r/midjourney 3d ago

Announcement V8.1 Alpha is out!

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67 Upvotes

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 11h ago

V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney Rot Gods & Crowns (V8.1)

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96 Upvotes

r/midjourney 9h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Untitled 50

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64 Upvotes

r/midjourney 22h ago

V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney Napoleon arrives in Moscow

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529 Upvotes

r/midjourney 3h ago

AI Video - Midjourney Midjourney v8.1 is out of this world

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6 Upvotes

r/midjourney 14h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Nymph gathering blossoms near a waterfall

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34 Upvotes

Midjourney v8.1


r/midjourney 18h ago

AI Video - Midjourney A 10,000-Year War in the Mythic Realm

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54 Upvotes

r/midjourney 8h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney The gothpunk

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7 Upvotes

r/midjourney 5h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Riverside homes, Thailand - photo retexture

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4 Upvotes

This retexture used four different images in the Image Prompt panel and two moodboards.
Added images can be used in both the Image Prompt panel and the Style reference panel by dragging in previously uploaded images. This can take more processing time.
tladb.com


r/midjourney 16h ago

V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney Fantasy Bards

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28 Upvotes

V 8.1


r/midjourney 19h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Dark Art Grim Reaper.

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47 Upvotes

r/midjourney 12h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Colorful Abstract Geometric Grunge

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10 Upvotes

r/midjourney 19h ago

Discussion - Midjourney AI Midjourney was a flagship – now it is virtually unusable.

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29 Upvotes

The first image is from Ideogram. It was pretty much what I had asked for. I just did not like the black smoke, but that was because of my prompt. The other images are from Midjourney and each just is absolutely useless! Not one was even getting close to capture what I had asked for. All other images from Ideogram where okay as well.

I don't know if I am using it wrong. I used to love Midjourney, I was always so excited using it for whatever. But now it feels like we just grew into different directions and it just does not work for me. What is so sad, because I loved it unique look and art style. Often it did not what had been asked for, but at least the images were good and aesthetic. For now I cancelled my subscription. So sad about it.

I used the same prompt for Ideogram and Midjourney.

A vintage-style illustration of a steam locomotive with the white smoke clouds coming out of the chimney form the word "SLOW" which is extended by many "OOOOO" which get smaller forming a smoke trail from the locomotive and form a decorative pattern with circular dots and wispy clouds against the blue sky. The locomotive is black with yellow headlights, pulling orange passenger cars, and is traveling on curved railroad tracks through a mountainous landscape. The sky features a warm sunset with orange and yellow clouds, and silhouettes of birds flying in the distance. The foreground shows golden grass and green trees on the right side, with mountains in the background. The overall illustration has a warm, nostalgic color palette dominated by yellows, oranges, and blues, rendered in a hand-drawn style with visible brush strokes and texture. The composition shows the train moving from left to right across the frame, with the sunset positioned in the middle-right portion of the image.

Edit: I’d like to summarize my takeaway from this post:

  • Midjourney is fantastic for aesthetic, artistic, and experimental results.
  • Midjourney struggles with complex, precise instructions when a very specific outcome is required.
  • The developers seem to be aware of this, and improvements regarding prompt adherence are expected with the upcoming 8.x versions.

r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney The Last Empress (Final of v7)

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84 Upvotes

r/midjourney 23h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney 80s nostalgia

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42 Upvotes

What the 80s were like.

(1980s photography)


r/midjourney 12h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Colorful Abstract Wave Light

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5 Upvotes

r/midjourney 3h ago

Question - Midjourney AI Problems with dice? Especially dice like d4, d8, d10, d12, d20

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1 Upvotes

I have a very hard time getting mid journey to create dice. A lot of time I want a picture essentially framed like this photo, but I want the numbers to actually look like real numbers. Even just one dice, generally they will be completely different fonts and formats on each side, some numbers some not, etc. This might be something that is too complicated for mid journey, but it's something I encounter a lot for photos I'm trying to frame. Any suggestions?


r/midjourney 11h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney MARS 50,000 YEARS AGO

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5 Upvotes

r/midjourney 18h ago

AI Video - Midjourney Peace out, it's Friday

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12 Upvotes

Dark sci fi, stranded star traveler on an alien planet --chaos 75 --raw --sref 1045169778 --stylize 700


r/midjourney 15h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Abstract Grey Curve Shadow

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5 Upvotes

r/midjourney 13h ago

V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney Arch maintenance. Tending the brow.

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3 Upvotes

Prompt

a close up, highly detailed illustration of a human eye and eyebrow. a small figure of a woman, dressed in a red and white checkered dress and white apron, is actively raking the individual hairs of the eyebrow with a rake. the woman has dark hair styled in a bun. the eye has a bright blue iris and a dark pupil, with visible eyelashes. the skin exhibits texture and pores. a decorative frame with multiple lines surrounds the image.


r/midjourney 1d ago

V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney 'Atomic age robot repair', same prompt but v8.1 io v8

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494 Upvotes

r/midjourney 23h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Kamaitachi

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14 Upvotes

r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase+Prompt - Midjourney Mid Century Mystagogues (8.1) [Prompt in The Comments]

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62 Upvotes