# Midjourney > Image and short-video generator run on monthly GPU time Midjourney turns a written prompt into a set of images, which can then be varied, upscaled, edited or animated into short video clips. It runs on the midjourney.com website and through a Discord bot. Plans are sold by monthly hours of fast GPU time rather than by image count, and the higher tiers add unlimited slower generation and private mode. - **Category:** AI Image & Video Generators - **Made by:** Midjourney - **Website:** https://www.midjourney.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026 ## Pricing Midjourney is a paid product, starting at $8 per month, billed annually ($10 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | 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. | Midjourney's own pricing page could not be read; these figures come from https://www.eesel.ai/blog/midjourney-pricing on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Midjourney before buying. ## Key features - **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. ## Good for - 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 - 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Midjourney is the image maker people pick for the look: type a prompt, get a set of images, then edit them or animate them into short clips. Basic is $8 a month on yearly billing for about 200 minutes of fast GPU time. There's no free way in, though, and on the cheaper plans everything you make shows up in the public gallery. - **Value for money: B.** Basic 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: F.** No 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: B.** V8 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: C.** No 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: C.** The 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. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Midjourney's own update pages and, for prices, a third-party summary on 17 October 2026. Midjourney's help pages turned our reader away again, so no price could be checked. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI image and video generators - Midjourney's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 2 of the 21 other AI image and video generators we grade, and level with 3. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 15 of 21) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $8 a month, against a middle price of $12 for the category: 2 of the 16 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-images ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Midjourney you would be making an image model, which you can rent by the picture but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 16 of the 21 other AI image and video generators grade higher. It costs $96 a year. - You could not: An image model, which you can rent by the picture but not make. - You could not: A video model, which you can rent by the second but not make. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Discord **Tags:** Image generation, Video generation, AI features ## Alternatives - [Ideogram](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ideogram): Image generator for designs with text, plus editing and video apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ideogram-vs-midjourney) - [Leonardo.Ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/leonardo-ai): Image, video and 3D generator with its own and partner models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/leonardo-ai-vs-midjourney) - [Adobe Firefly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/adobe-firefly): Adobe's image, video and audio generator, with partner models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-midjourney) - [FLUX by Black Forest Labs](https://toolgpa.com/tools/black-forest-labs): FLUX image and video models, paid per use via API and playground. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/black-forest-labs-vs-midjourney) - [Krea](https://toolgpa.com/tools/krea): Image, video and 3D generation with real-time canvas and plugins. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/krea-vs-midjourney) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026: - https://www.eesel.ai/blog/midjourney-pricing - https://updates.midjourney.com/ - https://updates.midjourney.com/v8-1-is-now-the-default-model/ - https://updates.midjourney.com/version-8-2/ - https://updates.midjourney.com/edit-model-for-v8/ - https://updates.midjourney.com/introducing-our-v1-video-model/ - https://updates.midjourney.com/looping-and-end-frame-for-video-video-in-the-discord-bot/ - https://updates.midjourney.com/relax-mode-for-v8-alpha/ - https://updates.midjourney.com/web-updates-5/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/midjourney Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).