Kingy boundary comparison · held source-only candidate
ChatGPT vs Claude: which rules apply to your account?
This is not a performance contest. It maps the account and data-use boundaries each vendor currently documents so readers do not apply one product’s rule to another surface.
No winner. No scores. No hands-on testing. No benchmark or quality claims.
| Question | ChatGPT | Claude |
|---|---|---|
| Consumer plan surface | OpenAI lists personal Free, Go, Plus and Pro surfaces; features and limits differ. | Anthropic lists Free, Pro and Max individual surfaces; features and limits differ. |
| Consumer model improvement | OpenAI says personal-workspace data sharing is enabled by default and can be turned off for new conversations. | Anthropic says consumer chats/coding sessions may be used only under its described choices, safety review or other explicit opt-in circumstances. |
| Private/temporary mode | Temporary Chats are not used for training and are deleted after 30 days, subject to safety and legal qualifications. | Anthropic says Incognito chats are not used to improve Claude, even when Model Improvement is enabled. |
| Business/commercial default | Business, Enterprise, Edu and API inputs/outputs are not used for training by default. | Claude for Work and API inputs/outputs are not used for training by default, subject to explicit feedback/opt-in exceptions. |
| Managed account control | Contract and workspace controls govern named business products; this candidate does not generalize consumer settings. | Team and Enterprise data is organization-controlled; owner policies govern access and management. |
| API boundary | The API is separate from personal ChatGPT plans and controls. | The Anthropic API is separate from consumer Claude plans and controls. |
Use ChatGPT’s Passport when
You need to identify personal workspace, Temporary Chat or named business/API boundaries.
Open local ChatGPT candidateUse Claude’s Passport when
You need to identify consumer, managed Team/Enterprise or API treatment.
Open local Claude candidateWhat this comparison cannot tell you
- Which assistant is more accurate, faster or better for a task.
- How either control behaved in a Kingy test account.
- Your contractual retention, residency or compliance outcome.
- Locale-specific price or availability.
Official sources
- ChatGPT pricing — OpenAI
- Data Controls FAQ — OpenAI
- How your data is used to improve model performance — OpenAI
- Claude pricing — Anthropic
- Is my data used for model training? — Anthropic
- Is my data used for model training? Commercial products — Anthropic
- Who owns and manages the data of my team? — Anthropic
Freshness and corrections
Source checked 2026-08-09. No correction form or intake is enabled. Until a public correction workflow has an owner and retention policy, corrections are handled only through a separately authorized editorial process.