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Claude vs GPT-4o

A side-by-side look at pricing, capabilities, pros, cons, and our editorial scores.

 
Claude
Writing
GPT-4o
Writing
TaglineAnthropic's flagship assistant for long-form writing, analysis, and coding.OpenAI's multimodal flagship behind ChatGPT.
CategoryWritingWriting
PricingFreemium· Free tier; Pro $20/moFreemium· Free tier; Plus $20/mo
ModelClaude Opus / SonnetGPT-4o
Editorial score9.6 / 109.4 / 10
Use cases
long-form writingsummarizationresearchcoding
general writingsummarizationvisionvoice mode
Pros
  • Best-in-class long-context reasoning
  • Excellent at following style guidelines
  • Projects + Artifacts UX
  • 1M-token context on Sonnet
  • Strong all-rounder
  • Voice mode is uncannily good
  • Huge ecosystem & plugins
  • Available in ChatGPT, API, Copilot
Cons
  • No real-time browsing by default
  • Image generation limited
  • Region availability varies
  • Style can be generic without nudging
  • Hallucinates citations occasionally
  • Context smaller than Claude on long docs
Websiteclaude.aichatgpt.com
Pick Claude if
  • ✅ Best-in-class long-context reasoning
  • ✅ Excellent at following style guidelines
  • ✅ Projects + Artifacts UX
  • ✅ 1M-token context on Sonnet
Pick GPT-4o if
  • ✅ Strong all-rounder
  • ✅ Voice mode is uncannily good
  • ✅ Huge ecosystem & plugins
  • ✅ Available in ChatGPT, API, Copilot
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