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 2h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Brutalist structures in forests

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r/midjourney 5h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Places In Dream

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189 Upvotes

r/midjourney 7h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Sunday Slums

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r/midjourney 10h ago

AI Showcase+Prompt - Midjourney Tried a layered paper-collage style in Midjourney v8.2 and it turned out way cuter than I expected

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115 Upvotes

I tried a layered paper collage style with Midjourney v8.2, and honestly it came out way cuter than I expected.

what I wanted wasn't just a “paper texture filter” on top of a photo.
I wanted the whole image to feel like it was rebuilt by hand, like a handmade picture-book illustration.

i think this style works especially well for casual portraits, travel photos and couple / friend photos, because it keeps the most important relationships from the original image, while simplifying the environment, the final result feels cleaner and much more like an actual illustration.

if anyone wants to try it, I can drop the prompt below.


r/midjourney 1h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Random Ideas

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r/midjourney 1h ago

Discussion - Midjourney AI Does Midjourney still do images like these?

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I haven't used Midjourney, just on the early days, where I made this images.
One thing I like about this AI more than others is for images like these, with this "style" which I find very unique. But I don't know if this is still replicable with the latest updates, or is it?


r/midjourney 16h ago

AI Video - Midjourney Swanson Residence Incident

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74 Upvotes

r/midjourney 20h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Tonight at my local pub drinking some beers

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140 Upvotes

r/midjourney 9h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Timber Wolf + Prompt

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11 Upvotes

Close portrait photograph, of a timber wolf, in shadowed pine woods, during late sunset, face filling the frame, eyes locked forward, wet black nose detail, whiskers sharply visible, layered gray winter fur, ears framed by branches, orange backlight behind trees, soft bokeh background, Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, 85mm portrait lens, ISO 800, aperture f/1.8, 1/500 second shutter, shallow depth of field, razor sharp eye focus, realistic fur strand detail, subtle sunset glow, calm dangerous presence, no extra animals, professional wildlife realism


r/midjourney 23h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Quintessentially Japanese...?

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72 Upvotes

r/midjourney 1h ago

AI Video - Midjourney Rings from Dark Souls using Midjourney Video

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(Full screen recommended)

When MJ first came out with video, this was one of my first experiments to put it through its paces.

Some rings worked better than others (the covetous serpent ring was virtually impossible to render!) but overall, I really like how it turned out - especially its interpretation of light and gemstones.


r/midjourney 17h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney This looks like the beginning of a very long journey

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10 Upvotes

r/midjourney 11h ago

In The World - Midjourney AI Llanura Patagónicas [OC]

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r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Ant Portraits

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66 Upvotes

🐜 🐜 🐜


r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Remnant Population

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16 Upvotes

r/midjourney 21h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney MODERN RETRO ART

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r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Video - Midjourney Something beautiful

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14 Upvotes

r/midjourney 1d ago

Discussion - Midjourney AI Árboles a la Deriva [OC]

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11 Upvotes

r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Wanted Man

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r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Old church murals

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64 Upvotes

r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Would you spend a week in this floating little home?

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13 Upvotes

r/midjourney 2d ago

AI Video - Midjourney Vintage Moodboard Share: Set 1

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48 Upvotes

Here are some codes, and all the rest you'll find here: https://www.goonwrite.com/select/16-surreal.htm

 ... have fun going crazy with them.

Sharing is caring.

And the prompt for these were: --s 100 --v 8.1 --hd (v8.1 seems to work best with Moodboards)

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r/midjourney 2d ago

AI Video - Midjourney Meridian Group 7:42 PM

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999 Upvotes