Claude vs Google ADK

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

Claude is the stronger AI pick in AI Agents: it has a visibility score of 17.5 versus 0.7 for Google ADK, and ranks ahead in 100% of the answers that name both.

Choose Claude if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (17.5 vs 0.7)
AI answers describe it more positively (53% vs 0% positive)
You need a self-hosted or on-premises option
You need SOC 2 Type I or SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001:2022 or ISO/IEC 42001:2023 or HIPAA coverage

Choose Google ADK if…

native multimodal processing of text, video, audio, and code

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	Claude	Google ADK
Visibility score	17.5%	0.7%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in AI Agents	#8	#64
Share of voice	4.1%	0.3%
Mentions this run	27	2
Positive in AI answers	53%	0%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

Claude 0pp · Google ADK 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

Claude leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

24.6%

0.9%

AI Mode

20.2%

1.3%

Perplexity

7.8%

ClaudeGoogle ADK

Head to head in AI answers

1 engine answers name both brands

1Claude ranked higher

0Google ADK ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	Claude	Google ADK
What are the best AI Agents tools in 2026?	AI Mode	#4	#6

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	Claude	Google ADK
Deployment	Claude Code can be deployed through Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry, and self-hosted sessions run on the customer's own infrastructure.	Vertex AI Agent Engine Runtime is recommended; agents can also run on Cloud Run or Google Kubernetes Engine.
Compliance	SOC 2 Type I, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, HIPAA	—
Headquarters	San Francisco, California	Googleplex, Mountain View, California (parent company Alphabet)
Employees	—	5,000+
Funding	Series G	—