Midjourney Pricing in 2026: Every Plan, Real Costs and Hidden Fees

Midjourney Basic is $10 a month, Standard is $30, Pro is $60, and Mega is $120. Annual billing takes 20 percent off and charges the full year up front. There is no per-seat price: one account is one person, and a company above $1,000,000 in yearly revenue must be on Pro or Mega to own its images.

You are buying GPU time, not a finished stack of pictures. The plan that fits most working image use is Standard, because that is where unlimited Relax images begin. The default model is V8.2, which became the default on July 24, 2026, and paying for Mega does not make those pictures better.

Toolradar data: the AI image generation ranking we publish evaluated 166 tools, updated October 2026. The product record is on Midjourney's Toolradar page, the product verdict is our Midjourney review, and the wider desk is AI image generators.

Plan	Price	Best for	Limit that changes the decision
Basic	$10/mo, or $96/year	A short test of the look	200 Fast minutes, no Relax
Standard	$30/mo, or $288/year	Ongoing image work	15 Fast hours, unlimited Relax images
Pro	$60/mo, or $576/year	Private work, or a company over the revenue line	30 Fast hours, Stealth, Relax SD video
Mega	$120/mo, or $1,152/year	Many videos at once	60 Fast hours, 12 concurrent Fast videos
Extra Fast	$4/hr	The month ran out early	Expires in 60 days, non-refundable

Basic is a hard hour budget

Basic is the only paid plan with a ceiling on how many images you can make. It includes 3.3 Fast hours, which Midjourney also writes as 200 minutes, and it does not include Relax mode. When those minutes are gone, generation stops until the renewal or until you buy more Fast time. There is no slow queue to fall back on.

Midjourney's GPU table prices an SD image prompt at 0.8 minutes, so that allotment covers 250 prompts, and an HD prompt is 1.3 minutes. A batch of four HD videos is 26 minutes, about seven batches, and each clip is 5 seconds. The hour budget buys short clips, not a finished edit.

Basic also caps how much you can run at once: 3 concurrent Fast image prompts, 1 concurrent Fast video, and a repeat or permutation size of 4. Video on this plan is SD only, so HD tests belong on a higher plan. One month shows the look, and a campaign hits the cap first.

Standard is where the image cap comes off

Standard is the first plan with unlimited Relax images, which is what weekly picture work is paying for. Fast time rises to 15 hours, HD video opens up, image concurrency stays at 3 jobs, and video concurrency rises to 3 Fast jobs. The repeat cap moves from 4 to 10, so one pass can try more variations than Basic allows.

Buy Standard when you can tolerate a queue, because Relax waits run from 0 to 30 minutes, and Midjourney says lighter Relax users wait less. You still spend Fast time when you want speed, and you stop spending it when you are willing to wait.

Permutations, the repeat parameter, HD video, and the legacy Max Upscale are unavailable in Relax, so a burst of variations or an HD clip still burns Fast time. That Fast allowance is 1,125 SD prompts at the ordinary prompt rate, and HD video cannot sit in the unlimited queue on any plan.

Pro is the privacy line and the company line

Pro doubles Standard's Fast time to 30 hours and raises image concurrency to 12 Fast jobs, or 3 in Relax, so a busy session no longer waits on three slots. Video concurrency goes to 6 Fast or 3 Relax, and the repeat cap jumps to 40. Relax video appears here and only at SD, so queued video is possible while HD still spends Fast time.

Midjourney's Stealth page says creations made in public Discord channels stay visible, and privacy means the website, direct messages, or a private server. If you cancel or downgrade, images you already made private stay private. Turning Stealth on changes your future prompts and does not touch images you already published.

The other Pro gate is legal, not technical: the terms of service, effective May 27, 2026, say you own what you create to the extent the law allows, with two cuts. Ownership follows the agreement, and a company, or an employee of a company, with more than $1,000,000 a year in revenue must be on Pro or Mega to own the assets. The plan comparison says the same threshold for commercial use.

Under that revenue line, a subscriber on any paid plan can use the images. Over it, Basic and Standard do not confer ownership, no matter how the invoice is split.

Mega buys parallel video, not a better model

Mega adds another block of Fast time on top of Pro, 60 hours in total, with the same Stealth access and the same unlimited Relax images and SD video. The difference that shows up in a workday is video concurrency: 12 Fast video jobs, or 3 in Relax, against Pro's 6 Fast. Image concurrency stays where Pro left it, and the repeat cap stays at 40. Both plans queue up to 10 jobs, extended when a repeat or permutation needs the room.

Skip Mega until video jobs are waiting on each other, because the model is the same V8.2 either way. That Fast pool is 4,500 SD prompts, and Pro's allotment is 2,250. Neither number is a ceiling once Relax is on, because Relax images do not spend that pool.

Turbo spends Fast time twice as fast and can render up to four times faster than Fast, when it is offered. Midjourney's GPU page says Turbo is not supported on V8.1, and the default since July 24, 2026 is V8.2, so check the speed control before you assume that double rate applies.

What changed in the model does change the meter

V8.2 is an aesthetics and personalization update, and it ships the Edit Model, which replaces Omni Reference, character reference, and the Retexture tool. Personalization profiles for this version draw on a larger image pool. V8.1, the default from June 10 to July 23, 2026 after an April 14 release, is described as the fastest model so far, about 4 to 5 times faster than earlier versions, and it added HD images at 2K without a separate upscale.

An Edit Model SD prompt is 1 minute of GPU time, and an Edit Model HD prompt is 2.3 minutes, so the editor spends the meter faster than a plain prompt. Grid upscale in Discord costs nothing, and Creative and Subtle upscales are about 2 minutes.

If the job is a portrait series rather than a campaign system, the shortlist is different, and AI headshot generators is the page for that narrower brief. Midjourney clips start at 5 seconds and can be extended up to 21 seconds, so longer or more controlled motion belongs with AI video generators and the Kling, Runway, and Luma comparison.

Ten people means ten subscriptions

Midjourney does not sell a seat, and the terms allow one user per account and only one account per user. A studio cannot share a Mega login, and one person cannot open two Basics to double the hours. Group billing exists only when an organization needs 50 or more yearly Pro or Mega plans. That arrangement adds no discount beyond the ordinary yearly price, and it refuses seat or admin management, SSO, negotiated terms, and vendor security paperwork.

Under 50 subscriptions there is no single invoice, so each account needs its own billing email on the company domain. Support will not report on those accounts after they are created, which is why Midjourney tells companies to keep their own spreadsheet of names, emails, and account IDs. Nonprofits and schools get no free plan and no special discount. A wider buying question, once image generation is only one line on the stack, sits in AI tools for business.

Ten Standard plans at the $288 annual total come to $2,880 a year, with unlimited Relax images and no Stealth. Ten Pro plans at the $576 annual total come to $5,760 a year, which is what a company over the revenue line has to buy if ten people will generate images they need to own. Checkout defaults to yearly billing, so the charge that hits the card on day one is the annual total, not the monthly sticker, unless someone switches the tab first.

Image-plan changes land in the AIpresso daily brief, so get it here if you would rather not reopen four plan cards every time a model version ships.

Firefly and Recraft meter the same job differently

If the pictures are a side feature of a chatbot you already pay for, the bill to read is ChatGPT pricing, and the image-specific walkthrough is the ChatGPT image generator guide, with the product verdict in the ChatGPT review. The two image tools below publish plans you can compare on their own pages, and their prices appear in your local currency, so this page compares what each plan includes rather than a dollar figure.

Buyer	Midjourney	Adobe Firefly	Recraft
What the plan meters	Fast GPU hours, plus unlimited Relax images from Standard	Monthly generative credits: 2,000, 4,000, 10,000 or 50,000 by plan	Subscription credits that reset each billing cycle
Unlimited generation	Relax images from Standard, SD video from Pro	Standard image features on every plan	See the plan page
A shared team	Ten accounts, $5,760/year on Pro annual	See Adobe's plan page for team licensing	A Teams workspace that shares top-up credits
Annual billing	20 percent off, paid up front	Check the plan page	20 percent saving on annual billing

Adobe Firefly's plan page lists Standard, Pro, Pro Plus, and Premium with 2,000, 4,000, 10,000, and 50,000 generative credits a month. Every plan includes unlimited access to standard image features such as Generative Fill, so the credits are for premium work such as video. Premium adds unlimited use of the Firefly video model.

Recraft's pricing page offers monthly billing or annual billing with a 20 percent saving. Subscription credits are included in the plan and reset at the start of each billing cycle, and unused credits do not roll over. Top-up credits are bought separately, never expire, are used once the monthly credits run out, and are shared across all seats on a Teams workspace. Top-ups are available on Basic, Pro, and Teams plans. Check the page for the plan prices in your currency.

Ideogram is the third name buyers weigh against Midjourney. Read Ideogram on Toolradar for the product record, and check Ideogram's own pricing page for the current plans before you compare seats.

Fees that never appear on the monthly sticker

The monthly prices are the small print's victims, because yearly billing is selected by default on the subscribe page. A person who wanted Basic for a month can be charged the $96 year before they notice the tab, which spends a year of budget on a test. Unused Fast time from the subscription does not roll over, on a monthly plan or a yearly one.

Bought Fast hours are a second clock: they cost the rate in the table, they expire after 60 days, they require an active subscription, and they are non-refundable. A lapsed plan freezes the extra hours with it, and they are available again only if you renew. Rating images can earn Fast time on every plan, and Midjourney does not print a minutes-per-rating rate, so that bonus is not a budget you can plan around.

The terms also ban automated tools and resale, so this subscription is not an API you can call from an app. Ownership survives a cancellation, but a company over the revenue line that stayed on Standard still does not own those assets, and the fix is Pro or Mega. Assistants are a different purchase, which is why ChatGPT alternatives will not answer an image bill.

Which plan is worth paying for

For one person learning the look, pay for one month of Basic, then cancel or move up. That Fast-minute budget will show you V8.2, and it will not carry a client project. There is no free tier on the plan comparison to soften the test, so the trial month still has a charge.

For ongoing stills, buy Standard, because Relax is the feature you are paying the jump for. Move to Pro when you need Stealth, when you would rather queue SD video than spend Fast time on HD, or when the company revenue line makes ownership depend on it. Move to Mega when 12 concurrent Fast videos are the bottleneck you can name, because headroom you cannot describe is an idle subscription.

For a team, price ten accounts, not one seat. Bulk billing does not start until 50 yearly Pro or Mega plans, and it does not get cheaper when it does. If central billing matters more than Midjourney's look, compare Recraft's Teams workspace and Adobe's plans. Firefly is the contract when unlimited standard images inside Adobe matter more than a shared credit pool.

How we checked these prices

Louis Corneloup, founder of Dupple and Toolradar, prepared this Midjourney price check for people choosing a plan. We checked Midjourney's plan comparison, GPU speed page, terms of service, and group billing page on October 14, 2026, plus the version notes for V8.2, the Stealth Mode article, and the Video article. Adobe Firefly and Recraft details come from their pricing pages the same day. The tool count is from Toolradar's live AI image generation ranking that month. Publishing rules for this desk are on the AIpresso about page.

FAQ

How much does Midjourney cost in 2026?

Basic is $10 a month, Standard is $30, Pro is $60, and Mega is $120. Paying the year up front costs $96, $288, $576, and $1,152, which is 20 percent off, and that yearly option is the default at checkout. Extra Fast time is $4 an hour on every plan, there is no per-seat price, and there is no free tier on the plan comparison. These are the prices on Midjourney's plan comparison, checked October 14, 2026.

Does Midjourney have a free plan?

No. The plan comparison lists four paid subscriptions and no free tier, and the group billing page says organizations, including nonprofits and schools, do not get a free plan or a discount. The cheapest test is one month of Basic, and it still has a charge.

How much does Midjourney cost per seat for a team?

It does not have a seat price, because the terms allow one user per account and one account per user, so ten people are ten subscriptions. Ten Standard plans on the annual total cost $2,880 a year, and ten Pro plans cost $5,760 a year, which is the bill when the company is over the revenue line and needs to own the images. A single invoice starts at 50 yearly Pro or Mega plans and does not add a further discount.

What is the difference between Basic, Standard, Pro, and Mega?

Basic ends when the Fast minutes end, and video on it is SD only. Standard is the ongoing-stills plan, because Relax images are unlimited and HD video opens in Fast mode. Pro is the privacy and company plan, with Stealth, Relax SD video, and higher Fast concurrency. Mega adds room for many Fast videos at once, on the same V8.2 model every other plan uses.

How many images do you get?

Midjourney sells minutes, and its GPU table puts an ordinary SD prompt at about 0.8 minutes. That rate is 250 prompts on Basic's 200 minutes, 1,125 on Standard, 2,250 on Pro, and 4,500 on Mega. Those Fast counts are not a monthly ceiling on Standard, Pro, or Mega, because Relax images are unlimited there and can wait up to 30 minutes. Basic has no Relax, so the 250 prompts are the month unless you buy more hours. An HD video batch of four costs about 26 minutes and lasts 5 seconds per clip.

Can a company use Midjourney images commercially?

Yes, if someone on the account has subscribed, with the revenue condition in the May 27, 2026 terms. A company, or an employee of a company, above $1,000,000 in yearly revenue must be on Pro or Mega to own the assets, and below that line any paid plan is enough for commercial use. Ownership continues after you cancel, and Stealth, which keeps new work off the public site, still requires Pro or Mega and does not hide prompts run in a public Discord channel.

Does video cost extra on top of the plan?

Video uses the same Fast hours, and it uses them faster. Midjourney says one video prompt is about 8 minutes of GPU time, against about 1 minute for an image prompt. A batch of four HD videos is 26 minutes, HD video cannot run in Relax on any plan, and Relax SD video starts on Pro. Basic is SD video only, with one concurrent video job, and the subscription is not an API because the terms prohibit automated generation.

How does Midjourney compare with Firefly and Recraft on cost?

They meter different things, so compare the allowance rather than the sticker. Midjourney's entry plan has no Relax and sells Fast minutes, while Adobe Firefly sells 2,000 to 50,000 generative credits a month with unlimited standard image features on every plan, and Recraft sells subscription credits that reset each cycle. For a team, Midjourney is one account per person with no single invoice below 50 yearly Pro or Mega plans, while Recraft's Teams plan shares top-up credits across seats. Check each pricing page for the price in your currency.

When the GPU rates or the revenue rule move, get the AIpresso brief instead of rechecking the plan cards.

Cite this: AIpresso, "Midjourney Pricing in 2026: Every Plan, Real Costs and Hidden Fees", October 2026.

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