Is Claude AI Better Than ChatGPT?

Generative AI is getting hype with every passing day. Thanks to the viral success of OpenAI's ChatGPT, which singlehandedly contributed to taking its hype to the next level. This AI chatbot gained 1 million users within the first five days of its launch and became the fastest-growing consumer platform by crossing 100 million monthly users in just two months. The apparently overnight success of Microsoft’s OpenAI initiated a battle for supremacy between tech titans. The AI leader Google came hot on the heels of Microsoft and announced an investment of $2 billion into an AI startup, Anthropic, the OpenAI’s rival. Later on, Amazon added fuel to the fire by announcing an investment of $4 billion in the same startup. The monopoly of ChatGPT comes to an end! It is no longer the only viable AI chatbot option anymore. In March 2023, Anthropic, financially backed by Google and Amazon, launched its chatbot, Claude AI, the strongest contender of ChatGPT.

Initially, Claude failed to gain the similar hype generated by ChatGPT. However, its groundbreaking iterations are making it a popular choice. It is obvious from a tremendous increase in its monthly page visits in the last few months. A rise from 65.7M in April 2024 to 102.9M in June poses a serious threat to ChatGPT, which has observed a massive decline in its page visit stats in the same three months. From 1.81 billion ChatGPT users in April 2024 to 260.1 million in June, it forces us to contemplate if Claude AI is better than ChatGPT.

Let's examine their backgrounds, functionalities, capabilities, and features more thoroughly to discover what sets them apart.

ChatGPT Vs Claude AI - Model Options

Claude and ChatGPT have successfully grabbed the attention of tech enthusiasts for different reasons. Leveraging the power of LLMs, both Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google-backed Claude AI are available in the market with some key differences. Let’s have a look at their model options.

ChatGPT Iterations

The first iteration of ChatGPT was GPT-3.5, released in November 2022. GPT-4 was released in March 2023, followed by GPT-4o in May 2024. OpenAI now offers GPT-4o, GPT-4 and GPT-4o mini models for ChatGPT. Image generation, Internet surfing and voice features are available in all versions of ChatGPT except GPT-4o mini, which is the replacement for GPT-3.5. GPT-4 has a knowledge cut-off date of December 2023, while its most advanced iteration, GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini, have that of October 2023. ChatGPT models are accessible via ChatGPT.com, ChatGPT Android, OpenAI's developer API, iOS, and macOS. However, they are not available on Google Cloud Vertex AI or Amazon Bedrock.

Which is the Best ChatGPT Model?

• GPT-4o beats OpenAI's predecessors on several benchmarks and emerges as the best ChatGPT iteration so far. ChatGPT's free trial is available but it does not allow you access to its latest version.

Paid Tiers:

• ChatGPT Plus: $20/month for Individual user.
• ChatGPT Team: $25/month/person (billed annually).
• ChatGPT Enterprise: The interested organization needs to contact their sales team to set pricing.

Claude AI Iterations

Anthropic released Claude in March 2023 in two versions: Claude and Claude Instant. Claude is a state-of-the-art high-performance model, whereas Claude Instant is an economical, lighter, and faster version that competes well with GPT-3.5. OpenAI’s rival launched its new text-generating AI model, Claude 2, in July 2023. It is an advanced but slower model similar to GPT-4. The Claude 3 model series followed it in early March 2024. This series includes Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus versions.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet, recently released in June 2024, is a blend of enhanced intelligence, speed, and efficiency. The Claude 3 model series has a knowledge cutoff of August 2023, while the Claude 3.5 Sonnet has the most recent knowledge, i.e., up to April 2024.

All these Claude language models are similar in nature but differ in capabilities. They are available on the web, iOS, and Android apps through Anthropic API and the platforms of Amazon Bedrock or Google Cloud Vertex AI.

Which Claude AI Model is Best?

• Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms its predecessors on a number of benchmarks.
• Claude offers a Free trial for this model. However, it comes with some limitations, like the number of questions and reduced data tokens.

Paid Tiers:

• Claude Pro: $20/month for individual subscribers,
• Claude Team: $25/month.

Comparison Between the Most Intelligent Models of Both ChatGPT & Claude: GPT-4o Vs Claude 3.5 Sonnet

The release of Anthropic's newest model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, sparked the debate, presenting it as the strongest contender to GPT-4o. Since its release, social media platforms have been thriving in comparing Claude 3.5 Sonnet with OpenAI’s flagship GPT-4o on various benchmarks. Surprisingly, Anthropic's answer to ChatGPT is not at all disappointing to tech lovers.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Outperforms GPT-4o in the Following Main Areas

To prove the outstanding capabilities of their most intelligent model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Anthropic tested it on some benchmarks against its rival. Let's have a look at some standout features in Claude 3.5 Sonnet that make it outperform the most hyped king of LLMs, GPT-4o.

1. Visual Reasoning
Visual Reasoning is a distinctive feature of Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Its capability to process visual data is greater than its strongest contender, GPT-4o. Anthropic tested its state-of-the-art performance against GPT-4o on the parameter of visual reasoning and published the results below:

Claude AI leads the way in visual data processing, winning on 4 out of 5 vision tasks. Claude also outperformed ChatGPT on the benchmark of graduate-level reasoning (GPQA). 3.5 Sonnet scored 59.4%, which was higher than GPT-4o score of 53.6%. This suggests that Claude can be a preferable choice for academic researchers and businessmen who need to deal with complex, abstract concepts.

In logical reasoning tasks, Claude 3.5 sonnet leads the way. Besides interpreting charts and graphs, this AI chatbot can transcribe text from imperfect images. This feature makes it a valuable platform for finance, retail, and logistics departments that have to deal with visual data analysis.

2. Artifacts UI
Anthropic has introduced a new way to interact with their generative AI by incorporating the Artifacts feature into Claude 3.5 Sonnet. This new UI enables Claude to display another window alongside the conversation box. It enables the user to watch, edit, or refine Claude's creations in real-time, whether it be some text document, images, animation, game, or computer code. Hence, Anthropic offers an evolution from Conversational AI to an Integrated Work Environment. It gives users a more interactive experience. With this preview feature, user can speed up their work process by seamlessly incorporating the AI-generated content into their workflows.

To watch how the Artifacts feature works for its users, click here.

The Artifacts feature is available on Pro and Team plans, while on Free plan, it comes with some restrictive limits. You can use this feature on web, iOS and Android apps. OpenAI’s GPT-4o lacks this preview feature, which makes Claude stand out even more.

3. Coding Abilities
Another feature that makes Claude 3.5 Sonnet stand out is its ten times more efficient and faster coding abilities compared to GPT-4o. When both generative AI models were evaluated for coding on the HumanEval benchmark, Claude outshined with a 92% score, whereas GPT-4o still needs to catch up with a 90.2% score. This striking feature becomes even more amazing when the user can preview the generated bug-free code directly within their chat. Thanks to the Artifacts feature!

When their coding abilities were tested by giving some specific tasks to both AI models, Claude clearly won over ChatGPT, toms guide reports. The following were the areas where Claude 3.5 Sonnet understood the prompts perfectly and outperformed.

• Developing a functional game on Python.
• Creating Vector Art

If both LLMs are given the same prompt i.e., “Write Python code to play the Sudoku Game”, both generate code. However, Claude excels in coding capability as it also offers to choose the difficulty level whereas GPT-4o doesn’t.
Claude takes the lead in making algorithm designs, recommending précised code and identifying bugs.

4. Multilingual Mathematical Mastery
Regarding Multilingual Mathematical capability, Claude again wins, though by a narrow margin, at the MGSM test. With a 91.6% score, it surpassed GPT-4o, which scored 90.5%. This suggests its importance in educational institutes teaching mathematics in multiple languages.

5. Processing Speed
Previously, Anthropic’s AI model Claude Opus stood out as the fastest AI LLM. But the latest model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, beats its predecessor by getting two times higher speed. With this high generation speed, it can bang out text or code much faster than its rival GPT-4o. The words’ processing ability/context window for Claude 3.5 Sonnet is higher, i.e., 150,000 words (200k tokens), than GPT-4o, i.e., 96,000 words (128k tokens)

6. Knowledge Cut-off Dates
Claude has more recent information stored than ChatGPT as it is trained on data leading up to April 2024, whereas the knowledge cut-off date for GPT-4o is October 2023.

7. Pricing
The free version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available on Claude.ai and the iOS app. Its API access is also cheaper. Claude charges $3 per million input tokens, while for output tokens, it costs $15 per million.

GPT-4o’s free version is not available, and input prices are higher than Claude's. It charges $5 per 1 million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens.

GPT-4o Outperforms Claude 3.5 Sonnet in the following Areas

1. Mathematical Reasoning and Word Problems.
2. Multimodal Reasoning—When evaluated on the parameter of Visual Q/A MMMU (Val), GPT-4o got a 69.1% score compared to its rival's 68.3%.

In General, Claude AI Outperforms ChatGPT in the following Areas

Claude, a next generation AI assistant, can't beat ChatGPT in everything; however, it has an obvious edge in the following areas:

1. Claude Can Better Read, Analyze, and Summarize the Uploaded Files
Unlike ChatGPT, Claude allows you to add files in a prompt even while using its free version. Just click the attachment button or drag and drop your file into the text input area. Claude deeply analyzes your uploaded content and then summarizes it. It also learns about the context of your document and converses accordingly. You can ask any follow-up questions, for instance, about the intent of the uploaded document or the main points covered, etc.

It allows you to upload a maximum of five files at a time. The formats allowed include MS Word, .txt, .csv, PDF, and others. It doesn't accept Excel spreadsheets. The file size must not exceed 10MB.

2. Claude Can Better Understand the Context
Claude can handle a larger context window, which helps large language model better understand the contextual relationship between phrases and words. It learns from the chat history and user preferences. A larger context enables Claude to provide more accurate and relevant information in any conversation.

3. Claude AI is a Better Partner in Creative Writing
Claude outshines in brainstorming ideas. It gives more nifty product ideas than ChatGPT. If both AI chatbots are given the same prompt to write a short story, Claude AI churns out a more interesting and dramatic story with a lot of surprising twists. Its content is more generic and sounds more human-written. In the case of proofreading and fact-checking, Claude is a more trustworthy and reliable AI assistant. It lists all factual errors in each sentence one by one and presents the mistakes along with their correction in a way that is easier to understand. Whereas ChatGPT just rewrites the corrected sentence without calling out the mistakes. You have to do a little prompt engineering to get the desired output from ChatGPT, whereas Claude grasps what you want out of the box from your prompt.

To view and compare the output from both conversational AI chatbots, click here.

4. Claude is More Focused on Human Values
Anthropic was the pioneer in the introduction of the Constitutional AI concept, so it anticipates aligning its actions with human values. Claude models can't be retrained based on users' interactions. This makes it a suitable option for businesses that want an LLM for their workforce but don't want to expose their corporate information to third parties.

ChatGPT can easily be retrained on user interactions that pose privacy concerns. To reduce the privacy risk, users need to delete the chat history, but this limits the model's efficacy. The only solution left is to send a privacy request to OpenAI. It can refrain from training on their data and facilitate users without sacrificing their chat history.

5. Claude is Safer to Use
AI safety is Anthropic's priority, and Claude emphasizes reducing risk. Claude gives more reserved responses to the users. This lessens the risk of harmful responses, but sometimes, it annoys users as it limits creativity. On the other hand, ChatGPT is less strict in responding to offensive or harmful prompts. Hence, this model is more resistant to prompt injection attacks.

However, the latest model of ChatGPT, GPT-4o mini, has an in-built Instruction Hierarchy, a new safety technique to avoid malicious activities.

ChatGPT Surpass Claude AI in these Areas

1. ChatGPT can now access the Internet through WebPilot, whereas Claude can respond to you based on the information it was trained on.
2. OpenAI’s ChatGPT can now create images (as it offers Dall.E3), whereas Claude is incapable of doing so.
3. Third-party integrations make ChatGPT a more flexible tool. It allows its users to release their dedicated GPT, such as a coding assistant or a coloring book image generator.
4. Users can create their own customized GPT to interact with others. You can tweak settings and train your chatbot to create responses in a certain way. For example, you can command it to write its answer in a casual or formal tone.

Which is a Better Choice? Claude AI or ChatGPT?

Claude and ChatGPT are both advanced generative AI models, but they have some distinct features. The selection between the two depends upon your intended AI use case. Claude AI is more prone to an ethical AI framework. It is the best choice if you have to perform tasks requiring advanced technical solutions and ethical concerns. It is also your best bet if you have some creative projects, as it delivers less generic and more natural output than ChatGPT. Cheaper API cost and superior coding are some other factors that make it stand out. ChatGPT, on the other hand, is amazing in terms of NLP skills and versatility. Its integrations like Image creation, internet surfing, and custom GPTs make it outshine.

ChatGPT's GPT-4 model was superior to Anthropic's Claude-2 model. However, Claude 3 outperformed the GPT-4 model in various areas. The release of GPT-4o faded all of its predecessors, but unfortunately, its own charm faded with the release of Anthropic's "most intelligent model yet." Anthropic’s comparison of Claude 3.5 Sonnet with GPT-4o against various benchmarks confirms how it surpasses its rival. It is a groundbreaking AI chatbot that is a combination of unmatchable performance and cost-effectiveness. Claude AI unlocks new potentials for multifaceted AI applications across reasoning and coding tasks. With enhanced language comprehension, vast knowledge, and improved contextual understanding, it often generates more précised, rational, and contextually relevant responses. A Reddit discussion on the comparison of both rivals rated Claude 3.5 Sonnet higher than GPT-4o for most tasks, especially coding and writing.

Final Verdict

Initially, Claude appeared in the market as more expensive and roughly with the same accuracy as ChatGPT. However, its iterations continued to blow away its users. And now, Claude runs away from ChatGPT on almost every count. Claude AI has the obvious edge on most of the parameters, so we can say that Claude has somehow managed to beat ChatGPT. Keeping in view how amazingly it leads the way, it would not be wrong to say that Claude is a doctoral candidate while ChatGPT is an intelligent undergraduate student. We are not sure what the future brings, but one thing is for sure that: OpenAI needs to unlock the full potential of its AI chatbots to regain its supremacy.