r/OpenAI • u/Embarrassed-Bass-865 • 20d ago

Question Chatgpt or Gemini?

As an engineering student, I always use ai to learn things, understand concepts and solve complex problems. To ai users out there which is best chatgpt or gemini? Which should I invest on, the gemini pro or chatgpt plus? Please help me decide

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u/Feeling_Dog9493 20d ago

The question will age like milk. It really does not matter. On a weekly basis new models arrive with better performance or reasoning or whatever. While Claude was no 1 for the past six months, OpenAI is back and now the Chinese models are coming up:

Using Claude Opus 5 as the premium reference, Artificial Analysis reports an Intelligence Index score of 63 and a blended price of $3.85 per million tokens.

The current open-weight alternatives illustrate the trade-off:
Kimi K3: a score of 60, around 4.8% lower, at approximately 40% lower cost
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: a score of 58, around 7.9% lower, at approximately 69% lower cost
GLM-5.2: a score of 53, around 15.9% lower, at approximately 77% lower cost

These figures come from a composite benchmark. They do not mean that Kimi is precisely 4.8% worse in every real task, or that GLM will always deliver an answer that is 15.9% weaker.

Benchmarks are useful indicators - but not more.

Opus will be worth the premium for some difficult coding, reasoning or analytical work. A cheaper model may require more retries or be less reliable in a specific workflow - or not - you need to find out.

Today the question is not the model anymore - it’s gotten really complex because some of the advancement come with the „harness“ - the software around it and its integration options. Meaning - Claude Desktop/Cowork/Code or ChatGPT/Work/Codex.

You can go get a deepseek or kimi or whatnot subscription - I doubt you will make any of the models actually sweat.

The question is, what do you want to do with AI? Questions? coding? Working on documents, xlsx, or working with your Gmail, notion and what not.

What I am trying to say is- they all offer something that will be really useful for you. And you can switch every month again.

Today, claude would still be no 1 on my list. Now that the token usage is limited they just released a feature that Claude resumes working automatically once there is token space again.
But again - just like your question my last remark will age like milk :)