Stop Guessing Which AI to Use (Do This Instead)

Javier Torres shows how to test hundreds of AI models for free on Arena, a website that lets you compare outputs side by side. He demonstrates the image-generation battle mode by prompting multiple models to create a YouTube thumbnail, then reveals a workaround to reset free credits using incognito mode.
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Do you feel overwhelmed when it comes to AI? There's so many tools to use right now. Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, and it feels like you need to pay a fortune just to figure out which one you even like. But what if I told you that wasn't the case? Most people aren't using the wrong AI. They just never had a chance to explore the right one. In this video, I'm gonna show you a way to access almost every major model out there for text, image, code, even different versions all in one place. And the best thing is it's absolutely free. If that sounds like something you're interested in, stick to the very end and I'll show you how to access all these models absolutely free. I believe that most people are trying to use tools before they even have clarity on what they actually need. So they end up paying for things they don't fully use. Here's the real issue. There's so many choices out there. Some people are saying you should use Claude for this, you should use GPT for that, you should use Gemini for X, Y, or Z. But how do you actually know what works for you, especially if you're trying to use AI in a unique way that might not be the typical examples that you see online? So instead of committing to just one tool, what if you had access to almost all of them all in one place? No pressure, no stacking subscriptions, just the ability to explore, and figure out what actually fits with your workflow. Without further ado, let's get into it. So we're going to be trying something a little bit different today. I'm actually going to be jumping on my laptop and showing you how this website actually works. So let's get into it. So the very first thing we're going to be getting into is the text models. So as you can see right here, we have the different text models. We have Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking, Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1, Claude Sonnet, Gemini 2.5. Here's the other Claude model, Gemini 3, GPT 2 point, excuse me, GPT 5.2 High. We got the, oh, this one actually I think got erased before, which is kind of cool, the 5.1 model. I think a lot of people used to like this model for talking to it like a friend. We have Grok 4.2, GPT Grok, Quinn. I don't really know that one too much, but But yeah, look at that memo. Look at all these different models. It also has DeepSeek version 3.2. DeepSeek is the Chinese model that is very, very powerful. That's the one that kind of got everyone scared for a while. MiniMax. Look at this. The list goes on and on and on and on. Look at these. Dude, that's like 100 different models right there. Oh my gosh. So you could pick one real quick. Let's just pick Claude right here. Let's just even see. Break down this website on the services. Oops. They provide. Oh my gosh. Now that people are watching anyways. All right. So it's going to have a terms of use policy, obviously agree. So you do have to sign in. So we'll do the whole break this site down. Let's see what happens. Here's a detailed breakdown of services. Javier Torres Studios, Los Angeles-based creative studio— not true— specializing in high-end commercial visual content brands. Core mission: scroll-stopping imagery and video elevates perception. See, the service broken down into 5 main categories. Product photography— this is not food and drink photography. This is not true whatsoever. What model was Was this intelligence routes the most capable models? As you can see, that's why you want to test out AI because this first one was trash. We'll go Claude. We'll try it again. Now that it says Claude Opus in here, let's see if this one breaks it. There we go. Claude's breaking it down. There we go. Oh, it can't actually check it out in real time. Okay, well, that's good. To know. As you can tell, I think the text is pretty self-explanatory. Code is a whole new thing. A lot of people are big on Claude right now for all the code capabilities. So this is like a really cool thing to be able to start testing out. I'll jump into this on another video, but just know that the code is there. What I really wanted to dive into is the image models right here, but not just in the direct, what I wanted to do was battle mode. This one is kind of cool right here. We'll try this. I'm going to start off with an image of myself and say, turn this into a YouTube thumbnail. Let's see what happens. Yeah. So the cool thing is it actually goes head to my head right now. You're not going to know which one it is until you pick which one's your favorite. But that's kind of the cool things— you get to just try a bunch of different models. It's a little bit slow, but I actually think it's still worth it just to be able to try out the models for absolutely free, not having to pay $10, $20, $30 for each individual subscription. Um, we'll just click this one. We'll say A is better, and then it's going to tell you right here. Oh, it was Quinn Edit. Let's let's give it something a little bit more. We'll say something dumb. Give me a cowboy hat and place me on a. Horse. I have no clue why I'm thinking about that right now, but I decided to be something totally different than what I normally do. A little bit cheesy, but just trying to do something so you can see the capabilities of what these models can actually do other than clean different text over my image right here. So, so there it is. As you can tell, this one right here, I actually hate. That looks nothing like me. While this one right here, Dude, that's super duper passable right there. Look at that. That is SeaDream 4 high res. And then this one is GPT-1 mini. You can see that looks nothing like me. It did keep the shirt, a little bit of the panza right here. But look at this one. That actually looks like me. Dude, look at how good that horse is. Dang. I didn't know SeaDream was this good right there. That is pretty cool. Look at that SeaDream 4. So The cool thing is you can actually do a direct chat to be able to try out a particular model, which I think is super powerful. So let's go into chat right here. And if you ever wanted to try Nano Banana, here's a chance to try out Nano Banana right there. It says it in parentheses. Nano Banana was actually the secret code. It actually wasn't the main name for it. Technically, it's Gemini 3.1 Flash is the new one. So let's try that same. We'll do the same thing. Give me a cowboy hat and sitting on a horse. I have no clue why I'm picking that prompt, but let's just let's keep rolling with it. Boom, there it is. There's Nano Banana. I actually like the Seed Dance one. I'm going to copy this again. We're going to, we're going to try it directly. Where is it? Was it Seed Dream 4.5? Yeah, let's try Seed Dream 4.5. We're going to, we're going to try that again. Well, I forgot to upload the reference image. So let's throw that fresh reference image in there one more time. Then paste the prompt. Here we go. What it was doing was actually reiterating the other photo, so it just did it from scratch. Now that I put a fresh headshot of myself with the prompt, it's going to do a way better job. Boom! Look at that. I actually like this one way better than the Nano Banana. Look at that Nano Banana. Like, it just made me look a little more goofier, while this one I feel kept my face a little bit more. I think it looks a little bit pixelated in the eyes, but I'm sure with a few different runs, this actually looks pretty darn decent right there. Look at that. That's amazing. So as you can tell, you can just keep running through all these different image models. Look at all the different image models this one has. Gemini Chat, Revi, I've never heard of Flux. Hunyan. I've never heard of that one. SeaDream. Obviously, I've heard of that one before. WAN 2.5. That's another good one. Look at this. Flux. Ideogram. Runway. I didn't know it had Runway Gen 4 on there. That's pretty cool. ChatGPT. You have Grok Image. WAN. All these different models of images you get to try out absolutely free. So I'm sure you're asking, what is the name of this website? And how do I use it? The name of this website is called Arena. It used to be called Elemarena, but I think about 2 months ago it switched its name to Arena. And as you could see, it does text, images, code, search, so many things, all absolutely free. If you comment Arena, I'll send you the link directly, or you could find it in the description of this video. I'm gonna give you one more bonus tip. One thing that it's a little bit of a workaround, But I think it's actually going to help you a ton. And that is, if you actually open up an incognito window and paste the website back in, it's actually going to give you a chance to be able to restart all of your credits. I'm not sure if you still have to log in or if you could go into guest mode still, but this is a really cool way just to be able to test out these different models. That's how you test out hundreds of dollars of AI for absolutely free. And if you try that whole incognito Magnet workarounds. I'm not sure if it's going to be patched by the time you watch this video. You could actually keep on using it for free more than the normal use case, which I think is kind of cool. Well, I hope by learning about this powerful website, you feel a little less overwhelmed just to be able to try it out, to dip your toes into AI, to see what text model works for you, what image model works for you, what code model works for you, or just be able to play around with them just to even see if you could understand the tools. If these tips, tricks, websites helped you in any single way, make sure to let me know in the comments by saying, hey, thanks, that helped. It really means a lot. I actually don't get too many comments on my videos 'cause I just started this YouTube channel at the beginning of the year. So any comment would mean a ton to me. Without further ado, let's pray. Lord Jesus Christ, I just thank you, Father God, for every single person who watched this video, who stuck to the end. I pray that it blessed them and that they're blessing me just by watching this. Yeah, my name is Javier Torres. I have over 20 years of creative experience helping pastors, authors, leaders just like you execute on their dreams. And yeah, even starting to teach AI now. Thank you guys so much for watching. I love you guys. God bless you guys, and I'll see you guys next week. Peace.










