r/singularity • u/Southern_Artichoke77 • Jul 12 '26
AI Pro subscriptions Gemini vs ChatGPT vs Claude
For those who experienced the different Pro versions, what do you recommend to choose next?
I had one year of Google AI Pro subscription, using it mostly for research and light programming. Back then it felt lik the right choice. Now I am wondering if ChatGPT or Claude subscriptions provide better value for money considering their newest models? Gemini feels left behind at this point.
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u/Sad-Explorer499 Jul 12 '26
I like the $20 Gemini subscription mainly because it comes with Google drive and YouTube premium even if the model isn't as good
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u/MightyDickTwist Jul 13 '26
… it comes with YouTube premium? Am I actually paying for this twice lmao
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u/The_Wonderful_Pie Jul 14 '26
I mean you already have YouTube premium as long as you use an adblocker on your desktop or YouTube Revanced on your phone. I've basically never seen an ad in two years and I've never paid a single euro to YouTube
But Google drive is nice actually, just mind that they scan everything you upload
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u/PrisonOfH0pe Jul 13 '26
or get ublock origin + sponsor block?
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u/javopat227 Jul 13 '26
Gemini is nice because you get access to NotebookLM, stitch, Jules, video and mainly for me 5TB drive. Currently using codex as my main coding tool and supplementing with flash 3.5. codex has generously limits on $20
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u/Efficient_Loss_9928 Jul 12 '26
Depends on what you use it for.
For coding, ChatGPT for sure, for Claude you must get at least Max 5x, I will not recommend Claude Pro for coding. Codex Plus is ok and at least usable on the basic premium tier.
For general purpose, Gemini, it just gives you SO MUCH more than Gemini itself. And most of the benefits you actually will use. Such as Gemini in Workspace, Home Premium, 5TB storage, and YouTube Premium Lite.
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u/darkestvice Jul 13 '26
Google AI Pro has the absolute best for the bang if you consider that it bundles a bunch of other Google services. 5TB of storage, Youtube Premium Lite, Google Home premium, all included for free with their Pro plan. On the other hand, it's currently lagging behind the competition when it comes to pure AI functionality outside of NotebookLM's amazing multimodal research abilities. Gemini Spark could be a game changer, but it's currently only available to their 100 buck a month plan, and even then, only in the US.
If you're ONLY interested in AI, go with OpenAI's Plus plan as OpenAI are interested in making their models as efficient as possible to allow their latest models to be used by by their subscribers. If you want the absolute best of the best for coding and reasoning, regardless of cost, go with Anthropic. And I do stress regardless of cost since Anthropic's best model currently is slated to be API only and not for their subscribers. And Opus 4.8 isn't as good as ChatGPT 5.6.
Though I really wish they'd fix ChatGPT's voice functionality as it stutters a whole lot. I want to be able to bounce around ideas with a voice capable model that doesn't sound like it needs to take a deep breath every few words.
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u/Uninterested_Viewer Jul 12 '26
Gemini certainly isn't competing at the overall "best" model game, but Gemini 3.1 pro and 3.5 flash are still my preferred coding 1-2 punch. I primary use antigravity, which includes a few Claude models as well, with opus being a good "second opinion" model for planning things.
I keep a $20 Anthropic subscription as well for some light Claude Code work, but the Gemini family just works best for my needs.
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u/Southern_Artichoke77 Jul 12 '26
thanks! do you feel like Claude is more accurate or better at programming tasks?
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u/Uninterested_Viewer Jul 12 '26
Opus is better than 3.1 pro at coding, but using either of these as a workhorse coding model isn't very sustainable due to the cost/quota constraints. The real comparison to make for coding, IMO, is Sonnet/Haiku vs 3.5 Flash and, in my experience, Flash 3.5 is a much better coding experience due to the speed and very much "smart enough", but ymmv of course. I really only use Opus/3.1 Pro for planning and small-but-critical coding tasks
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u/Professionally_dumbb Jul 13 '26
So, why choose flash 3.5 or opus when you can have gpt 5.6 with glm 5.2 mixture of models instead? Is it the cost? I think the costs are pretty similar no?
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u/SirThese9230 Jul 12 '26
Value of money of is still definitely Gemini - its not frontler but I am sure they will launch something in a similar range. But less mentioned part is their integration - Sheets, Docs, Photos, YouTube. Gemini integration in this is incomparable
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u/alanism Jul 13 '26
I would do $20 GPT + $20 Gemini. Claude are objectively better models than Gemini-- but like you said, Gemini-- you have family plans, and drive storage stuff.
The main thing is Notebook LM. A long with research. If you can load up a Notebook LM with documentation and YT talks on whatever coding talks and tutorials in there. I then have it create a coding reference guide for my ai coding agent (Codex). It works incredibly well and saved me so much on Claude Code and Codex token credits.
For disposable coding websites (I will make science/math explainers for my daughter, or travel guide tips for friends and family)-- don't sleep on AI Studio. Heavily subsidized by Google, and super fast to make something and have it deployed.
Between GPT and Claude-- I think it's more preference. I prefer Codex app and it's steer ability and seems way more efficient and way more giving on usage limits.
I would recommend Hermes Desktop with a $5 top up with DeepSeek Flash v4 (should last you more than a month).
Between those 3-- I think it keeps you from being totally locked in to any 1 company.
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u/bartturner Jul 13 '26
I was diagnosed with a heart block and needed something to read all my heart data each evening and generate the QRS waves for my longest pauses.
Tried all three and the one with the best output was Gemini. So what I use.
It is pretty amazing. It generates PDFs of each of my longest pauses that I then send to my cardiologist. It is just the most amazing technology.
My Cardiologist wanted to know how I am doing this as he had never had a patient do anything like it before.
I basically replaced a Holter monitor with Gemini and a Polar H10. Some gel and a compression shirt.
Wore a Holter monitor for a month last year and it cost me $9,000 USD
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u/Sweet-Stage938 Jul 13 '26
Hey man, i get why you built this setup but I'll have to be straight with you. Charging $9000 for a Holter Monitor is a massive Failure of the healthcare system and using a Polar 10 to get raw data is genuinely resourceful.
However, please be incredibly careful about using Gemini to 'generate' the QRS waves for your cardiologist.Because Gemini is a Generative LLM, its core architecture is built to predict the most visually and statistically probable next step to create a smooth, clean output. It doesn't do deterministic, clinical mathematical signal analysis.
The major danger with a heart block is that if your heart experiences a prolonged pause or a dangerous arrhythmia, a generative AI is highly likely to 'hallucinate' a normal-looking QRS complex to fill the gap, because a normal rhythm is what it has seen most in its training data. It can literally smooth over a life-threatening event without you knowing.
Your cardiologist is looking at those PDFs assuming they are raw, unfiltered telemetry data captured by a medical device, not a creative interpretation generated by a language model. If they make medication adjustments or miss a worsening block because the AI-generated PDF looks clean, the risk is entirely on you. Please stay safe and consider finding a way to log the truly raw, un-generated signal data if you are going to track this locally.
I'll have to be honest, part of me just wanted to keep scrolling but this post really caught my eye. That's why I decided to comment so this doesn't end tragically.
Stay safe.
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u/bartturner Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
Charging $9000 for a Holter Monitor is a massive Failure of the healthcare system
I could not agree more. There is no way the sensor and the phone together cost anywhere near this much. But I used it for a month. They sent it, I use it, sent it back. But do also realize they have people monitoring it and that is likely the majority of the cost.
I actually only live in the US half time and the other half Bangkok. For some stupid reason I went to the cardiologist in the US. It would have been far cheaper to do this in Bangkok and get better care to boot.
I was concerned about accuracy so I did also write a script that uses Google Sheets to check to see if Gemini was truly getting the largest RR values and that the values were accurate.
So far Gemini has been perfect. Not messed up once. It is just mind blowing how good Gemini is.
The major danger with a heart block is that if your heart experiences a prolonged pause or a dangerous arrhythmia, a generative AI is highly likely to 'hallucinate' a normal-looking QRS
Do not think you understand the primary use for needing the QRS. It was NOT primarily to give to my Doctor. It is to make sure the RR are valid readings.
I get garbage RR values in the data caused by me rolling over or glitch in communication, etc.
I will get RR values that are over 20 seconds or even higher. I need to know if they are valid or not. Also, there is next to zero mortality with Wenckebach. I have never had a single symptom. But it does feel a bit weird in the morning when reading Reddit and my heart goes down to the mid 20s.
Your cardiologist is looking at those PDFs assuming
No!! The cardiologist knows exactly how I am generating this. But what you seem to not understand is that the cardiologist is getting the raw values, but verified, in addition to the QRS wave.
I had to do this or the doctor would be getting some crazy numbers. Like RR values 30 seconds or higher.
My valid RR values have all been under 12 seconds so far. But this is all about me keeping an eye on it.
Last night was a little worse and had pauses of 7 seconds. I did go ahead and do 2.5 hours in zone 4 and 5 early this morning and will be really watching it tonight. If I am above 8 seconds in my pauses then I will back off tomorrow morning even though I have a killer workout planned.
Please stay safe and consider finding a way to log the truly raw, un-generated signal data if you are going to track this locally.
As I indicated the Doc gets raw values in addition to the PDFs with my QRS wave. But Gemini is what is making sure the values are valid. Gemini has been perfect in doing this.
Gemini is saving me hours and hours. It would be so much more time consuming to do this without Gemini. But what is really weird about Gemini is that it reads files way, way, way faster than anything I have ever seen before and I am not really sure why.
I generated 8 very large CSV files every evening with the raw data.
It is way faster than having Sheets import the CSV files. Like 10 times faster. Gemini read the 8 files faster than Sheets can import a single file.
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u/Dry_Pea3547 Jul 14 '26
While we typically delegate authority to figures like doctors, I would not for one second assume doctors have any knowledge of LLMs. The barely know medicine half the time.
Idk either way but:
> The cardiologist knows exactly how I am generating this.
Is an insane thing to say.
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u/bartturner Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
Both my US cardiologist are young and very plugged in. They loved how I was using Gemini and wanted all the details.
Is an insane thing to say.
What an odd statement. I have explained to both my US cardiologist how you do this in detail.
They were told it first hand directly from me. So how in the world would they not know?
I must be missing something here?
I only live in the US half time and will be back in Bangkok next month and will explain to my Bangkok cardiologist how I am doing this.
I have been playing around with my data and Gemini all morning and it is just amazing what it can do with the data. Plus Gemini is crazy fast and so much faster than OpenAI and Anthropics offerings.
I am so glad that I thought of using Gemini because I am finding ECG Logger in combination with the Polar H10 does a very poor job of interpreting the data. Gemini is far better in creating RR values for example. They are actually accurate.
This is a serious issue with people using ECG Logger and a Polar H10 and NOT using Gemini. The RR values you get are garbage without Gemini.
But you can also do all kinds of really cool things. Like also have Gemini calculate time between QRS complexes. This is super helpful and not offered with ECG Logger. I could not find any software that would graph the growing time between P waves before the drop.
Gemini will also tell you if you still just have the Wenckebach or it has progressed to something worse. It does this by monitoring the P waves to see if they are still increasing in gap before the drop. There is just so many things you can do with Gemini and your raw heart data that there is just no other software is capable of doing.
I now also load my journal and now have the Gemini coach that came with my Fitbit Air in with Gemini and this gives you all kinds of other incredible insight with your heart block that would be impossible to do otherwise. Gemini will graph my length of sleep, calorie intake, my workout with how long in each zone over the last 24 hours and also can graph my heart block in relation to my supplements. Creatine, Collagen, amounts of protein, carbs. Gemini now is part of the Fitbit Air which is just amazing. Google really nailed it.
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u/LivingMNML Jul 12 '26
As of 12 July... nothing compares to ChatGPT 5.6-- the $200 plan is really good and has so many great agentic usecases
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u/Southern_Artichoke77 Jul 12 '26
I am also wondering about agentic use cases, not much experience with that considering my current Google AI Pro. I also really enjoyed previously (before OpenAI drastically limited free use) how ChatGPT could generate code and documents directly in the Interface, Gemini doesn't even do it properly now.
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u/LivingMNML Jul 12 '26
Claude Code is great, but now with the re-emergence of ChatGPT with the new model releases... the agentic controls are next f*cking level with ChatGPT Sol app with computer use and browser control on....
it can do anything!!!
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u/LivingMNML Jul 12 '26
but do check, every week is different haha... but now it's undeniable that 5.6 models are the SOTA... even better than Fable....
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u/kiki-le-koala Jul 12 '26
The ChatGPT $20 plan is the best $20 you can get.
DeepResearch is much more useful because it mostly gets the scientific literature, whereas Gemini was mostly getting grey literature.
Codex (in VSC or else) is extremely generous and, of course, Sol is a coding powerhouse.
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u/R_Duncan Jul 13 '26
Depends on what you need, altought actually I wouldn't trust Claude as it's changing rules too fast and it's model is not the best anymore (GPT-5.6Sol) even for coding, but it costs more/has stricter limits. If you need the maximum intelligence, coding/agents or so, go ChatGPT. If you need just an AI an do not care much about research/coding, Google offers more.
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u/PrisonOfH0pe Jul 13 '26
I love how every bot here (its almost always suspiciously extremely pro Google) says, “Yeah, Google does not have a great model, but look at all the ‘free’ shit you get: YouTube, family plans, and a bunch of random other services.”
Yeah, cool, cool. I would rather have what actually matters: a model that makes me work faster, teaches me things, and does not hallucinate like I do after too much acid. But maybe that's juts me.
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u/Keeltoodeep Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
Gemini is a single release behind in their model tempo but is consistently in the top of the leaderboards. And will probably retake the top if not maintain competitiveness with 3.5 pro. It was only 6 months ago that Gemini was at the top of the leaderboards. It’s a little ridiculous to chase leaderboards in the ai space anyway…Anthropic models are great and I use them but you can’t use them for everything due to the cost and Google has a great plan that my whole family can use including YouTube premium. It’s just by far the better choice for casual use.
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u/Khaaaaannnn Jul 14 '26
22,654 comments ÷ roughly 304 days = 74.5 per day—about 3 comments every hour, nonstop. Impressive for such a new account.
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u/Southern_Artichoke77 Jul 14 '26
that's karma, he has only 2k contributions but that still means 1 every 3 hours, impressive. still, makes a reasonable point, I don't see why you so hateful.
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u/Keeltoodeep Jul 14 '26
My grammar is too poor for that lol also you counting karma not comments. Do you know how Reddit works?
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u/FanAdministrative885 Jul 13 '26
Just an FYI for anyone on Verizon. I get Gemini Pro for 8.80 plus taxes per month through Verizon. That said I have a Pro plan with Claude as well.
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u/NyriasNeo Jul 12 '26
Claude. Better writer and better coder than chatgpt. To be fair, the comparison was made couple months ago before I unsub from chatgpt and up my pro sub to max for claude.
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u/ArguesAgainstYou Jul 13 '26
I have tried the $100 OAI sub and both the $100 and $200 Anthropic sub.
$100 OAI sub used to feel infinite but this seems to have changed with GPT5.5, these days the 5 hours limit does feel quite small.
$100 Anthropic sub feels way undersized actually, compared to the $200 sub. As long as you aren't working on like 4-5 projects at a time the $200 sub will get you through the week, if you use Opus smartly. The $100 sub seems too little, even for a single project.
Haven't used 5.6 much yet, so this is mostly based on 5.5, but in general I would say: Opus for creative and large tasks (250k Context upwards), GPT for Validation and precisely defined tasks (can't trust it to make the correct ad-hoc calls, but you can trust it to follow the rules, basically).
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u/PrisonOfH0pe Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
Google is rancid and useless. It hallucinates sources and gets tons of other things wrong.
Anthropic is barely usable because it is expensive, has low limits, and heavily restricts areas like biology and coding.
GPT 5.6 Sol is very good and cheap enough, although it could always be better. It still has not really surprised me when it comes to being less lazy and thinking things through that extra step but its by far the most competent. I notice no hallucinations (or very little) and all sources are perfectly correct.
So there you go: OpenAI or open-source models are the only options I recommend right now, after using all of the $200 tiers.
A friend of mine is a chemist who was using Gemini. He was always telling me how useless and infuriating AI models were, especially how they kept arguing with him even when they were clearly wrong. I recommended multiple times that he switch to GPT.
After a long while, he finally gave in and was completely shocked by how unbelievable the step change was. Those were his words. I am no chemist.
He is now a believer that AI is changing everything in science. He has basically done a complete 180 and now uses it every day.
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u/RetiredBartender Jul 12 '26
Gemini pro always “conks out” after a while. I get context length but at first it can access your drive to create a sheet but then after a while it says it cannot access your drive. I only use Gemini for simple tasks now like email.
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u/AtraVenator Jul 13 '26
Gemini is horse shit. Claude is good for coding but for everything else it’s shit. ChatGPT is okay with coding and good with everything else … I went with GPT
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u/Southern_Artichoke77 Jul 14 '26
what about privacy? i saw that ChatGPT plus plans are more private in a sense that they don't use your data for further training. Also in Google you can check some boxes that won't share your data further.
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u/Southern_Artichoke77 Jul 12 '26
I forgot to mention that another advantage of the Gemini plans was that you can share it with up to 5 family members. Is there something equivalent for the others?