Midjourney alternatives
At the cheapest watermark-free plan, Midjourney costs $10 a month. 1 AI image generator costs less, from $9.99 (Adobe Firefly). The closest match, Leonardo.ai, covers 100% of what Midjourney does. Each one shows how much of it it covers, capability by capability, next to the price.
What Midjourney does
Core: AI image generation, Style and character references.
Important: AI object removal & fill (partly), Custom model training (partly), AI image upscaling (partly), Image-to-video animation (partly), Creation community feed (partly).
Also has: Accurate text in images (partly), AI product photo scenes (partly), Private generations (partly), Team workspaces and SSO (partly).
Alternatives to Midjourney at the cheapest watermark-free plan, best match first
- Leonardo.ai: $12/mo Essential monthly price; vendor page unread (Essential plan on monthly billing: $12/mo for 8,500 tokens a month.). It covers 100% of Midjourney. Free plan: 150 tokens a day (no monthly total); public creations only; commercial use not clearly stated..
- Adobe Firefly: $9.99/mo Unlimited standard images; API is sales-led (Firefly Standard, $9.99/mo on monthly billing (2,000 credits/mo plus unlimited standard image generations)). It covers 83% of Midjourney; missing or partial: Style and character references (partly), Creation community feed. Free plan: Free plan with daily generations across image, video and audio; the daily limit is not published..
Other kinds of products that cover part of Midjourney
- Adobe Creative Cloud (Design tools): covers 35% of Midjourney; missing or partial: AI image generation, Style and character references, Custom model training, Creation community feed, Accurate text in images
- Freepik (Stock media): covers 35% of Midjourney; missing or partial: AI image generation, Style and character references, Custom model training, Creation community feed, Accurate text in images
Prices at every size
- Midjourney: the cheapest watermark-free plan $10/mo, 1,000 images a month $30/mo, 1,000 API images a month no public price (Monthly billing; annual saves 20%)
- Leonardo.ai: the cheapest watermark-free plan $12/mo, 1,000 images a month $12/mo, 1,000 API images a month not offered (Essential monthly price; vendor page unread)
- Adobe Firefly: the cheapest watermark-free plan $9.99/mo, 1,000 images a month $9.99/mo, 1,000 API images a month not offered (Unlimited standard images; API is sales-led)
Prices are USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans are the annual price divided by 12): the cheapest watermark-free commercial plan for one creator, the cost of 1,000 generated images a month in the app, and the cost of 1,000 images a month through the product's own API. A dash means the product does not do that job.
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