ChatGPT and Claude Projects for group work, and an alternative
Projects in ChatGPT and Claude keep files, instructions and chats together for one assistant. Knyte sits beside the assistant and keeps the group’s sources, decisions and plan, so the assistant each person already uses reads the same material.
Comparison checked 26 October 2026
01The short answer
If you write alone, Projects in ChatGPT or Claude may be enough to keep your files and instructions with the chat. Knyte works for one person too: sources, notes, decisions and plan in one knyte, and your assistant reads from there.
If you write together, Projects can be shared: ChatGPT lets you share from the Free plan up, Claude on Team and Enterprise. A project still belongs to one assistant, though. If each of you uses your own, or you want the reading and the decisions in one place, a knyte gives the group one place to read from.
02Side by side
| Aspect | ChatGPT / Claude Projects | Knyte |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Files, instructions and chats kept together for one assistant. | A knyte, for one person or a group, that your assistant reads. |
| Sharing | ChatGPT: from the Free plan up, by invitation or link, with chat or edit access. Claude: on Team and Enterprise, with view or edit access. | Everyone in the knyte sees the same thing. |
| AI assistant | The one the project belongs to: a ChatGPT project is used by ChatGPT, a Claude project by Claude. | The one you already use, such as Claude or ChatGPT. Each person can use their own. |
| Files and PDFs | ChatGPT: PDFs, spreadsheets, docs and images, with 5 files per project on Free, 25 on Go and Plus, and 40 on Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu. Claude: documents, text and code, and on paid plans Claude searches the material, which expands a project’s capacity by up to 10x. | A reader with numbered paragraphs, citations to page and paragraph, and each PDF’s reference details. |
| Decisions | Written down as a file or a saved answer. ChatGPT can save a response as a project source, and in Claude anything added to project knowledge is used across the project’s chats. | A place of their own, with the reasoning, who decided and when. |
| What the AI writes | ChatGPT: members see the project’s chats, and each shows who started it. Claude: your chats stay private until you share them. | Marked as the assistant’s, and waits until someone in the group has reviewed it. |
| Price | Included in the plan, free accounts too: ChatGPT Free allows 5 files per project and Claude Free five projects. | Free to start with a knyte of your own. Knyte Pro or a project pass when the group needs more. |
03Using both
Keep a project for what one assistant needs.
Instructions that shape how an assistant answers, and the files it should draw on, are what Projects do well. Keep using them for that. Put what the group reads and decides in the knyte, so every member’s assistant starts from the same place.
Frequently asked questions
Can a ChatGPT project be shared with a group?
Yes, from the Free plan up. You invite people with chat or edit access, or share a link. On Free a project can have up to 5 collaborators and 5 files, on Plus and Go 10 and 25, and on Pro 100 and 40.
Can a Claude project be shared with a group?
According to Anthropic’s help pages, project sharing is part of Team and Enterprise only. There you share a project with other people in your organisation, with view or edit access. Anthropic is also rolling out a new version of projects in beta, and this comparison follows the current one.
Do members of a shared project see each other’s chats?
In ChatGPT, yes: members can see the project’s chats, files and member list, and each chat shows who started it. In Claude, chats in a project stay private until the person who wrote them shares them. In a knyte, the others see what your assistant added, marked with your name. They don’t see your chats.
Does everyone in the group have to use the same assistant?
A project belongs to one assistant: one in ChatGPT to ChatGPT, one in Claude to Claude. If you share a project, you share it inside one of them. With Knyte, one person can use Claude and another ChatGPT. Both read the same knyte.
What does Knyte cost?
It’s free to start: one knyte of your own, two that others started and 100 MB of uploaded files. If you need more, Knyte Pro for one person in the group is enough, or a project pass for the knyte.
Start a knyte for your group.
Bring your sources, your group and the assistants you already use.