Ai Comparison

Last updated: February 2026 | Reading time: 9 minutes If you’ve spent more than five minutes researching AI tools, you’ve probably hit a wall of vague comparisons that say things like “both are great for different use cases!” without actually telling you which one to use. This isn’t that article. We ran both ChatGPT (GPT-4o) and Claude (Claude 3.5 Sonnet) through a set of real tasks — the kind of things normal people actually need AI for. Here’s the honest breakdown. ...

Research used to mean hours in browser tabs, bookmarking sources, stitching together information from a dozen different pages. AI changed that. But now there are two distinct philosophies competing for your workflow: Perplexity AI’s real-time, source-cited search model versus ChatGPT’s deep reasoning and conversational depth. Both are excellent. They’re not the same tool. Here’s how to think about which one belongs in your research stack. What Perplexity AI Actually Does Perplexity is an AI-powered search engine. That’s the clearest way to describe it. You type a question, it queries the web in real time, reads the top sources, synthesizes an answer, and cites every claim with a numbered footnote you can click. ...

Claude 3.5 vs ChatGPT-4o: Side-by-Side Comparison for Real Tasks Both Claude 3.5 Sonnet and ChatGPT-4o are excellent AI assistants. But “excellent” doesn’t tell you which one to use. When you’re paying for a subscription or building a workflow around an AI, you want specifics. So we ran both through the same real-world tasks — writing, coding, research, summarization, and reasoning — and tracked where each one actually shines. Here’s what we found. ...