1) Music Library and Content: Tidal more than 60 million songs as well as over 240,000 videos. Pandora has more than 40 million songs, ideal for passive listening. So, in this respect, both are doing a great job.
2) Quality of Audio: Tidal is better than Pandora here because both give the same sound quality with their cheapest packages. In Premium packages, however, there are differences. Tidal gives you with 1411kbps CD-quality FLAC audio with HiFi with its premium package as well as allows you to download. Pandora only offers 192Kbps audio quality.
3) Music Discovery: Pandora is better in terms of AI and discovering music because its algorithm recommends songs based on user’s listened music. Tidal, however, offers few suggestions and its algorithm is not nearly as complex.
4) Easy Usage: Pandora’s interface and appearance is very clean also comes with lyrics feature allowing you to read lyrics while playing music. Tidal's interface, in comparison, is somewhat messy but people still use it so choice is yours.
5) Payment Plans and Subscriptions: Pandora also has free ad-based radio and to go ad-free you have to pay $5/month with on-demand ad-free being $10/month. It has further packages too. For Tidal, for 320kbps audio quality, it is $10/month and for 1411kbps audio quality $20/month. It also offers further different packages etc. Here, Tidal wins as it offers 1411kbps audio quality $20/month which is not a bad deal.
