№ — Head-to-Head
ChatGPT vs Claude
Side by side: starting price, pricing model, free tier and platforms. Check each vendor's pricing page before you buy, since plans change often.
At a glance
What each one is
ChatGPT
ChatGPT by OpenAI runs on the GPT-6 family — Astra, Sol, Luna and the GPT-6 Instant interface released in October 2026 — as a single multimodal assistant for text, voice, vision, image generation and file analysis. Free tier with usage limits; Go at $8/mo, Plus at $20/mo, and Pro tiers from $100/mo. Includes Custom GPTs, projects and canvas. Sora video generation was discontinued in 2026.
Full ChatGPT entry →Claude
Claude by Anthropic spans the Opus, Sonnet, Haiku and Fable model families — Claude Opus 5.5, released 22 September 2026, is the current flagship and runs 40% cheaper than Opus 5. Includes Artifacts for live previews of code and documents, Projects for grouped context, and connectors via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Free tier with limits; Pro at $20/mo ($17 billed annually), Max from $100/mo.
Full Claude entry →We haven't written a verdict for this matchup yet, so we don't name a winner. How we choose what to feature is explained in our editorial methodology.