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makers · Google
Everything from Google we track, and our call on each. Its strongest is Gemini 4 Argon for agents.
- Scored
- 5
- First looks
- 4
- On the list
- 12
- Passed on
- 0
Reviewed
Best score first; each shows its best job. First looks are new and not scored yet.
| Name | Score | Cheapest plan | Our verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gemini 4 ArgonAI model · best at agents | #6Agents | $4.99/mo | Use it | Google's top model, first in Arena's text votes, now in Google AI Plus from $4.99/month; votes are still early. |
Gemini Omni Flash 1.1AI model · best at video | 100Video | $4.99/mo | Use it | Top-rated text to video on arena.ai, from $4.99/month in Google Flow. Skip it if price per clip matters most. |
Gemini 3.8 FlashAI model · best at writing | 91Writing | $19.99/mo | Worth trying | Low-cost Google model near the top for writing and maths; rankings are preliminary and API prices double in January. |
Nano Banana 2.1AI model · best at images | 73Images | Free | Use it | Near-top image quality for about 3 cents an image, free to try in Gemini. Skip only if you need the very best edits. |
Gemini appApp · best at writing | 70Writing | $19.99/mo | Depends | Good for writing on AI Pro with 3.8 Flash; weak at coding and hard questions, where Claude and ChatGPT score higher. |
EmbeddingGemma 2Open source | Not scored yet | Free | First look: Wait | Free, tiny Google search model for text, images, audio and video; scores are Google's own, so wait for outside results. |
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTSAI model | No score yet | Free | Use it | Near-top AI voices for less than half the price of ElevenLabs, with a free tier. Prices double on 1 Jan 2027. |
Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTSAI model | No score yet | Free | Use it | Top-ten text to speech for a third less than Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, with a free tier; pick Eleven v4 for the best voices. |
Gemini 3.8 LiveAI model | No score yet | Free | Use it | Among the best-liked voice agent models, free to start and the cheapest of the top group. Weak at hard support tasks. |
| Not scored yet | Free | First look: Worth trying | Free tool that answers from the files you upload, with up to 50 sources a notebook. Skip it for open web research. | |
Google AntigravityDeveloper tool | Not scored yet | Free | First look: Worth trying | Free coding agent app on Gemini Flash; Claude 5.5 needs AI Pro at $19.99/month. Change the data setting first. |
Google Antigravity CLIDeveloper tool | Not scored yet | Free | First look: Worth trying | Google's free terminal coding agent, replacing Gemini CLI; turn off data use in settings if code privacy matters. |
On the list, not reviewed
Big news or good value, on our Top 20 lists.
- Gemma 4 26B A4BMoE Gemma with only 3.8B active params, so it runs fast on a laptop GPU and scores above the dense 31B on BenchLM.
- Gemma 4 31BGoogle's largest Gemma, now under Apache-2.0; a strong dense model with image input that fits on one 32GB GPU in 4-bit.
- Gemini 3.5 TranscribeGoogle's dedicated transcription model, top ten for accuracy, with a streaming Live version.
- Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)Cheapest Google image model that still lands mid table in blind tests; good for bulk thumbnails and drafts.
- Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)Google's reasoning image model for infographics and text heavy layouts; now outscored by the cheaper Nano Banana 2.1.
- Chrome DevTools MCPGives coding agents Chrome DevTools: console errors, network requests and performance traces, so they can debug the pages they build.
- Google ADKGoogle's code-first toolkit for building, evaluating and deploying agents, tuned for Gemini but model agnostic.
- Google Document AIGoogle Cloud's managed OCR and form extraction, with low cost bulk OCR and first 1,000 OCR pages free.
- Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewWell tested older Gemini Pro still on the API; Gemini 3.8 Flash ranks higher for less
- Google Vertex AIFor Google Cloud teams wanting Gemini, Claude and open models with one bill
- gemini-embedding-001Best-ranked hosted API on the board; Google keeps it for text-only use next to Gemini Embedding 2
- Gemini 3.1 Flash LiveMost liked in blind voice chats and cheap, but weaker at multi-step tasks; still a preview model