Adobe Firefly vs Midjourney
We give Adobe Firefly a 3.0 GPA and Midjourney a 2.0, out of 4.0. Adobe Firefly grades higher on the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms. They get the same grade on value for money.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Adobe Firefly
Adobe's image, video and audio generator, with partner models
Midjourney
Image and short-video generator run on monthly GPU time
How we grade them
| 3.0GPAAdobe FireflyVery good | 2.0GPAMidjourneyFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | BStandard is $9.99 a month for 2,000 credits, right on this category's cheaper quarter. Standard image and vector features are unlimited, and the credits cover up to 20 five-second videos or 100 minutes of music. | BBasic is $8 a month on yearly billing ($10 monthly), inside this category's cheaper quarter of $9.99. It buys about 200 minutes of fast GPU time and no slower Relax mode. The price is from a third-party summary, as Midjourney's own pages turned our reader away. |
| Free plan and trial | CA free daily allowance of image, video and audio generations, with models such as Nano Banana, that refreshes every day. The listing doesn't say how much it is. Paid plans also have a 7-day free trial. | FNo free plan and no trial on record, so the cheapest way in is $8 a month. And Basic's fast minutes don't roll over if you have a quiet month. |
| Features | AImages, video, audio and vectors: Generative Fill, object removal in video, music, speech, translation into 20+ languages and partner models. What rivals don't match is the same credits working in Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere, and Adobe's own models trained on licensed content. | BV8 text-to-image, an edit model that fills, swaps and extends with up to four reference images, image-to-video with loops and end frames, and style profiles and moodboards. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in making images. |
| Ease of use | B4.69 from about 10,800 App Store ratings, a hair under the 4.7 that earns an A. There's a lot on offer across image, video and audio, but nothing to set up. | CNo app-store rating on record. It runs on the website or as a Discord bot, and it's sold in GPU hours rather than images, so it takes a while to know what a month buys. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, iPhone and Android, and the credits also work in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom and Express. No Firefly desktop app of its own, and the iPhone app isn't listed for iPad. | CThe midjourney.com website and a Discord bot, and that's it. No phone or desktop app of its own, and no API in the listing. |
| Best for | AI images and video inside Adobe's apps | stylised images with a distinctive look |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Adobe Firefly and Midjourney. How we grade
Price against what you get
Adobe Firefly starts at $9.99 a month and scores 3.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Midjourney starts at $8 a month and scores 2.3.
Adobe Firefly scores higher, and starts $1.99 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other AI image and video generators on the chart, none scores higher than Adobe Firefly for less, and 1 scores higher than Midjourney for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Adobe Firefly starts at $9.99 per month for 2,000 credits, billed monthly. Midjourney starts at $8 per month, billed annually ($10 billed monthly).
- Adobe Firefly has a free plan. Midjourney does not.
- Only Adobe Firefly lists iOS and Android apps.
- Adobe Firefly also covers video editing.
At a glance
| Adobe Firefly | Midjourney | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Paid |
| Starts at | $9.99 per month for 2,000 credits, billed monthly | $8 per month, billed annually ($10 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | Free daily generations across image, video and audio without a plan, including models such as Nano Banana and Luma Ray3.14. Limits refresh every day. | None |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial of Standard, Pro and Pro Plus | None listed |
| Web | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Made by | Adobe | Midjourney |
| Price read from | adobe.com | eesel.ai (not the vendor's own page) |
| Checked | Oct 17, 2026 | Oct 17, 2026 |
Who each one suits
Adobe Firefly
- Creative Cloud users who want generation inside the apps they already use
- Commercial work where the origin of training data matters
- Teams that need image, video and audio generation from one vendor
Midjourney
- Artists and designers who want a distinctive, stylized look
- Heavy users who can wait for jobs in the unlimited Relax mode
- Turning still images into short animated clips
Worth knowing
Adobe Firefly
- Monthly credits reset on the billing date and do not roll over; video, audio and partner models all draw on them.
- Team versions of Pro, Pro Plus and Premium cost the same per license but need an annual commitment, billed monthly.
- Adobe's commercial-use assurance covers its own models; you are responsible for partner-model output, and IP indemnity is for enterprise plans.
- The iOS app is listed for iPhone only, not iPad.
Midjourney
- Midjourney's own pricing and help pages turned away our reader, so plan details come from a third-party summary edited June 5, 2026.
- Basic has no Relax mode, so every job draws on its monthly fast time, and unused fast hours do not roll over.
- Private generation (Stealth Mode) starts at Pro; on Basic and Standard, images appear in the public gallery.
- Companies with more than $1 million in yearly gross revenue must be on Pro or Mega to use images commercially.
Key features
Adobe Firefly
- Image generation and editing
- Generate Image, Generative Fill and Generative Expand add, remove or extend content, and are unlimited on every paid plan.
- Video generation and editing
- Make clips from text or images, add or remove objects and swap backgrounds in existing video, and upscale footage with Topaz Astra.
- Audio tools
- Generate sound effects, music and speech, and translate audio or video into more than 20 languages.
- Partner models
- Models from Google, OpenAI, Flux, Luma, Runway and others run inside Firefly and draw on the same monthly credits.
- Firefly Boards
- Mood board and storyboard tools combine generated images, uploads, colors and fonts; paid plans include unlimited use of Firefly Boards.
- Credits across Adobe apps
- The same generative credits work in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom and Adobe Express as well as the Firefly web and mobile apps.
Midjourney
- Text-to-image with V8 models
- V8.1 became the default model in June 2026 and V8.2 followed in July, with an HD setting that renders at a higher resolution.
- Image editing
- The V8.2 edit model changes images from written instructions, fills or replaces chosen areas, extends the canvas and takes up to four reference images.
- Image-to-video
- Any image, including an uploaded one, can be animated into short clips that can be extended, looped or given a set end frame.
- Personalization and moodboards
- Rating images builds a personal style profile, and moodboards or style references steer new images toward a chosen look.
- Conversational mode
- A text and voice mode on the website takes requests in plain language and can use the reference images and settings already in place.
- Organize page
- Past jobs can be searched, filtered and sorted into folders on the website.
Plans
Adobe Firefly
Free$0
A daily allowance of image, video and audio generations that refreshes each day.
Firefly Standard$9.99
per month for 2,000 credits, billed monthly
Unlimited standard image and vector features; credits cover up to 20 five-second videos or 100 minutes of music.
Firefly Pro$19.99
per month for 4,000 credits, billed monthly
Up to 40 five-second videos, plus Photoshop on web and mobile and Adobe Express Premium.
Firefly Pro Plus$49.99
per month for 10,000 credits, billed monthly
Up to 100 five-second videos, 33 minutes of video translation and 500 minutes of music a month.
Firefly Premium$199.99
per month for 50,000 credits, billed monthly
Unlimited use of the Firefly Video Model, plus credits for partner models and audio.
Creative Cloud Pro$69.99
per month, billed annually
The Creative Cloud suite of 20+ apps, which includes Firefly with 4,000 credits a month.
Midjourney
Basic$8
per month, billed annually ($10 billed monthly)
About 3.3 hours (200 minutes) of fast GPU time a month and no Relax mode; SD video only.
Standard$24
per month, billed annually ($30 billed monthly)
15 fast GPU hours a month plus unlimited image jobs in the slower Relax mode.
Pro$48
per month, billed annually ($60 billed monthly)
30 fast GPU hours, Stealth Mode for private images, unlimited SD video in Relax mode and 12 fast jobs at once.
Mega$96
per month, billed annually ($120 billed monthly)
60 fast GPU hours a month, with everything in Pro and more video jobs at once.
