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Image model

Midjourney V8.1

Midjourney

Released
April 14, 2026
Data date
August 15, 2026
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Midjourney V8.1 made speed the focus of the V8 series. Midjourney describes standard jobs as roughly four to five times faster than earlier versions and says it handles prompts and small details better. HD produces 2K images without upscaling, while Raw reduces the default stylistic treatment.

The current version documentation now lists Midjourney V8.2 as the default. V8.1 is therefore a clearly documented intermediate checkpoint, not the current preset. Midjourney says edits to HD images can downscale the result back to SD.

Position
Rank 27 of 30
Index score
28.5 / 100
1.Krea 2 Large75.6 / 100
2.GPT Image 274.2 / 100
5.Luma Uni-1.1 Max63.8 / 100
6.MAI-Image-2.561.8 / 100
8.Reve 2.160.1 / 100
9.Seedream 5.0 Pro57.2 / 100
11.GPT Image 2.5 Flare56.3 / 100
13.FLUX.2 Max55.8 / 100
14.Nano Banana Pro53.8 / 100
15.Nano Banana 2 Lite53.2 / 100
17.Nano Banana 251.1 / 100
18.FLUX.2 Flex49.4 / 100
19.GPT Image 1.548.3 / 100
20.Qwen Image 2.0 Pro47.7 / 100
21.FLUX.2 Pro46 / 100
23.Ideogram 4.045.4 / 100
25.Seedream 4.037.7 / 100
27.Midjourney V8.128.5 / 100
28.FLUX.2 Klein 9B24.4 / 100
29.HiDream-O1-Image19.3 / 100
Methodology and source

This position gives equal weight to 4 fixed Gradually image tests. One archived first output contributes for each model and task.