Three dominant LLM families. Each has strengths and ideal use cases.
Claude (Anthropic)¶
- Best for long contexts (200K tokens)
- Excellent reasoning and analysis
- Safety and alignment focus
- Artifacts and tool use
- Claude Opus, Sonnet, Haiku
GPT (OpenAI)¶
- Broadest ecosystem and integrations
- GPT-4o — multimodal (text, image, audio)
- ChatGPT and Assistants API
- Fine-tuning support
- Largest community and tooling
Gemini (Google)¶
- Natively multimodal
- Large context window (1M+ tokens)
- Google Search grounding
- Vertex AI integration
- Gemini Pro, Ultra, Flash
Comparison¶
- Reasoning: Claude ≥ GPT-4o > Gemini
- Coding: Claude ≈ GPT-4o > Gemini
- Multimodal: Gemini ≈ GPT-4o > Claude
- Price: Gemini Flash cheapest
- Context: Gemini 1M > Claude 200K > GPT 128K
Depends on the Use Case¶
Claude for reasoning and code, GPT for ecosystem, Gemini for multimodal and large context.
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