ChatGPT vs Claude

Two general assistants with different personalities: ChatGPT is the broader ecosystem, Claude is the better writer and long-document reader.

Feature comparison
ToolRatingPriceFree planAPIOpen source
ChatGPT logoChatGPT4.7Free tier
Claude logoClaude4.7Free tier
Pick ChatGPT if you want the widest feature surface — image generation, voice, custom GPTs and the largest third-party ecosystem. Pick Claude if most of your work is reading, writing and reasoning over long text, where its output needs less editing and its context handling is more reliable. Many people end up paying for both and routing work by task: research and multimodal to ChatGPT, drafting and analysis to Claude.