Alphabet (Google) vs OpenAI
Relationship
The two largest consumer AI assistants in the measured market: ChatGPT held 46.4% at May 2026 against Gemini's 27.7% — the share whose rise ended ChatGPT's former majority.
15 of 30 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, agentic coding, code generation and 12 more.
Ludbee capability tags · from the product recordsShared product type — Both ship AI agent, agent platform, application and 1 more.
Ludbee product recordsSmaller scale — OpenAI: $852B valuation, against Alphabet (Google)'s $4.2T market cap.
Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimateSourced competitor — “Until January, ChatGPT commanded over 50% market share, but by May's end, it had fallen to 46.4% thanks to the rise of Gemini (27.7%) and Claude (10.3%). Other assistants, including Grok, Perplexity, DeepSeek, and Meta AI, have less than 5…”
techcrunch.com · checked 2026-08-25Use an everyday AI assistant — Rivals on this job — Get answers, writing, search and everyday help from a general-purpose assistant app.
Ludbee needs vocabulary · the scope on the sourced edgeBuild on a hosted model API — Rivals on this job — Call hosted language models from an application, billed per token, without running the models yourself.
Ludbee needs vocabulary · the scope on the sourced edgeAligned comparison
Capability overlap
Shared · 15
Not verified for OpenAI · 15
Recorded for Alphabet (Google). OpenAI’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.
Not verified for Alphabet (Google) · 2
Recorded for OpenAI. Alphabet (Google)’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.
Products, side by side
Hand-checked pairing
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.
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.
Model API
A developer API, distinct from the consumer Gemini app, for integrating Gemini and Gemma models into applications and billed per token.
OpenAI
Application
Assistant for chat, web search, file analysis and image generation, used in the browser and in desktop and mobile apps; developers can build custom in-chat apps for it via the Apps SDK, built on the Model Context Protocol.
OpenAI's agentic web browser. Deprecated on 9 August 2026, with its browser-based agentic capabilities moved into ChatGPT and Codex.
A version of ChatGPT that US government agencies deploy in their own Microsoft Azure commercial or Azure Government cloud, so the agency manages its own security, privacy and compliance.
ChatGPT in the Excel ribbon: builds and edits spreadsheets, formulas and formatting from plain-language requests, answers questions about what is in the workbook, and asks permission before changing it. OpenAI's own page bundles this with a separate ChatGPT for Google Sheets add-in; this record covers the Excel add-in only.
ChatGPT in the PowerPoint ribbon: creates new slides, rewrites and restructures an existing deck, and turns notes, documents or spreadsheets into presentation-ready content while keeping the output editable in PowerPoint.
ChatGPT in a Microsoft Word sidebar: drafts, revises and reorganizes the open document from notes or pasted source text, pulling in context from connected apps like Outlook, SharePoint, Google Workspace and Dropbox.
OpenAI's text-to-video product. The web and app experiences were discontinued on 26 April 2026; the API will be discontinued on 24 September 2026.
AI agent
Coding agent that reads, edits and runs a codebase from the terminal, an IDE extension and the ChatGPT web app.
Agent platform
OpenAI's cybersecurity offering, bringing together frontier cyber models, Codex Security and partner workflows to find, validate and fix vulnerabilities, with an access-gated Daybreak Red tier for authorised vulnerability research and red teaming.
Enterprise platform for connecting AI agents to systems of record and running them under enterprise identity, access and observability controls.
Model API
Hosted API for OpenAI's text, image, audio and embedding models, billed per token.
No counterpart
Alphabet (Google) sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for OpenAI 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.
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.
Hardware
Google's custom AI accelerator chips, rented by the chip-hour on Google Cloud for training and serving machine learning models.