ChatGPT vs. Claude?

I've been reading about many people switching from ChatGPT to Claude - moving their work and their subscriptions (if using paid versions). I'm trying to better understand the benefits of Claude over ChatGPT. This blog post helps, but I'd love to discuss this with others.

7 replies

I think the skills aspect is what is most useful in Claude. Besides, you can upload all your ChatGPT history when you join.

- Michael Harvey, 27 March 2026

For me, ChatGPT works really well for day-to-day teaching, quick adaptation of materials, and idea generation. It feels more flexible in the moment, which matters a lot in a classroom context.So I see it less as switching and more as using different tools for different needs.I’d be really interested to hear from anyone who has fully moved over, what actually changed in your workflow?

- Fenia Kouvara, 28 March 2026

Thank you. This is really helpful. I would like to start using code to improve my online courses in Canvas. I have done it with ChatGPT and found it to be helpful, but I had no comparison. I am going to try Claude Code.

- Madeline Craig, 3 April 2026

I find Claude less sycophantic than ChatGPT and more likely to give me push back if I have asked for it. I have the lowest level of paid subs for both of them. I pretty much just keep GPT for the image generation

- aileen wallace, 27 March 2026

Good point about different tools for different needs! Thank you for your response.

- Madeline Craig, 30 March 2026

Personally I've never really got on with ChatGPT. I signed up, as everyone else did, when it came out, and even paid for it for a while, but it always felt a bit too "needy" or "waffly". It also seemed to take a long time to process (even with the paid subscription) compared to others, and the responses appeared to have lots of hallucinations in them. It once tried to convince me that A*s...

- Josh White, 3 April 2026

That's really good to know. I'm getting very tired of ChatGPT's very positive praise for every little thing šŸ˜‚.