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I compared every all-in-one AI tool that's on the market right now to find out which tool you should actually be using for your AI generations. Because if you're still using a single subscription like Cling, Runway, Vio 3.1, or even Sora, then you're not only extremely limited to that quality, you're also missing out on a lot of features like image generation, lip sync, or even image and video upscale. And that is just to name a few.
And that's why in this video, we will be comparing these six tools that all offer that all-in-one experience. And by the end of this video, you will know exactly which tools the best based on these four categories.
First up, we're testing power. How many and what kind of AI models are available on that platform. Second, we're taking a look at innovation. What are the unique features that makes that platform [music] stand out? Next up, we have experience. How smooth and intuitive is it to use each platform? And trust me, this one is important because choosing the wrong one can be very frustrating. Lastly, we have value. What is the real cost per generation? No more vague stuff with the credit system. We're going to calculate what it will actually cost you in dollar.
This video is not sponsored by any of the tools that I'm mentioning in this video. While I have worked with most of them, that doesn't affect anything [music] in terms of the ranking or in terms of the comparison. I'm just using everything I know from the website and I'm comparing it to each other giving you as much of a complete picture to make your decision.
Okay, let's compare the power of each platform. How many models are available on each platform and what kind of models are available because it doesn't really matter like how many it matters that they have the right models on that platform.
Let's start off with Freepick. Now on Freepick you have this AI suite where you can do image, video, audio and more. If we check out the image generator, then we can see we have a bunch of different models available. We have Cream, which is nice because Cream I used that an insane amount of times. We also have Flux, which is also quite good. We have Flux Context and we have also Flux 1.1. Then we have Google Nano Banana and also Google image 4. And then we have Mystic, which I don't really use. I would mostly advise to use Cream 4.0 and Nano Banana at this point. Ideogram is also great for generating characters.
Now if we take that over to the video generators then here you can see on Freepick it has most of the video generators that you want to use on the platform we have Google we have Sora we have cling we have both cling 2.5 and cling 2.1 and we have one 2.5 which is great we have minimax and we also have seance in my opinion those are already like the five or six tools that I am using the most the other tools like pix and runway are also nice to have in terms of the other features that we have so if we go Back to the AI tools, then we can see we even have a voice generator from 11Labs integrated. We also have other features like a music generator. They're using 11 Labs music for this. And we also have lip sync, but it doesn't state what model they're using. So, we also have a video and image upscaler by Topaz Labs, which is very good.
All in all, in terms of the power that Freepig has, it is very complete. It has like almost everything that you need. I'm missing like a few minor things, but more on that later. And if I had to rank this, I put free pick at A because I know there's one tool that's more [music] powerful.
Now, let's move over to the next tool, which is Art List. So, Art List used to be more of a music library or more of a creator tool where you can get sound effects, some B-roll, and also music. Now, they have introduced AI image and video on their platform, and they also have AI voiceover. In terms of the text to image models, we have I believe they're using clink for this. But if we switch over to the image to image, so we have image editing necessarily. We have ced 4.0 nano banana and flux content which is quite nice. But I would love to have nano banana flux content also as text to image. And also maybe we add like flux or some other models in here too.
Then if we switch over to the video model then we have V3 3.1. We have Sora 2 and Sora 2 Pro and we have Clink 2.5. And if you switch that over to image to video, you also have Clink 2.1 for start and end frame and also VO for start and end frame. I would love to see one 2.5 here, but we also have Cense 1.0 Pro. So that's good already.
Now with Art List, you also have a audio model where you can generate voiceovers. It does not state which model they're using inside of this, but you can clone your voice and you can use some of their own voice overs, which is nice to have. So, that is it with Art List. It's not that much, but it has the essentials. In terms of the ranking, Art List is a new platform when it comes to AI. So, I'm going to put this at the B tier. I think they have some of the essential tools, but I feel like they're still lacking some of the more advanced models. like I would love to see runway 1 2.5 and maybe another few lip sync models. So that's why I'm putting it in B tier.
Moving on, we got Open Art. And with Open Art, if we go over to the images, we see that we have Cream 4.0, Nano Banana, Flux Deaf, Flux Context, like a lot of different fluxes. We even have a custom model, which is open art photo realistic. We have Chat GPT, Hanuan, Cadream, [music] Quen, image, ideoggram, image gen. We have some other models that you don't see that often. Like they have integrated an insane amount of different models. Honestly, I'm not sure if you would be using all of these, but it's nice to have the option to switch between a lot of different models. And you can also make your own custom model if you want to. So, for example, I made my own AI influencer model that I created by training something using Open Art.
When we switch over to video, you have an insane amount of options here. So if we start off by text to video then you can see we have cling 2.5 seed dance cling [music] sora 2 1 vo miniax pix first vidu which is not seen by freep pickic and by the other ones we also have pika hunan and those models we already have but those are a bit of the older models. Now if we then switch over to image we can see that we have almost the same models. I don't think there are any different models here but we do also have runway. And now for the elements which is basically the ingredients feature on VO 3.1. We also have cling and we have VU.
Now then for the audio, this one I find interesting. We do have a custom model of how you can add in some audio to your video. So if you have some footage that you want to add in there, it will add that using this feature. [music] Besides that, we have upscale. This is by Topas Labs. And if we want to lip-s sync it, we can select between all of these different models, which is open art, lip sync, omni, [music] hedra, fast, cling, and creatify aurora. The last thing that I have to mention here, which I love, is that we also have runway act 2 integrated in open art. So that is good to have in there. Besides that, it has audio. So here we have 11lapse v2 and v3. You can clone your own voice, I believe. So here you can make your own voice clone and you can also train your own models. So here you can train your model. I already mentioned that. So that is it for open art. In my opinion, what they do differently than freepic is they have that better lip sync feature. I use that a lot for my videos. So that's why I'm using open art quite a few times. And that's why for this one I'm going to keep it the same as Freepick though because it's not that significant. But if I could put place this in the middle here, I would do it. [music]
Next up, we have Adobe Firefly. That is one of the biggest brands that is doing this AI stuff. They've launched Firefly and they've now integrated a bunch of different models. If we go over to image text to image right here, then we can see we have Firefly Image 4. Honestly, I don't know if anyone is actually using this, but I would be using either like Flux Contact Max or like Nano Banana. And I love to see like Cream in here. They don't have any of the Chinese models in the image. I'm not sure why. I think it has something to do with security, but they do have chip and they do also have runway gen 4 image.
Now, if we switch over to the video, then for video, we have a few different models. So, we have Firefly Video. Again, I don't think anyone's actually using this. We have some of the more unique models like Pika, Ray 3, Ray 3 HDR. We have VO and that's it. We don't have Cling. We don't have one. We don't have C dance. I would love to use this, but I'm missing these tools. Now, they do have some like custom styles to it and they trying to help you make something cool out of it. But in terms of the ranking, I think this is worse than art list because you don't have C dance, C dream Dream, one 2.5, Halo, Cling, like those are the models I would need and those are also really cheap models that I would love to see in my all-in-one tool. So, sorry Firefly, I'm going to put you in the seat here.
Next up, we have Weev AAI. And this is one of the more advanced AI tools. So, I will be more in depth of what you can do with this and why it's unique in the next category. But if we go into Weevai and then over here, we can see all the different models. So we have all of the image models like we have reef hickfield image GPT image all the Google ones we have flux we have mystic we have recraft ideoggram minimax image stable diffusion bria delhi we have luma even nv video don't think anyone is using that then we have like all of the image editors so we have quen we have reef edit we have runway cadam cedit honestly this is endless like you have every model in weevi in terms of the video we have all of models. We even have LTX2 video. We have Sora 2. We have Hicksfield 1. We have Google Moon Valley. Moon Valley is not a plus to have. You don't you don't want to use Moon Valley. Like trust me, don't even waste your credits on this. Don't even look at Moon Valley. Like just delete Moon Valley. Just it's not a it's it's almost a minus to have Moon Valley because it's so bad. Like trust me, right now it's so bad. But hey, if you want to waste your credits, go ahead. Then we have Pixers. We have runway. We have [music] like everything. We even have Skywels. We have Huan.
So the other thing with Weevi is if you don't have the model that you want to use and then here you can import your model. If I zoom in on this, you can import your model directly from falli or cividi or replicate. That is quite insane. For example, the one thing I didn't find here is [music] like Cream only edit. I want to use Cdream 4 for generation like text to image. And here we can just import that model and then we have it [music] in our weave workflow. And that's why I'm putting this in the S tier. Like sorry free pick and open arts I I both love these tools but we for this because it's so custom it has to be S tier.
Now lastly for this category let's see how Hickfield does. So in Hickfield AI we do have a few different options. We have image video edit. We have even popcorn which I will come to later. But let's start off by image. If we generate an image right here then we have Hicksfield soul which is quite good for training your own [music] character. For example, I trained myself here based on like 80 different images that I had. [music] And next up, we have tools like Nano Manana, Cream, Flux Context. We have GPT. We have even have Multi Reference. Going to be completely honest with you there. I I never used this one. Then we have one 2.2. Yeah, it's [music] it's it's good. It's not unnecessarily many, but it's the good models that you want to use. You main want to use probably Nanomana Cream 4.0. Hickfield Souls is nice to have. But let's move over to the video tools. So, we have create a video. Then here we can change between Sora, we have Hicksfield, their own models and they have all of these custom cool templates. So they have like the VFX templates with all of these different weird going effects like you see a few on the screen right here. Then we have Sora 2, we have VO cling, then we have one 2.5 and you see for some they have more and for some they have less of these effects or like these I call [music] them like prompt templates. If you don't know what you want to create, you can look at this for inspiration. So we have 1 2.5 VO miniax cense and again we have one. So that is it in terms of video also have I have to mention this we have cling speak. So you can use this for lip sync I believe and we also have the lip sync studio where you can use a number of different models. So right now we're using clink speak but you can also do one 2.5 hickfield infinity talk and more. [music] Lastly they have the upscalers the image editors and all of that jazz in there. Honestly, Hicksfield quite good, quite similar to Open Art and Freepick. So therefore, I'm also putting this in the A tier. I would say though, right here, just in terms of models, I think we is best. It's also the most complicated tool. The tool that you're most likely using is in the A tier right here, which will be Free Pick, Open Art, or Hicksfield. And B tier has some work to do. C tier, I'm very disappointed that we don't have any of the Chinese models. I don't know what the beef is, but they're cheap, they're good, so please include them.
Moving on, we got innovation. What is the unique feature that makes this platform stand out? So, I had to wait a few days for this because a lot is happening currently in the iSpace and I want this to be as updated as possible. So, right now a few things have changed. Weevi just got acquired by Figma, which is huge news and it might change a few things. Then we have Adobe like this week of recording there was Adobe Max and with that they introduced a few new features. So, by the time of you watching this, some other changes might have happened, but let's talk about the main unique features from each platform. Let's compare them and let's see who is actually the best.
We're starting off with Freepic. Now, Freepick has a lot of features. I'm not going to lie, it has probably some of the most features in their tool, but in terms of uniqueness, there's actually not a lot going on. Like, I've gone through everything and the only few things that stand out to me is this [music] assistant tool. But you will find out most of these tools have a similar style assistant. So what you can do for example with this is you can generate new poses. So you can open up your own character. So let's say I open up this one. I already did it here. Use this image and then run the workflow. It will generate multiple different poses of me. And this is kind of like chachi pit style. So this is like an image generator that just helps you come up with different poses without having to type in any prompt. Pretty cool but not that special.
Now, in terms of other features that you can use right now on Freepic, we have this video project editor, which is quite cool because here you can just use their editor instead of using something like Adobe Premiere. And here you can start like generating your videos, put them into your timeline and like export them. But this again is not really unique because you will see that other tools have this same type of editor. The only thing that currently stands out to me is spaces. Okay, so as expected, Freepick launched Spaces. I was on a short holiday. We had to delay this video as we were working on it because I wanted to include this um as this is part of innovation and I knew it was going to launch but not when I was away. That's unfortunate. Okay, quick rundown what spaces is. Essentially, let me show you this example by RPN. Essentially, it is weevai but the AliExpress version uh free pick. I'm still interested in a sponsorship if you want to work with me. But right now, I checked it out. Like in terms of what you can do with it, it feels like a limited version of Weevi. Like you can make your text prompt. So you have a text bar right here. Then you can attach that to a image generator. Then you can attach that to a image upscaler or a video generator. And then you can add in like multiple different start and end frames, an assistant. And the only thing I find unique is the camera angle thing. It's very limited right now. It's It's also still in beta. So yeah, if you want to have the full shebang, I would use Weevi, but hey, I just want to add this segment. Let's move on with the video. And keep in mind, I haven't changed the rating because of this. So right now, I'm going to put Free Pick unfortunately at the B tier because it is a great tool, but in terms of innovation, there's nothing that is that unique that I would use Freepick over the other tools.
Okay. Then we have Art List. And the main thing that's unique about Art List is having the whole library of music, footage, and sound effects in the same platform under the same subscription. Although for this again, if you have the AI suite, then you don't get access to the music, the footage, the sound effects. You only get access to the AI features. And in terms of AI features, the only thing that we have which stands out are these like templates. But other than that, there's currently not much going on on Art List in terms of the unique features that it has. So only if you're already using like for example a person like me who needs stock footage, this is a good upgrade because then you have the music, you have the footage, you have the sound effects, the template, LS, and a bunch of other stuff. But if you just have to create a few images or some videos, it's good to get the Artist Max plan because then you can do that under the same subscription. So, for art list, I'm probably going to break some hearts here and maybe a few future brand deals, but for innovation, I'm going to put this in the seat tier.
Then, we have Open Art. And with Open Art, you got a few unique features in there. Let me start off by the story. In here, you can make a music video, a character vlog, an explainer video, and even an ASMR video. Now, I've made these before, and what you can do is you can make like a singing video, narrative, visualizer, and it's pretty cool. like with your music and your artist or in this case your character. You can either make it from scratch or you can make it just on a prompt. So even without adding in a prompt you will have your full like script that generates the images and even the videos and with that you get your own editing timeline. So let me actually show you the editor. So with the editor you can add in your scenes in the timeline pretty similar to freepic. You can also view it in a storyboard mode and you can generate more images and videos right here which is pretty convenient if you're not using a real editor. Apart from that, a few unique features that I really like is how much customizability you have when generating images. For example, I can choose here to do like face reference. I can do a pose reference. I can open the pose editor and position my character like in any way I want. Besides that, it got its own like image editor where you can make any changes. So you don't really need Photoshop if you want to make some quick easy changes. Then you also have the chat toedit feature kind of like how it works with freepic. You can choose any model. You can choose your character and then you can switch between nano banana, seedream, flux, everything. The last thing that I really like is motion sync on the videos using runway act 2. Like there's barely any other tool that has this. I believe Higfield might have this and maybe Wee. All in all, it's a very complete tool and it is doing some of its own things like it's not following all the trends. It's trying unique things here. So, for that reason, I'm going to put Open Art on the A tier.
Then we have Adobe Firefly and a lot of new stuff is currently happening here. A lot of things are still unfortunately on beta. Same as with Freepick. I want to try this out, but I can't yet because there is a wait list. Then we have create a board. And this is the thing that I really like because this is a unique way that not many other tools have in place. So with the boards feature, you can in a clear overview see all of your generations. It is sometimes a bit slow though I must say that. But to give you an idea like you can go from like your details and inspiration and you can literally like idiate based on all of your generations. You can easily like reorganize your board just by right clicking on it and just by changing this into like rows, into columns, into anything that you want. The other thing which is great about Adobe is if you want to use like this vase for example and I want to change something in Photoshop, I can just click on open copy in Photoshop and it will open it right there. You can do the same with Adobe Illustrator, same with Adobe After Effects and basically the whole Creative Cloud suite. The only thing is you need to be part of the whole ecosystem of Adobe. And this is about like 70 bucks. So that makes this a whole lot more expensive. But if you are a Adobe user, this might be worth to get. But then again, we don't have all of the Chinese models, so that still sucks. But in terms of how well Firefly is integrated in the ecosystem, I must say like I really like that. And for that reason, alongside with the unique feature of the storyboard, I'm going to put Adobe inside the A tier.
Next up, we got Hicksfield. And if you are a beginner, then this might be the perfect tool for you. And let me explain why. The thing with Hicksfield is there's so much that they have made in terms of templates that you can use right away out of the box if you have no idea how to use AI. All of these different templates are already like done for you. For example, here we have visual effects. You can see we can have all kind of cool going on. We have Wonderland right there. We have I don't even know what this is. We have this earth zoom out that you probably have seen like all over social media. There's literally an endless library of effects that you can use right off the bat. This makes it perfect for people that have no idea how to use AI, that are just getting started and that want to experiment. Besides that, Hicksfield has this new popcorn feature where it's kind of like a storyboard. You can put in up to like four images as a reference and it's using that image reference to create like a storyboard with all kind of different scenes for your image or your video project. Another unique thing about Hicksfield is that we have the draw to video feature. Personally, I'm not using this, but it is pretty cool that you can turn a sketch into a different pose, having him hold an object or even doing some other cool stuff by blending in different images with your own sketch. Also, Hicksfield has the assist feature as well. This is kind of like a chip. It can help you with prompting. This is pretty cool, but also pretty basic because Hicksfield is such easy to use thanks to the templates for beginners and because it is, in my opinion, almost the only tool that provides that in-depth amount of templates to the public. I'm going to put Hicksfield on the S tier.
Last but not least, we have Weevi. And there's just so much to tell about this tool in terms of like innovation. And I think that's also the reason why Figma acquired it because they can see that they're doing their best to make something unique here. Now, what I really like about this is how you can really separate your entire workflow. It is different from like Adobe Firefly, but it works as follows. So, you can add in like your file and you can attach it by this like string right here to a input. So, for example, right here we're using Mystic and we're using it as a style image, but you can also use it as a control image. Then you can attach your prompt and basically you can see your entire workflow of how you get from like this basic image to like this like generated image. And then a few of the unique features what I really like is how you have like these 3D generators or these compositors into Weevi. So for example, I got this boat right here and as you can see we have this compositor and this joins these two boats in this place. So, if I were to change around this boat, so for example, I just made it accidentally smaller. We can see it's changing live on the screen right here. And that is what's pretty cool about Weevi that you can live make these changes. So, for example, what we did here is if you put those boats like side by side like this for example, and then you generate the image using runway gen 4 image using this prompt, it [music] is brought to life into a I believe this is named a numakia. And now we can bring that to life in a video using Google V3. And we have something like this. So that is quite insane. So this workflow, by the way, is not made by me. This is made by Rory Flynn, a very talented Wee user who's made this and it's insane. And I like he shared it. I copied it. And that's also a great thing about Weevi. can share these boards with anyone else and they can use your workflow in their own account. And this is just the service level of what is possible with Weei. Like I have a few of my own boards that I'm not really sharing with anyone else. But for example, here I have one where I use one to literally change my outfit and it's just as simple as running this. You can see all the connections that I made. This is something which is like, if you want to create somewhat of a product or if you want to create your own workflow, you can use Weevi and that's what makes this unique [music] in my opinion. Now for this reason because there's nothing like it. Freepick is trying to copy it. Adobe will probably copy it too. I'm going to put Weevi at the S tier right here.
So there you have it. Hicksfield and Weevi are in the S tier. They're in my opinion the most innovative, but that doesn't make the rest a bad choice. Open Art and Firefly are still a really good choice and they're constantly innovating to get better. Free pick is also getting there. Once they launch that new feature, the spaces feature, pretty much the wee copy. I think it will also be an A tier player. Then Art List. They're late to the game, but they have some work to do.
Next up, we got experience. How smooth and intuitive is it to work with each of these platforms? And keep in mind, this is based on my own experience. Like I have literally a lovehate relationship with each and every of these tools. So I will point out what I like, what I dislike, and what I think needs some improvement. So please don't shoot the messenger. This is my own experience.
Starting off again, we have Freepic. And Freepick, a lot of people are using it. A lot of people love it. I have a few things that I dislike and a lot of things that I do like about Freepic. Let me walk you through it. So the first thing that I find strange on Freepic is we have the home. So here we are like talking about what you want to create using all of the AI tools. Then you can see your recent creations. You can get inspired and then if you scroll down there's nothing but then you have the AI suit. So [music] this is kind of like the same what can I help you create. So here we have again all of the tools that they have. Then we have our recent creations. We have our workflows what's new and the community. Then you also have all tools. So here again you can find like you cannot click on this. You can only hover over this. It is a bit confusing that you have like three different tabs. Like why isn't all tools in AI Suite the same? And the other thing that I dislike is that with the image generator, you have like these models. And if you double click on it, then you can see which model you want [music] to choose. In my opinion, this looks a bit basic. But then if we switch over to video, then here if we choose a model, we get this awesome like screen where it's a bit more of an overview. It is a bit messy. Like there's a lot of information on the screen currently and it's like giving me a bit of an error, but I might be slightly autistic. So yeah, take that with a grain of salt. Other than that, I really like free pick. I really like how the UI is designed. I like that you can customize everything. So for example, for the view, you can change the row to a grid. You can go from medium to large images. Now you can also filter it based on like your tool style, color. Like this is really useful. And this is what you need. [music] Another thing I do like is when you have generated your image, then you can easily upscale it. You can recreate it. You can also add this to a video project and you can move it to a folder. So for example, right here I've added this one as a folder so it can keep everything organized. I would say though like I find this to be like having to click upscale and then using it separately, using all the settings and then upscaling it. It is intuitive. It gives you a lot of controls, but it is like one extra step. Like I would have loved to just click upskill and boom, it's done [music] for me. Another thing that I do like about Freepick is that while it might be overwhelming when you first get started with this, you can get inspired by the community and the tutorials. So, you have a ton of different tutorials that will help you get started with Freepick, especially for people that want to get started with this. This is super useful. And lastly, to end it off, one thing that I find strange is you have this search bar. So, for example, I was looking for a tool. Let's say the image upscaler. I cannot find the tool right here. Like, if I search for this, then it brings me over to like stock footage as Freepick used to do like a lot of stock footage. So, I would love to have like the features that I'm looking for in the search bar added to this so that you can go to like the upscaler instead of going through like all tools. But, that's just something that you need to get used to. Now, in terms of the ranking for free pick, I'm going to put it in the A tier. It's good, but it has like a small improvement to go through until I put it in the S tier.
Okay, then we have art list. [music] And this UI got me slightly confused because what it is going on with art list. If you go on the home screen, I personally never use this. I can just go straight to like the footage or straight to like the sound effects. But over here, you can go over to AI image and then it brings you over to this next tab. I dislike how they have position AI image and video in the same category. Like I would love to have this like separately because now if I want to switch over from image, I just have to toggle this and then I'm doing my [music] videos. Another thing I kind of find strange with like the image generator from art list is I have no idea what we're using here to generate the images. It gives me like these different like styles [music] and I could just use this and then I can click on generate and then it will start generating. So for example here I have this image of this fish. I can click on this, can download it, I can transform it. So if I click transform, then we will do the image editor. Brings me over to the next models which is N banana seat 4 flux contact which is pretty cool. We have control over what kind of like output we want to have it. But the thing that I find annoying here is if I click on animate, it starts with this suggested prompt. And I'm not sure like why, but yeah, let's say you need some help, it will give you that prompt. Then for the model, you can switch here. would love to have a bit of a visual to see like, oh, which one is good for what. Like this is all bit of information overload to me. Other than that, it's pretty basic. Like there are no like strange buttons you need to press. There are no like other things you need to do or to toggle. It's just you can generate your images, you can generate your videos. That's it. Pretty straightforward. If you want to upscale your image or your video, you click on this button. So, for example, here I can click on this to upscale it to 4K, [music] which is quite cool. Yeah. Other than that, that's it. Because of those reasons and compared to all the other tools, I'm going to put Art List in the C tier. It is basic. It does the job, but there's not much like that like really enhances that experience.
Okay, now let's talk about the experience of Open Art. So on Open Art, you have a lot going on on the main home screen. So you can start off with your story. You can see all the AI tools that they have. If you click on more, this will bring you over, I believe, to all the tools that they have. So here you can see every little thing and it's separated under like each of these categories which is pretty useful and gives you pretty straightforward like if you want to create a character you go here then you create your character. If you want to create a video you go here click on image to video or text to video. Now I like also this bar on the left where you can quickly switch between story video image and character and also audio. I actually switch a lot between like video and image but there are a few things that I dislike where I think like open art should work on this. So, for example, starting off by image, if we click on create image right here, I dislike how in the image generation tab, we have my videos and my images mixed together, like they're both in the same place. Right now, there's no way how I can filter this. So, [music] I would say this filtering method needs to be a little bit updated because I can filter it on my own models, the public models, but this is not really how I would like to filter it. I would like to filter it like, oh, I used nano banana for this. Oh, I use Cedrink for that. Right now, the only thing that's really useful is the favorite, but this is not really that new. Most [music] tools have this or they have like a folder feature. Having a folder feature actually would be useful, too. But the other things what I do like about this is that you have a lot of control when generating your images, putting in your references, and also like your output. [music] So, you can do all of the different aspect ratios. You can change up the resolution. It works pretty intuitive. You just operate through this left bar and then [music] to this bar and then you can see your results. You can scale in or zoom out over here if you want to have more visuals on the screen. [music] And if we go over to video now then here in image to video and overall in video you can see that it is separated here perfectly. So I would love to have this separated on image too. Fortunately that's not a thing. I do like how everything else is pretty easy to find. Like I know like oh I'm in image to video now. I want to switch over to lip sync. Okay, I can just do that under that same tab. [music] I can upscale my video here. But a thing with that I must say is also how good it is if you generate your images that you can just straight up use this image and then use this as an image to video, use this in chat to edit, use this as a subject reference. You can also straight up upscale your image using all of these different ways to upscale. You can go to ultimate upscale and you can also straight up go to video [music] generation. I think in terms of like usability, UI, workflow, and overall experience, like for me, when I first got started with this tool, it was pretty intuitive. And that's why I'm putting this in the [music] S tier.
Then let's talk about Adobe. And like the other tools, this one is like constantly updating. By the way, any brands that are watching this, don't shoot the messenger. I'm just doing my job here. If I have complaints, that's part of your job, too. Like, you need to take this as ways to improve your product. So with Adobe I find a few things strange. For example, we are on the home screen right now and here we can use this image or video generation bar. Now then we can switch between like Gemini and the Firefly images. But if I then click on more, it will open up a new tab here. I can start writing my prompt and I can like switch in between these different modes, different settings. And overall pretty [music] basic, pretty standard. You can see your previous generations. Thing I find strange though is I go to gallery then I see other people's generations. Like I would love to see my own generations right here. Other than that, I feel like Firefly has made the UX UI in a way that you only want to use this through the boards. And I think that's why they're massively pushing this. Like in my experience, Firefly truly shines when using like these boards. If you're not using the boards, you don't have the best experience in my opinion. So once we're in a board, it's super easy to go through everything. Like it's a bit slow in my opinion, but once you get started with this, you come to understand how to use it. With that said, I've gone through like a 30inut demo at FitSummit from Adobe Firefly and they walk me through everything and then I finally understand like how powerful this is. But it takes some time to get used to this. A few things I don't like is let's say I start generating a video using Google Vo 3.1. For some reason, I can only use first frame. I'm not sure like where the last frame is. Um, I know it's possible and I know they've integrated this. For example, if I switch over to Firefly video, I can do first frame and last frame. I don't know where this is, but I'm waiting on it. Please add this in there. Like, why why don't we have this? Like, this is a feature you would need. You could only do it right now through Pika or through like let's say Ray 3 or Firefly Video. Overall, I think people will have a bit of a learning curve getting started with Adobe. And for that reason, and also because it feels somewhat limited. I'm putting this in the B tier. Like, it has the potential, but it has some work to do. Same like Art List, they both have some work to do to make it a lot better in terms of experience.
Next up, we got Hicksfield. And if we're talking about like information overload on the screen, then Hicksfield is the program for you. But it's honestly in quite a good way because it shows you what is possible on this platform. Honestly, I find everything pretty conveniently easy to find. Like I can just go from image to video pretty easily. So if we just create an image, then we move right away in the image generator. They [music] position it a little bit differently. So here you can view your prompt. Then you can add in your image if you want to use that instead of a prompt. Then you can switch between all the different models. So let's see if we do Cream. Then you can switch the quality. So you can switch from basic to high. And now you can choose your aspect ratio and choose the number of images you want to make. And then you can choose if you want to add in a limited. And then you can start generating. Now in terms of the queue, I I find this one pretty annoying, especially with generating like videos. If we move over to there, I dislike how hard it is to find everything. This is in my opinion like too big of a sample here. I would love to like toggle this down a little bit and make this smaller so I can easily view my generations. Like now let's say I want to see the video that I generated like 3 days ago. I need to scroll like down to see what I have generated. Overall it is super easy to navigate through Hicksfield. Like you can do anything that you'd like and you can just find it in the image, video, you can do edit character and you can see like all the tools that you need. And if you want to change like a style or if you want to use one of their templates, then you can choose. So right here, they're conveniently separated through each model and you can choose what you want to make. The main thing again, what I dislike is that you cannot really find your assets. Like I've gone through every little thing here, and please correct me if I'm wrong in the comments, but like I would love to see like how can I easily find both my images and videos. Like let's say I made something a month ago and I want to find it. How can I find [music] it instead of like just using the bookmark page? So, this is the only way I could now find it. If I go over to my boards, [music] then I can find my folders here. But I would love to have something like you have here with images where you can see all of the generations that you have done for video. And for that reason, I would love to put this in S tier. But because I cannot really find the videos that easily, I'm putting this in a tier. But if it has that feature, easily S tier.
Then we have Wee. In terms of experience, this might be the most advanced tool that is pretty hard to learn for beginners. Like if you're just starting out, you will be overwhelmed by this. Like I guarantee even I was like slightly confused and like
Honestly, a bit overwhelmed with everything you could do in this tool. But let me just show you like what I mean by that. For example, I have this AI after generation and I can segment this in different like shot types in different spaces what I want to do and I put all of this together. So let's say I change one of these things. Now my prompt just changed. Like I changed this from young woman to old man. And now we have the prompt changed here. So you can add in like all of these inputs. And that's just one of the many things you can do.
So this is a concentrator. There's so many features in here that you have probably never heard of that you're 100% going to get confused at. In terms of using Weevi, it is going to be quite a bit of a learning curve. I've explained this tool to people on my team and it took them a few days to figure out. But once you get the hang of this, this is pretty cool for experts that want to make insane customizable ports and all of that.
The other thing about Weevi is it it [music] feels a bit slow. Like sometimes if I generate stuff, it is slow to load all of this. And also you need to get used to how you drag around or how you can navigate through this. So there are a few key binds that you need to master. For example, how you can like zoom in, how you can drag or hold spacebar to drag around. And if you like drag all of these, you can like [music] run all of these selected. I'm just touching the server level here. But you understand what I mean by this. If you're first getting started with Weevi, give it some time. And let me know if you want me to do a full in-depth tutorial about this tool because it is pretty cool. It is pretty powerful. But in terms of experience, I would put this in the B tier [music] because it takes some time to learn and it's not for beginners.
So now we have the complete overview from experience. For both beginners and experts, I feel like Open Art is a really great choice. Like, it has everything to easily navigate. It is easy to use and find your assets, and it has all the tools that you need inside of it. Still, other than that, all of these other options are still great choices if you want to get started on them. Like I said, if you already have some of these subscriptions, like Art List for example, I still would use this to generate your images and your videos.
The last category is pricing. And this is one of the most important categories because you don't want to overspend on using AI tools. It is already quite expensive if you're generating a lot. So let's discuss what each platform cost per generation. For this test, I have this ranking and I've calculated the exact price what it cost per generation on Sorba 2 with the pro setting with 8-second video, VO3.1 with the 8 seconds highest quality and cling 2.5 10-second video. Before I reveal the leaderboard of who is the cheapest, let me first show you [music] what pricing plan I picked for this.
For free pick, we're going with the premium plus plan, which is $39 a month. This is the only plan that makes sense because it has everything you need. And the average person is not going to buy the pro plan. That's way too expensive. So $36 is the only logical option here. If we bring over to art list, then this is super confusing because you can do art list max and this is useful if you need the music. But in this case, we're only comparing it to the AI suite because here we can pick 40k credits and that is about $40 a month. I will also compare the yearly plans. Don't worry because you get a massive discount on all of those.
So yeah, without further ado, let's move over to OpenArt. Here we picked the infinite plan because here you get the best bang for your buck if you pick the infinite plan and this matches with the other plans that we have picked for the other tools. Then we have Adobe Firefly and here you only have like two options which makes sense. You could either go with Firefly Pro which just gives you access to Firefly for $20 a month. Now the premium one gives you 50,000 credits but it's $200. Like the average user is not going to buy this. And keep in mind that you don't get Photoshop, Premiere, or any of the other like Adobe Creative Cloud programs. If you have the Pro plan or Firefly, you need Creative Cloud Pro for that, which is $70 a month.
For Hickfield, we're using the ultimate plan to compare this to. Again, this is the plan most people would pick if they were to get this because the creator plan is a bit too expensive. Now, in terms of what you get, you get a lot of extra discounts with Hicksfield, which makes it all the more confusing because sometimes you have unlimited, sometimes you have like a 75% off, but in the comparison, I will note down all of these things and I will talk about that.
Then lastly, we have Weevi. And Weevi for this one, we picked the $45 plan to match the rest. You get 4,000 credits with this and you have all of the features that you want to use. Now, with Weevy as well, the starter plan is also a good option, but the professional plan just gives you more credits at a cheaper rate. With that being said, let me show you the exact ranking.
So, on number six, the most expensive, we have Adobe Firefly. And this one kind of don't make sense because on our categories, we're ranking it based on Sor 2, VO3.1, and Cling 2.5. Adobe Firefly doesn't have Sora 2 and it doesn't have Cling 2.5, but the VO3.1 generation is quite cheap. It is $1.99, but I placed it at six because you want to have Sora and you want to have Cling. I do have a disclaimer though. If VO3.1 is the only tool you need, but you don't have start and end frame, then Adobe is the cheapest one in terms of F3.
On number five, we have Freepick. Now, Sora 2 Pro generation is insanely expensive on Freepic. It is almost $14 to generate a Sora 2 Pro video that is 8 seconds long on the best settings. Now, for VO 3.1, it is about $4.16, which is a lot cheaper. And then for Cling 2.5, it is $0.86.
Then on spot number four, we have Art List. This is about $7.59 for Sora 2 Pro generation. So almost like twice as cheap as Freepick. And for V3.1 it's also not too bad. It's $3.99 for one V3.1 generation. For Clink 2.5, it is a lot more expensive. It is $1.49 per generation.
Then the top three. Let's see who makes it there. We got Weei at spot number three. And there's a bit of a side note on this because Sora 2 is really cheap at $3.24. Then VO3.1 is only $3.60. 60, but Cling is $0.78, which is the cheapest one so far, but the other ones are way cheaper. So, keep in mind this whole ranking could change depending on which model you find more important. For now, I've put it like this to give you a clear overview.
On spot number two, we have Hicksfield. But again, with a side note here, because Hicksfield is running all of these crazy promos, so I've calculated the price with promo and without. So, for Sora 2, there's no promo, but it is $4.80. Then for VO3.1, it is $6.12. But right now, there's a promo going on, which makes it like $2.36 for a VO3.1 generation, which is crazy. Lastly, we have Cling 2.5, and that is about $0.49 compared to Weevi. That is way cheaper.
On number one, in terms of pricing, we have OpenArt. It is $4.66 for Sora 2, which is again more expensive than Weevi is and more expensive than Hickfield is. But on the other hand, we have VO3.1, which is about $3.50, which is a lot cheaper than both besides the promo of Hickfield, of course. And for Cling 2.5, it is only $0.46. So again, this ranking, take it with a grain of salt because it depends on which models you find more important. I've not calculated other models like uh 1 2.5 or Halo or all of those. I've just picked these three models for now.
Now, these are the rankings for an annual plan. As you can see, there's a whole lot of discount if you're using the annual plans. For example, with Open Art, you get 50% off, Hicksfield 40% off. Weevi 20%, Art List 30%, and Free Pick 40% off, and Firefly has around like 16.6% off, which is quite strange. But these are the ranking in terms of prices.
If this is still too vague for you, I also got this table view for you where you can see like how many videos you can generate per plan. And again, this is a little bit differently. So if you were to go with Hicksfield, you get around like 12 videos on Sora or about like eight videos in V3.1 or 20 with the promo. This is very confusing. Um, but the best way to calculate is the previous method that I did of calculating it per generation. So, you calculate the total price of the plan and then you multiply that by the amount of credits this generation will cost you. Super complicated, I know, but let me know in the comments if you want me to explain it further.
Okay, with all of these four categories combined, let me give you my final ranking. Which model should you actually choose? And the answer is it still depends, but there is like a sweet spot. If you're an AI user and you want to get the best bang for your buck, you want to have it optimized for beginners but also have some advanced features, then I would choose Open Art or Hicksfield. If you want to have more expert features, then choose Weevy. A close like fourth to that on the A tier, I put [music] Free Pick. I still think this is a great tool. I do just find it quite expensive for like [music] Sora 2, but also for Cling 2.5.
Now, on the B tier, I put no tools. Uh, on the C tier, I did put both Adobe and Art List. So, let me explain. Adobe is still lacking the Chinese models. On top of that, you need to get the Creative Cloud plan to get the most out of Adobe, which makes it insanely more expensive. Now, for Art List, they do have the Chinese models. They do have everything. But the tool itself is just getting started. It's in the early phases. So, with both these tools is if you're using Art List and if you're using Adobe, then great. Use their AI features. You don't need to upgrade to Open Art, Hicksfield, or Freepig. But if you do want to get more expert features, I would say maybe check out Weevy.
There you have it. This is the complete comparison from every tool. This was super hard to do. It took me so long to put everything together. Now, if you want to know what the best video generator is in terms of quality, then check the video that's on the screen right now where I will go over everything and then you can see for yourself which of the AI video models you should actually use.