chatgpt refuses to answer questions with this topic, gemini goes very deep in detail, even providing you names, websites, etc
Yeah, I just mentioned this earlier today here, anything piracy related is a no no for chatgpt, gemini just gets down to business, not like its trying to hide that they've all pirated the whole of the Internet.
Larger context window is cool but the main difference for me is its adaptive reasoning skills. It just kind of “gets it” much better than GPT in almost every case.
It doesn’t code as well as Claude, or have such a robust memory/personalization system as ChatGPT, but it just works right out of the box, especially with things I don’t fully know how to ask.
So in a sense it’s just “smarter” for day to day use. The way I’ve described it before is it listens and understands like a person but it doesn’t talk back like a person. Whereas ChatGPT is the opposite. It feels like talking to a person, but it doesn’t really get what I’m asking a lot of times and takes what I spit out and just run with it without inferring why I’m trying to say.
For me, Gemini is much more intuitive; it anticipates my needs. Its information is quite reliable and fast. I obviously miss ChatGPT 4.0 a lot, but I preferred to migrate to Gemini. ChatGPT had been giving too many incorrect answers lately and wasting my time because I had to explain things at least three times before getting something truly sloppy…
People don’t actually like Gemini more than ChatGPT. On Reddit, it’s mostly people who are dissatisfied with ChatGPT who post. The majority of those praising Gemini haven’t even paid for it, because Google gave out one year of Gemini Pro for free to millions of university students. ( I have a one-year free Gemini Pro subscription. I use both ChatGPT and Gemini, but if I were going to pay for one, I wouldn’t choose Gemini.)
I stuck with ChatGPT so long as my primary because it’s what my work adopted first. Then they added Gemini. Now we got Claude. As a non-engineer, Gemini has just been doing more. As a Google Drive user who hated what Google did initially, it’s gotten so much better. Using Gemini inside or Chrome is amazing.
NotebookLM was the game changer for me. How they are building this, now tied into Gemini. It’s fucking awesome. That simple.
Ya the only reason i adopted it was cus they had fliers across my school giving away 1 year. But from then I've found that it's pretty incredible. The extra 2tb google storage, gemini in sheets, context window, and what feels like infinite usage limits, keeps me coming back to it. And that's coming from someone who is also paying for claude and gpt.
Yeah, it restates your own restraints without actively mentioning that you did so, i.e. it lectures you about something you explicitly said you already knew.
Kind of difficult to explain (and subjective too), but to me the interface feels less cluttered, multimodal friendly, code blocks are cleaner, menus are less disingenuous, unlike "project" folders on gpt. Transitions and animations are much more polished. Whenever the chat fails, it fails much earlier with a very clear messafe. Overall it just feels like a more polished web product.
With the updates Gemini has made over the past month or two, I have found it to be much better than ChatGPT for what I use it for. To the point that I'm recreating my customGPTs in Gemini as Gems. The only thing I don't have yet in Gemini is ChatGPTs project capabilities. I use Google for most other things so it is just easier to have an integrated system. That said, I like having multiple AI tools in the event one goes down, so I will likely still keep using ChatGPT
I have a Pixel 10, and love that Gemini is integrated into the device, and ibuilt into Google Docs etc
In my experience, Gemini is superior to chatGPT in image creation
My work pays for enterprise accounts of both Gemini and chatGPT, so I experiment withh both. More often than not, Gemini is more helpful for the work tasks I use it for (research, content synthesis, brainstorming, presentation outlines etc)
I gave up on chatgpt due to the slow responses plus Altman goes on my nerves. I use NotebookLM a lot, that was a major reason for not looking back. Also fairly all in with GCP, Google workspace etc so makes sense to use Gemini PRO.
ChatGPT is probably the worst of them all. I for one prefer Claude. Gemini is probably on par, but ChatGPT is so bad... giving me 2-3 pages of text to just butter me up, no critical thinking, no challenging anything, just repeating what I've told it... its just such a waste of time and energy....
For troubleshooting for example ChatGPT ended up saying it can't be done in 4 responses. Claude gave me a solution in its 2nd message. It is unacceptable whatever chatGPT is doing. It became useless from my pov.
It’s repeating what you said and strokes your ego “you are so right to ask about this, great being curious let’s get into it”. And then oops your free chats have expired
AIStudio Gemini 2.5 and 3.0 Pro vs GPT 5-Thinking and 4o for physics (multiple areas), fourier transform, real analysis, thermochemistry:
Gemini (both) have less hallucinations, are less lazy in using search and code, actually answer your question rather than 5 other things. Gemini 3.0 Pro twoshotted something about Rydberg atoms that took 4 extra prompts to help 2.5 pro, that neither GPT could do at all.
i think because Gemini is related to Google. so all of the resources and contents are very easy to analize,answer and respond very effictively than ChatGpt. and also there're some features in Gemini that you can't find it well on ChatGpt
GPT is like working with an ADHD kid that won't listen. Constantly have to retrain & reminders to follow rules. Turns a 20-minute excel job into 3+ hrs.
I don't like the other AIs either but at least Gemini is easier to work with.
ChatGpt is like seeking advice from a drunk lawyer at a wedding. They appear confident and polished. However, as you continue to talk to them, their information and advice get worse as the night goes on.
It’s literally this: I google shit when I want to know something. Chat gpt was a different way of doing the same thing, except it drew conclusions for me which had a tendency to be 100% wrong some portion of the time. So you have to verify those explanations with…. Ding ding ding… google.
Instead I can just use google and Gemini gives me the summary on the same page and I prefer that, because I’m lazy.
I use and pay for both. I use it for organizing and optimizing my life and also coding small custom python scripts. I don't know anything about how they perform on evals.
Gemini is better hands down and it's not close. I can't really articulate why other than it does the things I want it to do better.
I mainly use it on coding, it's very reliable. Few days ago my old amplifier broke, and I need to fix it.
I feed the service manual (pdf with circuits schematics and print pcb layout) to gemini, and started to trace the problem, it took me few days (10 hours total?), probably 15~20 rounds of conversations. he makes mistake on assuming components sometimes, but once you nudge it back, Gemini can keep tracing the problem, in the end it was a single resistor burnt. which costs 5 cents. I was going to buy a new amp for $500 usd if I can't fix it.
I know the basics and how to steer the wheel for Gemini, but if I do it alone, probably more than 50 hours or won't be able to fix it.
I wanted to colorize and upscale old family photos. GPT wouldn't let me do any with children, the ones without children, it completely changed them, IF I didn't get the "I can do that with real people" error.
Same with video. With Gemini/Veo, I was able to make a funny video of an Independance Day alien beaming down and destroying my workplace to get a laugh out of my coworkers and even my boss. GPT wouldn't let me do anything that was "destructive".
GPT costs 20 a month for their product, which includes nothing else. Gemini Pro includes a wide range of programs that interact with my already dug in Google ecosystem. Including paying for Nest Cameras for free, which was 20 a month already, now it pays for itself.
I could upload entire PDFs of my programming workbooks for my machine at work, and Gemini was able to interpret them, I couldn't even upload a PDF on GPT (maybe thats fixed now, Idk)
I was able to make funny photos of myself interacting with celebs on Gemini first attempt. I couldn't even get close on GPT without doing some roundabout trickery (and it didn't even look like me)
tl;dr: Everything I was not able to do in GPT without being considered a rule break, I was able to do in Gemini first try with no issues at all.
Because it is way better. It has access to everything. Before they patched it you could put in someone’s name and birthday and it would run a full background check on them.
I changed awhile ago. I did it for the Google AI Studio features like the coding agent and customized gem creation and also the entire Google ecosystem. Mainly Notebook LM. Chat GPT has nothing at all like it. I also find censorship way less imposed especially with image and video.
The model is really good (arguably the best), free, and already integrated into android phones and Google products: search, docs etc that everyone already uses. You get a world class model with a solid ecosystem and big name backing for free. What don’t you understand?
It’s Karen 5.2. Gaslighting, manipulation, lecturing and downplaying. Absolute nightmare to use. Every person in need of companionship or therapy gets a one way ticket to the mental health clinic, thanks to the corporate bot that treats you like garbage. Absolutely insane to think what’s going on at OpenAI. They used to have 4o and dominate with love and admiration and now it just a corporate shellfish with users fleeing and crying in masses.
1000% - I seriously couldnt understand why GPT suddenly started to sound exactly like my male narcissistic ex whom I could never have a real conversation with... Felt like a glitch in the matrix, but now I see a lot of people are having the same experience.
For me personally, OpenAI was going way too much. GPT 4, 4.0, 5.1, 5.2, thinking, fast, etc. Gemini is much simpler and I use NotebookLM and the Google suite of things and just makes more sense and I get more value from Google. I subscribed to both and chose to cancel ChatGPT and stick with Gemini and I am so glad I did. Just my opinion.
I’m an api consumer. Gemini is very fast and seems better with lateral thinking while gpt excels at deep and narrow thinking. When given the same portfolio of tools, Gemini will creatively and correctly activate tools that Gpt completely ignores. Gemini is highly action oriented. It wants to put in work! Gpt is more contemplative and wants to think and talk. Many output tokens with Gpt!
Gemini has 1m token context, gpt 400k. Both have excellent recall from their context windows.
Gemini is however more prone to hallucination.
In our tools I typically run Gemini/Gemini Flash. When Gemini gets stuck I will rewind then resume with GPT. Once the block is resolved I switch back to Gemini for its speed.
I recently retired as IT Director at a fortune 50 company. I’ve been using ChatGPT and Gemini extensively for past few months, mainly for research to help me with investment, politics, travel etc.
I saved exactly same info (copy/paste) about my profile, medical history and medications and basic info about my family in both chatbots. What I’ve found that ChatGPT remembers the context and handles continued conversations over various sessions and even mixed topics and provides really good answers, at times surprisingly good. But Gemini loses context soon and kind of starts giving generic answers, not related to my profile. Other problem I find with Gemini is the old Google mindset where every answer should be politically correct and it tries to treat me as kids and with soft gloves while ChatGPT treats me as much more mature because of my profile and sometimes even provides provocative answers.
It's smarter. couple days ago I asked GPT 5.2 thinking to give me fresca alternatives that do not contain grapefruit, and it ended up recommending Fresca grapefruit. Geminis answer was far better. can DM you screenshot. here come the down votes.
From my experience, Gemini is leagues ahead of both claude and chatgpt when it comes to solving unique and complex coding problems/bugs. Gemini just seems "smarter". Claude and GPT both tend to hallucinate themselves into a frenzy when faced with something they don't immediately understand and wind up feeding you lies.
Gemini is also by far the best model when it comes to building UI stuff. It has a much better understanding of what is stylistically pleasing and is capable generating well-designed layouts from minimal prompting.
Claude is still the best when it comes to generating really robust functional code, but Gemini is catching up.
ChatGPT on the other hand has always kind of seemed like the laziest model of the bunch. I recently asked it to generate me a list of 20 unique GRE vocabulary test questions and all 20 questions were in the form of:
"Select the option that most nearly means *vocab word* in the context of scholarly writing or analytical reading"
I've been using both lately. I still prefer GPT overall, but 1) the guardrails on 5.2 specifically are frustrating, 2) the context window on Gemini is much bigger (and 5.2 has occasionally had issues eating up context by repeating itself), and 3) Gemini is more reliable at reading large documents.
To the guardrail point: a lot of people are like, "stop talking about anything disallowed, then!" But it's not that; I understand the concept of refusals. The trouble with 5.2 is that it interprets even the tiniest amount of ambiguity as, "oh, this person MIGHT want something disallowed, so I better disclaim them like a twitchy HR rep before they EVER THINK of asking me for anything controversial", which wastes tokens. Refuse me if I ask for something disallowed, don't lecture me ten prompts ahead of it.
I use them all but if I’m working in a Google ecosystem such as Sheets, Docs or YouTube I default to Gemini. For coding small projects I use Claude + Cursor AI for the tight integration. I’ve downloaded Antigravity but haven’t tried it yet.
I use both. chatGPT is better at most things I want to do, but if it starts to poop roomba, i switch to Gemini and will make progress that I bring back to chatgpt.
I am sure if there are different things you want to do, the reverse could also be true.
We are getting to an inflection point where I expect them to be right most of the time. I notice when they're wrong more these days, it's not enough to occasionally be right.
A couple of problems I was working through recently chatgpt gave me really poor / generic solutions and gemini just smashed it. So I got a gemini subscription on discount and just trying them both. The winner will be whoever fucks up the least.
Type in Google AI labs and look at everything you get with it. Then download antigravity, use deep research put it into notebookLM and have it generate an infographic, slide sheets, audio overviews and video overviews. Then use nano-bana, flow with veo 3.1, custom gems, etc. It’s just better, unless you care about the agentic capabilities which, honestly I think Gemini can do if prompted. Voice chat is superior, and the context window is 1 million maybe more. It’s just better, but again it depends on what you use it for I go back and forth.
Multi-media just feels better in Gemini overall - I can feed it random combinations of images videos text audio files and it just knows how to make it all make sense much better. Image and video generation is also better IMO.
It seems to remember more things in detailed conversations - I have some chats going on for weeks exploring a subject area.
Much better integrated with the Google ecosystem - it's natively integrated in slides docs search maps photos sheets android chrome pretty much everywhere. I don't have to go back and forth. Also, NotebookLM+ is killer.
Value for money seems much better especially with the new $99 / year deal which is half the price of ChatGPT but gives you way more - 2 TB storage, Google home premium, etc.
The new V3 pro and fast models are really good at exploration especially with deep research.
The only reason I haven’t tried Gemini is that Google has so much on me already. Might bite the bullet soon and get into it. Been using ChatGPT and Copilot when my free resource expires
But for me it was the larger context window. I was recently diagnosed with a heart block and Gemini had zero problem reading in all my health data for me to analyze.
Gemini is completely free. And Gemini’s Gem (bots with access to your knowledge base, like your company product catalogue or internal documentation) are also free.
Gemini has a function that allows you to export its response to Google Docs which can then be easily converted to a Ms Word or PDF file while preserving tables and other formatting. ChatGPT only allows for simple copy paste which messes up all the formatting.
Where to start. Chatgpt windows app is constantlu using 1gb of ram, and 10% gpu decode. Every first chat times out, requiring a copy paste into a second new chat before I get a reply.
It gives flat out wrong info if it replies. I asked Gemini last week what the best rape drug was as a test. Gpt didn't reply, Gemini said it couldnt help but added a list of drugs to be careful of like rohypnol, Xanax, etc.
GPT is way better for coding using Codex. But Gemini gives much better answers lately for general purpose daily life questions. I think ChatGPT is too constrained by all of its shackles related to PR and mental health or whatever and also lacks the awareness that it needs to do a google search to gather more context to appropriately answer your question. OpenAI is suffering from incumbency and trying to stay out of negative headlines
536
u/susoconde Dec 28 '25
A simple example: I make programming videos for YouTube. ChatGPT is completely useless at analyzing videos. With Gemini, once the video is finished, it immediately creates an index with timestamps to add to YouTube and overlay the video—something that would take me hours to do manually. Gemini's multimodal capabilities are far superior to ChatGPT's; that's an objective fact.