Both cost $20/month at the current US reference price, but they emphasize different workflows. This comparison focuses on what the same monthly budget actually buys rather than assigning a universal score.
ChatGPT offers Free, Go, Plus, and multiple Pro tiers for individual users, with progressively higher access to reasoning, research, coding, image generation, memory, and agentic features.
Choose Plus when you want one broad AI subscription spanning advanced reasoning, deep research, image generation, voice, file analysis and coding-agent access.
Claude offers Free, Pro, and Max individual plans with increasing usage capacity and access to Claude Code, productivity tools, models, and priority features.
Choose Pro when Claude is your primary workspace and Claude Code, Projects, Research, connectors and annual billing are more important than broad media features.
Decision matrix
$20
$20
No annual discount recorded in iilib
$200/year ($16.67/mo effective)
No — API billed separately
No — API billed separately
Codex access included
Claude Code included
Included
Not highlighted
Included
Not listed in current plan record
Included
Not listed in current plan record
Projects included
Projects included
Not a primary differentiator in current plan record
Included
Important billing distinction
ChatGPT API usage and Anthropic API/Console usage are separate billing products. If you are comparing programmatic token costs instead of consumer subscriptions, use the LLM API Cost Calculator.
Open LLM API Cost Calculator →This comparison is generated from the same current subscription records used by iilib's ChatGPT and Claude plan pages. Feature labels describe documented plan access; changing quotas and rollout-specific model availability are not converted into invented fixed numbers.