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Midjourney pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Midjourney (midjourney.com) is a AI image generator. Fixed monthly tiers from $10 to $120 with Fast GPU-hour allowances, unlimited Relax mode from Standard up, and extra Fast GPU hours at $4 each.. No free plan.

What Midjourney costs

  • Entry plan: $10/mo (Basic $10/mo monthly (annual $8/mo not used). About 3.5 Fast GPU hours a month, roughly 200 images, so it clears 100 images; commercial rights on paid plans (companies over $1M revenue must use Pro or Mega). Watermark-free output is not restated in the sources read.)
  • 1,000 images: $30/mo (Standard $30/mo monthly. Unlimited Relax mode covers 1,000 images; no fair-use cap was found. Basic would cost about $66 instead: $10 plus about 14 extra Fast GPU hours at $4/hr.)
  • 1,000 via API: no public price (No public API: a vendor blog quotes Midjourney as saying it doesn't offer one at the moment. Null per the yardstick rule.)

Plan compared: Basic plan, monthly billing ($10/mo), the cheapest plan meeting the solo rules. 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.

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).

Midjourney price hikes

No price hikes on record for Midjourney.

Cheaper alternatives to Midjourney

At the cheapest watermark-free plan, Midjourney costs $10/mo. 1 AI image generator costs less:

  • Adobe Firefly: $9.99/mo (Firefly Standard, $9.99/mo on monthly billing (2,000 credits/mo plus unlimited standard image generations)), covers 83% of Midjourney; missing or partial: Style and character references (partly), Creation community feed

Midjourney alternatives: 2 AI image generators compared, at every size.

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

Sources

Pricing page: docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/articles/27870484040333-Comparing-Midjourney-Plans. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. The official plan page returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch and curl, and web.archive.org could not be fetched, so prices come from third-party sources: monthly prices match in myarchitectai and CostBench's $10 to $120 range, while PricingSaaS lists annual-billed prices. A vendor blog says the free trial ended in 2023; a trial is not a free plan, so no change is recorded.