Still not clear what better than chatgpt is

Easiest way to settle it for yourself: take one real task you do every week, run the exact same prompt through two or three of them on the free tiers, and compare. Takes ten minutes and it'll tell you more than any ranking list.

Depends completely on what you use it for, which is why everyone gives you a different answer. For research where you need to see sources, Perplexity is handier because it shows where each bit came from. For long drafts and editing, plenty of people prefer Claude. Gemini is convenient if you already live in Google Docs. Honestly, for marketing work the bigger jump comes from writing a proper brief - audience, angle, what to avoid - rather than switching tools. What are you trying to get out of it?