MidjourneyImage model
Midjourney V8.2
Arena ratingnot rated
n/aUser voteshigher is better
GraduallyBenchnot tested yet
n/aour own rating0 to 100
Priceno price
n/aper imagelower is better
PopularityRank 573 of 875
22out of 100same as last month
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.
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- superseded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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Midjourney V8.222
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Anima Base v1.0, CircleStone Labs and Comfy Org: 68
SDXL Turbo, Stability AI: 63
Stable Diffusion Turbo, Stability AI: 63
Nano Banana 2, Google: 61
FLUX.2 Max, Black Forest Labs: 55
Krea 2 Raw, Krea.ai: 54
Nano Banana Pro, Google: 50
FLUX.2 Pro, Black Forest Labs: 48
MOSS-Image-SFT, OpenMOSS: 46
FLUX.2 Flex, Black Forest Labs: 46
GPT Image 2, OpenAI: 46
LongCat-Image, Meituan: 45
MAI-Image-2.6, Microsoft AI: 45
FLUX.2 Klein 9B, Black Forest Labs: 45
PixArt-Sigma-XL-2-1024-MS, PixArt-Alpha: 44
Janus-Pro-7B, DeepSeek: 44
HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct, Tencent: 44
MOSS-Image-Base, OpenMOSS: 44
Midjourney V8.2, Midjourney: 22
As of November 2026 · Source: gradually.ai popularity index
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- 5GPT Image 2 vs. Midjourney V8.2
- 6Reve 2.1 vs. Midjourney V8.2
- 7Midjourney V8.2 vs. GPT Image 1.5
- 8Midjourney V8.2 vs. MAI-Image-2.5
- 9Midjourney V8.2 vs. Nano Banana Pro
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- 11Midjourney V8.2 vs. Grok Imagine Image Quality
- 12Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX.2 Max
- 13Midjourney V8.2 vs. Qwen Image 2.0 Pro
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- 15Midjourney V8.2 vs. Krea 2 Medium Turbo
- 16Midjourney V8.2 vs. Seedream 4.0
- 17Midjourney V8.2 vs. Krea 2 Large
- 18Midjourney V8.2 vs. Luma Uni-1.1 Max
- 19Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX.2 Flex
- 20Midjourney V8.2 vs. Wan 2.6 Text to Image
- 21Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX.2 Pro
- 22Midjourney V8.2 vs. HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct
- 23Midjourney V8.2 vs. FLUX.2 Klein 9B
- 24Midjourney V8.2 vs. Firefly Image Model 5
- 25Midjourney V8.2 vs. Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large
- 26Midjourney V8.2 vs. GPT Image 2.5 Flare
- 27Midjourney V8.2 vs. Qwen-Image-2.1
- 28Midjourney V8.2 vs. MAI-Image-2.6
- 29Midjourney V8.2 vs. Muse Image
- 30Midjourney V8.2 vs. Grok Imagine Image 2.0
- 31Midjourney V8.2 vs. Seedream 4.5
- 32Midjourney V8.2 vs. Janus-Pro-1B
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Input and output
Watermarking and provenance
AI watermarking refers to invisible signals embedded in the output. Visible marks and provenance metadata are listed separately. Unknown means there is insufficient evidence for that particular field.
- AI watermarking
- Unknown
- no source
- Watermarking technique
- Not known
- no source
Licence and access
Further details
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
n/a
Midjourney V8.2
38
Midjourney V8.1
Rank 73 of 108
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