In the recent years several researchers have studied problems concerning the difference of two linear positive operators, but all the available literature on this topic is for operators having same basis functions. In the present paper, we deal with the general quantitative estimate for the difference of operators having different basis functions. In the end we provide some examples. The estimates for the differences of two operators can be obtained also using classical result of Shisha and Mond. Using numerical examples we will show that for particular cases our result improves the classical one,