Claude vs Gemini
What 36 creators said when they picked between the two, from podcasts and YouTube. Updated Oct 18, 2026.
Short answer
More creators prefer Claude: 18 to 6. 12 use both. Claude wins on coding, research, and design.
Which is better for…
Only counts creators who compared the two for that job.
What creators use each for
| Job | Claude | Gemini |
|---|---|---|
| Agents and automation | 78 | 12 |
| Coding | 74 | 7 |
| Business ops | 64 | 7 |
| Research | 48 | 19 |
| Writing | 49 | 6 |
| Personal assistant | 24 | 11 |
| Design and UI | 27 | 6 |
| Brainstorming | 27 | 2 |
Creators who said they use or recommend each one for that job.
What creators say
Picks Claude · 18
"You can see that Gemini 4 Argon, which was released just a few days ago, created a much worse Call of Duty in my opinion... Opus 5.5 is better than Argon at everything."
"I don't have as much insight on where Gemini is at with the new models with Google, but they have the best life sciences models at Anthropic."
DF David Friedberg"Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash — the company's third flash release in six weeks. It scored 73.7% on DeepSeek, just behind Opus 5 and competitive with models that cost several times more. Very quick, very cheap, and very good at coding."
"For a long time we only had the Gemini enterprise and we were using that, and just a few months ago we got the Claude enterprise and Cowork — and that's when things really changed for me."
DB Daniel BlumUses both · 12
"If I'm going to diagnose and treat a subtype of lung cancer, I'm pretty sure Gemini 3.1 Pro or Claude 4.7 — they all do a pretty good job."
DU Derya Unutmaz"I ended up throwing the proof into both Claude and Gemini and asking it to try to walk me through from a layman's perspective just what was going on."
EC Edwin Chen"I had three instances of Gemini chat and Claude each taking cracks at different things."
"Run it through a Claude 4.7 Opus Max agent, then get a second opinion from Gemini 3."
Picks Gemini · 6
"Claude, if I'm using like Claude Opus 4.5 high, like, okay, I'm going to stop using you, Claude, and going to switch to Gemini."
CT Chintan Turakhia"Gemini 3.7 Flash achieved a 60% pass rate, beating Claude Opus 5 at 54% and Fable 5 at 49%."
"I like Gemini because it's a Google product. I've never had any resistance of them learning to use Gemini for free to write four blog posts in about 15 minutes and send them to me."
MS Mike Stewart"I don't use Gemini for much, but when I have to do spatial reasoning tasks, I still end up going to the Gemini class of models. It's trained on a bunch of these modalities and it's very good at reasoning about these nuanced spatial details."
BS Bilawal SidhuWho's switching
Daniel Blum and Kush Bavaria
Chintan Turakhia
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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.