Claude vs ChatGPT vs OpenAI API

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

Your tool
Claude
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Competitor 1
ChatGPT
Competitor 2
OpenAI API
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Claude: Gemini90% OpenAI Codex85% DeepSeek84% Cursor84% Mistral AI80% GitHub Copilot80% Kimi AI78% Grok78%
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Your tool Claude
claude.ai
AI assistant built to be helpful, harmless, and honest
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Competitor ChatGPT
chatgpt.com
Your AI assistant for everything
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Competitor OpenAI API
platform.openai.com
The API powering the AI ecosystem
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
950.2Mvisits/mo
5.6Bvisits/mo
15.2Mvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 2.0%
▲ 3.5%
▲ 4.6%
6-month growth
+54.8%
-1.6%
-2.4%
Global rank web
#40
#7
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Avg. last 3 months
955.4M
5.5B
15.2M
Bounce rate lower is better
26%
30%
34%
Pages / visit
4.5
4.3
5.4
Visit duration
6m 14s
6m 35s
3m 56s
Traffic sources
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 95% · ● Referral 3%
● Direct 82% · ● Referral 15%
ClaudeChatGPTOpenAI API
01.5B2.9B4.4B5.8BClaude · 180.3MClaude · 172.7MClaude · 202.9MClaude · 290.3MClaude · 613.7MClaude · 823.5MClaude · 952.6MClaude · 946.8MClaude · 969.3MClaude · 950.2MChatGPT · 5.8BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BOpenAI API · 18.7MOpenAI API · 16.7MOpenAI API · 16.5MOpenAI API · 15.6MOpenAI API · 15.9MOpenAI API · 15.1MOpenAI API · 15.7MOpenAI API · 14.6MOpenAI API · 15.2M10M100M1B10BClaude · 180.3MClaude · 172.7MClaude · 202.9MClaude · 290.3MClaude · 613.7MClaude · 823.5MClaude · 952.6MClaude · 946.8MClaude · 969.3MClaude · 950.2MChatGPT · 5.8BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BOpenAI API · 18.7MOpenAI API · 16.7MOpenAI API · 16.5MOpenAI API · 15.6MOpenAI API · 15.9MOpenAI API · 15.1MOpenAI API · 15.7MOpenAI API · 14.6MOpenAI API · 15.2MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
$8per month · free tier available
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Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Free FreePro $20/moMax 5x $100/moMax 20x $200/mo
Free FreeGo $8/moPlus $20/moPro 5x $100/mo+1 more
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Capabilities input → output
Input
TextImagesDocumentsCode
AudioTextImagesDocumentsCode
TextImagesDocumentsAudio
Output
CodeTextSlidesDocumentsData
TextImagesCodeAudio
VideoTextImagesCodeAudio
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Categories
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeEducation & LearningProductivity & Office+19 more
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeEducation & LearningImage Editing+27 more
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
26
19
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Chatbots
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APIs
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Coding
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Essay writing
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Research
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Summarizing
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Translations
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Writing
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Blogging
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Copywriting
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Debugging
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Email writing
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Grammar checking
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Code documentation
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Refactoring
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Agents
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Code reviews
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Document summarization
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Image generation
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Image to text
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Large language models
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PDF analysis
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Paraphrasing
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Search engine
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Terminal
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Image editing
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Image to image
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Proofreading
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SQL queries
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Testing
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Rating
★ 4.610 ratings
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Upvotes
▲ 50
▲ 17
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Saves
7
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Reviews
10
4
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Prompts
19
17
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