Midjourney
MidjourneyMidjourney is an independent research lab's image generation service, used through its website and Discord. Its models generate images from text and image prompts with style and mood references, and the service adds image editing and an image-to-video mode that animates still images into short clips.
The arena lists Midjourney's V6 and V7 models; its newer V8 models had no arena entry when read.
Openness
1 high confidence- 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."
Adoption
not assessedMidjourney 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.
Capability
2 medium confidenceThe 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.
Verified 2026-09-26