Midjourney
Text-to-image AI art generator producing high-quality artistic visuals from natural language prompts
Midjourney is an independent research lab offering AI-powered text-to-image generation through both Discord and a web interface. Users input descriptive prompts to generate four initial image variations with options to upscale, create variations, and refine outputs. The platform emphasises artistic coherence and aesthetic quality across multiple subscription tiers with fast and relaxed generation modes.
How we scored it
A weighted average of the 4 dimensions below, each judged 0–10 from published pricing, vendor documentation and independent user feedback. We do not run hands-on tests, and no vendor has any say in a score.
2 further dimensions are not scored for this product yet, so they are left out of the average rather than counted as zero. How the score works.
What it actually costs
Intro pricing shown — see the renewal note for what you'll pay after the introductory term. We don't hide the second-act price.
Basic
Relax Mode: no unlimited images. Video resolution: SD. Max concurrent prompts (images): 3 Fast. Max concurrent prompts (videos): 1 Fast. Queue: 10 jobs. Rate images to earn free GPU time. Us
Standard
Relax Mode: Unlimited Images. Video resolution: SD & HD. Max concurrent prompts (images): 3 Fast or Relax. Max concurrent prompts (videos): 3 Fast. Queue: 10 jobs. Rate images to earn free G
Pro
Relax Mode: Unlimited Images & SD Video. Stealth Mode available. Video resolution: SD & HD. Max concurrent prompts (images): 12 Fast or 3 Relax. Max concurrent prompts (videos): 6 Fast or 3
Mega
Relax Mode: Unlimited Images & SD Video. Stealth Mode available. Video resolution: SD & HD. Max concurrent prompts (images): 12 Fast or 3 Relax. Max concurrent prompts (videos): 12 Fast or 3
What to check before you commit to Midjourney
A tool is judged on what it costs once it is adopted, not what it costs to try. These are the four things that change that number.
The price once it is adopted
At $10 a seat, five people is $50 a month ($600 a year) and ten is $100 ($1200 a year). Tools are bought one seat at a time and paid for by the dozen.
Where the usage ceiling sits
Credits, generations, exports and API calls are the lines that run out mid-month. Find what happens when you hit the cap — hard stop, throttle, or an overage rate you have not budgeted for.
Whether you can evaluate it properly
Without a free tier, the trial length and the refund terms are your only way to find out whether it fits before the money is committed.
Getting your work back out
Export formats decide how reversible this decision is. A tool that only exports to its own format costs more to leave than its price suggests.
These are the checks we apply across ai tools, in the same order, so two pages can be compared line for line.
How much does Midjourney really cost?
Our calculation from the vendor's published prices — not a figure the vendor advertises.
One price covers the account whatever the team size, so cost per person falls as the team grows. Four subscription tiers (Basic, Standard, Pro, Mega). Price is a flat monthly fee per account; annual billing gives a 20% discount (full year paid upfront). Additional GPU time can be purchased at stated hourly rate.
| Team size | Per month | Per year | Over 3 years | How it is charged |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 person | $10 | $120 | $360 | Flat rate — seats are not charged separately on this plan |
| 5 people | $10 | $120 | $360 | Flat rate — seats are not charged separately on this plan |
| 10 people | $10 | $120 | $360 | Flat rate — seats are not charged separately on this plan |
| 50 people | $10 | $120 | $360 | Flat rate — seats are not charged separately on this plan |
Based on the Basic plan at $10 a month. Three years at the published annual price. No renewal increase is published.
- The vendor does not publish a renewal price, so three-year totals assume today's price holds.
- Pricing has not been verified against the vendor's page since this data was collected.
Work out your own cost
- Flat rate — the price does not change with team size.
- Billed annually at $8 per month equivalent.
Midjourney against the field
The highest-scoring alternatives in the same category, compared on the figures we hold for all of them.
| MidjourneyThis page | ChatGPT | Grammarly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ReviewCost score | 7.3/10 | 8.3/10 | 8.3/10 |
| Cheapest plan | Basic | — | — |
| From | $10.00/mo | — | — |
| Renews at | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Biggest strength | Superior artistic quality and coherence—generates visually stunning, professionally finished images with exceptional aesthetics | Breadth of capabilities: text, code, images, voice, web browsing, file analysis, and agentic task execution in one interface | Real-time detection across 400+ grammar and spelling rule types with multi-language support |
| Biggest drawback | Weak text rendering in images—frequently distorts or misspells readable text despite improvements in V8 | Free and Go tiers now include ads in US and EU markets; conversation data used for training by default (manual opt-out required) | 150% price markup for month-to-month billing ($30) vs annual ($12/month); surprise auto-renewal charges when free trial lapses without cancellation |
Prices are the published figures at the time of writing and change often. Renewal pricing is shown where the vendor publishes it. See how we review.
What people ask about Midjourney
Straight answers to what buyers actually ask, drawn from the documentation and published user reports.
Is Midjourney worth the money in 2026 when free alternatives exist?
Does Midjourney offer a free trial?
Should I start with Basic or Standard?
Is text-in-image rendering still broken?
How does Midjourney compare to DALL-E 3 and Ideogram in 2026?
What's the biggest risk with Midjourney right now?
Page history
- Published
- 22 May 2026
- Last updated
- 1 October 2026
Pricing on this page has not yet been checked against the vendor’s own page.