2026.07.23 Midjourney’s First Acquisition · 2026-07-23

As a kid, all I wanted was a cool-place to work on cool-projects with cool-people. Projects to help people and push the world towards beauty, awe, and splendor. As an adult I find myself in the unusual position of having everything I wanted and two questions come to mind next: How can I use this opportunity to make baby David proud? And what the heck did Baby David know anyway?

2026.06.25 Random styles in draft mode · 2026-06-25

We're making it easier to explore different styles in draft mode for V8.1. Include --sref random in your draft-mode prompt to create 24 images with different styles To turn on draft mode, click the ⚡ icon in the prompt bar or include --draft in your prompt

2026.06.17 Hardware announcement livestream · 2026-06-17

We'll be unveiling our first secret hardware project tomorrow, Wednesday 6/17. It's ambitious, (physically!) big, and unexpected. There will be a livestream at 6pm Pacific time both on Discord and X For X, follow us on Twitter

2026.06.17 Draft mode for V8.1 and new feature previews · 2026-06-17

Draft mode for V8.1 Each draft mode generation creates 24 images at a lower resolution and quality. Click "Vary" on images you'd like to render at full-quality and full-resolution

2026.06.11 V8.1 is now the default model on Midjourney! · 2026-06-11

After your testing and feedback, we've updated the default model from V7 to V8.1! A reminder of what's new in V8.1: The model is smarter, more coherent, better adheres to detailed prompts, and renders text better than ever

2026.05.27 Web Updates · 2026-05-27

Conversational mode has been improved across text and voice input: When a voice session starts, it has access to your Image Prompts, Style References, sidebar settings, and recent jobs. Image Prompts now work from the tray and sidebar.

2026.04.30 V8.1 Updates · 2026-04-30

1. V8.1 is now available on Discord as well as midjourney.com 2. We've improved sharpness and image quality for V8.1! This is most noticeable for SREFs and Moodboards but you should notice across all images (especially HD)

2026.04.27 High-res rating · 2026-04-27

We're preparing some major aesthetic updates for v8.1/8.2 and we want your help doing some image ranking to improve the model Basically, we never did any ranking parties at full 2K resolution and in order to get the best possible HD pixels for everyone it would really help for us to rank some 'raw' images at the resolution from scratch

2026.04.14 V8.1 Alpha · 2026-04-14

What’s new in V8.1? V8.1 has a consistent and familiar aesthetic in the spirit of V7. Moodboards and srefs are now super stable and will be everything you love. HD mode is now 3x faster and 3x cheaper. It’s so cheap we’re making it default for V8.1

2026.03.21 Relax mode for V8 Alpha · 2026-03-21

Relax mode is now available! V8 Relax is now up for all Standard/Pro/Mega subscribers Supports all commands (except using --hd and --q 4 at the same time)

2026.03.17 V8 Alpha · 2026-03-17

V8 is an incredible model. It’s much better at following detailed directions and will still surprise you when you ask. Its ability to understand your aesthetics through personalization, style references (srefs) and moodboards is amazing. Images are more coherent and detailed. Text rendering works better than ever (when specified in “quotes”). And image generation is \~5x faster than before.

2026.02.26 An update on Rooms · 2026-02-26

Today we are removing the Rooms feature from the website. Rooms was an experiment that taught us a lot about what our community needs and where our current infrastructure falls short. It tried to solve too many things at once, and didn't do any of it well enough. Rather than continue patching something that wasn't built to scale, we're making space to build these experiences properly.

2026.02.26 Personalization and Web Updates · 2026-02-26

1\) We've got a new personalization interface on web This lets you make personalization profiles by clicking and scrolling through a list of images. This should be both faster, more accurate, and more fun

2026.02.20 V8 Rating Party - FINAL ROUND · 2026-02-20

This is the final round and means we're approaching V8 launch. This round will run all the way until final release. The goal of this round is to calibrate our personalization systems specifically for V8. The images we show you in this round will be strongly different aesthetics and we want you to click the one you find most beautiful on a personal level.

2026.02.18 V8 Rating Party - Round 3 · 2026-02-18

The previous round was more focused on learning what's 'bad' and now round 3 is about learning about what's 'good' Please go to the voting URL and help us rank images! midjourney.com/rank-v8 You’ll be shown two images at a time

2026.02.17 V8 Rating Party! (Round 2) · 2026-02-17

Please visit midjourney.com/rank-v8 and help us rate images. This rating party is focused on prompts that ask to generate text. We're going to do rankings on these for 1 day to see if we can tune the typography and text performance of V8 before release.

2026.02.17 V8 Rating Party Updates · 2026-02-17

We'll be doing 2 more rating parties this week and then will be releasing V8 shortly after We would still love your help rating more images in the Round 1 V8 rating party. Go to midjourney.com/rank-v8 Your ratings are already helping the V8 model and we really appreciate your time and effort!

2026.02.14 V8 Rating Party! · 2026-02-14

Please visit midjourney.com/rank-v8 and help us rate images. You’ll be shown two images at a time Select the one that you think is more beautiful (based on your own personal aesthetic taste)

2026.01.20 Web Updates · 2026-01-20

We have made the following improvements and bug fixes: New aspect ratios: added 6:11, 4:5, 5:4, and 21:9 options to the ar slider Automatically strip irrelevant parameters (--cw/--ow) when cref/oref not present

2026.01.10 Niji V7! · 2026-01-10

Niji V7 is now live! For those who don't know this is our version of our image models specifically tuned for Asia and Anime. Niji V7 features improved anime coherence, prompt understanding, text rendering, and sref performance.

2025.11.20 Web Updates · 2025-11-20

Along with the Profiles launch today, we’ve updated the names of a few features to better match their functionality: The “Hide” filter has changed to “Trash”. Now, when you trash a creation, it won’t be visible on your “Create” or “Organize” pages, and it also won’t show up in the “Archive” tab of your profile. You can find your trashed creations in the “In Trash” filter on your Organize page. Others might still...

2025.11.19 Profiles on Midjourney · 2025-11-19

We’re launching user profiles today. This gives you each an area on Midjourney where you can show off your images to others around the community. You can customize your profile with a custom username, profile image, banner, short bio, and links to your socials

2025.10.17 Midjourney sailboat trips · 2025-10-17

For the next three weekends - we're renting a big catamaran sailboat to take Midjourney members on a sunset cruise with musical performances and the opportunity to meet friends and members of the engineering team. Interested? Sign up here! midjourney.typeform.com/to/oo6kvC4Q

2025.10.16 Style ranking and TV update · 2025-10-16

We're doing a second high resolution style ranking party! This time, you'll rank only one image at a time to help us learn about detailed features. Please help improve our style system! midjourney.com/rank-styles-individual

2025.10.06 10x more styles · 2025-10-06

We bumped up the number of styles in the style explorer and the style search feature by another 10x again today. That means we're up by nearly 200x since launch! Don't forget you can search for styles in the upper right (video here)

2025.10.02 Style ranking · 2025-10-02

We want your help to tell us which styles you find more beautiful. By doing this we can develop better style generation algorithms, style recommendation algorithms, and maybe even style personalization. PS: The bottom of every style has an --sref code and a ❤️ button. The top 1000 raters get 1 free fast hour a day. These rankings will not impact your personalization, but please take the ratings seriously.

2025.10.01 Tutorial Videos · 2025-10-01

We're releasing our first ten videos today. Find them all on our youtube channel. Let us know what kind of videos you'd like to see from us going forward, or share any feedback on the current ones on our discord. We'll keep at it.

2025.09.13 Style Explorer Updates · 2025-09-13

1. We increased the number of styles in the Style Explorer by 7x (including search) 2. We fixed a major launch bug in the style hot/top feeds so now they are continually updating & evolving 3. We've made it so when you look at 'Likes' you can filter them to be only images, videos or styles.

2025.09.05 Style Explorer V1 · 2025-09-05

Each thumbnail is a set of prompts rendered with a different SREF code (which sample randomly from the continuous latent space of all styles) You can save styles by pressing 'like' You can hover over styles and press 'Try Style" to render whatever is in your prompt bar (so you can just go through a ton of styles and render "dragon" for all of them, etc)

2025.08.13 New video options and a home for moodboards · 2025-08-13

HD video generation is now available for Standard Plan users Please be careful it is expensive We're now letting you generate videos in smaller batches

2025.08.07 HD mode for video · 2025-08-07

About HD Video Mode This HD mode is very expensive to run and we've increased the cost proportionally. It is \~3.2x more expensive than normal Midjourney video. HD mode is for professionals with higher budgets who don't mind paying the cost for the highest possible video quality

2025.07.30 Personalized feeds and midjourney.tv · 2025-07-30

Personalized feeds for images and video. There's a new feed on the explore page called "For You." This feed uses your V7 personalization to show images or videos made by the community that we think you'll like. This works for both video and images (just press image / video in the upper right)

2025.07.25 Looping and End Frame for Video + Video in the Discord Bot · 2025-07-25

1\) You can now create looping videos 2\) You can now make videos with a specific start and end images 3\) Video generation is now available on Discord

2025.07.16 Enterprise API Survey · 2025-07-16

We're starting to investigate opening up an Enterprise API for people to start integrating Midjourney into their companies and services. If you'd like to apply, help us figure out what to provide, or just want follow-up updates please fill out our Enterprise API Application.

2025.06.19 Best ways to create more videos · 2025-06-19

So we want to give you some quick tips on how to get the best possible value with our current pricing scheme: You can buy extra fast hours individually, but upgrading to a higher membership tier gets you 2x more per dollar!

2025.06.19 Save for Social Media · 2025-06-19

We've created a new optimized encoder which reduces this issue. When saving an video to share, please right click your video and press "Save for Social Media". Or click the phone icon in the lightbox menu. Example of before/after

2025.06.18 Introducing Our V1 Video Model · 2025-06-18

As you know, our focus for the past few years has been images. What you might not know, is that we believe the inevitable destination of this technology are models capable of real-time open-world simulations. What’s that? Basically; imagine an AI system that generates imagery in real-time. You can command it to move around in 3D space, the environments and characters also move, and you can interact with everything.

2025.06.17 V7 is now the default model! · 2025-06-17

This means if you haven't tried V7 yet, your model will be automatically switched to V7. If you wanna switch back to V6.1 go under the web settings on your prompt bar or type /settings on Discord and select V6.1 (or type --v 6.1 after your prompt)

2025.06.16 Style references for V7 · 2025-06-16

Basic Instructions Drag a image into the style reference section on the prompt bar of the website. Or alternatively, type --sref URL (with a url to a image) on Discord or web More about sref V7 (style reference v7)

2025.06.16 Video pricing survey · 2025-06-16

We're doing another pricing survey today... Background: Our current plan is to launch a video model to as many people as possible. However, depending on many factors we cannot predict, this could be risky. We could start losing money in a bad way or we could run out of servers so severely that we may be under-provisioned for video for months.

2025.06.16 Real video ranking · 2025-06-16

1. The video rankings data we've been getting has been a bit weird. Some people clearly like artifacts too much, so using the data is sometimes increasing the error rates in our video model. As a compromise we're going to ask you to spend a little time rating "real actual videos". These are randomly sampled from around the internet. It's gonna feel weird!

2025.06.13 Video rating party! Round 2 · 2025-06-13

These videos are even more wonky and messed up than the last bunch. It turns out that as we give the model more 'freedom' to do bad things, it also broadens its ability to learn the widest possible range of beauty from you ❤️

2025.06.12 Video rating party! Round 1 · 2025-06-12

Please visit https://www.midjourney.com/rank-video and help us rate videos. You’ll be shown two videos at a time Select the one that you like most (based on your own personal taste) and that also seem 'reasonably accurate'

2025.05.30 Faster V7, ideas ranking party, and better moderation · 2025-05-30

New feature ranking party! Please help us rank what features should be on our roadmap and what's most important to you. How does this work?

2025.05.24 Rank images from all time! · 2025-05-24

We're getting ready to make our V7 model the 'default' model but a lot of us still find ourselves 'enchanted' by earlier models. Maybe you really liked the colors of V3, the vibes of V4, the textures of V5, etc. So we're doing a ranking party using images from all the versions of Midjourney!

2025.05.07 Share your ideas! · 2025-05-07

We're preparing to do a new community idea-ranking activity later this week. Before we put it up, we want to give everyone an opportunity to share ideas for what we should work on. These ideas may be included in the voting.

2025.05.02 Fast mode for V7 · 2025-05-02

We're launching V7 model speedups today. This includes the release of the default fast mode, which makes V7 2x cheaper than before (now about the same price as a V6 job). The model optimizations mean that jobs will take \~40 seconds on fast mode, and 18 seconds on turbo mode.

2025.05.02 Omni-Reference --oref · 2025-05-02

What is Omni-Reference Omni-reference can be best thought of as a system of saying “put THIS in my image” It can work for characters, objects, vehicles, or non-human creatures

2025.05.01 V7 update, editor, and --exp · 2025-05-01

New V7 image model update All images should now have slightly improved image quality, prompt accuracy, hand accuracy, and body coherence This applies to all images made with --v 7. you don't need to change anything (you can even rerun old images with previous seeds and it may be consistent but better)

2025.04.23 Editor improvements and more · 2025-04-23

Lots of editor improvements We've also opened up the external image editor to all membership tiers! We refreshed the full UI to make it simpler to edit and retexture images

2025.04.04 V7 Alpha · 2025-04-04

We're gonna let the community test an alpha-version of our V7 starting now V7 is an amazing model. It’s much smarter with text prompts, image prompts look fantastic, image quality is noticeably higher with beautiful textures, and bodies, hands and objects of all kinds have significantly better coherence on all details.

2025.03.31 V7 Rating Party - Round 3 · 2025-03-31

We're now in ROUND 3 of the V7 image rating party. This round will help us calibrate our aesthetic personalization systems. We're gonna show you two strongly differing aesthetic pairs and we want your opinion for which one you personally find more beautiful.

2025.03.31 V7 Rating Party - Round 2 · 2025-03-31

The previous round was more focused on learning whats 'bad' and now round 2 is about learning about whats 'good' Please go to the voting URL and help us rank images! midjourney.com/rank-v7 You’ll be shown two images at a time

2025.03.30 V7 Rating Party! · 2025-03-30

Please visit midjourney.com/rank-v7 and help us rate images. You’ll be shown two images at a time Select the one that you think is more beautiful (based on your own personal aesthetic taste)

2025.02.20 New Tools for Organization · 2025-02-20

We've added a new folder and organization system to the website. Check out the video below for a nice overview. A new Folders menu is available on both the Create and Organize pages When you’re viewing a folder, all the images you create will be added to that folder automatically

2025.01.25 Describe on Web + Moodboard Blending · 2025-01-25

You can now "describe" images on the web If you can't find the right words to turn an image into a prompt, you can now use the describe feature on the web! To use it, right click on any image and select "Describe," or drag an image from your desktop to the describe zone. You'll see four text prompts generated from the image at the top of your Create page. To keep your creation feed clean, these prompts will...

2024.12.16 Profiles and Moodboards · 2024-12-16

You can now have multiple personalization profiles Setting up personalization is now much faster (up to 5x faster) You can now personalize models with moodboards of uploaded images

2024.12.11 Patchwork Research Preview · 2024-12-11

Patchwork is a collaborative, AI-supported infinite canvas for creating fictional worlds. It can help you go from vague story ideas to more complete ones; collaborate with other people to build a coherent setting together; and even assemble weird, collage-y visual stories from little scraps of images and text.

2024.11.07 Editor Showcase · 2024-11-07

Submit your edited images here!

2024.11.01 Midjourney Idea Collection Fall 2024 · 2024-11-01

We're doing a new survey this week to collect ideas that will help us plan our roadmap over the next 12 months Once we collect your ideas we'll throw them all together (along with our own ideas) into one big list and then put them up to vote to get a sense of what everyone would find most valuable.

2024.10.24 External Image Editor · 2024-10-24

The image editor lets you upload images from your computer and then expand, crop, repaint, add, or modify things in the scene. We’re also releasing an ‘image retexturing mode’ that estimates the shape of the scene and then ‘retextures it’ so that all of the lighting, materials, and surfaces are different.

2024.09.07 Personalization for Niji · 2024-09-07

If you rate at least 200 images on midjourney.com/rank-niji and then add --p after your --niji prompt, you can have personalized Niji model results. This personalization doesn't only change the style, but changes all elements of the images to suit your tastes. If you're a Niji model user you should try this out. We're sure you'll love it!

2024.08.23 The web is open to all! · 2024-08-23

We've opened up our web platform to everyone! Now you can explore and create in a custom-built experience. Check out an overview of how to use the site. A few notes on signing in to the site: Sign in with your discord account on the website if you want to have history of your images made on discord

2024.08.16 Image Editor and More · 2024-08-16

We're releasing a new web editor today! This combines reframe / repaint / vary region / pan / zoom into a single unified interface. We think this makes editing your MJ images way more seamless than before and is a huge step forward.

2024.07.30 Version 6.1 · 2024-07-30

What’s new in V6.1? More coherent images (arms, legs, hands, bodies, plants, animals, etc) Much better image quality (reduced pixel artifacts, enhanced textures, skin, etc)

2024.06.19 Web Updates · 2024-06-19

We've got a list of assorted changes and improvements going live today: Fixed and improved feedback when uploading images into the imagine and chat inputs. Dragging images into the imagine bar now works properly on Firefox.

2024.06.18 Aesthetic Research Surveys · 2024-06-18

We're starting a new research project to explore the origins of beauty... Basically, when do we find something collectively beautiful, and when do we each see beauty differently? We're doing this by comparing the personalized models people are making to the answers in several new surveys.

2024.06.14 Year One Book · 2024-06-14

We're opening up orders for Midjourney Year One — an archival book that showcases our community's explorations and Midjourney's development over the past year. It's a beautiful & physical snapshot of the last year as well as a fusion of the many issues of the official Midjourney Magazine that you might have missed. Order a copy at mag.midjourney.com

2024.06.14 Temporary Disabling of Rerun Button for 'Submitting' Jobs · 2024-06-14

We are temporarily disabling the Rerun button for jobs in the Submitting phase. We are working on solutions and hope to re-enable this feature within the next week. Currently, clicking the rerun button for jobs in this phase results in an error every time. While this issue is not new, a recent change has unintentionally increased its occurrence.

2024.06.12 Web Updates · 2024-06-12

'Pan' and 'Zoom' tools are now unified and called 'Reframe' 'Remix' is now found within 'Reframe'. This allows you to change the prompt when panning or zooming. 'Vary Region' is now called 'Repaint'

2024.06.12 Personalization (--p) · 2024-06-12

What is Model Personalization? Every time you write a prompt there's a lot that remains 'unspoken'. Our algorithms usually fill in the blank with their own 'preferences', which are really the combined biases and preferences of our community

2024.05.24 Create Rooms to Use Midjourney with Friends · 2024-05-24

We're now opening up the ability to create rooms for all Midjourney members with at least 100 images. From the rooms tab, click "Create room" and give your room a name, description, and password. Share the room link and password with friends so they can create with you.

2024.04.27 Rooms Are Open to the 1K Club · 2024-04-27

We're opening an early test of our "creation rooms" on the web today for all users who have made more than 1,000 images with Midjourney. We'd love your help testing! To use them, you'll need to visit our testing website at https://alpha.midjourney.com/

2024.04.22 Random Style References · 2024-04-22

You can now type --sref random after your prompts and get a totally random style. For example, here are 121 separate runs of /imagine a sailboat --sref random If you end up liking something you find, use --sref url with the url to the image to get more of it

2024.03.26 New alpha reporting tool · 2024-03-26

We've replaced the link to the bug-reports channel with a new tool. Now, you can detail your issue, include relevant prompts or jobs, and attach screenshots. Additionally, we can now collect essential background information to aid in investigating and reproducing bugs.

2024.03.22 Fix for --sv not submitting in web · 2024-03-22

Fixed small incompatibility that meant --sv wouldn't be submitted with prompts on the web.

2024.03.22 New Style Refs and the return of free GPU hours · 2024-03-22

1\) We're releasing 2 new algorithms for style references plus a new 'versioning' feature The latest version of the style reference algorithm (now default) is more precise and works for both MJ V6 and Niji V6 You can set the version of your style reference algorithm with --sv

2024.03.21 New Updates Page · 2024-03-21

Added the /updates page to stay appraised of the latest announcements, gallery changes and Office Hours directly on the website. Added simple control over which category of updates you want to see in the main feed and receive pings about.

2024.03.18 Rolling back Niji --sref update · 2024-03-18

We found a major bug with the new —sref for niji so we've rolled that back to the old version. The new sref is still available for normal v6.

2024.03.15 Style Ref v2 · 2024-03-15

It should be much more precise about understanding style and it should be much better at not 'leaking' non-style stuff into your images. We've also improved the way the weight parameter --sw works too, so that it's more meaningful and also has aa bigger range.

2024.03.13 Halting free-gpu rewards · 2024-03-13

Image ranking powers our front-page and helps us improve our algorithms, but a large group seems to be abusing it for free hours (perhaps as much as 50%) and it's starting to hurt our systems. So basically, we're moving from a reward system based to a system based on altruism and fun to see what happens.

2024.03.12 Introducing Character References · 2024-03-12

Type --cref URL after your prompt with a URL to an image of a character You can use --cw to modify reference 'strength' from 100 to 0 strength 100 (--cw 100) is default and uses the face, hair, and clothes

2024.03.07 Launching V6 Turbo · 2024-03-07

Turbo mode jobs go 3.5X faster at 2x the cost (\~10 second vs \~35 seconds) These run on the fastest possible GPU machines (that's why it's both faster / more expensive) It's great for groups, public events, whenever you're in a rush or have the 'need for speed'