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An up to date comparison of the best AI models
Last updated August 26.
This is my comparison of the best AI models, as they are available to general users through a web interface with a simple free or paid account. The one everyone knows, and most have used, is ChatGPT., but there are three other models that are at least as smart, only with different features.
If you are only going to use one AI model, it should still probably be ChatGPT, but I consider Claude smarter and more enjoyable to work with. If I have a lot of data, including audio or video, Gemini is superior. If I’m doing something that doesn’t require uploading documents, I’m starting to prefer Meta AI as a great conversation partner with high quality text outputs.
There other tools besides “The Big 4” Is the primary purpose of your task to find some information online? Use Perplexity It has become my new Google! Transcribing and summarizing meetings and calls? Otter.ai! Generating images? FLUX is my favorite, and you can even train it on pictures of yourself for example here. It requires a little more work to get started though. Ideogram is easier.
| Features | ChatGPT (4o) | Claude (3.5 Sonnet) | Google Gemini (1.5 Pro Exp) | Meta Llama (3.1-405B) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| URL | chatgpt.com | claude.ai | aistudio.google.com | meta.ai |
| Context Window | 128,000 tokens | 200,000 tokens | 2 million tokens | 128,000 tokens |
| Input Formats | Text, Speech, Images, Files | Text, Images, Files | Text, Speech, Images, Files | Text |
| Output Formats | Text, Speech, Images, Files, Links | Text | Text | Text, Images |
| Customization | Custom Instructions, Custom GPTs, GPT Sharing, Memory | Projects | No | No |
| Code Execution | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Integrations | No | No | All things Google including Gmail, Assistant, Android, Docs, and Sheets | Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger |
| Usage Limits | Yes. Low limits for free, higher for paid. | Yes. Low limits for free, higher for paid. | No | No |
| Conclusion | Still best overall, now with a larger context window, a memory function, and free access even to the best features. | Excellent for any task that doesn’t require accessing the internet! Now also has two great tools: Artifacts (a window it builds things for you in) and Projects (similar to Custom GPTs). | Very good and with 2 million tokens can do some things the others simply can’t do, but only at aistudio.google.com (where it is free). Much worse at gemini.google.com (avoid the free version there!), and integrated into Google Workspace. | A 100% free model that appears fully on par with the other 3 already. |
Context Window: The amount of data the AI model can work with at the same time, you can think of it as short term memory. More is better!
Tokens: AI models break down words into smaller parts called tokens. A rule of thumb is that 1000 tokens is around 750 words.
Customization: You can give some AI tools information you always want it to have, for example what you do and what your main interests are.
Code Execution: The ability for an AI tool to use another tool to execute code to do things for you.