ChatGPT
Conversational AI for writing, coding, and research
73
/100
Claude
Safe, capable AI assistant for analysis and writing
75
/100
ChatGPT vs Claude
Detailed side-by-side comparison of features, pricing, and performance
Comparing
Our Expert Verdict
RankTool's data-driven recommendation based on scores, features, and pricing.
Winner
Claude
by a narrow margin
For most users, both ChatGPT and Claude are strong options. Claude edges ahead overall, while ChatGPT may be better for specific workflows. Use the category winners and feature matrix below to decide.
🔒
Best Privacy
Claude
👥
Best for Teams
Claude
Overview
Complete side-by-side specs in one place.
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| RankScore™ | 73 /100 | 75 /100 |
| Category | AI Chatbots & Assistants | AI Chatbots & Assistants |
| Starting price | $20/month | $20/month |
| Free plan | ✓ | ✓ |
| API available | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | — | — |
| Self-hostable | — | — |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android | Web, iOS, Android |
| Target user | individual | team |
| Learning curve | Beginner | Beginner |
| Context window | — | ✓ |
| Image generation | ✓ | — |
| Languages supported | — | ["English"], ["English","French"], ["German","English"] |
| Launch year | 2022 | 2023 |
| Company | OpenAI | Anthropic |
| Funding | Private / Late-stage or mega-round · $182.6B | Private / Late-stage or mega-round · $60B |
| Team size | — | — |
Pricing Comparison
Plan-by-plan breakdown with what's included at each tier.
Free
ChatGPT
Free
Free
- ✓ Messages and interactions: Limited
- ✓ Chat history: Unlimited, subject to reasonable-use policies
- ✓ Web, iOS, and Android access: Yes
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Instant: Limited access
- ✗ GPT-5.5 Thinking
- ✗ GPT-5.5 Pro
- ✓ GPT Instant total context window: 27K
- ✓ Voice: Yes
- ✗ Voice with video
- ✓ Memory: Limited
- ✓ Search: Yes
- ✓ Codex: Limited
- ✓ Projects: Yes
- ✗ Scheduled tasks
- ✓ Data analysis: Limited
- ✓ File uploads: Limited
- ✓ Image generation: Limited and slower
- ✓ Deep research: Limited
- ✗ Interactive tables and charts
- ✗ Create and share GPTs
- ✗ Apps connecting to internal tools
- ✗ SAML SSO
- ✗ Admin console
- ✓ Business data used for training: Consumer content may be used with opt-out available
- ✗ Data residency
Claude
Free
Free
- ✓ Claude apps: Web, iOS, Android, and desktop
- ✓ Core chat and content generation: Included with limited usage
- ✓ Web search: Included
- ✓ Memory and user preferences: Included where available
- ✓ Files and code execution: Create files and execute code
- ✗ Claude Code and specialized Claude apps
- ✗ Projects and Research
- ✓ Model access and usage capacity: Limited free access
- ✗ Team administration
- ✗ Enterprise controls
- ✗ API access: Separate Claude API account required
Plus / Pro
ChatGPT
Plus
$20/month
- ✓ Messages and interactions: Unlimited, subject to reasonable-use policies
- ✓ Chat history: Unlimited, subject to reasonable-use policies
- ✓ Web, iOS, and Android access: Yes
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Instant: Expanded
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Thinking: Expanded
- ✗ GPT-5.5 Pro
- ✓ GPT Instant total context window: 54K
- ✓ Voice: Expanded
- ✓ Voice with video: Yes
- ✓ Memory: Expanded
- ✓ Search: Yes
- ✓ Codex: Yes / expanded usage
- ✓ Projects: Yes
- ✓ Scheduled tasks: Yes
- ✓ Data analysis: Yes
- ✓ File uploads: Yes
- ✓ Image generation: Yes / more complex and accurate image creation
- ✓ Deep research: Yes / expanded
- ✓ Interactive tables and charts: Yes
- ✓ Create and share GPTs: Yes
- ✓ Apps connecting to internal tools: Yes
- ✗ SAML SSO
- ✗ Admin console
- ✓ Business data used for training: Consumer content may be used with opt-out available
- ✗ Data residency
Claude
Pro
$20/month
- ✓ Claude apps: Web, iOS, Android, and desktop
- ✓ Core chat and content generation: Everything in Free, plus more usage
- ✓ Web search: Included
- ✓ Memory and user preferences: Included
- ✓ Files and code execution: Included
- ✓ Claude Code and specialized Claude apps: Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Claude Design, and Claude Science included
- ✓ Projects and Research: Unlimited projects and Research access
- ✓ Model access and usage capacity: More Claude models and more usage than Free
- ✗ Team administration
- ✗ Enterprise controls
- ✗ API access: Separate Claude API account required
Team
ChatGPT
Business
$25/month
- ✓ Messages and interactions: Unlimited
- ✓ Chat history: Unlimited
- ✓ Web, iOS, and Android access: Yes
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Instant: Business page lists GPT-5.2 unlimited; exact GPT-5.5 entitlement not stated on business pricing page
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Thinking: Business page lists GPT-5.2 thinking as flexible; exact GPT-5.5 entitlement not stated on business pricing page
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Pro: Business page lists GPT-5.2 pro as flexible; exact GPT-5.5 entitlement not stated on business pricing page
- ✓ GPT Instant total context window: 32K non-reasoning context; 196K reasoning context
- ✓ Voice: Standard advanced voice; standard voice included
- ✓ Voice with video: Yes
- ✓ Memory: Expanded; memory with past chats marked coming soon
- ✓ Search: Yes
- ✓ Codex: Codex agent included
- ✓ Projects: Yes / shared projects included
- ✓ Scheduled tasks: Tasks included
- ✓ Data analysis: Yes
- ✓ File uploads: Yes
- ✓ Image generation: Yes
- ✓ Deep research: Yes; Business can purchase credits for more access
- ✓ Interactive tables and charts: Yes
- ✓ Create and share GPTs: Yes / share GPTs with workspace included
- ✓ Apps connecting to internal tools: Yes
- ✓ SAML SSO: Yes
- ✓ Admin console: Yes
- ✗ Business data used for training: No training on business data by default
- ✗ Data residency
Claude
Team Standard Seat
$25/month
- ✓ Claude apps: Web, iOS, Android, and desktop
- ✓ Core chat and content generation: All Claude features plus more usage than Pro
- ✓ Web search: Included
- ✓ Memory and user preferences: Included
- ✓ Files and code execution: Included
- ✓ Claude Code and specialized Claude apps: Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Claude Design, and Claude Science included
- ✓ Projects and Research: Included
- ✓ Model access and usage capacity: Standard team usage
- ✓ Team administration: Central billing and administration, SSO, connector controls, and desktop deployment
- ✗ Enterprise controls
- ✗ API access: Separate Claude API account required
Enterprise
ChatGPT
Enterprise
Custom
- ✓ Messages and interactions: Unlimited
- ✓ Chat history: Unlimited
- ✓ Web, iOS, and Android access: Yes
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Instant: Enterprise page lists GPT-5.2 unlimited; exact GPT-5.5 entitlement not stated on business pricing page
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Thinking: Enterprise page lists GPT-5.2 thinking as flexible; exact GPT-5.5 entitlement not stated on business pricing page
- ✓ GPT-5.5 Pro: Enterprise page lists GPT-5.2 pro as flexible; exact GPT-5.5 entitlement not stated on business pricing page
- ✓ GPT Instant total context window: 128K non-reasoning context; 196K reasoning context
- ✓ Voice: Flexible advanced voice; standard voice included
- ✓ Voice with video: Yes
- ✓ Memory: Expanded; memory with past chats marked coming soon
- ✓ Search: Yes
- ✓ Codex: Flexible Codex agent
- ✓ Projects: Yes / shared projects included
- ✓ Scheduled tasks: Tasks included
- ✓ Data analysis: Yes
- ✓ File uploads: Yes
- ✓ Image generation: Yes
- ✓ Deep research: Flexible; Enterprise can purchase credits for more access
- ✓ Interactive tables and charts: Yes
- ✓ Create and share GPTs: Yes / share GPTs with workspace included
- ✓ Apps connecting to internal tools: Yes
- ✓ SAML SSO: Yes
- ✓ Admin console: Yes, plus global admin console
- ✗ Business data used for training: No training on business data by default
- ✓ Data residency: US, EU, UK, JP, CA, KR, SG, IN, AU, UAE
Claude
Enterprise Self-Serve
$20/month
- ✓ Claude apps: Web, iOS, Android, and desktop
- ✓ Core chat and content generation: All Team plan features
- ✓ Web search: Included
- ✓ Memory and user preferences: Included
- ✓ Files and code execution: Included
- ✓ Claude Code and specialized Claude apps: Included
- ✓ Projects and Research: Included
- ✓ Model access and usage capacity: Seat price plus usage at API rates
- ✓ Team administration: Central billing, administration, SSO, and team controls
- ✓ Enterprise controls: Spend limits, role-based access, SCIM, audit logs, Compliance API, retention controls, network controls, IP allowlisting, and HIPAA-ready offering
- ✓ API access: Usage billed at API rates
Monthly cost for a 5-person team
ChatGPT: $125/month
Claude: $125/month
Feature Matrix
Grouped capabilities — see who has what at a glance.
AI Capabilities 3 features — ChatGPT: 2/3 · Claude: 1/3
Feature
ChatGPT
Claude
GPT-4o models
✓
✗
Image generation
✓
✗
Code generation
✗
✓
Developer Features 1 features — ChatGPT: 0/1 · Claude: 1/1
Feature
ChatGPT
Claude
API access
✗
✓
Other 12 features — ChatGPT: 6/12 · Claude: 6/12
Feature
ChatGPT
Claude
Chat interface
✓
✗
200K context window
✗
✓
Artifacts
✗
✓
Code interpreter
✓
✗
Document analysis
✗
✓
Custom GPTs
✓
✗
Team workspaces
✗
✓
Voice mode
✓
✗
File uploads
✓
✗
Vision
✗
✓
Web browsing
✓
✗
Projects
✗
✓
Who Should Use What
Pick the tool that matches your workflow.
Choose ChatGPT if you…
- General-purpose AI assistance and prototyping
- Conversational AI for writing, coding, and research
- OpenAI's flagship chatbot for natural language tasks, coding help, and creative work.
Choose Claude if you…
- Long documents
- analysis
- and coding
Ratings Breakdown
All 8 RankScore dimensions compared side-by-side.
ChatGPT
Claude
Decision scores
Five-dimension breakdown from expert reviews and verified user ratings (1–10 scale).
ChatGPT
Decision score
Expert + user ratings blended per dimension (1–10 scale)
5.0
Overall / 5★ search score
Privacy/Security
5.0
Claude
Decision score
Expert + user ratings blended per dimension (1–10 scale)
8.5
Overall / 5★ search score
Privacy/Security
8.5
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