Imagine Art vs Midjourney (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Imagine Art grades higher than Midjourney: 2.2 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 17, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 17, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
Imagine Art grades higher on the free plan. Midjourney grades higher on value for money. They get the same grade on features, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Imagine Art
AI creative suite for images, video, audio and design
Midjourney
Image and short-video generator run on monthly GPU time
Which one is for you
Pick Imagine Art if
- Fits if you want image and video models from several labs under one login
- Works for small teams that want brand kits and ad or fashion studios
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want a flat price, since credits spent change with each model
- Tight if you stay free, as the free plan runs on daily credits
- Watch out: the prices shown are for yearly billing, and monthly prices weren't read
- Watch out: some plans carry Seedance video discounts that end on a stated date
Pick Midjourney if
- Fits if you want stylized images and will put time into steering the prompt
- Works for heavy users on Standard, where slower Relax-mode image jobs are unlimited
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want to try before paying, as there's no free plan or trial
- Not for you if your images must stay private, since Stealth Mode needs Pro at $48 a month; Basic and Standard images go in the public gallery
- Tight if you're on Basic: about 200 fast minutes, no Relax mode, and unused time doesn't roll over
- Watch out: companies earning over $1 million a year must be on Pro or Mega to use images commercially
- Watch out: plan details come from a third-party summary, as Midjourney's own pages turned our reader away, and there's no phone app or API
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAImagine ArtFair | 2.0GPAMidjourneyFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CBasic is $13 a month on yearly billing, between the category's $10 and $15 marks. The page shows yearly-billed prices. | 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 plan with daily credits, which a regular user will use up. | FNo free plan and no trial on record, so the least you can pay is $8 a month. And Basic's fast minutes don't roll over if you have a quiet month. |
| Features | BImage, video and audio generation, editing, upscaling, studios and brand kits. Nothing in the listing is missing from the core job. | 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 | CA web suite with studios, models and credit costs to learn. | 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 | CBrowser only, and the listing records no integrations. | 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 | image, video and audio from many models on one subscription | stylized images and short clips from a prompt |
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: Imagine Art and Midjourney. How we grade
Price against what you get
Imagine Art starts at $13 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Midjourney starts at $8 a month and scores 2.3.
They score the same, and Midjourney starts $5 a month lower. Of the other AI image and video generators on the chart, 24 score higher than Imagine Art for less, and 7 score 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
- Imagine Art also covers chat assistant.
At a glance
| Imagine Art | Midjourney | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Paid |
| Starts at | $13 per month, billed yearly | $8 per month, billed annually ($10 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | Free plan with daily free credits. | None |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | ImagineArt | Midjourney |
| Price read from | imagine.art | eesel.ai (not the vendor's own page) |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Oct 17, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Imagine Art
- Prices shown are for the yearly billing view; monthly-billing prices were not read.
- Some plans carry promotional discounts on Seedance video that end on a stated date.
- Credits spent per image or video depend on the model chosen.
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
Imagine Art
- Image, video and audio generation
- Tools cover image, video and audio, plus edit, upscale and AI influencer tools.
- Studios
- Separate studios for avatars, fashion, ads and film.
- Multiple model providers
- Lists Kling, ByteDance, Minimax, Nano Banana, GPT Image, Runway and others.
- Brand kits and assets
- A brand kit and asset library sit beside the generation tools.
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
Imagine Art
Free$0
Daily free credits to try the product.
Basic$13
per month, billed yearly
3,000 credits a month, listed as about 600 images or 96 videos.
Ultimate$50
per month, billed yearly
16,000 credits a month, listed as about 3,200 images or 516 videos.
Creator$120
per month, billed yearly
45,000 credits a month, listed as about 9,000 images or 1,500 videos.
EnterpriseCustom
Custom credit volume, unlimited members and priority queue; sold through sales.
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.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Imagine Art or Midjourney?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Midjourney is cheaper to start with: $8 a month, against $13 a month for Imagine Art. Imagine Art starts at $13 per month, billed yearly, and Midjourney starts at $8 per month, billed annually ($10 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Imagine Art or Midjourney?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only Imagine Art has a free plan. Midjourney does not.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.