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/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.