Midjourney Pricing: Plans, Costs and Which to Buy

Last Updated: October 8, 2026

Midjourney costs $10 a month for Basic, $30 for Standard, $60 for Pro and $120 for Mega, with annual billing 20% cheaper. There is no free trial on Discord or the website. The plans differ by Fast GPU hours (3.3 to 60), Relax mode and video access, and extra GPU time costs $4 an hour. Prices come from Midjourney's own plan page, checked October 2026.

Is Midjourney worth $10, $30 or $120 a month? The answer depends less on the sticker price than on how many GPU minutes you burn, and Midjourney does not show that math anywhere on its plan page.

This guide does the math. It covers what each plan includes, what an image and a video really cost, where Basic stops making sense, and the refund and billing rules that catch people out. If you are still deciding whether to subscribe, our guide to what Midjourney is covers the tool itself.

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Midjourney costs $10 a month for Basic, $30 for Standard, $60 for Pro and $120 for Mega. Paying annually takes 20% off, which brings the monthly equivalents to $8, $24, $48 and $96. Annual plans are paid in full upfront. Extra GPU time costs $4 an hour on every plan.

Those figures answer the common searches "how much is Midjourney" and "how much does Midjourney cost." The real cost sits in the Fast GPU hours each plan includes, covered next. The annual discount is the only discount Midjourney offers, and you pay for the full year up front, so it only makes sense once you are sure you will keep using the tool.

Source: Midjourney's plan comparison, checked October 2026. Midjourney says plan availability and features are subject to change.

Every Midjourney plan includes a monthly pool of Fast GPU hours: 3.3 on Basic, 15 on Standard, 30 on Pro and 60 on Mega. Standard and above add unlimited Relax images. Pro and Mega add Stealth Mode and unlimited Relax video. That covers the main differences between the four Midjourney plans.

Fast mode gets your job to the front of the queue, while Relax mode waits in line at no GPU cost. A Midjourney subscription therefore buys speed more than it buys images. Because Relax is unlimited on Standard and up, a patient user on Standard can generate far more than the Fast hours suggest.

Stealth Mode, which keeps your images out of public galleries, only comes with Pro and Mega. Eesel notes it does not make earlier images private after the fact. Source: Midjourney's plan comparison and eesel's Midjourney pricing guide, published June 5, 2026.

A standard four-image prompt uses about one GPU minute, so images cost roughly $0.01 each on Standard, Pro and Mega and about $0.0125 on Basic. Buying extra GPU time at $4 an hour raises that to about $0.017 an image. These per-image figures are arithmetic from Midjourney's prices, not figures Midjourney publishes.

The per-minute rate comes from dividing each plan's price by its included GPU minutes. The job lengths come from eesel's table of approximate GPU minutes per job.

Standard, Pro and Mega all charge the same $0.033 per Fast minute, so moving up the ladder does not make images cheaper. It buys more hours and more concurrency. Basic is the expensive way to buy Fast minutes, at 50% more per minute than the other plans. The HD cell for Basic is marked n/a because Basic has no HD video.

Note that GPU minutes per job are approximate and vary by model version. Turbo mode, which eesel reports uses double the Fast time per image, is not included in this table.

Midjourney video costs about 8 times as much as an image job, according to its launch coverage. By eesel's table, a batch of four SD clips uses about 8 GPU minutes, and a batch of four HD clips about 26. On Standard, that works out to roughly $0.27 and $0.87 a batch.

Midjourney launched its first video model on June 18, 2025. Each job produces four five-second clips, and a clip can be extended by four seconds up to four times, for about 21 seconds in total. Unlimited Relax video is limited to Pro and Mega, and only at SD resolution. HD video runs in Fast mode only.

The batch counts divide each plan's Fast minutes by eesel's 8 and 26 minute figures, so treat them as estimates. Video is where plans start to feel different. A Basic subscriber has enough for about 25 SD batches before extra GPU time kicks in, while a Pro subscriber can run SD video in Relax all month without touching the Fast pool.

Sources: TechCrunch's launch report, June 18, 2025, and eesel's June 2026 guide. For how Midjourney video compares with rivals, see our roundup of AI text-to-video generators.

No. Midjourney has no free trial on Discord or midjourney.com, and the only limited trial is in its niji journey mobile app. Midjourney's own help page says "No free trial is currently available in Discord or the midjourney.com website." That is why searches for "Midjourney free" never lead to a free plan.

Midjourney paused its free trials in 2023, according to eesel, and has not restored them. If you want to use Midjourney for free, the only route is the limited trial in the niji journey app, and the help page does not say how large it is or when it ends.

If cost is the issue, there are free alternatives. Krea, itself a competitor, lists the following in a September 2026 post:

Krea's post is promotional, so treat the list as a starting point rather than a ranking. For a broader look, see our best free AI image generators with no sign-up and our guide to the best AI image generators.

Sources: Midjourney's Free Trials page and Krea's 2026 Midjourney pricing post, September 21, 2026.

Choose Basic for a short trial, Standard for most regular creators, Pro if you need Stealth Mode or unlimited video in Relax, and Mega for studios hitting Pro's concurrency limits. Companies earning over $1 million in gross annual revenue must buy Pro or Mega under Midjourney's commercial terms.

The break-even points are where the plans stop making sense, using the $4 an hour top-up price:

The pattern is that every upgrade adds hours at $2 or less each, half the $4 top-up price or better. If you regularly run out of Fast time, upgrading is cheaper than buying more, and Basic is the plan most likely to push you into costly top-ups. Pro and Mega also carry reasons beyond hours: Stealth Mode, more concurrent jobs, and the commercial-use requirement for larger companies.

Eesel's recommendations line up with this reading: Standard for regular creators, Pro for Stealth Mode and companies over $1 million, and Mega for studios. Commercial use is allowed on paid plans, subject to the revenue rule above. To see how Midjourney compares with rivals, read our AI image generators compared guide, and for adoption data see Midjourney statistics.

Yes, you can cancel at any time, but refunds are narrow. Midjourney refunds a subscription only if you have used fewer than 20 GPU minutes in the whole life of your account. If you qualify, the option appears automatically when you cancel, and the money can take up to 10 business days to arrive.

Cancel before the next renewal date, since plans renew automatically. Accounts suspended for breaking Midjourney's terms are not eligible. Three more catches come from eesel's June 2026 review:

Because of the 20-minute limit, the safest way to test Midjourney is to cancel the same day you decide it is not for you. A single Standard-plan session can pass 20 GPU minutes quickly. Sources: Midjourney's refund page and eesel.

Midjourney's plan page lists no API pricing, and we could not confirm that Midjourney offers a public API. Third-party services resell access instead. One of them, EvoLink, lists Midjourney V7 access from $0.0375 per draft request, billed per request and not per image, on its own page dated April 12, 2026.

Because EvoLink sells the service, treat its numbers as vendor claims, and check Midjourney's terms before building a product on any unofficial route. Each request can return up to four images, so the cost per image depends on what you keep. For an API-heavy workflow, compare this against the plan math above, where Standard works out to under a cent per image. Source: EvoLink's Midjourney API pricing post.

Midjourney pricing runs $10 for Basic, $30 for Standard, $60 for Pro and $120 for Mega, with 20% off annual billing and extra GPU time at $4 an hour, as of October 2026. Images cost about a cent each on Standard and above, video costs roughly eight times more, and there is no free trial outside the niji journey app. Standard suits most people, because moving up from Basic pays off past about 8 Fast hours a month. Pro and Mega add Stealth Mode, unlimited Relax video and the commercial-use requirement for companies over $1 million. Refunds only cover accounts under 20 GPU minutes, so decide quickly.

Midjourney costs $10 a month for Basic, $30 for Standard, $60 for Pro and $120 for Mega, as of October 2026. Annual billing takes 20% off, and extra GPU time costs $4 an hour. See the AI pricing guide for how this compares with other AI tools.

No. Midjourney offers no free trial on Discord or midjourney.com, according to its help page. A limited trial exists only in the niji journey mobile app. Free image generators such as Krea's free plan or FLUX.2 are alternatives, though they differ in quality and limits.

Paying annually costs $96 for Basic, $288 for Standard, $576 for Pro and $1,152 for Mega, which is 20% less than monthly billing. The full year is charged upfront. Paying monthly would cost $120, $360, $720 and $1,440 for the same year.

Standard is the best fit for most regular creators at $30 a month. It includes 15 Fast GPU hours and unlimited Relax images, and it costs less than Basic plus extra GPU time above about 8.3 Fast hours a month. Pro suits video work and private images.

You can cancel any time, but refunds are limited to accounts that have used fewer than 20 GPU minutes in total. Eligible users see a refund option when they cancel, and payment can take up to 10 business days. Plans renew automatically, so cancel before the renewal date.

Every Midjourney user is on a paid plan, since there is no free tier outside the niji journey app, and commercial use is allowed subject to Midjourney's terms. The one hard rule is that companies with more than $1 million in gross annual revenue must buy Pro or Mega. Check the current terms before publishing client work.

By Sameer Khan

AI-assisted. Researched, reviewed, and edited by Sameer Khan before publication.