The last time I tried Gemini, is when I was locked out of Claude due to the 5 hour window or whatever. Here's how that went:

Right away I noticed it's about 2-5x as slow. Maybe a good thing? It worked for a few tool uses and edits, then got itself stuck in a loop of adding and remove a function from the same file, before exhausting all of its credits and demanding I upgrade.

I already have the $20.00 a month package and there is nothing equivalent to Claude Max. And, why should I have to upgrade because it exhausted its own credits and couldn't complete the task?