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Gemini Pro
by Google
CLOSEDHOSTEDFREE TO TRYWRITING HELPCODING HELPANSWERING QUESTIONS
RANKED #161 OF 337 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #256 OF 528 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.7 · 1,728 VOICES
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A capable Google AI assistant built to help everyday users with writing, coding, and questions.
HAPPY7.7
284 mentions
SAD7.3
398 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 1,129 voices
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. Google hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Gemini Pro is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.6
Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaPick for lightweight, offline multimodal tasks and everyday coding on consumer hardware.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY🪶 RUNS ON LESS💻 STRONG AT CODE16.0k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7
GLM 5.3 FlashZhipuPick for fast, cost-effective multimodal reasoning and long-context agentic workloads.💸 COST EFFICIENT🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY⚡ FAST8.6k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.4Dots3 NoteXiaohongshuPick for handling long-horizon reasoning, speech-to-text, and deep coding workflows.💸 COST EFFICIENT💻 STRONG AT CODE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE2.7k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users find Gemini Pro great for coding and writing help, making it feel worth the money. However, frequent outages, usage limits, and occasional made-up answers frustrate some people.
1186 POSTS · 542 COMMENTS · REDDIT · BLUESKY · STACK OVERFLOW · X · LEMMY · HACKER NEWS · GITHUB · DEV.TO · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (16 mentions)
- Popular for coding help (8 mentions)
- Good at writing and wording things (4 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (7 mentions)
- Sometimes makes things up (5 mentions)
- It can feel slow (2 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
16 thumbs up · 8 thumbs down
- Help with codeMOSTLY POSITIVE
8 thumbs up · 5 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightMIXED FEELINGS
6 thumbs up · 5 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 7 thumbs down
- WritingPEOPLE LOVE THIS
4 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
- SpeedA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“Cancelled my ChatGPT plus subscription as well along with Gemini Pro - Keep making it worse and worse OpenAI good job.”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Gemini Pro very quickly came up with a lore-accurate reason for the chaos I instructed it to cause....”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Gemini Flash makes up bs 91% of the time it doesn't know the answer Gemini Pro has a high rate of hallucinations in real world usage - Reason 5621 of WHY model evals are broken beyond repair.”
- FROM BLOG >
“But couple it with David Silver , Denny Zhou , and other prominent departures, and the 6 months since the last Gemini Pro update , one has to wonder 1) what happened that led to this, 2) how this latest shakeup was decided, 3) if the shuffle is the beginning of the middle of the end or the first prologue of a great…”
- FROM HACKER NEWS >
“The base training data cutoff will quickly render models useless as they fail to keep up with developments.Translating some Farsi news articles about the war was hilarious, Gemini Pro got into a panic.”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Gemini Pro.
Grok 4.6> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-02-12 · 879 UPVOTESThe Car Wash Test: A new and simple benchmark for text logic. Only Gemini (pro and fast) solved the riddle.
The Car Wash Test: A new and simple benchmark for text logic. Only Gemini (pro and fast) solved the riddle.
- REDDIT · 2025-08-25 · 703 UPVOTESWeird creature found in mountain!!!
Weird creature found in mountain!!!
- REDDIT · 2024-01-26 · 430 UPVOTESThis week in AI - all the Major AI developments in a nutshell
This week in AI - all the Major AI developments in a nutshell
- REDDIT · 2025-09-01 · 344 UPVOTESWeird creature found in mountains (p2)
Weird creature found in mountains (p2)
- REDDIT · 2025-11-30 · 340 UPVOTESI switched
I switched
- REDDIT · 2023-12-15 · 305 UPVOTESThis week in AI - all the Major AI developments in a nutshell
This week in AI - all the Major AI developments in a nutshell
- REDDIT · 2025-08-10 · 286 UPVOTESGPT-5 in Perplexity is... something.
GPT-5 in Perplexity is... something.
- REDDIT · 2024-02-01 · 273 UPVOTESBard gets image generator and Gemini Pro expansion, Google announces Imagen 2-powered ImageFX
Bard gets image generator and Gemini Pro expansion, Google announces Imagen 2-powered ImageFX
- REDDIT · 2024-04-01 · 264 UPVOTESOverwhelmed by the LLM Apps…
Overwhelmed by the LLM Apps…
- REDDIT · 2024-01-29 · 260 UPVOTESNew Gemini Pro Update (Likely the one that beat GPT-4 on Arena) is Coming to Bard Feb 1st
New Gemini Pro Update (Likely the one that beat GPT-4 on Arena) is Coming to Bard Feb 1st
- REDDIT · 2023-12-26 · 226 UPVOTESMy 2024 AI predictions. What's yours?
My 2024 AI predictions. What's yours?
- REDDIT · 2026-03-31 · 192 UPVOTESMajor Updates! NEW Freaky Frankenstein 4.2: (Fat Man) and 3.6 (Little Feller) [Presets] Universal Bug Fixes / Upgrades + GLM 5.1…
Major Updates! NEW Freaky Frankenstein 4.2: (Fat Man) and 3.6 (Little Feller) [Presets] Universal Bug Fixes / Upgrades + GLM 5.1 Compatibility