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ChatGPT vs Claude Cowork

ChatGPT and Claude Cowork side by side on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar, on Oct 29, 2026: ChatGPT is 🚀 Rising with a hype score of 28 and Claude Cowork is 💤 Quiet with 19. The radar’s curated relations list them as competitors.

Data note: 7 of the last 14 days were not collected live. No collection ran on Oct 22–Oct 28, or a later run refilled those days at once. Every hype score is measured against the 14 days before it and those days are thin, so the scores, the stages and the week-over-week theme trends may read higher than they are until they leave that window on Nov 12.

At a glance

MeasureChatGPTClaude Cowork
Stage🚀 Rising💤 Quiet
Hype score27.919.1
7-day change+20.8+19.1
In hype sinceOct 29, 2026not in hype now
Peak, 30 days37.6 on Oct 15, 202619.7 on Oct 6, 2026
Stories in 7 days57936
Share of voice, 7 days10%0.3%
Sources above normal2 of 192 of 17
Category🤖 Agents🤖 Agents

Hype score, last 30 days

Both hype scores by day, newest first; on the page’s chart, ChatGPT is the solid line and Claude Cowork the dashed one.

DayChatGPTClaude Cowork
Oct 29, 202627.919.1
Oct 28, 202616.21
Oct 27, 202616.10
Oct 26, 20262.90
Oct 25, 202600
Oct 24, 202600
Oct 23, 20266.30
Oct 22, 20267.10
Oct 21, 202611.30
Oct 20, 202610.71.1
Oct 19, 202617.90
Oct 18, 20260.90
Oct 17, 20262.90.3
Oct 16, 202630.62.7
Oct 15, 202637.60.9
Oct 14, 202624.61.4
Oct 13, 202627.50.4
Oct 12, 20264.72.2
Oct 11, 20261.50
Oct 10, 20260.80
Oct 9, 202616.30.5
Oct 8, 202625.10.5
Oct 7, 202616.28.4
Oct 6, 202621.519.7
Oct 5, 20264.63.6
Oct 4, 20261.20.6
Oct 3, 202612.70
Oct 2, 202619.30.5
Oct 1, 20262.62.8
Sep 30, 202617.80

Shared themes

What the stories of both topics in the last 7 days are about, as classified by the Jev model (a story can carry several themes):

ChatGPT: stories behind it

  1. chatgpt chat and work merged — Reddit (r/codex) · Oct 28 · score 964 · 367 comments
  2. They just merged my normal ChatGPT with ChatGPT Work... — Reddit (r/ChatGPT) · Oct 28 · score 289 · 89 comments
  3. API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions — Reddit (r/OpenAI) · Oct 28 · score 100 · 19 comments
  4. She Worried About Cutting Her Medication Dose. ChatGPT Told Her to Push On — Hacker News (nytimes.com) · Oct 27 · score 71 · 27 comments
  5. Woman with epilepsy dies after taking ChatGPT medical advice — Hacker News (finance.yahoo.com) · Oct 27 · score 6 · 5 comments

Claude Cowork: stories behind it

  1. A profile of Tencent Cloud CEO Dowson Tong, who is shifting Tencent's AI focus toward businesses and betting on its Claude Cowork-style assistant WorkBuddy — Techmeme (Bloomberg) · Oct 29
  2. College student building a local alternative to Claude Code and Cowork — Reddit (r/LocalLLM) · Oct 29
  3. Claude Cowork update made me miss lunch for 2 days consecutively. Intention to sue! — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Oct 29
  4. SharedRoot: how Claude Cowork escaped its Linux VM — Google News (RSS) (OrcaRouter) · Oct 30
  5. Show HN: Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT — Hacker News (github.com) · Oct 26 · score 175 · 43 comments

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