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ChatGPT vs Claude
ChatGPT (OpenAI) vs Claude (Anthropic) — scored across 9 dimensions by our editorial team. Last reviewed 2026-05-20 and 2026-05-22.
ChatGPT
OpenAI
The most widely used AI chatbot, powered by GPT-4o and GPT-5.
Pick ChatGPT over Claude if you need: Writing or Coding.
Claude
Anthropic
A thoughtful, safety-focused assistant favoured for long-form writing and code.
Pick Claude over ChatGPT if you need: Long-form writing or Coding.
Full comparison table
Dimension
ChatGPT
OpenAI
Claude
Anthropic
Basics
Company
OpenAI
Anthropic
Released
2022-11-30
2023-03-14
Latest Version
GPT-5
Claude 4.5 Sonnet
Capabilities
Text Generation
10.0
10.0
Code Generation
9.0
10.0
Image Understanding
9.0
8.0
Web Browsing
9.0
7.0
Multimodal
10.0
8.0
Long Context
8.0
10.0
Reasoning
9.0
9.0
Fit
Best Use Cases
WritingCodingResearchBrainstorming
Long-form writingCodingDocument analysisResearch
Best For
General usersWritersStudentsMarketers
WritersDevelopersResearchersLawyers
Pricing
Free Tier
GPT-5 mini access, limited messages
Limited Claude 4.5 Sonnet access
Paid Plan
Plus: $20/month
Pro: $20/month
API Pricing
From $1.25/M input tokens (gpt-5)
From $3/M input tokens (Sonnet)
Enterprise
Team $25/user, Enterprise custom
Team $25/user, Enterprise custom
Benchmarks
MMLU Score
91
89
HumanEval (Coding)
92
94
GSM8K (Math)
95
96
Context Window
256K tokens
200K tokens
Languages
English
high
high
Chinese
high
medium
Multilingual
high
high
Editorial
Overall Score
9.5
9.4
Value for Money
9.0
9.0
Accuracy
9.0
9.5
Ease of Use
10.0
9.0
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