Midjourney, Inc.

About Midjourney, Inc.

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Midjourney, Inc.

All products by Midjourney, Inc. reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

MidjourneyAI Design Tools

Turn text prompts into detailed AI-generated images

From $10/mo5.5/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Midjourney, Inc.

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Midjourney, Inc.'s product on their own terms. They disagreed by 3.0 points — The Domain Practitioner was the hardest to convince, The Power User the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Midjourney, Inc. competes with, and how they differ.

Stability AI7.7/10

Ships Stable Diffusion as an open-weight model that can be self-hosted or run via third-party API, versus Midjourney's closed, subscription-only Discord/web service.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Black Forest Labs8.0/10

Founded by former Stability AI researchers, Flux offers open and commercially-licensed model weights for self-hosting or API integration, whereas Midjourney ships only as a hosted subscription product with no downloadable weights.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Ideogram7.9/10

Specializes in accurate in-image text rendering and poster/logo-style graphic generation, a narrower niche than Midjourney's general artistic image and video generation.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Adobe (Firefly)7.9/10

Bundles image generation into the Creative Cloud subscription and trains on licensed Adobe Stock content for commercial-safety guarantees, targeting enterprise creative teams rather than Midjourney's hobbyist, Discord-native community.

3 products reviewed on TopReviewed

OpenAI7.9/10

Distributes image generation (and Sora video) for free or bundled inside the mass-market ChatGPT app, trading Midjourney's higher per-image artistic fidelity for scale and zero-friction access.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Runway7.5/10

Focuses on AI video generation and editing (Gen-3/Gen-4) for film and ad production workflows, competing directly with Midjourney's 2025 video model rather than its core image-generation business.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Midjourney, Inc.'s history, with sources.

1. Mar 17, 2026Launch

   V8 alpha released

   Midjourney shipped V8 Alpha with improved prompt-following, better text rendering, roughly 5x faster generation, new --chaos/--weird parameters, and a native 2K --hd mode.

   updates.midjourney.com
2. Sep 4, 2025Milestone

   Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for copyright infringement

   Warner Bros. Discovery filed suit against Midjourney alleging unauthorized use of its studio content (Batman, Superman, etc.) to train and generate images.

   deadline.com
3. Jun 18, 2025Launch

   V1 video model released

   Midjourney launched its first video model, letting users animate still images through an "Image-to-Video" Animate workflow, priced roughly 25x cheaper than existing market alternatives.

   updates.midjourney.com
4. Jun 11, 2025Milestone

   Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for copyright infringement

   Disney and Universal Pictures filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Midjourney over its image generator producing characters from their films.

   reuters.com
5. Apr 4, 2025Launch

   V7 alpha released

   V7 Alpha shipped with smarter prompt handling, higher image quality, a "Draft Mode" that renders 10x faster at half the cost, and personalization turned on by default.

   updates.midjourney.com
6. Jul 30, 2024Launch

   Version 6.1 released, becomes default model

   V6.1 shipped more coherent anatomy, higher image quality, about 25% faster processing, better text accuracy, new upscalers, and a versioned personalization model; it became the default model for all users.

   updates.midjourney.com
7. Dec 21, 2023Launch

   Version 6 alpha released

   Midjourney released V6 alpha, a model trained from scratch over nine months, adding in-image text rendering and an overhauled prompting system.

   venturebeat.com
8. Dec 13, 2023Launch

   Web app alpha launched

   Midjourney launched an alpha web app allowing image generation outside Discord with a visual settings UI, initially gated to accounts with 10,000+ prior generations.

   venturebeat.com
9. Jan 13, 2023Milestone

   Artists file first generative-AI copyright class action naming Midjourney

   Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Midjourney, Stability AI, and DeviantArt, one of the first major generative-AI art copyright cases.

   theverge.com
10. Aug 1, 2022Milestone

    Founder confirms Midjourney is self-funded, profitable, ~10-person team

    David Holz told The Register that Midjourney is self-funded with no outside investors ("we have no investors"), already profitable, and run by about 10 people, roughly a year after leaving Leap Motion to start it.

    theregister.com
11. Jul 12, 2022Launch

    Public open beta launched

    Midjourney opened its image-generation Discord bot to public open beta, its first widely accessible release.

    twitter.com
12. 2021Founded

    Midjourney founded by David Holz in San Francisco

    David Holz, a co-founder of Leap Motion, founded Midjourney, Inc. in San Francisco in 2021 to build a text-to-image generation service.

    theregister.com