Claude is the AI assistant built by Anthropic, known for its refined writing, reliable reasoning and large context window. It excels at analyzing long documents, programming and nuanced conversations. The Projects and Artifacts features turn it into a genuine workspace.
Go to claude.ai and sign in with your email address or a Google account. Describe what you need in the conversation, attaching PDF documents, spreadsheets or code as needed. Artifacts let you preview and edit generated content live, such as a web page or a script.
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The two assistants are very close in capability. Claude stands out for the quality of its writing, its careful, measured answers and its ability to process very long documents in a single pass.
Yes, there is a free tier with a limited number of messages per day. The Pro subscription significantly raises those quotas and unlocks the most powerful models.
Since late 2025, conversations on personal accounts (Free, Pro, Max) may be used to train the models, unless you opt out in the privacy settings. You can change this choice at any time, and it only applies to new or resumed conversations.
Claude Code is Anthropic's coding agent, available in the terminal, VS Code, JetBrains, on the web and as a desktop app. Powered by the latest Claude models, it explores your codebase, writes and fixes code across multiple files, runs tests and opens pull requests on GitHub. With parallel subagents, hooks and a growing plugin ecosystem, it has become a go-to choice for delegating complex development tasks end to end.
Built by OpenAI, ChatGPT is the world's most widely used conversational assistant. It answers questions, writes and rewrites text, analyzes documents and images, and can even browse the web to find up-to-date information. Its versatility has made it a go-to tool for individuals and professionals alike.
Cursor reinvents the code editor by putting AI at the heart of the development experience. Built on top of VS Code, it lets you edit multiple files at once using natural language, chat with your entire project, and hand off complete tasks to autonomous agents. Since version 2.0, its in-house Composer model and multi-agent interface make it possible to run several tasks in parallel.