Google Gemini
★ 4.5Google's AI assistant — strong on multimodal (especially video) with a massive context window (2M tokens).
Who is Gemini good for?
- People working with large documents — 2M-token context reads a thick book in one go
- Video creators — Gemini can watch a 30+ minute YouTube video and summarize it
- Businesses on Google Workspace — Docs/Drive integration is built in
Pricing (2026)
| Plan | USD | VND | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 | 0 | Gemini 2.5 Flash, rate-limited |
| Pro (AI Premium) | 20/month | ~500k | Gemini 2.5 Pro, 2TB Drive, Workspace AI |
| Ultra | 250/month | ~6M | Gemini 3 Ultra, Veo video gen, powerful Deep Research |
Using it from Vietnam
- gemini.google.com works normally
- Payment: international Visa/Mastercard or Google Pay (no Vietnamese e-wallet support yet)
- Vietnamese: good, handles most nuances
Compared to ChatGPT and Claude
| Gemini | ChatGPT | Claude | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 🥇 2M | 128k | 1M |
| Reasoning | 🥉 | 🥈 | 🥇 |
| Coding | 🥉 | 🥈 | 🥇 |
| Multimodal (video) | 🥇 | 🥈 | 🥉 (no video) |
| Built-in image gen | 🥈 | 🥇 (DALL-E) | 🥉 (none) |
| Google ecosystem | 🥇 | - | - |
When to choose Gemini?
✅ You need to analyze long documents/videos ✅ Your company already uses Google Workspace ✅ You need a strong free tier for experimenting ✅ You do Google SEO → want to understand how Google “sees” content
❌ You need top-tier reasoning → Claude or GPT-5 ❌ You need a coding agent → Claude Code
✓ Pros
- The LARGEST context window on the market (2M tokens — fits an entire book)
- Extremely strong multimodal — native video understanding
- Tight integration with the Google ecosystem (Drive, Docs, Gmail)
- Generous free tier
✗ Cons
- Output can be stiff and verbose
- Reasoning isn't quite at Claude/GPT-5 level on hard tasks
- Often refuses harmless requests