Something I've noticed is that Gemini through gemini.google.com or through the mobile apps is vastly inferior to Gemini through aistudio.google.com. Much worse handling of long contexts amongst other things. Very odd that a product that is free (AI Studio use is free), is much worse than the product I am paying 20 quid a month for.
I find this to be especially true for the newer models like "gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25", so if you haven't tried AI Studio yet, I'd give that a go.
Why does Google even have these two different interfaces?
AI studio is not a consumer interface. It's targeted at people building products that integrate LLMs.
Every time I think, maybe I'll get a subscription, I read something like this and ask why?