ChatGPT vs Gemini
What 25 creators said when they picked between the two, from podcasts and YouTube. Updated Oct 18, 2026.
Short answer
More creators prefer ChatGPT: 9 to 4. 12 use both.
Which is better for…
Only counts creators who compared the two for that job.
What creators use each for
| Job | ChatGPT | Gemini |
|---|---|---|
| Research | 67 | 19 |
| Agents and automation | 30 | 12 |
| Writing | 34 | 6 |
| Coding | 28 | 7 |
| Personal assistant | 23 | 11 |
| Learning | 22 | 7 |
| Business ops | 20 | 7 |
| Brainstorming | 24 | 2 |
Creators who said they use or recommend each one for that job.
What creators say
Picks ChatGPT · 9
"And I would say GPT 6.1 Sol is actually better than Gemini 4 Argon at almost everything."
Riley Brown
"I realized very early on, like after using OpenAI — whoa, I don't use Google anymore. I don't use search. What I really wanted from search was not web pages. I wanted information. Why not just ask the AI for the information?"
PG Paul Graham"My recommendation is always use the latest top model you can use. Right now it's GPT-5.5. I would always use the pro model for complex problems because that thinks in minutes. I pushed it to think for two hours — two hours in AI thinking..."
DU Derya Unutmaz"They have full duplex voice that can do simultaneous translation and support you in different ways. It is smooth. It works really well. If you haven't played with it, go to your ChatGPT app. It's up live right now."
Peter Diamandis
Uses both · 12
"For like concrete examples, if we're generating images, we have opinions internally about when we might use a Gemini model or an OpenAI model to generate images."
JG Jean-Denis Grèze"I just uploaded the file to Gemini and it just said, 'Oh, just put Nizoral shampoo on your face.' And it's never an issue ever since. Any recommendation at home would be just upload a photo of yourself to Gemini or ChatGPT and just say, ..."
Chris Williamson
"I put in Gemini, I put in ChatGPT and just to make sure they're right and they're right"
TK Tae Kim"I use ChatGPT I use Gemini and I use Grok. Constantly switching between the two."
PC Paul CunninghamPicks Gemini · 4
"I will say Gemini has far passed on my usage of just in the last two weeks like it blows away chat GPT"
VT Vlad Tenev"I used it for writing all weekend and it is without a doubt my favorite new writing model. It beats Astra, which was my previous favorite. It definitely beats Claude. It has an incredibly good feel for structuring information and I used ..."
Dan Shipper
"They're kind of mopping up OpenAI at this point. You could just see the difference between, hey, ChatGPT has now got spaces and pages, versus org-level access and perms and tracing and machine learning."
Liam Ottley
"Gemini is very good at search because it has the Google crawl underneath. It's a frustrating product. It's constantly timing out on the app and losing the connection and forgetting the plot, but it's very fast and it's got a great search..."
Naval Ravikant
Who's switching
Paul Graham
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How this works: we read every podcast and YouTube transcript we track, find each time a creator compared these tools, and note which one they picked. A creator who picked differently at different times, or said they use both, counts as "use both". Sponsored mentions are left out. More about Followed.