Midjourney vs Stability AI

Midjourney and Stability AI are both listed under Generative AI in the DevPages directory. This page puts the details we hold for each of them side by side.

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	Midjourney	Stability AI
Category	Generative AI	Generative AI
Pricing model	Paid	Freemium
Open source	Not recorded	Yes
GitHub stars	Not tracked	27.3K
Key features	V8.1 default image model, with V8.2 also released Video model for animating images Web app at midjourney.com, with Discord still supported Edit model for changing existing images Style and artistic control Upscaling and variations Fast and relaxed generation modes	Stable Diffusion 3.5 image models with open weights SDXL still available alongside SD 3.5 Stable Audio 3.0 for music and sound generation Stable Fast 3D and Stable Point Aware 3D for image-to-3D Stable Video Diffusion for video generation Control tools for sketch, structure and style guidance Community License: free under US$1M annual revenue Developer platform API
Use cases	Digital art creation Concept art and ideation Marketing and advertising visuals Game asset development Book and album cover design Social media content NFT and crypto art Creative inspiration and exploration	Creative content generation Art and design creation Marketing and advertising materials Game asset development Research and experimentation Educational projects Prototype visualization Social media content
Integrations	Web app Discord	Python PyTorch Diffusers ComfyUI AUTOMATIC1111 RunPod Google Colab
Tags	ai-art image-generation creative-ai discord-bot digital-art midjourney-v8 video-generation photorealistic	stable-diffusion image-generation open-source generative-ai computer-vision audio-generation 3d-generation
Links	Website (opens in a new tab)	Website (opens in a new tab) GitHub (opens in a new tab) Docs (opens in a new tab)

What each one is

Midjourney

AI-powered image generation tool for creating stunning artwork

Midjourney is an independent research lab whose models turn text prompts into images. V8.1 became the default image model in June 2026, and a V8.2 image model followed in July. It also has a video model, released in June 2025. The main interface is the midjourney.com website, and Discord is still supported.

Full Midjourney listing

Stability AI

Open-source generative AI company democratizing access to AI technology

Stability AI builds open-weight generative models for images, audio, 3D and video. Its current image models are the Stable Diffusion 3.5 family, with SDXL still available. It also offers Stable Audio 3.0 for sound and music, Stable Fast 3D and Stable Point Aware 3D for turning an image into a 3D asset, and Stable Video Diffusion. Models ship as downloadable weights under the Stability AI Community License, which is free for organisations with under US$1M in annual revenue, and through a developer platform API.

Full Stability AI listing

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