[weird-eye-issue]

> In the early GPT-4 days I tested the same model side by side across the subscription and API. The API always produced a longer better answer.

If you are comparing responses in ChatGPT to the API, it's apples and oranges, since one applies a very opinionated system prompt and the other does not.

Since you haven't figured that out in 3 years, I didn't bother reading the rest of your comment.

[Natfan]

this comment feels pretty rude and disrespectful for no real reason?

[mattdmrs]

I don’t know about ChatGPT, but in Claude Code I _have_ been able to do a side-by-side comparison of API-based metered billing vs subscription billing, in the same UI. You just switch from one to the other using /login.

You should probably not be so quick to dismiss what people say as nonsense.