Ever since OpenAI’s viral release of ChatGPT in late 2022, countless new artificial intelligence chatbots have been created in hopes of rivaling its success. One notable mention is Claude, a chatbot made by the company Anthropic which some argue is better than ChatGPT. But which is truly better?

ChatGPT’s newest and most advanced model at the moment is GPT-4o. Capable of responding to and with text, image, video, and audio, GPT-4o can complete a wide variety of tasks.

GPT-4o can be accessed by anyone for free, however interactions are limited without a subscription. Once the limit is reached, users can use an older yet still efficient model, GPT-3.5, for free with unlimited interactions.

Claude’s interactions for free users, however, are not unlimited. Users without a subscription for Claude have access to its Sonnet chatbot, which has a balance of performance and response time in between Claude’s other two chatbots, Haiku and Opus.

Haiku is a faster chatbot which is meant to do simple tasks, while Opus is a high-performance AI capable of advanced tasks like coding and analysis. Access to these two bots require a paid premium version of Claude.

When using ChatGPT’s GPT-4o, it seems to respond slightly faster than Claude’s Sonnet. The standard response from GPT-4o also seems to be much more comprehensive, while Sonnet gives more brief and generalized information.

Additionally, when GPT-4o provides a response, the frequent general format of the reply is much more user-friendly, providing an introduction and a conclusion to go with an in-depth numbered response.

Overall, Claude simply can’t compare with ChatGPT, as responses and free access to usage is significantly better in ChatGPT and in Claude.