We are not going to pretend otherwise, and a comparison that finds its author winning on every line is an advertisement. There are real reasons to choose the website, and most people should start there.
It opens in a browser on any device you own, it costs nothing to try, and there is nothing to install or set up. Maison is $799 a month, needs a Mac with Apple Silicon, and takes about an hour the first time. That is a real difference and it points one way.
If what you need is a good answer to a discrete question, a website that gives you a good answer to a discrete question is the correct tool. The case for Maison only starts to pay once the work is continuous and the context is expensive to rebuild.
Not in money. In explaining. If most of what you type is context that already exists somewhere in your own files, you are paying to re-supply what you already own, and it is the price a memory of your work removes.
The same background, the same constraints, the same list of things you already tried. That is context you own being thrown away on a schedule.
You get a very good description of the work, then you go and do the work. The gap between those two is where most of the hours actually go.
Client material, a team's private work, a family's circumstances. Where that sits stops being a preference and starts being the deciding question.
The intelligence is the cheap part. What you tell it is the expensive part. How the memory works, or how it compares to Claude.
One is a website you log into and the other is software you install on a machine you own. From that follow the four differences that matter: Maison keeps one continuous memory, it goes and does the work rather than describing it, everything it learns lives on your disk, and it is bought as software with people behind it rather than as a seat.
For some of what people use ChatGPT for, yes, but they are not the same kind of product. If what you need is a good answer to a discrete question, a website that gives you a good answer to a discrete question is the right tool and it is free. The case for Maison starts when the work is continuous and the context is expensive to rebuild.
When you want it now, on any device, for nothing, and when the work fits inside a single conversation. Maison costs $799 a month, needs a Mac with Apple Silicon, and takes about an hour the first time. That is a real difference and it points one way.
Ask what the last conversation cost you, not in money but in explaining. If most of what you type is context that already exists somewhere in your own files, you are paying to re-supply what you already own, and a memory of your work is what removes it.
$799 a month for one machine, plus $250 a month for each person you add, up to four people besides you. Your own Claude account does the reasoning and bills to you separately at Anthropic's rate, never marked up. It is high because it is early, and every install gets a person from here.