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PUBG Mobile vs Call of Duty: Mobile — Which One to Install
By Editorial Team · published 2026-09-15 · updated 2026-09-15
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PUBG Mobile if battle royale is the point — it is the reference version of the format, with a creation mode and matchmaking deep enough that queues are instant almost anywhere. Call of Duty: Mobile if you want a shooter with two games in it, because its 5v5 multiplayer on Nuketown and Standoff has no equivalent on the other side. On our scores it is 7.7 to 7.6, and the tenth is honest: PUBG's monetisation and controls are marginally cleaner, Call of Duty's shooting and graphics are better. Both are free, both list loot boxes and carry an advertising badge, both sell currency to $99.99 as of September 2026, and between them they ask 6.8 GB of storage.
The short answer
- Our score — PUBG Mobile 7.7 — Call of Duty: Mobile 7.6
- Modes — battle royale, creation mode — 5v5 multiplayer, battle royale, zombies
- Install — 4 GB on iPhone — 2.8 GB on iPhone
- Currency — $0.99 to $99.99 — $0.99 to $99.99
- Subscription — Prime at $0.99 a month, Prime Plus at $9.99 — battle pass by season
- Age rating — 13+ — 18+
- Ratings — 4.3 on Play across 48.6 million reviews — 4.7 on App Store, 4.3 on Play
They are the two most-installed shooters on a phone, they share a business model almost line for line, and they are not the same game. One does a single thing at the highest polish available. The other does two things, each well enough to justify the download, and asks the phone to keep up.
Price and what the free tier blocks
Nothing is blocked in either. Every map, mode and weapon in both games is available without paying; the money is in cosmetics, passes and loot boxes.
PUBG Mobile sells currency packs from 60 units at $0.99 to 6,000 at $99.99, and two subscriptions — Prime at $0.99 a month and Prime Plus at $9.99. Apple lists loot boxes, chat and user-generated content among the contents, and Google Play carries an advertising badge. The cheap subscription is the one honest advantage: a dollar a month is the lowest recurring price in the category.
Call of Duty: Mobile sells points from $0.99 to $99.99 with $24.99 and $49.99 steps between, plus bundles such as a $10.99 forces pack, and a battle pass each season. Apple lists loot boxes, advertising and messaging, and Google Play carries the same Contains ads badge on a game that also runs a currency store.
The monetisation marks are 6.5 and 6.0, and the half point is Prime at $0.99. Everything else — loot boxes, advertising, a $99.99 ceiling — is the same on both sides.
What you are actually playing
PUBG Mobile is one loop, unchanged in years because it does not need to change: a hundred players parachute onto an island, weapons and armour are scattered through buildings, a safe zone contracts until the survivors are forced together, and the last stretch is usually three people in a field pretending to be rocks. Around it sits World of Wonder, a creation mode with a desktop editor, so player-built maps are made on a computer and played on a phone — the thing that gives the game life between seasons. The seasons themselves are licensed crossovers; the current one rebuilds a Naruto village on the island, and whether that improves anything splits the audience every time.
Call of Duty: Mobile is two games in one download. The multiplayer half is 5v5 on maps lifted from the series — Nuketown, Raid, Standoff — across team deathmatch, domination and kill-confirmed, in rounds short enough for a bus ride. The battle royale half drops a hundred players onto a far larger map, alone, in pairs or in fours, with vehicles and class abilities the multiplayer modes do not have. Zombies and sniper-only duels rotate alongside. The gunplay is faithful enough that console muscle memory transfers, which is the whole argument for it existing.
Where PUBG Mobile wins
The format. An 8.5 for gameplay as the reference implementation of battle royale, tuned over years of seasons. Call of Duty's royale is the second mode, not the first.
Matchmaking. A billion installs and 48.6 million Play reviews mean a queue fills instantly almost anywhere in the world.
Creation. World of Wonder has no equivalent on the other side; player-built maps with a desktop editor is a feature most console shooters do not offer.
Scaling. An 8.0 for graphics that scale from flagship detail down to phones that should not run it. Call of Duty leans on hardware and runs warm holding its frame rate.
Price of entry. Prime at $0.99 a month, and a 13+ rating against 18+.
Where Call of Duty: Mobile wins
Two modes. 5v5 multiplayer on known maps is the thing PUBG Mobile simply does not have, and for anyone who wants a round rather than a survival, it is the reason to choose it.
The shooting. Console-grade gunplay, and an 8.5 for graphics and sound — the best-looking shooter in our catalogue.
Storage. 2.8 GB against 4 GB on iPhone, and 2.2 GB against PUBG's listed Android size before its in-app downloads; either way, the smaller of two large numbers.
The App Store rating. 4.7 across 2 million ratings against PUBG's 4.3. On Google Play they tie at 4.3, which for Call of Duty is the largest platform gap among the shooters here.
Identity. Seasons bring new Call of Duty maps and modes; PUBG's seasons bring other companies' characters.
Both share the weakest link. Each scores 7.0 for controls — a dense touch layout handling movement, aim, loot and vehicles at once on PUBG, a left stick, fire button, minimap and a column of ability buttons on Call of Duty — and neither can match a controller.
Bottom line
PUBG Mobile, if the question is which battle royale: it is the more refined version of that one thing, it queues faster, it scales to older phones, and its cheapest subscription is a dollar. Call of Duty: Mobile, if the question is which shooter: two full modes, better gunplay, better graphics and a smaller install, at the cost of an 18+ rating and a phone that runs hot. The economy will not decide it — loot boxes, adverts and $99.99 packs are on both listings — so decide on what you want to be doing ninety seconds after the match starts.
