ChatGPT vs Google Gemini vs Krutrim vs Sarvam AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
ChatGPT
The most widely used AI assistant — now on GPT-5.6, from OpenAI
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Google Gemini
Google's flagship multimodal AI — the Gemini 3 family across Search, W...
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Sarvam AI
India's sovereign LLM, built for 22 Indian languages
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| RECATOOLS Score | 9.2 / 10 | 8.7 / 10 | 5.8 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | GPT-5-class model with daily message limits | Free access to Gemini (3.5 Flash, limited 3.1 Pro) on web and mobile | Chat interface free at chat.olakrutrim.com; cloud free access ran until Diwali 2025 | Open Apache-2.0 model weights (Sarvam-30B / 105B) |
| Paid from | $20/month (Plus); free, Go, Pro, and Team/Enterprise tiers also offered | Free tier; Google AI Plus ~$7.99/mo, AI Pro $19.99/mo, AI Ultra from ~$99.99/mo | On-demand NVIDIA A100/H100 GPUs (A100 listed from ~Rs 105/hr; confirm on Krutrim Cloud) | API / enterprise (see Sarvam) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | ~900M weekly active users (1B+ monthly active app users as of mid-2026) | Hundreds of millions via Google products | 25+ enterprise customers; consumer app reached ~100K downloads before withdrawal (Apr 2026) | India's government-chosen sovereign LLM |
| Founded | — | — | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | OpenAI | Google / Alphabet | Krutrim SI Designs Pvt. Ltd. (Ola Group) | Sarvam AI |
| Verdict | ChatGPT is still the default AI assistant, and the July 2026 release of GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra and Luna tiers) keeps the flagship current across writing, coding and agentic work. No rival matches its feature breadth — voice... |
Gemini is one of the three frontier assistants alongside ChatGPT and Claude, and the tightest-integrated of the three if your life runs on Workspace, Android and Search. The Gemini 3 family brings strong multimodal reaso... |
Krutrim made genuine history as India's first AI unicorn and its Krutrim-2 model delivers real multilingual capability across 22 Indian languages — benchmarking competitively against much larger open-source models on Ind... |
Sarvam is the most credible vehicle for India's sovereign-AI push: Sarvam-30B and Sarvam-105B were trained end-to-end on IndiaAI compute, cover 22 Indian languages, and ship under Apache-2.0, so builders can self-host wi... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.