Midjourney
by Midjourney, Inc.
At a glance
Text-to-image generation service known for high-quality artistic output.
text-to-image
- Licence
- Not recorded
- Category
- Image Generation
- Business model
- Paid
- Availability
- Global
- Launched
- 2022-07
Overview
Midjourney is a text-to-image product from Midjourney, Inc., a self-described community-funded research lab of about 60 people: a hosted image generator known for distinctive, high-quality artistic output. The company sells the service through subscription tiers, and you use it through the web app or the Discord bot while images are generated in the cloud. This review read the vendor homepage and documentation home, which announce V8.2 as the current image model, an update focused on aesthetics, image quality, and personalization. The main limitation is that Midjourney is subscription-only with no free allowance, and no public API or offline mode is documented.
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Key features
- Text-to-image generation with a recognizable artistic style
- Web editor and Discord workflow
- Style references, character consistency, and personalization
- Upscaling, variations, and inpainting tools
Use cases
- Concept art and illustration exploration
- Marketing and editorial imagery
- Mood boards and visual ideation
Pricing
Midjourney is subscription-only; tiers differ in generation speed, concurrency, and usage rights.
Record details
Provenance, dates and links are kept here so the main sections stay about the product itself.
Links, dates and provenance
- Record updated
- 2026-10-12
- Documentation
- docs.midjourney.com ↗
- Founded
- 2021
- Headquarters
- US
Selection profile
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Selection profile11 fields4 unknown
- Tasks it fits
- Image generation
Derived from the record: category "image-generation".
Suggest a correction - How you use it
- Web app
Hosted product with no desktop/CLI tag in the record; assumed web-delivered.
Suggest a correction - Runs on
- Web
Derived from platform words in the record description/features/tags.
Suggest a correction - Where it runs
- Vendor cloud
Vendor-hosted product; no self-hosted option is recorded.
Suggest a correction - Works offline
- Not recorded
The record contains no offline-operation claim.
Suggest a correction - Official service region
- Global
Mirrors the availability field already on the record ("global").
Suggest a correction - Public API
- Not recorded
The record does not state whether a public API exists.
Suggest a correction - Licence
- proprietary
Commercial product; no source licence is published in the record.
Suggest a correction - Commercial use
- Not recorded
Commercial product; the terms reviewed here do not state a non-commercial restriction, but that was not verified.
Suggest a correction - Interface languages
- Not recorded
No vendor page read in this pass states the product's own interface languages; the key exists so the field can be answered later rather than left absent.
Suggest a correction - Billing
- Subscription Free allowance: No Subscription required: Yes
Prices are the vendor’s advertised entry price and exclude taxes; always confirm on the vendor’s own page.
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Where each value comes from
- Tasks it fits
- Our inference
- How you use it
- Our inference
- Runs on
- Our inference
- Where it runs
- Our inference
- Works offline
- Our inference
- Official service region
- Our inference
- Public API
- Our inference
- Licence
- Our inference
- Commercial use
- Our inference
- Interface languages
- Unknown
Frequently asked questions
Is Midjourney free?
No. Midjourney is a paid service offered through monthly subscription tiers.
How do I use Midjourney?
Images are generated through Midjourney's web app or its Discord bot using text prompts.
What is Midjourney known for?
Midjourney is known for high-quality, stylistically distinctive artistic images from text prompts.
Who should not choose Midjourney?
People who need a free tier or a documented public API should not choose Midjourney: it is subscription-only with no free allowance, and it does not document an offline mode.
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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-12.
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