ChatGPT Review: Popular Best

ChatGPT has 700 million weekly active users. It's the default AI for most of the planet. But if you're a developer choosing your daily driver based on popularity alone, you're leaving performance on the table. We reviewed ChatGPT's current state — GPT-5.4, all pricing tiers, benchmarks, and the trade-offs nobody talks about. Here's the short version. What it does well The ecosystem is unmatched. Text, images, video, voice, Excel integration, Codex, 60+ app connections. If you need one tool that does everything, this is it. GPT-5.4's computer-use capability is real — it can see screens, issue clicks and keystrokes, and operate software autonomously. For agentic workflows, this matters. Where it falls short for devs Coding quality: Claude still leads on multi-file refactoring, complex instruction following, and SWE-bench. The 0.8% gap sounds small until you're debugging a 50-file PR. Creative output has declined. On the SM-Bench independent benchmark, GPT-5.4 scored 36.8% in creative wri