Alphabet (Google) vs Duolingo
Relationship
Duolingo English Test and Cloud Speech-to-Text do comparable work on speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; larger scale (public).
Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.
3 of 4 capabilities — Shares speech to text, text generation and voice agent.
Ludbee capability tags · from the product recordsShared product type — Both ship application.
Ludbee product recordsLarger scale — Alphabet (Google): $4.2T market cap, against Duolingo's $7.3B market cap.
Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimateAligned comparison
Capability overlap
Shared · 3
Not verified for Duolingo · 27
Recorded for Alphabet (Google). Duolingo’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.
Not verified for Alphabet (Google) · 1
Recorded for Duolingo. Alphabet (Google)’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.
Products, side by side
Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked
Alphabet (Google)
Application
A named tab in Google Search — "our most powerful AI search, with more advanced reasoning and multimodality" — that answers a query conversationally over web sources rather than with a link list.
Standalone mobile app (iOS/Android) delivering personalized, AI-illustrated daily stories synthesized from a user's connected Google services (Gemini, Gmail, Calendar, Photos, YouTube, Search).
Google's assistant for chat, research, image generation and work across Google apps.
A source-grounded research tool that summarizes, answers questions from and generates audio overviews of documents a user uploads.
AI filmmaking application for creating cinematic clips and scenes, built on Veo (video), Imagen (image) and Gemini (prompting) — the application layer above the Veo model already recorded in models.json.
Agentic music co-producer, formerly ProducerAI and graduated from Google Labs, that chats with you about ideas, generates and edits songs, learns your style, and offers free unlimited downloads.
An AI-assisted video creation and editing application bundled with Google Workspace that generates video from text prompts, slides or screen recordings.
A Google Labs science tool (built with Gemini Notebook) that runs a comprehensive literature search, structures results in a data table and produces reports, slide decks and infographics.
AI-powered concepting board for exploring, expanding and refining visual/creative ideas.
Duolingo
Application
An online English proficiency exam scored by machine learning and accepted by institutions worldwide, with results in two days.
The subscription tier where the AI features live: Video Call with an animated tutor, Roleplay conversations and Explain My Answer, sitting on top of everything Super already removes from the free course.
No counterpart
Alphabet (Google) sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Duolingo yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.
API service
Enterprise search and retrieval service on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI Search) that indexes an organisation's websites, documents and structured data and serves search, answers and recommendations to applications and agents.
A managed Google Cloud API that transcribes audio to text, supporting streaming and batch recognition across 85+ languages.
A managed Google Cloud API that synthesizes natural-sounding speech from text across 380+ voices and 75+ languages.
A managed Google Cloud API that translates text and documents across more than 100 language pairs using neural machine translation, custom models or a translation-specialized LLM.
A managed Google Cloud API for image and document analysis, including object, face and landmark detection, OCR text extraction, and explicit-content tagging.
A pay-per-page API for extracting, classifying and summarizing structured data and text from documents such as invoices, forms and IDs.
ML-based text understanding: sentiment analysis, entity recognition, syntax analysis and content classification.
Video AI service that analyzes video content for object/label/shot detection and other video-intelligence tasks.
AI agent
An agentic research engine (built with AlphaEvolve and ERA) that generates and scores code variations against the user's optimisation metrics to discover models and algorithms.
A multi-agent research tool (built with Co-Scientist) that simulates the scientific method to identify knowledge gaps and propose testable research plans.
An autonomous coding agent that clones a GitHub repository, plans and writes code changes in a cloud VM and opens a pull request for review.
Agent platform
Studio inside Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience for building, testing and deploying customer-facing AI agents across voice and chat channels.
A seat-licensed enterprise application for discovering, building and running AI agents across an organization's business tools, formerly branded Agentspace.
Developer tool
Enterprise-grade notebook environment (IAM-managed access, Google Cloud security/network, official support) explicitly distinguished on its own page from the free Colaboratory product.
An AI coding assistant integrated into IDEs, GitHub pull requests and a CLI, sold in free, Standard and Enterprise tiers.
A free web tool for prototyping prompts and testing Gemini models before moving to the Gemini API for production use.
Agentic software-development platform managing autonomous coding agents across an IDE, a graphical command center and a terminal-first CLI surface.
Managed JupyterLab notebook instances on Google Cloud, prepackaged with deep-learning frameworks and integrated with BigQuery, Cloud Storage and scheduling, for developing and training models end to end.
Platform
Lets analysts create, train and run machine-learning and generative-AI models inside BigQuery with GoogleSQL — from trained regression and forecasting models to remote calls on Gemini and Cloud AI APIs — without moving the data out.
Google Cloud's platform for training, tuning, serving and evaluating models and agents.
Google Cloud's customer-experience suite — Customer Experience Agent Studio, Agent Assist, Customer Experience Insights and Contact Center as a Service — for building AI agents and assisting human agents across contact-centre channels.
Model API
A developer API, distinct from the consumer Gemini app, for integrating Gemini and Gemma models into applications and billed per token.
Hardware
Google's custom AI accelerator chips, rented by the chip-hour on Google Cloud for training and serving machine learning models.