This one flipped in 2026. Gemini has long been the most generous, but ChatGPT now gives unlimited text chats on GPT-5.6 Luna. Both are genuinely usable daily without paying.
Gemini 3.8 Flash runs $0.75 per million input tokens against $4 for GPT-5.6 Sol and $10 for GPT-6 Astra. For high-volume work that gap decides the argument.
Both sit at roughly a million tokens now. Gemini’s old 2M advantage belonged to the Gemini 1.5 Pro preview and no longer applies.
ChatGPT’s voice mode, memory and third-party apps remain the smoothest consumer AI experience.
Inside Gmail, Docs, Sheets and Android, Gemini is simply there - no copy-paste, no context switching.
OpenAI’s GPT Image 2 tops the image arena, but OpenAI shut Sora down. Google counters with Veo 3.1, the quality leader in video.