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Midjourney V8.2

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PopularityRank 573 of 875

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Summary

What is new in Midjourney V8.2, according to the version documentation, is the Edit Model. It replaces Omni Reference, Character Reference, and Retexture in one editing route. Since July 24, 2026, V8.2 has also been Midjourney’s default for aesthetics, image quality, and personalization.

The web Draft Mode produces 24 drafts at 512 × 512 pixels per prompt and remains limited to midjourney.com for V8.1 and V8.2. Compared with Midjourney V8.1, V8.2 therefore concentrates on style control and editing.

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Measurements without matching peer values

These measurements have no matching peer values under the same test conditions. Their original values and sources remain available here.

BudgetPixel AI Image Arena generation failure rate, own suite (2026-10-19 snapshot) (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
0
Score
0
Metric
generation failure rate
Unit
%
Category
reliability
Direction
Lower is better
Sample
113
Source type
independent-evaluator
Evaluator
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena V8.2 model page
Status
disputed
Retrieved at
2026-10-20
Methodology
Independent evaluation. BudgetPixel's own image suite, default settings, 1:1 output; 0 failures across 113 attempts; the page states the Arena snapshot as of October 19, 2026.
Context
This is BudgetPixel’s own suite and a single historical snapshot, not a universal failure guarantee. The page says “62 of the 50 suite prompts”; it also lists 62 closed and 50 active prompts, totaling 112. Retry handling is unexplained. The stated 113 attempts are retained only for this failure-rate observation.
Source BudgetPixel AI Image Arena V8.2 model page
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena generation failure rate (2026-10-20 leaderboard snapshot) (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
0
Score
0
Metric
generation failure rate
Unit
%
Category
reliability
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
official-leaderboard
Evaluator
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena leaderboard
Status
superseded
Retrieved at
2026-10-20
Methodology
Official benchmark leaderboard. BudgetPixel leaderboard snapshot dated October 20, 2026. The page attributes these results to the Arena’s own generations using each model’s default settings. It does not publish an attempt count for this model row.
Context
The leaderboard does not state the number of image-generation attempts for this measurement.
Source BudgetPixel AI Image Arena leaderboard
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena generation failure rate (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
27.531645569620256
Score
27.531645569620256
Metric
generation failure rate
Unit
%
Benchmark version
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena HTML leaderboard, generation failure rate snapshot 2026-11-02
Category
reliability
Direction
Lower is better
Source type
independent-evaluator
Evaluator
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena HTML leaderboard
Status
active
Retrieved at
2026-11-02
Methodology
Independent evaluation. Exact BudgetPixel HTML leaderboard route `https://budgetpixel.com/arena/leaderboard` for model `midjourney-v8.2` (display_name `Midjourney V8.2`, maker `Midjourney`). Exact source HTML leaderboard row model=midjourney-v8.2; raw failure_rate=0.27531645569620256, expressed as 27.531645569620256 percent. The source marks this model as status=ranked.
Context
The leaderboard does not state the number of image-generation attempts for this measurement.
Source BudgetPixel AI Image Arena HTML leaderboard
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena Elo (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
1573
Score
1573
Metric
Elo-style rating from blind pairwise preference votes
Unit
elo
Benchmark version
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena snapshot (2026-10-16)
Category
text-to-image
Direction
Higher is better
Sample
535
Lower confidence bound
1544
Upper confidence bound
1603
Source type
independent-evaluator
Evaluator
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena
Status
superseded
Retrieved at
2026-10-16
Methodology
Independent evaluation. Overall text-to-image rating for the exact BudgetPixel route labeled Midjourney V8.2. The publisher describes blind pairwise votes on identical prompts, default settings and 1:1 output; exact underlying checkpoint, prompt-suite version and generation controls are not independently established.
Context
The two frozen BudgetPixel pages disagree on this row's vote count (535 on the model detail, 534 in the overall table); 535 is retained only as the exact model-detail value and the discrepancy remains unresolved. The model detail says 26 ranked models, while the leaderboard says 20 competing models. No rank or shared-cohort claim is carried. Votes are public community preferences, not a controlled or independently audited panel; do not treat this point-in-time result as directly comparable to other leaderboards.
Source BudgetPixel AI Image Arena
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena: Landscape & nature (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
1602
Score
1602
Metric
Nightly Bradley-Terry rating from blind pairwise preference votes in this category; Elo scale, 1500 is average.
Unit
elo
Benchmark version
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena leaderboard page snapshot, as of 2026-10-17
Category
text-to-image / Landscape & nature
Direction
Higher is better
Sample
67
Lower confidence bound
1512
Upper confidence bound
1677
Source type
official-leaderboard
Evaluator
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena
Status
superseded
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Official benchmark leaderboard. Text-to-image in the BudgetPixel AI Image Arena. The publisher describes a rolling suite of 48 active prompts across 10 categories plus retired prompts; every model receives the same prompt verbatim at default settings and resolution, with a fixed seed where supported. Blind pairwise votes are fitted nightly with Bradley-Terry separately by category on an Elo scale with 1500 as average. This is the Landscape & nature category rating displayed on the model page as of 2026-10-17.
Context
The leaderboard is dynamic. sampleCount is the displayed number of votes, not distinct prompts, independent tasks, or unique voters; separate task and voter counts are unpublished. The displayed 95% bootstrap bounds are copied directly, not derived. The page names the evaluated product but does not publish the served provider endpoint, checkpoint, exact per-model generation parameters, or model-specific evaluation time.
Source BudgetPixel AI Image Arena
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena: Product & commercial (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
1600
Score
1600
Metric
Nightly Bradley-Terry rating from blind pairwise preference votes in this category; Elo scale, 1500 is average.
Unit
elo
Benchmark version
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena leaderboard page snapshot, as of 2026-10-17
Category
text-to-image / Product & commercial
Direction
Higher is better
Sample
61
Lower confidence bound
1518
Upper confidence bound
1694
Source type
official-leaderboard
Evaluator
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena
Status
superseded
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Official benchmark leaderboard. Text-to-image in the BudgetPixel AI Image Arena. The publisher describes a rolling suite of 48 active prompts across 10 categories plus retired prompts; every model receives the same prompt verbatim at default settings and resolution, with a fixed seed where supported. Blind pairwise votes are fitted nightly with Bradley-Terry separately by category on an Elo scale with 1500 as average. This is the Product & commercial category rating displayed on the model page as of 2026-10-17.
Context
The leaderboard is dynamic. sampleCount is the displayed number of votes, not distinct prompts, independent tasks, or unique voters; separate task and voter counts are unpublished. The displayed 95% bootstrap bounds are copied directly, not derived. The page names the evaluated product but does not publish the served provider endpoint, checkpoint, exact per-model generation parameters, or model-specific evaluation time.
Source BudgetPixel AI Image Arena
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena: Portrait & fashion (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
1598
Score
1598
Metric
Nightly Bradley-Terry rating from blind pairwise preference votes in this category; Elo scale, 1500 is average.
Unit
elo
Benchmark version
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena leaderboard page snapshot, as of 2026-10-17
Category
text-to-image / Portrait & fashion
Direction
Higher is better
Sample
49
Lower confidence bound
1503
Upper confidence bound
1696
Source type
official-leaderboard
Evaluator
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena
Status
superseded
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Official benchmark leaderboard. Text-to-image in the BudgetPixel AI Image Arena. The publisher describes a rolling suite of 48 active prompts across 10 categories plus retired prompts; every model receives the same prompt verbatim at default settings and resolution, with a fixed seed where supported. Blind pairwise votes are fitted nightly with Bradley-Terry separately by category on an Elo scale with 1500 as average. This is the Portrait & fashion category rating displayed on the model page as of 2026-10-17.
Context
The leaderboard is dynamic. sampleCount is the displayed number of votes, not distinct prompts, independent tasks, or unique voters; separate task and voter counts are unpublished. The displayed 95% bootstrap bounds are copied directly, not derived. The page names the evaluated product but does not publish the served provider endpoint, checkpoint, exact per-model generation parameters, or model-specific evaluation time.
Source BudgetPixel AI Image Arena
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena: Concept art & fantasy (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
1584
Score
1584
Metric
Nightly Bradley-Terry rating from blind pairwise preference votes in this category; Elo scale, 1500 is average.
Unit
elo
Benchmark version
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena leaderboard page snapshot, as of 2026-10-17
Category
text-to-image / Concept art & fantasy
Direction
Higher is better
Sample
60
Lower confidence bound
1512
Upper confidence bound
1665
Source type
official-leaderboard
Evaluator
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena
Status
superseded
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Official benchmark leaderboard. Text-to-image in the BudgetPixel AI Image Arena. The publisher describes a rolling suite of 48 active prompts across 10 categories plus retired prompts; every model receives the same prompt verbatim at default settings and resolution, with a fixed seed where supported. Blind pairwise votes are fitted nightly with Bradley-Terry separately by category on an Elo scale with 1500 as average. This is the Concept art & fantasy category rating displayed on the model page as of 2026-10-17.
Context
The leaderboard is dynamic. sampleCount is the displayed number of votes, not distinct prompts, independent tasks, or unique voters; separate task and voter counts are unpublished. The displayed 95% bootstrap bounds are copied directly, not derived. The page names the evaluated product but does not publish the served provider endpoint, checkpoint, exact per-model generation parameters, or model-specific evaluation time.
Source BudgetPixel AI Image Arena
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena: Architecture & interiors (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
1574
Score
1574
Metric
Nightly Bradley-Terry rating from blind pairwise preference votes in this category; Elo scale, 1500 is average.
Unit
elo
Benchmark version
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena leaderboard page snapshot, as of 2026-10-17
Category
text-to-image / Architecture & interiors
Direction
Higher is better
Sample
52
Lower confidence bound
1478
Upper confidence bound
1669
Source type
official-leaderboard
Evaluator
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena
Status
superseded
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Official benchmark leaderboard. Text-to-image in the BudgetPixel AI Image Arena. The publisher describes a rolling suite of 48 active prompts across 10 categories plus retired prompts; every model receives the same prompt verbatim at default settings and resolution, with a fixed seed where supported. Blind pairwise votes are fitted nightly with Bradley-Terry separately by category on an Elo scale with 1500 as average. This is the Architecture & interiors category rating displayed on the model page as of 2026-10-17.
Context
The leaderboard is dynamic. sampleCount is the displayed number of votes, not distinct prompts, independent tasks, or unique voters; separate task and voter counts are unpublished. The displayed 95% bootstrap bounds are copied directly, not derived. The page names the evaluated product but does not publish the served provider endpoint, checkpoint, exact per-model generation parameters, or model-specific evaluation time.
Source BudgetPixel AI Image Arena
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena: Photorealism (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
1568
Score
1568
Metric
Nightly Bradley-Terry rating from blind pairwise preference votes in this category; Elo scale, 1500 is average.
Unit
elo
Benchmark version
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena leaderboard page snapshot, as of 2026-10-17
Category
text-to-image / Photorealism
Direction
Higher is better
Sample
57
Lower confidence bound
1477
Upper confidence bound
1656
Source type
official-leaderboard
Evaluator
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena
Status
superseded
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Official benchmark leaderboard. Text-to-image in the BudgetPixel AI Image Arena. The publisher describes a rolling suite of 48 active prompts across 10 categories plus retired prompts; every model receives the same prompt verbatim at default settings and resolution, with a fixed seed where supported. Blind pairwise votes are fitted nightly with Bradley-Terry separately by category on an Elo scale with 1500 as average. This is the Photorealism category rating displayed on the model page as of 2026-10-17.
Context
The leaderboard is dynamic. sampleCount is the displayed number of votes, not distinct prompts, independent tasks, or unique voters; separate task and voter counts are unpublished. The displayed 95% bootstrap bounds are copied directly, not derived. The page names the evaluated product but does not publish the served provider endpoint, checkpoint, exact per-model generation parameters, or model-specific evaluation time.
Source BudgetPixel AI Image Arena
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena: Typography (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
1574
Score
1574
Metric
Nightly Bradley-Terry rating from blind pairwise preference votes in this category; Elo scale, 1500 is average.
Unit
elo
Benchmark version
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena leaderboard page snapshot, as of 2026-10-17
Category
text-to-image / Typography
Direction
Higher is better
Sample
58
Lower confidence bound
1487
Upper confidence bound
1675
Source type
official-leaderboard
Evaluator
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena
Status
superseded
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Official benchmark leaderboard. Text-to-image in the BudgetPixel AI Image Arena. The publisher describes a rolling suite of 48 active prompts across 10 categories plus retired prompts; every model receives the same prompt verbatim at default settings and resolution, with a fixed seed where supported. Blind pairwise votes are fitted nightly with Bradley-Terry separately by category on an Elo scale with 1500 as average. This is the Typography category rating displayed on the model page as of 2026-10-17.
Context
The leaderboard is dynamic. sampleCount is the displayed number of votes, not distinct prompts, independent tasks, or unique voters; separate task and voter counts are unpublished. The displayed 95% bootstrap bounds are copied directly, not derived. The page names the evaluated product but does not publish the served provider endpoint, checkpoint, exact per-model generation parameters, or model-specific evaluation time.
Source BudgetPixel AI Image Arena
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena: Prompt adherence (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
Source value
1563
Score
1563
Metric
Nightly Bradley-Terry rating from blind pairwise preference votes in this category; Elo scale, 1500 is average.
Unit
elo
Benchmark version
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena leaderboard page snapshot, as of 2026-10-17
Category
text-to-image / Prompt adherence
Direction
Higher is better
Sample
53
Lower confidence bound
1478
Upper confidence bound
1656
Source type
official-leaderboard
Evaluator
BudgetPixel AI Image Arena
Status
superseded
Retrieved at
2026-10-17
Methodology
Official benchmark leaderboard. Text-to-image in the BudgetPixel AI Image Arena. The publisher describes a rolling suite of 48 active prompts across 10 categories plus retired prompts; every model receives the same prompt verbatim at default settings and resolution, with a fixed seed where supported. Blind pairwise votes are fitted nightly with Bradley-Terry separately by category on an Elo scale with 1500 as average. This is the Prompt adherence category rating displayed on the model page as of 2026-10-17.
Context
The leaderboard is dynamic. sampleCount is the displayed number of votes, not distinct prompts, independent tasks, or unique voters; separate task and voter counts are unpublished. The displayed 95% bootstrap bounds are copied directly, not derived. The page names the evaluated product but does not publish the served provider endpoint, checkpoint, exact per-model generation parameters, or model-specific evaluation time.
Source BudgetPixel AI Image Arena

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Midjourney V8.2GPT Image 1.5Luma Uni-1.1 MaxRecraft V4.1 UtilityReve 2.1

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The most popular comparisons

  1. 1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst vs. Midjourney V8.2
  2. 2Nano Banana 2 vs. Midjourney V8.2
  3. 3Midjourney V8.2 vs. Ideogram 4.0
  4. 4Midjourney V8.2 vs. Recraft V4.1 Utility
  5. 5GPT Image 2 vs. Midjourney V8.2
  6. 6Reve 2.1 vs. Midjourney V8.2
  7. 7Midjourney V8.2 vs. GPT Image 1.5
  8. 8Midjourney V8.2 vs. MAI-Image-2.5
  9. 9Midjourney V8.2 vs. Nano Banana Pro
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  1. 10Midjourney V8.2 vs. Nano Banana 2 Lite
  2. 11Midjourney V8.2 vs. Seedream 5.0 Pro
  3. 12Midjourney V8.2 vs. Grok Imagine Image Quality
  4. 13Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX.2 Max
  5. 14Midjourney V8.2 vs. Qwen Image 2.0 Pro
  6. 15Midjourney V8.2 vs. MAI-Image-2.5 Flash
  7. 16Midjourney V8.2 vs. HiDream-O1-Image-1.5
  8. 17Midjourney V8.2 vs. Krea 2 Medium Turbo
  9. 18Midjourney V8.2 vs. Seedream 4.0
  10. 19Midjourney V8.2 vs. Krea 2 Large
  11. 20Midjourney V8.2 vs. Luma Uni-1.1 Max
  12. 21Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX.2 Flex
  13. 22Midjourney V8.2 vs. Wan 2.6 Text to Image
  14. 23Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX.2 Pro
  15. 24Midjourney V8.2 vs. HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct
  16. 25Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX.2 Klein 9B
  17. 26Midjourney V8.2 vs. HiDream-O1-Image
  18. 27Midjourney V8.2 vs. Firefly Image Model 5
  19. 28Midjourney V8.2 vs. Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large
  20. 29Midjourney V8.2 vs. GPT Image 2.5 Flare
  21. 30Midjourney V8.2 vs. Qwen-Image-2.1
  22. 31Midjourney V8.2 vs. MAI-Image-2.6
  23. 32Midjourney V8.2 vs. MAI-Image-2.6 Flash
  24. 33Midjourney V8.2 vs. Muse Image
  25. 34Midjourney V8.2 vs. Grok Imagine Image 2.0
  26. 35Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX 3 Image
  27. 36Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX 3 Image Klein
  28. 37Midjourney V8.2 vs. Nano Banana 2.1
  29. 38Midjourney V8.2 vs. Ideogram 4.5
  30. 39Midjourney V8.2 vs. Hy Image 3.5 Preview
  31. 40Midjourney V8.2 vs. Ming-Image-0.1-Design
  32. 41Midjourney V8.2 vs. Recraft V4.1
  33. 42Midjourney V8.2 vs. Recraft V4.1 Flash
  34. 43Midjourney V8.2 vs. Bria FIBO 2
  35. 44Midjourney V8.2 vs. Krea 3
  36. 45Midjourney V8.2 vs. Qwen Image 3.0 Pro
  37. 46Midjourney V8.2 vs. Qwen Image 3.0
  38. 47Midjourney V8.2 vs. Qwen Image 2.1 Pro
  39. 48Midjourney V8.2 vs. Qwen Image 2.1 Turbo
  40. 49Midjourney V8.2 vs. Wan 2.7 Image Pro
  41. 50Midjourney V8.2 vs. Wan 2.7 Image
  42. 51Midjourney V8.2 vs. Seedream 5.0 Flash
  43. 52Midjourney V8.2 vs. SenseNova U1.5 Lite
  44. 53Midjourney V8.2 vs. Kling Image 3.0
  45. 54Midjourney V8.2 vs. Kling Image 3.0 Omni
  46. 55Midjourney V8.2 vs. Vidu Q2 Image
  47. 56Midjourney V8.2 vs. WAND-Vega-Image 1.0 Pro
  48. 57Midjourney V8.2 vs. WAND-Vega-Image 1.0 Flash
  49. 58Midjourney V8.2 vs. WAND-Vega-Image 1.0 Lite
  50. 59Midjourney V8.2 vs. GLM-Image
  51. 60Midjourney V8.2 vs. MiniMax Image-01
  52. 61Midjourney V8.2 vs. Z-Image Turbo
  53. 62Midjourney V8.2 vs. Luma Uni-1.1
  54. 63Midjourney V8.2 vs. Runway Gen-4 Image
  55. 64Midjourney V8.2 vs. Runway Gen-4 Image Turbo
  56. 65Midjourney V8.2 vs. Leonardo Phoenix 1.0
  57. 66Midjourney V8.2 vs. Leonardo Lucid Origin
  58. 67Midjourney V8.2 vs. Leonardo Lucid Realism
  59. 68Midjourney V8.2 vs. Adobe Firefly Image 3
  60. 69Midjourney V8.2 vs. Adobe Firefly Image 4
  61. 70Midjourney V8.2 vs. Adobe Firefly Image 4 Ultra
  62. 71Midjourney V8.2 vs. Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium
  63. 72Midjourney V8.2 vs. Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo
  64. 73Midjourney V8.2 vs. Stable Diffusion 3.5 Flash
  65. 74Midjourney V8.2 vs. Xingliu Star-3
  66. 75Midjourney V8.2 vs. MiracleVision V6
  67. 76Midjourney V8.2 vs. Hy Image 3.0
  68. 77Midjourney V8.2 vs. Bria FIBO Lite
  69. 78Midjourney V8.2 vs. Mystic 2.5
  70. 79Midjourney V8.2 vs. Mystic 2.5 Flexible
  71. 80Midjourney V8.2 vs. Mystic 2.5 Fluid
  72. 81Midjourney V8.2 vs. Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro
  73. 82Midjourney V8.2 vs. Seedream 4.5
  74. 83Midjourney V8.2 vs. Seedream 5.0 Lite
  75. 84Midjourney V8.2 vs. Kling Image O1
  76. 85Midjourney V8.2 vs. Stable Image Core
  77. 86Midjourney V8.2 vs. Stable Image Ultra
  78. 87Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX.2 Klein 9B Preview
  79. 88Midjourney V8.2 vs. GPT Image 1 Mini
  80. 89Midjourney V8.2 vs. ChatGPT Image Latest (API-Alias)
  81. 90Midjourney V8.2 vs. Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)
  82. 91Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX.2 Klein 4B
  83. 92Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX.2 Dev
  84. 93Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX1.1 [pro]
  85. 94Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX1.1 [pro] Ultra
  86. 95Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX.1 [dev]
  87. 96Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX.1 Kontext [pro]
  88. 97Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX.1 Kontext [max]
  89. 98Midjourney V8.2 vs. Stable Diffusion XL 1.0
  90. 99Midjourney V8.2 vs. Stable Diffusion 3 Medium
  91. 100Midjourney V8.2 vs. SDXL Turbo
  92. 101Midjourney V8.2 vs. Stable Diffusion Turbo
  93. 102Midjourney V8.2 vs. Midjourney V7
  94. 103Midjourney V8.2 vs. Niji 7
  95. 104Midjourney V8.2 vs. Grok Imagine Image 1.0
  96. 105Midjourney V8.2 vs. HUMAIN Image 1
  97. 106Midjourney V8.2 vs. MOSS-Image-Base
  98. 107Midjourney V8.2 vs. MOSS-Image-SFT
  99. 108Midjourney V8.2 vs. LLaDA-Image
  100. 109Midjourney V8.2 vs. LLaDA-Image-Turbo
  101. 110Midjourney V8.2 vs. Nucleus-Image
  102. 111Midjourney V8.2 vs. LongCat-Image
  103. 112Midjourney V8.2 vs. BAGEL-7B-MoT
  104. 113Midjourney V8.2 vs. OmniGen2
  105. 114Midjourney V8.2 vs. Emu3.5-Image
  106. 115Midjourney V8.2 vs. Kandinsky-5.0-T2I-Lite-SFT
  107. 116Midjourney V8.2 vs. Kandinsky-5.0-T2I-Lite-Pretrain
  108. 117Midjourney V8.2 vs. NextStep-1.1
  109. 118Midjourney V8.2 vs. Boogu-Image-0.1-Base
  110. 119Midjourney V8.2 vs. Boogu-Image-0.1-Turbo
  111. 120Midjourney V8.2 vs. SANA-1.5 1.6B 1024px
  112. 121Midjourney V8.2 vs. SANA-1.5 4.8B 1024px
  113. 122Midjourney V8.2 vs. Sana-Sprint 0.6B 1024px
  114. 123Midjourney V8.2 vs. Sana-Sprint 1.6B 1024px
  115. 124Midjourney V8.2 vs. Chroma1-HD
  116. 125Midjourney V8.2 vs. Chroma1-Flash
  117. 126Midjourney V8.2 vs. AuraFlow v0.3
  118. 127Midjourney V8.2 vs. PixArt-Sigma-XL-2-1024-MS
  119. 128Midjourney V8.2 vs. Lumina-Image 2.0
  120. 129Midjourney V8.2 vs. HART-0.7B-1024px
  121. 130Midjourney V8.2 vs. Janus-Pro-1B
  122. 131Midjourney V8.2 vs. Janus-Pro-7B
  123. 132Midjourney V8.2 vs. Show-o2-1.5B-HQ
  124. 133Midjourney V8.2 vs. Kandinsky 3.1
  125. 134Midjourney V8.2 vs. Anima Base v1.0
  126. 135Midjourney V8.2 vs. Krea 2 Raw
  127. 136Midjourney V8.2 vs. HunyuanImage 3.0
  128. 137Midjourney V8.2 vs. HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct Distil
  129. 138Midjourney V8.2 vs. Z-Image Base

All specifications

Input and output

Maximum output
2K
Source: Maximum output

Licence and access

Weights
Proprietary
Source: Weights
Lifecycle
Current default model since July 24, 2026
Source: Lifecycle

Further details

Generation
Midjourney website and Discord
Source: Generation
V8.2 focus
Aesthetics, image quality, and personalization
Source: V8.2 focus
Edit model
Replaces Omni Reference, Character Reference, and Retexture
Source: Edit model
Aspect ratio
Up to 14:1, or 4:1 for HD images
Source: Aspect ratio
Draft mode
On the web, 24 512 × 512-pixel drafts per prompt for 0.4 GPU minutes
Source: Draft mode

Frequently asked questions about Midjourney V8.2

Is Midjourney V8.2 better than Midjourney V8.1?

There are too few shared values for a comparison.

Midjourney V8.1 as predecessor according to Midjourney version documentation, checked Sep 19, 2026

GraduallyBenchown rating, 0 to 100 · higher is better
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Midjourney V8.2

38

Midjourney V8.1

Rank 73 of 108

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Without vendor claims and historical or disputed results; those stay labelled in the single values.

TypeEvidence and data date
Research statusResearch date October 15, 2026. 21 source URLs checked. This documents the inspected sources, not an exhaustive inventory of every publication.
Not published

midjourney-v8-2-vendor-benchmark

Note

The official V8.2 announcement contains no quantitative benchmark result.

Not published

midjourney-v8-2-vendor-benchmark

Note

The official V8.2 announcement contains no quantitative model-quality benchmark.

Unresolved

provider-route-and-checkpoint

Note

The page displays Midjourney V8.2, matching the assigned public product name; the underlying provider endpoint/checkpoint is not published.

Not published

task-and-voter-denominators

Note

The source publishes vote counts but not distinct-task or unique-voter denominators; the displayed votes are not represented as independent prompts or people.

Additional sourceMidjourney (retrieved September 22, 2026; October 20, 2026) · Midjourney V8 release documentation · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026
Additional sourceMidjourney (retrieved September 22, 2026) · Midjourney Draft and Conversational Modes · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026
Additional sourceBudgetPixel AI Image Arena (retrieved October 16, 2026; October 17, 2026; October 20, 2026; November 2, 2026)
Additional sourceBudgetPixel AI Image Arena (retrieved October 16, 2026; October 18, 2026; October 20, 2026; October 28, 2026; November 2, 2026)
Additional sourceFirst Page Sage (retrieved October 22, 2026)
Additional sourceCreateVision AI (retrieved October 23, 2026)
Additional sourceBudgetPixel AI Image Arena public leaderboard CSV (Architecture & interiors) (retrieved October 28, 2026; October 29, 2026; October 30, 2026; October 31, 2026; November 1, 2026; November 2, 2026; November 3, 2026)
Additional sourceBudgetPixel AI Image Arena public leaderboard CSV (Concept art & fantasy) (retrieved October 28, 2026; October 29, 2026; October 30, 2026; October 31, 2026; November 1, 2026; November 2, 2026; November 3, 2026)
Additional sourceBudgetPixel AI Image Arena public leaderboard CSV (Glamour) (retrieved October 28, 2026; October 29, 2026; October 30, 2026; October 31, 2026; November 1, 2026; November 2, 2026; November 3, 2026)
Additional sourceBudgetPixel AI Image Arena public leaderboard CSV (Illustration & anime) (retrieved October 28, 2026; October 29, 2026; October 30, 2026; October 31, 2026; November 1, 2026; November 2, 2026; November 3, 2026)
Additional sourceBudgetPixel AI Image Arena public leaderboard CSV (Landscape & nature) (retrieved October 28, 2026; October 29, 2026; October 30, 2026; October 31, 2026; November 1, 2026; November 2, 2026; November 3, 2026)
Additional sourceBudgetPixel AI Image Arena public leaderboard CSV (Overall) (retrieved October 28, 2026; October 29, 2026; October 30, 2026; October 31, 2026; November 1, 2026; November 2, 2026; November 3, 2026)
Additional sourceBudgetPixel AI Image Arena public leaderboard CSV (Photorealism) (retrieved October 28, 2026; October 29, 2026; October 30, 2026; October 31, 2026; November 1, 2026; November 2, 2026; November 3, 2026)
Additional sourceBudgetPixel AI Image Arena public leaderboard CSV (Portrait & fashion) (retrieved October 28, 2026; October 29, 2026; October 30, 2026; October 31, 2026; November 1, 2026; November 2, 2026; November 3, 2026)
Additional sourceBudgetPixel AI Image Arena public leaderboard CSV (Product & commercial) (retrieved October 28, 2026; October 29, 2026; October 30, 2026; October 31, 2026; November 1, 2026; November 2, 2026; November 3, 2026)
Additional sourceBudgetPixel AI Image Arena public leaderboard CSV (Prompt adherence) (retrieved October 28, 2026; October 29, 2026; October 30, 2026; October 31, 2026; November 1, 2026; November 2, 2026; November 3, 2026)
Additional sourceBudgetPixel AI Image Arena public leaderboard CSV (Typography) (retrieved October 28, 2026; October 29, 2026; October 30, 2026; October 31, 2026; November 1, 2026; November 2, 2026; November 3, 2026)
Additional sourceModel metadata (retrieved October 15, 2026; October 16, 2026)
Additional sourceModel metadata (retrieved October 17, 2026; October 28, 2026)
Additional sourceModel metadata (retrieved October 18, 2026)
Additional sourceOpenRouter: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional sourceVercel AI Gateway: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0
Additional sourceOllama: cumulative downloads for the popularity index
Additional sourceReplicate: cumulative runs for the popularity index
Additional sourceGoogle Trending Now: limited feed selection for Germany and the US
Additional sourceCreative Commons Attribution 4.0