It has been suggested that either the diamagnetism or paramagnetism of Bose gases, due to the charge or spin degrees of freedom respectively, appears solely to be extraordinarily strong. We investigate the magnetic properties of charged spin-1 Bose gases in an external magnetic field, focusing on the competition between the diamagnetism and paramagnetism, using the Lande-factor g of particles to evaluate the strength of the paramagnetic effect. We propose that a gas with g < 1/√8 exhibits diamagnetism at all temperatures, while a gas with g > 1/2 always exhibits paramagnetism. Moreover, a gas with the Lande-factor in between shows a shift from paramagnetism to diamagnetism as the temperature decreases. The paramagnetic and diamagnetic contributions to the total magnetization density are also calculated in order to demonstrate some details of the competition.