Claude Pro vs Google AI Pro: choose Claude Pro if you're paying for the coding or the design. Measured on Google AI Pro, one pass of our fixed task set fits about 80 tasks a week with Gemini 3.8 Flash. Both cost the same $20/mo.Measured
Our verdict
Choose Claude Pro if you're paying for the coding or the design. It includes Opus 5.5, and Claude Code tells you what it is doing. Claude is also better at visual work.
Choose Google AI Pro if the rest of the subscription matters more. Its 5 TB of storage, YouTube Premium Lite, Google Home Premium, NotebookLM, and Google app integrations can make it the better deal. Just do not buy it for the coding. Antigravity leaves you guessing and Google has no Gemini model we would pick right now.
Claude Pro includes Opus 5.5 through Claude Code, the best CLI agent. Opus 5.5 does most of what Fable does on far less of the limit. That leaves little reason to pay for Max just to get Fable. Sonnet 5.5 is now the model for smaller things and simple tasks.
Pros
Opus 5.5 is really good and you can use it a fair bit on the $20 plan
Sonnet 5.5 for smaller things and simple tasks
Claude Code is the best CLI agent
Decent usage limits
Cons
Fable requires the $100 Max plan
Best for People who want the best coding subscription at $20.
How far it goes: we have not measured this plan
The Max 5x scorecards are the closest evidence, minus Fable: that model is Max-only, so the best agent this plan can run is Opus 5.5.
Google AI Pro has no Gemini model we would pick for coding now. Sonnet 5.5 does the fast, cheap work better. Antigravity is rough and often leaves you guessing what it is doing. The plan also includes 5 TB of storage, NotebookLM, YouTube Premium Lite, Home Premium and Gemini in Google apps.
Pros
5 TB of storage
A broad Google services bundle
Cons
No Gemini model we would pick for coding
Antigravity is rough
Best for People who want basic AI usage and will use the Google bundle.
How far it goes: about 4 to 6 times a week
Our whole real-world issues and spec planning pass runs about 4 to 6 times a week on this plan, depending on which model you run.
That works out at about 73c to $1.09 of the subscription per run, at the list price.
Measured on this plan, at 15.9% to 23.7%/1w of its allowance per run. A share belongs to the plan it was measured on, so we never subtract one plan's from another's.
Verdicts and prices are the quiz's versioned editorial catalog, last reviewed 2026-10-01. The plan cards keep measured evidence separate from the recommendation. Any other pair composes on the subscription comparison, and the quiz turns your answers into a recommendation.