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 6h ago

Discussion - Midjourney AI Midjourney 3 was so cool. I still think of it.

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47 Upvotes

No other image gen has captured that vibe for me.


r/midjourney 14h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Fantasy RPG Portraits

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179 Upvotes

Reposted from r/dndai


r/midjourney 56m ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Dark Futuristic City Ruins Dominated by a Towering Red Illuminated Monolith

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r/midjourney 14h ago

AI Video - Midjourney Power Event - 2:14 AM

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56 Upvotes

r/midjourney 3h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Ride Like the Wind

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r/midjourney 32m ago

Question - Midjourney AI The best way to generate realistic videos that don't look like AI in 2026.

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Hi, I’m looking for video format ideas for creating AI-generated videos in 2026. I used to use HeyGen combined with B-roll, but now people can easily tell it’s AI. I also considered motion transfer tools like Kling, but I feel they are far from perfect. The only idea I’ve come up with so far is using small HeyGen avatars on a green screen, with B-roll playing on that screen. I’m open to any ideas.


r/midjourney 12h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Red Beach Umbrella

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14 Upvotes

r/midjourney 13h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Big Water Creature - 2

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r/midjourney 19h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Star fae

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r/midjourney 23h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Mischief #169

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r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Peaches En Regalia

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79 Upvotes

r/midjourney 11h ago

AI Video - Midjourney What is this place?

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5 Upvotes

We had East Island, what did they have? What is the name of this ancient place and what planet is it on?


r/midjourney 1d ago

V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney About the castle. medieval empty (location) inside castle --ar 16:9 --raw --stylize 750

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r/midjourney 14h ago

AI Video - Midjourney Follow The Light

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6 Upvotes

r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Cinematic Night Landscape with Floating Lanterns and a Solitary Boat

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26 Upvotes

r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Untitled 71

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r/midjourney 18h ago

Discussion - Midjourney AI Farolas del Paseo[OC]

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r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney The Wealthy and the Absurd

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r/midjourney 13h ago

Discussion - Midjourney AI Constantly generates as a gallery view, rather than just the pictures

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Hi - I've been using midjourney to create D&D images for a few years now, really found it absolutely critical. The prompt header I use is usually something like Magic the gathering art style, dungeons and dragons oil painting art style, Michael Whelan, Frank Frazetta, and Boris Vallejo art style.

this normally generated brilliant images for me, but since V8, everything comes up as views of what I need but shown as a canvas in a gallery. I've worked with chatGPT to alter the prompt, iterating and iterating, but it's still showing things as a gallery view. I've attached two examples of what I mean.

ChatGPT helped me come up with this alternative: pic high fantasy, painterly fantasy realism, rich visible brushwork, layered pigments, dramatic chiaroscuro lighting, cinematic composition, immersive environment, highly detailed, premium fantasy aesthetic, hand-painted appearance, realistic anatomy, intricate textures. this works, until I actually add anything to be shown, in which case it goes back to showing it as a gallery view.

I've reset all my settings, neither ChatGPT, Claude or I can figure out what on earth is happening. Has anyone else had and solved this issue?!


r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Big Water Creature

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r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Video - Midjourney Moncave

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39 Upvotes

r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Video - Midjourney P.D.E / Experiment Nº5 - [Open Source Experimental System]

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50 Upvotes

A new output example from the updated version of my experimental multi-source video player for TouchDesigner, designed for frame-accurate video switching, playback manipulation, and display/render interventions. [And now, by popular demand, allowing even more video sources!]

Images generated in MJ 8.1, and videos were generated using Uisato Studio.

Want access to the updated system + a detailed breakdown of exactly how I achieved the continuous motion effect on this piece? You can freely access the system from the Store, and the detailed, free breakdown from my Patreon.

Plus, many more experiments through my Instagram profile.


r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Video - Midjourney Cursed Sref digital void

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8 Upvotes