 Hello everybody welcome back to another AI video in this one I want to do a comparison between free and paid AI art AI image generators on the paid side we've got the just released mid-journey version 5.2 they just did the 5.2 update and on the free side we're going to look at SDXL 0.9 or stability diffusion XL 0.9 they're both great mid-journey is I guess the heavyweight the gold standard so to speak but SDXL looks pretty damn good too how are we going to do the comparison simple I'm going to put this prompt here I'm going to create a random AI art prompt generator so it's just going to create prompts for me and then I'm going to run it in both we'll do a quick comparison keep in mind one's free one's paid all right let's get going all right so what did I do I just said I want you to be a random prompt generator for an AI art generator redundancy I will give you a word and you give me a prompt based on that word can you do that this is in chat gpt4 as you can see up here at the top so the first one I want is a portrait I want to compare portraits between mid-journey and SDXL so I'm going to put the exact same prompt into both I'm going to do that going to run them we'll see what we get all right welcome back so let's look at the free version this is on clip drop dot co this is SDXL 0.9 and it has done an amazing job look at this wow look at that I mean let's just flip through a couple of them I will note here up front that there was quite a lineup for them so this wasn't so yeah look at that that's fantastic let's take a look at one more maybe this one looks this one looks different let's try that one I mean really really good stuff let's take a quick flip over here to we're going to go over to discord and look in mid-journey again really great stuff mid-journey let's click on these ones I mean these are a little more detailed if you ask me and there's a bit more going on in the images but overall I think they're both done a great job especially for this type of portrait also note that I have this set to 69 aspect ratio by default and the SDXL is set to a square by default although I believe they're quite high resolution so there you go and if you want this one this one's free you can just go up here wait for it to load and then click download HD and done again totally free let's take a look at the next one all right so the next one's going to be for landscape type images and that gave me a fantastical landscape that fuses elements of classical renaissance paintings with futuristic sci-fi cityscapes now how awesome is that that is a great prompt let's go back I'm going to go right into let's go into clip drop here we're going to go back to SDXL as you'll see here again it says SDXL and I'm just going to type it in and hit and hit go do note that I'm going to apply no style but if you want a particular style like digital art or maybe a neon punk or a low poly or any of these things you can click on this button and it will give you that option I'm just going to go in raw dog and here we go going to click generate on that one and then I'm going to go over again I'm going to skip this do note again there's a big lineup so there's like 400 images ahead of me so I'm going to have to go quickly through this and come back and then I'm going to go to discord and I'm going to go forward slash imagine then copy and paste in the exact same prompt and then I'm going to let them both run come back when they're done all right welcome back look at these shots holy smokes I'm going to click on that image that is absolutely fantastic and again I know I said this twice but this is completely free this is amazing look at that look at these shots let's take a look at oh my god these this one here looks pretty damn good again if I want to use this I can just go ahead and click on download and presto I've got it you can also do a few other things here you can do cleanup and perfections you can relight it enhance upscale all sorts of things what the heck what does relight even look like yeah okay yeah we're just going to continue on but I do want you to note that that is there so if you want to pay for it it's there all right let's go back over to discord let's see what came up with in mid-journey again more awesome images although you know if I'm being honest I almost preferred the style out of sdxl I don't what do you guys think like this is pretty wild like I mean these are great don't get me wrong but the sdxl stuff was that was really really good so I don't know guys there you go I'm gonna run some more I'm gonna do some 3d animations a 3d hamburger I'm gonna do an illustration and then I'm gonna package that up you don't need to see me go through the process anymore but they will be in the thumbnail try out sdxl let me know what you think which one you think is better leave a comment thanks for watching