Midjourney Pro: What the Plan Includes and How to Get Good Images

Midjourney produces some of the most striking AI images available, and it has a look people recognise: rich lighting, strong composition, a painterly finish even on realistic scenes. It's used for concept art, advertising mock-ups, book covers, product visuals and plenty of personal projects.

If you're deciding which plan to take, this guide explains how the plans differ and what Pro adds.

How Midjourney works

You describe an image in words, called a prompt, and Midjourney generates four options. From there you can create variations, upscale your favourite, or edit part of the image.

It started inside Discord and now also has its own website, where you can generate, organise and edit images in a regular interface.

The plans

Midjourney offers four tiers: Basic, Standard, Pro and Mega. They differ mainly in generation time and privacy.

Fast and relaxed time. Generations use GPU time. Fast mode gives results in under a minute. Relaxed mode queues your job and takes longer but doesn't use your fast allowance. Basic has a small fast allowance and no relaxed mode. Standard and above include unlimited relaxed generations.

Stealth Mode. By default, images you make can appear in Midjourney's public gallery. Stealth Mode, available on Pro and Mega, keeps them out of it.

Concurrent jobs. Higher plans run more jobs at once.

What Pro gives you

The Pro plan includes 30 hours of fast GPU time a month, unlimited relaxed generations, Stealth Mode and more concurrent jobs than Standard.

In practice, Pro is the plan for people using Midjourney for client or commercial work. Agencies testing campaign concepts usually don't want those concepts public. Stealth Mode solves that.

Commercial use

Paid subscribers can generally use the images they create commercially. Midjourney's terms add a condition for larger businesses: companies above a certain annual revenue must be on the Pro or Mega plan to do so.

Two cautions. Copyright law for AI-generated images is unsettled and differs by country, so you may not be able to stop others copying an image. And prompts that imitate a living artist or a trademarked character carry obvious risk. Read Midjourney's current terms before using images in paid work.

Writing prompts that work

• Describe the subject first, then the setting, then the style. "A ceramic coffee cup on a wooden table, morning window light, product photography" beats a list of adjectives.
• Name the medium: photograph, watercolour, 3D render, pencil sketch.
• Mention lighting and camera angle. They change the result more than most words do.
• Set the shape with an aspect ratio parameter, such as --ar 16:9 for wide images.
• Use an image as a reference when you need a consistent style or character.
• Generate several rounds. The first grid is rarely the best.

Use relaxed mode for exploration and save fast hours for final renders and upscales.

Which plan should you choose?

Basic suits people trying Midjourney out. Standard is the sensible choice for regular personal use. Pro makes sense when you need privacy, you're a larger business, or you generate enough that fast hours run out. Mega is for studios producing at volume.

Midjourney availability and pricing around the world

Midjourney is available worldwide through its website and Discord. Plans are priced in US dollars, and sales tax or VAT is added in countries where Midjourney is required to collect it.

Prompts work best in English, although other languages are understood to a degree. The rules on using AI-generated images commercially, and on copyright in them, differ between countries, so check the position where you do business.

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Getting Midjourney through CodeX Link

Midjourney Pro is listed in the CodeX Link marketplace. Message the team on WhatsApp to confirm the plan, the price and how access is provided.