Gemini vs Claude: which is better? Comparison 2026
By our public methodology Gemini scores 83 out of 100 and Claude scores 69. Below: the factors and facts where they differ, each fact with its source.
Score breakdown
| Gemini | Claude | |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy | 57 | 57 |
| Capabilities | 96 | 86 |
| Price | 90 | 60 |
| User reputation | 87 | 83 |
| Transparency | 100 | 58 |
Pros and cons
Gemini
- You can keep your chats out of model training
- Low price of the paid plan
- Highly rated by App Store users
- Very large context window
- Chats are used for training unless you opt out
Claude
- You can keep your chats out of model training
- Highly rated by App Store users
- Very large context window
- Free plan available
- Chats are used for training unless you opt out
- No image generation
Facts side by side
| Fact | Gemini | Claude |
|---|---|---|
| You can stop chats from training the model | Yes support.google.com | Yes anthropic.com |
| Chats are not used for training by default | No support.google.com | No anthropic.com |
| Temporary chat mode | Yes blog.google | Yes support.claude.com |
| Context window, tokens | 128,000 support.google.com | 1,000,000 support.claude.com |
| Web search | Yes gemini.google | Yes claude.com |
| File upload | Yes support.google.com | Yes support.claude.com |
| Image generation | Yes support.google.com | No support.claude.com |
| Voice conversation | Yes support.google.com | Yes support.claude.com |
| Developer API | Yes ai.google.dev | Yes platform.claude.com |
| Free plan | Yes gemini.google | Yes claude.com |
| Cheapest paid plan, per month | $4.99 gemini.google | $20.00 claude.com |
| App Store rating | 4.7★ itunes.apple.com | 4.7★ itunes.apple.com |
| App Store ratings | 2,380,347 itunes.apple.com | 288,735 itunes.apple.com |
| Publishes model cards | Yes deepmind.google | Yes anthropic.com |
| Open-weight models | Yes ai.google.dev | Not verified |
| Company founded | 1998 about.google | 2021 anthropic.com |
| Company headquarters | United States policies.google.com | United States anthropic.com |
| Company | Google LLC policies.google.com | Anthropic PBC anthropic.com |