I tested Google's new Pixel 4 against the iPhone 11 Pro to see which one is better at taking photos in the dark. Here's how they compare.

And here's the iPhone 11 Pro's image. It's still crisp and bright enough, but not quite as bright as the Pixel's.

Google touted the Pixel 4's ability to take photos of the night sky, and based on my limited testing it appears to be working. I snapped this photo of the sky outside of my apartment in Queens. It's not easy to see the stars in New York City, but you'll notice that some are still visible.

And here's the same photo taken with the iPhone 11 Pro, where the stars are barely discernible at all.

Both the Pixel 4 and the iPhone 11 Pro were generally able to take clear, defined portraits outside in dim conditions. But the Pixel 4's photo was just a bit more luminous and contained sharper details.

And now look at the same portrait taken with the iPhone. It's still very easy to see the subject, and the lighting is impressive. But you lose a lot of the detail compared to the Pixel 4. The night sky behind the subject is also slightly darker in the iPhone's image compared to the Pixel's.

There were a couple of instances in which the iPhone 11 Pro's night mode surpassed the Pixel 4's Night Sight. The photo of my cat below, which was taken with the Pixel 4, is acceptable considering how dark it was in my living room.

But the iPhone 11 Pro's image is noticeably brighter. It's a little fuzzier than the Pixel's photo, but not enough to detract from the photo. Overall, this image does a better job at portraying the subject.

And while this image of desk plants taken in a dark conference room with the Pixel 4 looks light and crisp...

...the iPhone 11 Pro's version is just as bright, and the colors look bolder.

Features like these add a lot of convenience, making it possible to capture quality photos with your phone in circumstances in which it would have been very challenging to do so previously.

It's difficult to determine a clear winner based on this brief test, especially considering they performed differently as the circumstances varied. But if one takeaway is clear, it's that the Pixel 4's camera drastically outperforms the iPhone when it comes to taking photos of the night sky.