We asked ChatGPT to compare Scout Ai against ChatGPT - Below are the exact results extracted from ChatGPT and copied here!
Quick Overview Scout Ai vs ChatGPT​
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Scout AI is a specialised organisational tool: it's built to make sense of your own data, especially when that data is large, complex, and varied. It’s more than a search — it’s about insight and action.
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ChatGPT is a generalist conversational agent / content creator: incredibly versatile, great for a wide variety of use-cases, but less tailored to private document management out of the box.
In short: Scout AI is better when the challenge is *“find and act on hidden knowledge within my files”. ChatGPT is better when the challenge is *“help me think, write, learn, or solve problems broadly”.
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How Many Files ChatGPT Can Handle
Based on OpenAI’s current published limits:
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You can upload up to 20 files per GPT (i.e., per “custom GPT” / session) over the lifetime of that GPT.
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There are rate limits: for example, on some plans (e.g. GPT-4 / Plus), you can upload up to 80 files every 3 hours.
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File size limits: generally 512MB per file.
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There are token limits for document content: text/document files are capped at ~2 million tokens per file.
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Storage caps apply: e.g., per-user upload storage limit is 10 GB.
So practically, even though you might “upload many files over time,” there are constraints on how many can be active in a given GPT / conversation and how big they are.
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How Many Files Scout AI Can Handle
Web search:
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Scout AI supports an “unlimited number of document files” to be ingested and indexed.
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It explicitly says you can work with “millions of indexed files”.
In other words, Scout AI is built to scale to very large document repositories, without the same per-file or per-session upload limits that ChatGPT has.
Comparison & Implications
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Scale: Scout AI is clearly designed for enterprise-level document management. If your organisation has thousands or millions of files (PDFs, archives, scanned docs, emails), Scout AI is more suitable.
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Use Case: Use ChatGPT when dealing with a moderate number of files (for example, uploading a handful of documents to summarise, analyse, or discuss). Scout AI is better when you want to search across a huge repository all the time.
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Performance / Cost Trade: Even if you could upload a lot of files into ChatGPT via repeated sessions, performance (context window, relevance) and cost may become limiting. Scout AI is optimised for this use case.
