Midjourney pricing: $10 to $120 a month, 2.7 cents a prompt

How much does Midjourney cost on each plan?

Each Midjourney plan is a bucket of Fast GPU time, from 200 minutes a month on Basic to 60 hours on Mega, and there's no free plan and no price per image. Basic is also the only plan without unlimited Relax mode. We read every row from Midjourney's plan comparison and its GPU speed page on 8 November 2026. Both pages block direct fetches, so we read them through search snippets of docs.midjourney.com. US prices, before tax:

You're really buying Fast time. Every prompt that you run in Fast mode spends some of your GPU minutes, and the plan you pick sets how many of them you get. Unused monthly time doesn't roll over. Midjourney sells more at $4 an hour on every plan, and its extra time page says bought hours "come with a 60-day expiration," and they can't be refunded. You also need an active plan to spend them.

One rule sets a floor for some buyers. Midjourney's plan page says a company with more than $1,000,000 a year in gross revenue must buy Pro or Mega. If that's your company, Midjourney starts at $60 for you, not $10.

What does one Midjourney image or video cost?

One image prompt costs about 2.7 cents on Standard, Pro or Mega, and 4 cents on Basic. Midjourney doesn't put a price on an image, so we worked it out from its own numbers. Its docs put a V8.1 prompt at "0.8 minutes of GPU time" in SD and 1.3 minutes in HD, and a video prompt at about 8 minutes. We divided each plan's price by its Fast minutes. The three upper plans land on the same rate:

That rate turns Midjourney's GPU figures into prices. Here's what each job costs at the monthly rates. A prompt makes a grid of images, and a Draft prompt makes 24 small ones at 512 by 512 pixels:

So a top-up costs you double. An HD prompt on bought time is 8.7 cents, against 4.3 cents inside a Standard plan. Your settings move these numbers too. Midjourney's docs say quality 2 and 4 use two or four times the GPU time, and Turbo spends double. There's no separate fee for video. Each V1 video job makes four 5-second clips, and you can extend a clip by about 4 seconds, four times. Midjourney said at launch that a video job costs "about 8x" an image job. HD video needs Standard or higher. For a true per-image price to set against these, Google's Gemini API sells one Nano Banana 2.1 image at 1K for $0.0336, per our Nano Banana pricing page.

How many images do you get on each Midjourney plan?

Basic's 200 Fast minutes cover 250 SD image prompts a month, or 25 video jobs. Standard and up add unlimited Relax mode for images, so their Fast hours set your speed, not your ceiling. Here's how far each allowance goes in Fast mode if you spend it on one kind of job:

A real month mixes these jobs, and an upscale or a higher quality setting costs extra. So read the table as a ceiling. Relax mode doesn't touch your Fast time at all. You wait in a queue for it instead, and Midjourney's video docs put that wait at "0 to 30 minutes." HD video never runs in Relax.

What's the difference between Fast, Relax and Turbo?

Fast spends your monthly hours, Relax is free but queued, and Turbo is faster but spends Fast time twice as quickly. Midjourney's GPU speed page says Turbo makes images up to four times faster than Fast mode. The same page calls it experimental, and another doc says Turbo isn't supported in V8.1 yet.

Relax mode decides most of the choice between plans. Basic has none, so every image you make comes out of 200 minutes. Standard opens unlimited Relax for images. Pro and Mega add Relax for video, in SD only, per the video docs. Midjourney put V8 in Relax for "all Standard/Pro/Mega subscribers" on 21 March 2026, per its update post.

What does a typical month of Midjourney cost?

A steady freelance month costs $30 on Standard, and the same month on Basic costs $38.67 with top-ups. Take 300 HD image prompts and 30 SD video jobs. Here's the arithmetic in Fast mode:

Standard wins by $8.67 and leaves 4.5 hours over. It also lets you move the images to Relax and keep Fast for video. Billed yearly, it's $24 a month. Basic only wins below 200 minutes, which is 250 SD prompts or 153 HD ones. Pro at $60 buys more of the same $2 hours. Pay for it when you need Stealth mode, Relax video or 12 jobs at once, or when the $1,000,000 revenue rule covers your company.

Does Midjourney have a free trial?

No, not on the website or in Discord. Midjourney's free trials page says a limited trial runs only in the niji journey app on iOS and Android. Midjourney also hands out small amounts of Fast time for tasks like rating images. That time expires 30 days after you get it.

The cheapest way in is Basic at $10 for a month, or $96 for a year. If you buy and it isn't for you, how to get a refund for Midjourney covers what Midjourney's policy allows.

What does Midjourney cost next to the rest of your AI stack?

Midjourney Standard plus ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro comes to $70 a month. That's the common creative stack: one image tool and two chatbots. We read OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus article and Anthropic's pricing page on 8 November 2026:

Whizi, which publishes this page, can replace the two chat bills, not Midjourney. Whizi Pro costs $29.99 a month and puts Claude, GPT and Gemini in one chat, with 100 pictures a month on Whizi Image, Nano Banana, Flux and Stable Diffusion. It has no Midjourney model and no Relax-style unlimited queue. Video is on Powerhouse only. If you pick Midjourney for its look, keep it, and price the chat side in cheapest way to use Claude and GPT. If you only make a few pictures a month, one subscription for all AI models shows when one plan covers both.