It is not nearly as good. I tried the free trial and cancelled it before it was over.
https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/google-gemini-vs-openai-chatgpt
It won these shootouts and that's been my experience also, when I need to use AI (extremely rare) I just use the Google Gemini free one. I feel like this is how most people will use AI and why it is doomed to be the ultra low margin grocery store business instead of the huge cash cow business people think it will be.
In my experience, all of the leading edge models fall over in the same ways that people are mentioning here as particularly frustrating with Gemini(s), it is just a matter of probability, I tend to sample multiple models and multiple formulations when I have a question, and sometimes you hit the "jackpot" where the particular sequence of input tokens have pushed one model to exactly the right zone to start printing the tokens I want.
I agree. This is one reason I like the "blind taste test" approach of LM Arena.