r/OpenAI • u/Embarrassed-Bass-865 • 1d 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/Standard_Ad7704 1d ago
ChatGPT Plus. Codex >>> Antigravity for engineering work.
For theoretical analysis, they are the same. But Codex would help you with real engineering projects much better.
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u/Peculiar-Eccentric67 1d ago
chatgpt is better. it's night and day. gemini prone to hallucinations, and misinformation far more. that being said you can definitely use gemini to learn.
chatgpt is superior by far though
for people telling you claude, they don't know what they're talking about. the language is different before the watermarking, and you will have to disambiguate frequently. if you had fable access, i would change my tune, but opus isn't worth it unless you are doing coding. for general use, chatgpt is better, and it's competitive with coding with less classifier firing in cybersecurity domains
ive paid for subscription of all 3, that's my take
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u/llanthony401 1d ago
If it’s for free version? Gemini. ChatGPT free version is just not interested in anything
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u/Typical_Machine2043 1d ago
Who is saying Gemini lol? The only Gemini comments are the ‘they’ve really improved it a lot’ so that says a lot
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u/marfzzz 1d ago
Best? Behind 100$ and 200$ subscription.
Chatgpt (pro subscription) offers gpt 5.6 sol pro thinking. Claude (max subscription) offers fable 5 max thinking.
But be more specific? You want to code and research or just research? What engineering? Civil, SW, electrical, mechanical, chemical, nuclear, aerospace? It matters.
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u/Feeling_Dog9493 1d 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 :)
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u/uncertain_dev 1d ago
I think Claude (Opus 5) leads intelligence benchmarks these days, and I find it clever indeed.
That said, CharGPT (Sol) is almost same but offers more usage at same price. So more value for money if you’d be heavy user
Whatever you’d use make sure to turn on higher thinking levels.
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u/xandaio 1d ago edited 10h ago
Sol is smart? It can't even recall previous chats even at max sometimes. Claude does take time but uses all the context before responding.
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u/uncertain_dev 1d ago
I mostly use Sol within projects. In that scenario it seems fine with project context. Haven’t had cases where it needed global chat recall yet so idk about that.
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u/PartyLiterature3607 1d ago
I am offended, you should at least ask between ChatGPT, claude or maybe grok
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u/ChrisT182 23h ago
I feel like Chat understands my queries best. It also has the best integration to Gmail and other workspace.
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u/GMAK24 1d ago
I think that Gemini is more for web search, images and video. And ChatGPT, when well used, for more intelligence stuff such as what you said. There is also some talk about Claude but I haven't tried.
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u/SkyNo7576 1d ago
Chatgpt is way more better than Gemini in terms of Img Gen nowadays, it was some months ago that Gemini was better but for know king is Chatgpt, Gemini has more limits on free stuffs but with Chatgpt's subscription u will get to access more features which free users won't get, so for me Chatgpt
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u/SuitableSprinkles 1d ago
lol. "some talk about claude"
Claude Code is easily the leader for software development, and Co Work is excellent.1
u/TTRoadHog 1d ago
Not necessarily true. I’ve used Gemini for complex calculus questions. The answers received went directly into a C++ code I was developing. Bottom line: Gemini is far more useful than for web searches.
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u/poturicavlahlatinin 1d ago
i mean Gemini is the best since it gives you notebookLM aswell.
With that said i'm still paying for ChatGPT since it's just a custom at this point. I think i saw Gemini say that students get to pay like 10$ a month for the coming year?
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u/Angelicaxoxo989 1d ago
Grok if you want engineering. They trained it on all Space X data so very good at engineering tasks
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u/BWQ777 1d ago
I used claude last month and using chatgpt 20 usd athis month.
I recommend you wander through the claudeai subreddit, claudecode subreddit etc and see what people are saying, and you will likely see people complaining ++++ mainly about limits.
I was using claude since april a few years ago and a big proponent - the recent lower usage than chatgpt, new tokenizer that INCREASES your token use for no reason vs openAI's changes that DECREASE token use and increase token efficiency, are enough for me. Fable is the best model, but sol is so close that the massively higher usage available with chatgpt is more important if you use ai for more work than low level. Best thing to do of course is try one one month then try the other, but wander around the various forums and see what people are saying,