Midjourney

weights

closed(no weights are distributed

data

closed

code

closed

license

Proprietary(Midjourney terms of service

Midjourney runs only as a hosted service on its website and Discord. No weights, training data or code are published.

• https://updates.midjourney.com/v8-1-is-now-the-default-model/ recorded 2026-09-26

  "we've updated the default model from V7 to V8.1!", used through the Midjourney website and Discord.

• https://www.midjourney.com recorded 2026-09-26

  "We're a community-funded research lab of 60 people known for building the most beautiful AI models in the world."

Midjourney publishes no user or generation count, and a hosted service has no download count, so no reading was possible.

• https://www.midjourney.com recorded 2026-09-26

  Homepage, read for a usage disclosure: none published.

The Midjourney models on the text-to-image arena place in its lower half, close to Stable Diffusion 3.5. The arena has not yet ranked Midjourney's current V8 models, which may place higher.

• https://artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image recorded 2026-09-26

  Leaderboard entries "Midjourney v7 Alpha" (rank 110, Elo 877.5), "Midjourney v6" (rank 112) and "Midjourney v6.1" (rank 123); no V8 entry.