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ChatGPT vs Claude Code
Compare ChatGPT vs Claude Code: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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chatgpt.com ↗ Claude Code
claude.com/claude-code ↗ Pricing
Free tier
Limited GPT-5 mini, ~10 GPT-5 messages/day
Not free — requires Claude Pro or API credits
Standard plan
Plus — $20/mo
Claude Pro — $20/mo
Top plan
Pro — $200/mo
Claude Max 20× — $200/mo
API input / 1M tokens
$5.00
$3.00 Best
API output / 1M tokens
$15.00
$15.00 Best
Capability
Context window
256K
1M Best
Max output tokens
16K
64K Best
Knowledge cutoff
2026-01
2026-03
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
72% Best
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Math (AIME 2025)
84% Best
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Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
79% Best
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Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
1410 Best
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Features
Image input
✓
✓
Voice mode
✓
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Web search
✓
✓
File upload
✓
✓
Image generation
✓
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Code execution
✓
✓
Agent / tool use
✓
✓
Persistent memory
✓
✓
ChatGPT
Best all-rounder. Strongest agent tooling (custom GPTs, code interpreter, browse).
Claude Code
Anthropic's CLI coding agent. Same Claude models as the chat product, but optimized for autonomous, multi-file refactoring with bash + edit tools. Strongest at large-codebase reasoning.
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