It's not when you compare it to the right thing. > Was Claude better than Chatgpt 4 at certain tasks? Sure, it was also worse on some. For simple question/ans

It's not when you compare it to the right thing. > Was Claude better than Chatgpt 4 at certain tasks? Sure, it was also worse on some. For simple question/answer things, sure, but then you might as well use Gemini. For price-conscious personal use, its range of models are easily the best option, especially given the generous free tier. 4o-08 is much worse at following instructions and especially using tools intelligently than Sonnet3.5, it's not close. If for you the money isn't worth it, great, but there's a good reason why pretty much every single LLM-based tool is built on top of Sonnet instead of gpt-4o despite it being more expensive - clearly it's worth it. Those tools would love nothing more than to save costs by going with cheaper models.