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Gemini A | Replicate S | Ideogram S | Lex A | |
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| Tagline | Google's answer. Best integrated with Workspace + free for a lot. | Run any open-source AI model with an API call. | The one that actually gets text in images right. | Google Docs with an AI collaborator baked in. |
| Category | chat | dev platform | image | writing |
| Pricing | Free + $20/mo Advanced (bundled with 2TB Drive) | Pay per second of compute | Free + $8/mo + $20/mo + $60/mo | Free + $12/mo |
| Best for | Anyone already on Google, research tasks, summarizing long documents. | Developers using open-source models (Flux, SDXL, Whisper, etc). | Anything with text — posters, ads, album covers, slide decks. | Essays, long-form drafts, thinking on the page. |
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| Kai's verdict | A-tier. The Deep Research feature is genuinely useful. Don't sleep on it if you're already paying Google. | S-tier for open-source model APIs. The default in this space. | S-tier for text-in-image. Use this for posters, Midjourney for art. | A-tier. Beautiful UX. The writing app I'd pick if I only wrote long-form. |
| Link | Open → | Open → | Open → | Open → |