Strike has better DPA. It adds more DPS to an attack chain.
Swipe has a better animation and flows with an attack chain rather than being a clunky add on like strike.
If all you care about is performance, choose strike. If you're more into aesthetics, choose swipe.
However, if you're just starting out, take 'em both. Dump the one you like less later on. Nothing quite like having a full attack chain at level 4.
Be well, people of CoH.
To add sort of a follow up question (no pun intended), where do the two compare to Slash? Looking just at the numbers, it looks like for Brutes, at least, both are actually more effective, but there might be something I'm missing. I've been looking at trying a Claws Brute over a Scrapper mostly for that reason (I've never much cared for Slash's animation ever since the last Claws revamp, and I like to have both form and function), but I'm sure folks with a little more experience might know better.
Claws DPA based on Arcanatime in order of best to worst:
Scrapper:
Focus
Slash
Strike
Followup
Swipe
Brute:
Focus
Slash
Strike
Swipe
Followup
The highest possible single target chain for claws on both brutes and scrappers is followup, focus, slash, repeat. Edit: (Until someone works out a better one. 
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Be well, people of CoH.
Bill, I remember you were gonna work on a claws/sr brute. Did you ever make a build for it?
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I took both, but that's just me. I love the quickness of the damage output, and even though swipe has minor damage, it's beefed up with fury.
As far as slash goes, as perviously asked, it's very takeable as well since it's the only attack that takes the achille's heel proc. very helpful.
Which one should i take? I know the differences but i see builds with both. Anyway, just want some other opinions. Thanks