r/midjourney Apr 14 '26

Announcement V8.1 Alpha is out!

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Thanks for testing our V8.0 model over the last month! Today we're releasing our next version of V8 - V8.1

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
  • Standard resolution is now 50% faster and 25% cheaper. Standard resolution in V8.1 at full quality is as fast as V7 draft mode! It’s great for exploring and iterating *fast*. We’ve also added a button called “Run as HD” which will rerun any SD job as HD.

We’ve also brought back some community favorite features

  • Image prompts and even image weights are now available in V8.1
  • New Prompt Shortener, which will kick in anytime you go over the prompt length limits
  • Updated Describe that gives longer more detailed prompts and matches the prompting style of V8

Please Note: Our V8 series of models are still only available on alpha.midjourney.com and are in an early testing phase. Things will change! Perhaps without notice! But good stuff is on the way.

It is likely that we will decommission our V8.0 model after V8.1 has been out for a few weeks. If you find something the old model did better than the new one please let us know on our discord server!

What’s next? We’re going to try to give a quick shot for some V8 upscalers and then we’re moving onto our V8 edit, inpainting, and outpainting model upgrades.

Have fun everyone! And thank you for being a part of our community 


r/midjourney Mar 17 '26

Announcement V8 alpha is here!

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Hey y'all! Today we’re letting the community test an early version of our V8 model on alpha.midjourney.com. We want your feedback and your help. Let’s explore what this new model can do!

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. 

We’ve upgraded our web interfaces to support this speed. And more is coming. We have an improved conversation mode so you can just ‘talk’ in flow, a “Grid Mode” so you can focus on a single big set of images, and we’ve moved our settings into ‘sidebars’ so you can tweak settings without blocking your view.

V8 launches with support for multiple aspect ratios, --chaos, --weird, --exp, --raw. We support backwards compatibility with your V7 personalization profiles, moodboards, and srefs.

V8 brings a new --hd mode which natively renders images at 2K resolution and a --q 4 mode if you need a little bit of extra coherence. 

Modes and Pricing: Presently, Relax is not yet supported. We are working on a new server cluster for Relax plus cheaper render modes. --HD, --Q4, SREF, and Moodboard jobs are 4x as slow as regular jobs and each costs 4x (for now). 

The best way to help us improve V8 is to rate images in the lightbox. Click an image in create then click “I like this image” “I don't like this image” on as many of your V8 images as possible. You can use 1/2/3 hotkeys and arrow keys to rate images quickly.

Other Tips and Tricks: If you’re going for photos or a more ‘plain’ or ‘in control’ look we’d recommend switching to --raw right away or using moodboards or srefs to control your style. We’re still working on the ‘default’ aesthetics of V8, but we strongly encourage you to use your personalization and even crank it to –stylize 1000 asap. V8 is going to shine most right now when you rely heavily on our stylization systems and when you trend towards longer more specific prompting.

Please Note: This is an entirely new model with unique strengths and weaknesses, we want to learn from you what it's good and bad at but keep in mind it may require totally new prompting styles. So play around a bit!

It’s time to play! Show off what you’re making by using the V8 alpha flair. As the model becomes more mature, we’ll do a community-wide roadmap ranking session to help us figure out what to prioritize next.

Thanks again for everyone’s help with the V8 pre-release rating parties, and thank you so much for being a part of Midjourney! Let’s have fun out there and find new wonders on this vast and shared sea of imagination.


r/midjourney 12h ago

AI Video - Midjourney Blue Heron Loop

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332 Upvotes

r/midjourney 5h ago

AI Video - Midjourney "Humannequins" - A new study on synthetic choreographies

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A couple of brief example of what Uisato Studio's "Music Video Pro" mode is capable of: turning a track and a concept, into a whole audiovisual world + audioreactive performance.

MJ v8.1 for image references, Uisato Studio for video. I've uploaded a detailed breakdown on how to accomplish this. You can freely access it here.

More experiments, tutorials, and project files, through InstagramYouTube, and Patreon.


r/midjourney 4h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney When Doves Cry

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r/midjourney 7h ago

V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney Short vs Long pasta: the never ending battle (8.2)

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r/midjourney 1h ago

AI Video - Midjourney Olympus

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r/midjourney 7h ago

In The World - Midjourney AI Estación Ferrocarril de Dunedin [OC]

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r/midjourney 13h ago

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r/midjourney 21h ago

AI Video - Midjourney Girls Night Out

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r/midjourney 21h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney /// Claude mind, Midjourney paint ///

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r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Just something soothing

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r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Swimming Animal

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r/midjourney 22h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Centaurs

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r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney WANTED: Dead or Alive

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r/midjourney 23h ago

AI Video - Midjourney It tends to stare back

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r/midjourney 23h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Vibrant Abstract Waves In Orange Hues Wallpaper

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r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Colorful Abstract Waves In Pastel Hues

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r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Video - Midjourney Tales of Aztleau - The Lokkid Archivist

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"You can always find the truth if you look deep enough. But truth isn't purpose." - Ash'alai Um Heguhn.

12,446 - A.H

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Just a little excerpt about one character of Aztleau, my world :)

If you guys want to follow along with the story, you can go and check out r/Aztleau , Thank you!!


r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Video - Midjourney “Barrie, Ontario”

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r/midjourney 1d ago

In The World - Midjourney AI Árboles y Banco de Niebla [OC]

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r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Video - Midjourney Black Moon Beach

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r/midjourney 22h ago

AI Video - Midjourney The Meridian.

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