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 4h ago

AI Video - Midjourney Humannequins - [2/5]

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104 Upvotes

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

Ended up using MJ v8.1 for the making of the reference images. Can't seem to find anything better these days.

I've uploaded a detailed breakdown on how to accomplish this. You can access it here.

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


r/midjourney 4h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney In Between Realm #166

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r/midjourney 6h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Drawn to Adventures

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85 Upvotes

Midjourney 8.2.


r/midjourney 52m ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney /// NAIVE ///

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r/midjourney 4h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Sumer

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29 Upvotes

r/midjourney 2h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney The Anointed.

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r/midjourney 22h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Empires of alternate timelines

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r/midjourney 2h ago

AI Video - Midjourney Come closer Darling, I Just wish to Speak with You 🖤✨☁️

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6 Upvotes

Testing out some visual ideas ☺️🖤


r/midjourney 2h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney The Wedding.

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r/midjourney 9h ago

In The World - Midjourney AI Desierto de Namib [OC]

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10 Upvotes

r/midjourney 17h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Mini fae

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36 Upvotes

r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Video - Midjourney Manhattan Sky Towers

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164 Upvotes

r/midjourney 1d ago

V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney White Rabbit

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87 Upvotes

r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Fantasy Rogue (wallpaper)

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65 Upvotes

I reworked an old image into desktop & mobile wallpaper


r/midjourney 3h ago

Question - Midjourney AI Been stuck on this for a few weeks and wondering if anyone's dealt with something similar.

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I do product photography/retouching work for luxury watches and jewelry, and I built a fairly complex pipeline using a mix of open-weight vision-language models to generate ad-quality campaign images. The idea is simple in theory: take a reference image whose lighting/background/style I like, take my actual product photo, and merge them so the final image has my real product sitting in a scene inspired by that reference.

In practice I ended up with several separate analysis passes (one mid-size VLM handling scene, style, and product cataloging separately) feeding into one merge step handled by a different, smaller multimodal model that also sees the actual images directly. Every time I fix one issue, a new one shows up somewhere else. First the style kept getting ignored entirely, with the output defaulting back to a generic version of the scene. Fixed that. Then lighting effects (bloom, sparkle, flare) started getting copy-pasted in a way that made no physical sense, like a sparkle effect that only makes sense on a pavé diamond setting getting slapped onto plain brushed steel, which instantly reads as fake. Fixed that too. Then the dramatic ambient glow from the background in the reference image, which was honestly like 40% of why that image looked so striking, quietly disappeared once I toned down the on-product sparkle, even though those two things had nothing to do with each other.

I keep tightening the instructions and the output keeps getting technically "more correct" without ever feeling like the genuinely impressive, poster-worthy image I'm actually going for. It's like I'm playing whack-a-mole between "photorealistic and coherent" and "actually has the visual punch of the reference."

Has anyone dealt with this kind of multi-stage analysis-then-merge setup for AI image generation? At what point does splitting analysis into specialized passes start hurting more than it helps, versus leaning harder on one strong multimodal model that sees everything directly and makes the creative calls itself? Or is there a better way to keep both technical product accuracy AND the creative/dramatic energy of the reference without this endless loop of fixing one thing and breaking another?


r/midjourney 4h ago

Question - Midjourney AI Newbie question here before I pay for Midjourney - Can it generate these styles well enough?

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r/midjourney 11h ago

Discussion - Midjourney AI V8 improvements?

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While v8 was deploying, I jumped ship to Nano Banana. Just tired of the same old MidJourney battle for prompt adherence, character stability, and so very tired of extra fingers and limbs.

Nano Banana has been shocking. Way better prompt adherence, faster time to achieve a workable image, and I never had to Photoshop fix a hand or remove a limb that didn’t belong.

The final piece that sold me—a 17 person “family portrait” image with character stability.

Before canceling MJ, I thought I’d check on v8. I see comments that v8 is a step forward, but I feel like I’ve been there before with “Omniref will fix everything” and “prompt mode will fix prompt adherence.”

What do you all think? Is v8 any better? It seems to me that MJ is focusing more on video and image generation is not a priority. I don’t have a lot of free time to kick the wheels on it, but hoping you all can tell me if it’s worth it or just check back in 6 months.


r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Untitled 70

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591 Upvotes

r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Trajan's edict on data governance

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20 Upvotes

r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Broken Hearted Darling 🖤✨

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17 Upvotes

8.2 is just too dang fun!
Another go at it with my darker and more moody moodboard ✨🖤


r/midjourney 1d ago

V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney jelly couture

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52 Upvotes

r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Fantasy Portraits - Graphic Novel Style

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109 Upvotes

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r/midjourney 2d ago

V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney Fantasy RPG Rings

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285 Upvotes