I am a paying subscriber to Gemini, Claude and OpenAI.
I don't know if it's me, but over the last few weeks I've got to the conclusion ChatGPT is very strongly leading the race. Every answer it gives me is better - it's more concise and more informative.
I look forward to testing this further, but out of the few runs I just did after reading about this - it isn't looking much better
Yeah, ChatGPT is better overall, but with a twist, Gemini can actually be the best if you use AI Studio, tweak the config, and set up a good system prompt, kinda like how nano banana is SOTA, but Qwen-Edit feels more useful since it’s less censored, meanwhile ChatGPT is starting to feel slower and kinda showing its age, another example is Veo 3 being SOTA while the infamous Grok is technically worse but doing better, and OpenAI’s Sora is pretty much dead
edit: I run low profile service that localizing e-commerce photos, like taking Alibaba listings and swapping the model to look local alike, with nano banana I can’t automate it because I have to manually check if the output got blocked (anything with female skin is risky, underwear or cleavage is 100% blocked), but Qwen-Edit just does the job without fuss
Gemini in AI Studio is so much better than in Gemini.com / app. You would think that signals they're going for devs over consumers, but they're a consumer company. A real head scratcher
>> I am a paying subscriber to Gemini, Claude and OpenAI
Me too.
I find ChatGPT is the best analyzer of complex situations but Claude does a better job of writing the code, so u get ChatGPT to design things and solve problems then I give that to Claude/Gemini to implement.
Me too. I have Claude Max and 2 ChatGpt accounts for Codex.
I was a huge claude fan but recently find myself using only codex. When it gets stuck, I try Claude for some simple tasks, sometimes ask same questions in parallel, Claude Code with Opus performs really bad comparing to codex.
I've only tried Grok Code Fast 1, so I can't speak for any of the other models.
In my experience, Grok is very fast and very cheap, but only moderately intelligent. It isn't stupid, but it rarely does anything that impresses me. The reason it's a useful model is that it is very, very fast (~90 tokens per second) and is very competitively priced.
There is also code-supernova, which is in-preview improved version of grok-code-fast-1. 1M context window. It's useful, but I'm still not sure how much better than grok-code-fast-1. You can get free access to it via a few providers, e.g. opencode.
Grok 4 is extremely capable, but for everyday chatting, Grok kinda sucks since it keeps repeating what you told it, and saying the current timestamp for some reason. ChatGPT is much better with its post training and prompt I feel like.
Grok has been free for over a month now and for me it has certainly proven itself competent at most tasks that you would otherwise have to pay for with Claude, ChatGPT, etc.
I don't know if it's me, but over the last few weeks I've got to the conclusion ChatGPT is very strongly leading the race. Every answer it gives me is better - it's more concise and more informative.
I look forward to testing this further, but out of the few runs I just did after reading about this - it isn't looking much better