Gemini 3 vs ChatGPT for workflow help · Data and Ai Automations

Gemini 3 vs ChatGPT for workflow help

With Google Gemini 3 out and all the big buzz it's getting I thought I'd just put in a little update on my thoughts on using for your workflows in n8n.

I just started doing this recently because of the release of GPT5.1, I thought I'd give it a shot in helping me when I was stuck on a idea for a build. And GPT was going down a great path in giving me the help. It did the trick for that build but I was almost finished it so I wasn't super impressed just yet.

So, I had another build in my head that I wanted to get done for a while which was directly related to my personal business, so I gave GPT the context of what I wanted with very good detail of the starting point and laying out how I envisioned it as the flow went along, and gave it what the end result of the workflow that I wanted. Without getting down to each node in detail, I wanted a blueprint of what it came out with for a workflow. I thought I'd give it a try. Everything went well for the first little bit but then it started losing it's memory on where we wanted the end result to be. As time went on, the chat got very long because it kept straying off trying to use Code Nodes frequently, and because it lost some of it's memory further down the work flow, and slight changes I wanted to make, it ended up breaking a few things down stream. Long story short, was the chat got so long, it bogged down my computer big time and eventually the chat wasn't able to continue. Moral of the story with GPT for me, was you have to keep it in line and also keep it up to date reminding it of your version of n8n.

I decided to give Gemini a try over the weekend, for that same workflow from last week. Just to see how it would handle it, after reading all the buzz and reading some of the categories it has blown out of the water compared to it's competitors. I started by giving it the exact same context of what I wanted to build, and to my surprise it laid it out much the same with different nodes in it's initial blueprint.

I have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised about how well it handled it, and always kept in mind my n8n version so it didn't suggest different nodes. It did a much better job in helping it make sense along the way because in the layout context I loaded in the beginning I made sure to tell it to give me a brief reason why it's using the node and it's purpose. It made the workflow quite easily and with easy to understand reasoning for what it was doing and kept to the plan very nicely throughout the workflow. The chat didn't go near as long as the GPT version above, in turn didn't bog down my computer much at by the time we were done. The outcome works amazing, but still has more testing to see how much debugging it needs.

I thought I'd share this for some beginners, because It isn't normally something I do, because I want full control of my builds. Aside from beginners getting caught up in YouTubing too much and wanting to learn nodes as much as possible. This helps you get right in there and start using the key nodes and helps you understand quickly where you might need them in your own builds for customers as you move along. It was fun to do, and meaningful for me personally.

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