Comparison
Gauth vs Chegg: Which Should You Use?
Chegg is a library of human-written answers indexed to real textbooks. Gauth generates the working for whatever you type. Those are different products that happen to sit in the same search results.
Verdict
Chegg for the exact problem in your book. Gauth for the method you keep missing.
If your homework is "chapter 7, questions 12 to 20" out of a widely used textbook, Chegg's library is the thing no AI solver replicates: a human wrote that solution, for that edition, with that numbering. Gauth is faster, cheaper, and free to try, and it explains the reasoning rather than presenting a finished artefact — but it cannot fetch a specific book's answer key, has no phone app, and covers a much narrower range of subjects than Chegg does. Chegg is also the riskier of the two to use carelessly, because its answers map one-to-one onto graded work.
Who should pick which
Pick Chegg if
- Your course runs on a standard textbook and you want that book's solutions.
- Your subject is nursing, accounting, business, or something else outside math and physics.
- Your problem has a diagram, a data table, or wording an AI will misread.
- You want citation, grammar, and proofreading tools in the same subscription.
Pick Gauth if
- You need help now, at eleven at night, not when an expert gets to it.
- The problem is not from a textbook — it is off a worksheet or a past paper.
- You want the reasoning explained, then want to argue with it.
- You are not ready to commit to a monthly subscription to find out if it helps.
Feature by feature
| Gauth | Chegg | |
|---|---|---|
| Mobile app | No — browser only | iOS and Android |
| Where answers come from | AI-written working | Human experts and textbook solution library |
| Textbook solutions by edition and problem number | No | Millions, indexed |
| Time to an answer | Seconds | Instant if in the library, hours if newly asked |
| Anything free | First solution free with no account, then 3 a day | Subscription only |
| Question allowance | 3 a day free, unlimited on Plus | Expert questions capped monthly, widely reported at 20 |
| Subjects covered | Math, physics, chemistry | Far broader, including non-STEM majors |
| Writing tools and proofreading | No | Included in the Study Pack |
| Follow-up on the answer you just got | Included, no extra quota | Post a new question and wait |
| Paid plan (September 2026) | $11.99/mo, $99.99/yr | About $15.95–$19.95/mo |
The rows Chegg wins are structural, not fixable by us. A library of human-written solutions indexed by edition took a decade and a very large expert network to build, and it covers subjects a math-and-science solver has no business claiming. What Gauth wins is immediacy and cost: something free to try, an answer in seconds, and a subscription that costs less than either Chegg tier.
Pricing
Gauth. First solution free with no account or card. Free accounts get three solutions a day. Gauth Plus is $11.99 a month with a three-day free trial, $31.99 a quarter, or $99.99 a year, as of September 2026, and follow-up questions never count against your allowance. Details on the pricing page.
Chegg. Chegg Study is about $15.95 a month and the Chegg Study Pack about $19.95 a month as of September 2026; some regions and listings show a dollar or so either side, and promotions move the number, so treat the checkout screen as authoritative. The Study Pack is the bundle Chegg actually promotes: textbook solutions, a monthly allowance of expert questions, a math solver, citation and plagiarism tools, and expert proofreading. Two things to check before subscribing. First, the expert-question cap — it is a set number per month rather than unlimited, reported as 20 through 2026, and people who assume otherwise are the ones who feel cheated. Second, how much the two overlap: Chegg has owned Mathway since 2020 and its own math solver page now points there, but the two are still sold separately, so a Study Pack does not include a Mathway Premium account. Check what each one actually covers before paying for both.
Over a nine-month academic year, Chegg Study Pack at the September 2026 rate comes to roughly $180. Gauth Plus billed annually is $99.99. That gap is real, but it buys different things, and if the textbook library is what you need then the cheaper tool is not a substitute at any price.
The same problem, both tools
Say your statistics assignment sets this: a sample of 36 measurements has mean 78.4, the population standard deviation is known to be 6, and you must test against at the 5% level.
Cheggis strongest here if that question is lifted verbatim from a common textbook. Search the problem and you may land on a solution a human expert wrote for that exact question: hypotheses stated in the book's notation, the test statistic computed the way that chapter teaches it, the same table the book uses for the critical value. That last detail matters more than it sounds, because a grader marking against one textbook's conventions wants from the table, not a p-value from software. If the question is not in the library, you post it to an expert and wait — often hours, sometimes longer — and your monthly question allowance drops by one.
Gauth answers in seconds, but it answers the question you typed rather than the question in the book. It names the test and says why a z-test rather than a t- test is appropriate here — the population standard deviation is given, so there is no need to estimate it — computes the standard error, gets , and reports both the critical value and the p-value of about 0.0082. It also states the conclusion in the careful form a marker wants: sufficient evidence at the 5% level to reject the null, which is not the same sentence as "the mean is greater than 76". Then you can ask what changes if had been estimated from the sample, and stay in the same thread. If the underlying quantity is the shaky part, standard deviation by hand rebuilds it from scratch.
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First solution freeWhere Chegg is the better choice
The textbook library is the reason Chegg exists and it is genuinely unmatched. Millions of solutions, written by people, indexed by book, edition, chapter, and problem number. When your professor assigns from a standard text, that indexing is the feature: you are not describing your problem to a machine and hoping it parsed the subscripts, you are opening the answer to the specific question printed in front of you. No generative tool reproduces that, and nothing about better explanations makes up for not having it.
Human experts also handle the problems that defeat automated solvers. A circuit diagram you cannot transcribe. A lab write-up that needs judgement about experimental error. A proof where the marking depends on rigour rather than arithmetic. An ambiguously worded question where the right move is to interpret it sensibly rather than answer it literally. A person reads those correctly far more often than a solver does, and Chegg has an expert network of a size no one else in this comparison has.
Breadth is the third advantage, and it is enormous. Gauth covers math, physics, and chemistry. Chegg covers those plus accounting, economics, nursing, business law, mechanical engineering, and most of the rest of an undergraduate catalogue, and the Study Pack bundles writing help — citations, grammar, plagiarism checking, and proofreading turned around by a person. For a student whose hardest subject is not a STEM subject, that alone decides it.
One honest caution rather than a backhanded one: the same property that makes Chegg useful makes it dangerous. Because its answers correspond exactly to assigned problems, posting live coursework or exam questions has led to misconduct investigations at many institutions. That is a warning about how you use the tool, not about the tool's quality — and the same judgement applies to us. If you want a clear test for which side of the line you are on, this self-test on learning with AI versus handing in work that is not yours is a good place to start.