Midjourney V8.1
the best house style in the business, still with no api
still the most beautiful default output anywhere, and still impossible to build a product on — no public api, four years running.
midjourney's advantage was always taste. give it a lazy prompt and you get intentional lighting, composition and colour where most models give you something technically correct and visually inert. v8 rewrote the codebase and v8.1 followed in april, bringing roughly 5× faster generation, native 2K and better text.
for concept work, mood boards and anything with a feel brief, that head start is still worth real money.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- ai image models
- pricing
- $10 / month basic, up to $120 / month mega
- website
- midjourney.com
still the most beautiful default output anywhere, and still impossible to build a product on — no public api, four years running.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.
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