Claude vs ChatGPT: Which AI is Best For Each Use Case in 2025

Over the past few years, I’ve been testing different AI tools to make my workflow easier.

I put Claude 4 and ChatGPT 4o through their paces across content writing, coding, deep research, image design, and more complex tasks. 

What I discovered was really amazing. There’s no single “best” AI model for all your tasks. Instead, it entirely depends on what you’re trying to do. 

And today, I’m sharing an updated guide comparing Claude and ChatGPT across user-specific use cases. So, you can choose the right tool for each work.

Claude vs ChatGPT at a glance

First, check some of my use cases (e.g., coding, writing, everyday answers, and others) at a glance.

As you already got a summary, let’s start with coding.

Coding ability of Claude and ChatGPT

So, I asked both Claude and ChatGPT to create a full-featured Pong (one of the earliest arcade video games) for me. To do that, I gave each a very basic prompt to see their artificial processing capabilities.

Here’s the prompt:

“Create a full-featured Pong with beautiful graphics and controls.” 

As you can see here, Claude’s Pong game is more feature-complete than ChatGPT’s. It offers a multiplayer option, auto-level increasing ability, and a start over option. But sadly, it didn’t give me proper scoring at the end.

And, when I played ChatGPT’s Pong, I found it’s a single-player game without any ending point or restart. It means when you start it, you can’t end it.

So, here’s the takeaway:

1. Claude built a more feature-rich game, which shows it can handle more complex coding than ChatGPT.
2. And, ChatGPT 4o created a similar Pong that lacks basic features, which shows it might not handle complex tasks.

You can also push it further by testing games like Snake, Tetris, Super Mario, or your own favorite one.

Writing capability of Claude and ChatGPT

So, writing is actually my most common AI use case. I ask AI to write or edit email copies, social posts, blog content, or newsletters.

My prompt is simple. First, I give them the necessary information about the topic (e.g., topic, audiences, data, writing sample, etc.). Then I ask it to edit my draft according to the motive or intent.

After giving the same prompt to both Claude and ChatGPT, here’s the result.

So, Claude again did a very decent job. It starts with a very clear, concise, and problem-aware introduction, followed by part-by-part explanations perfectly synchronized with the overall concept.

With ChatGPT, it always has a conciseness and tone problem. Its starting is a bit generalized and has a readability issue, as most of the sentences are long.

And, I think:

1. Claude is more synchronized and personalized with the overall explanation and tone.
2. ChatGPT’s result is a lot more generalized, with a bit of fluffy sentences and readability issues.

So far, we’ve seen a lot of praise for Claude. Now, let’s give ChatGPT some credit where it’s well-deserved.

Daily life answers of Claude and ChatGPT

Both of these models are capable of answering your everyday questions. But ChatGPT has one feature that Claude and many other models don’t. And that’s memory!

Memory is really a magical experience. It knows who you are and what your favorite choices are. To test this, I tried this prompt on both Claude and ChatGPT:

“Tell me something unique about me that I haven’t realized yet. Be completely honest.”

As you can see, Claude totally failed to answer this question, as it doesn’t have any memory to understand my abilities or choices. Instead, it can only give answers based on the active conversations and information.

Whereas ChatGPT is actually observing me and telling me about my abilities based on my conversations. It can also help you discover your own hidden talents, which you might not know.

So, the verdict is:

1. Claude doesn’t have any memory to learn your talents or habits on its own.
2. Where ChatGPT totally outperforms with a dedicated memory that can observe and understand your unique abilities and skills.

Another ability that’s growing day by day is emotion prediction or sentiment analysis.

Sentiment analysis of Claude and ChatGPT

I tested both models with some of our customer reviews to check their sentiment analysis ability. This time the result surprised me a lot.

ChatGPT no doubt gives the most accurate result by correctly judging four different emotions altogether. Thanks to its vast capacity and memory-saving ability.

But interestingly, Claude isn’t very far behind either. Its numbers are mostly close to ChatGPT’s and lose by a very short margin.

As we are discussing tones and sentiments, here’s a little extra insight for you!

So here’s the take:

1. ChatGPT excels at understanding emotional tones and contextual sentiments.
2. Claude can also handle basic sentiment but misses subtle emotional complexities.

Deep research capability of Claude and ChatGPT

They both offer deep research features. So, I tested each model to get some future-aligned digital marketing strategies.

My prompt was:

“Analyze well-known journals and forums to provide me with futuristic digital marketing strategies that can compete in the future global market.”

Although both talked about the same topic, Claude’s result isn’t that in-depth, and its citations were half in number (20) compared to ChatGPT’s. Also, the use cases are much more generalized, and the mentions are from random websites.

But ChatGPT did a pretty good job! It cited almost 40 pages, and most of them are journals or publications. Also, it gave me a detailed strategy with specific categories and future scope.

So, in deeper research:

1. Claude doesn’t have the vast amount of data, or maybe it doesn’t have the permission to access it.
2. ChatGPT not only accesses accurate and vast information, but its presentation format based on that data is also good.

As we’ve done a lot of coding, writing, and research, now it’s time for some AI multimodal capabilities.

Image creation ability of ChatGPT

For image generation, my go-to AI is ChatGPT. It’s great for generating marketing assets, creative pictures, and more.

So, I gave it a sample of my marketing assets and asked it to tweak the copies and replace some elements.

And, here’s the result:

ChatGPT remarkably did a very good job by matching the colors and copies with the targeted event. Also, it’ll be much more effective if you give it details about the elements, color, copies, etc.

Unfortunately, Claude is limited to text-based output; it can’t generate any images or video.

And lastly, videos!

Video creation ability of ChatGPT

ChatGPT itself doesn’t create videos. But OpenAI has a lot of integrated tools like Invideo, Sora, Synthesia, etc. for AI-generated video content.

In this case, I used ChatGPT’s InVideo integration and a little back-and-forth.

My prompt:

“Create a YouTube Shorts video focusing on Fluent Support’s AI features.”

Surprisingly, they did a good job, creating a 27-second video promoting Fluent Support’s AI features. And, I can also edit the scripts, media, and voices from Invideo’s end.

So, based on these use cases, here’s how you can use Claude and ChatGPT to boost your daily workflow.

Boost daily workflow with both AI models

I personally use both Claude and ChatGPT to synchronize my daily workflow. And that’s how I do that.

Wrapping up

AI capabilities are continuously evolving. What’s true today might change tomorrow. So, don’t limit yourself to one tool. 

Use both models based on their respective strengths to create a more powerful AI workflow. And, stay updated with new tools and features.