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