Midjourney Alternatives and Competitors

Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence has been in talks for several reasons. Many people thought that AI would first take over the mechanical or blue-collar tasks, but meanwhile, it came for the white-collar and creative kind of tasks, like Image Generation. Who would have thought that?

If you are someone who is into the creative stuff, you might have probably seen or even used Midjourney. It’s a great generative AI service, which is used mainly for image generation. If you want to perform image generation using AI, but when are unable to use Midjourney, you might want to find some alternatives to Midjourney, and this is what we are going to do in this article.

Midjourney Alternatives and Competitors

We are going to have a look at some of the alternatives to Midjourney. Midjourney is a great AI art generator, but it would cost you some dollars, and if in case you are unable to afford Midjourney, some of the alternatives should help you.

What is Midjourney?

For someone who is not familiar with Midjourney, let’s quickly discuss Midjourney, and then we will quickly move ahead toward the alternatives.

So, Midjourney can be considered an AI art generator, which allows you to create images using natural prompts. The best thing is that Midjourney gives stunning images, provided that you give suitable prompts. People sometimes say that it doesn’t give the image they wanted, but it’s mostly the art of prompting, which would give you the desired image.

But sometimes, you might need some alternatives to Midjourney, in many cases, like if you can’t afford Midjourney, or you feel it’s taking too much money, or if you want to just try some another competitive tool, etc. So we will discuss some Midjourney alternatives.

Midjourney Alternatives

So, now it’s time to explore some alternatives to Midjourney. Firstly, we will list the alternatives, and then we will discuss them one by one. So, here is the list of some Midjourney Alternatives. Please note that through the list below, we are not trying to rank the alternatives, and they are ordered in a completely random sense.

• DALL-E 3
• Adobe Firefly
• Bing Image Creator
• PlaygroundAI
• Lexica
• Stable Diffusion
• Leonardo AI
• Ideogram

More image generation tools include –

• Freepik AI image generation
• GenCraft
• Nightcafe

Now that we have seen the list of some of the Midjourney Alternatives, let’s now focus on the tools one by one, and see them in greater detail. If you want, you can go and explore each tool mentioned above, or just keep on reading to find the perfect tool (or tools) that you would want to use for your tasks.

DALL-E 3

There is some probability that you came to know about this AI hype due to ChatGPT, which was developed by OpenAI. For image generation as well, there is a tool available, developed by OpenAI, which is called DALL-E 3. This is one of the best Image creation tools available on the internet.

Similar to Midjourney, here as well, you can generate images from natural language. DALL-E 3 does give very detailed and accurate images on even some simple prompts.

If you want to make use of DALL-E 3, you will need to have ChatGPT Plus or Enterprise version, for which you have to pay a cost. However, you can make use of DALL-E 2, which is an earlier version of the DALL–E 3, using the same OpenAI Account with which you log in to ChatGPT(well, if you haven’t used ChatGPT yet, why?). Follow the below steps, and you will get to DALL-E 2 –

• On your Browser, go to https://labs.openai.com/ or click here.
• You may need to log in to your OpenAI account if you are not already logged in.
• You would see an interface, where you can enter your prompt for the image, and just wait a few seconds, and you would have the image.

So, it’s that easy to access DALL-E 2 and get an image generated within a minute. However, if you want to use DALL-E 3, you would need ChatGPT plus subscription, or ChatGPT enterprise.

Adobe Firefly

When it comes to graphics, Adobe is already a big name, and in this era of AI-generated images, Adobe is not left behind. Adobe has come up with an image creator, called Adobe Firefly. If you try out Adobe Firefly, you will witness the power of the AI image creator, because it stretches the possibilities with AI image creation.

We have tried it, and I mean just imagine that you have a picture of a wall in your house, you select some parts, and just tell Firefly to add some photo frames, and within seconds, you have Photo frames added to the selected part.

If you are someone in the creative space, I would seriously recommend trying Adobe Firefly, because there is a lot to explore in the tool.
To try Adobe Firefly, you just need to follow the given set of steps –

• Go to your browser.
• Type firefly.adobe.com, or click here.
• Sign in, or create an account, and you are ready to get started.

Bing Image Creator

Another Midjourney Alternative is the Bing Image Creator. If you are familiar with Bing AI chat, you can find that the AI Image generator is integrated right into the Bing AI chat, so if you ask for some image in the chat, it will come up with the image. So, it’s great to ask for an image right in the chat, and just a few seconds later, it comes up with AI-generated images. You would need to put a prompt in such a way that it comes up with an image.

To use the Bing Image Creator, you just need to follow the below steps –

• Open your favorite browser.
• Type https://www.bing.com/chat, or click here.
• Enter some prompt in the available input box, like “Create an image of a white owl”, and it should create the required image.

Please make sure that you are logged in to use this service, or it will just prompt you to log in first, to use the service.

PlaygroundAI

PlaygroundAI is another amazing alternative to Midjourney. An amazing thing about the tool is that although it has a free plan, where you get to generate 500 images per day, you can use them commercially even when on the free plan. Although if you pay for the tool, you would get more features, I think the free plan is something great for someone to get started with AI image generation, before choosing any paid tool, or paid plan.

To access PlaygroundAI, you just need to follow the below-given steps –

• Open your Browser.
• Type https://playgroundai.com/, or click here.
• After that, you would need to login, and then you would be able to create images.

Initially, you might feel some learning curve, but things are simple since it’s just an image generation, there’s more like you can do some more editing as well, so this tool is worth exploring.

Lexica

Another amazing AI image-generation tool is Lexica. On Lexica, they have their fine-tuned model for image creation, based on Stable Diffusion. It is great for creating many types of photos, like portraits. It can be also seen to be like a search engine for Stable diffusion-based AI-generated images.

When on a free plan initially, you can generate up to 100 images per week, but if you upgrade, there are further plans, which allow more image generation. For commercial use of images generated from Lexica, you must have a paid plan.
Here is how you can use Lexica –

• Go to your browser.
• Type https://lexica.art/, or click here.
• Just create your account, or sign in if you already have an account.
  After that, you just need to start entering your prompts.

Remember that you can generate a limited number of generations when on a free plan, and if you are planning for commercial use of generated images, you would need a paid plan.

Stable Diffusion

Stable Diffusion is among the famous names in the world of AI image generation. While many AI image generation models are proprietary, stable diffusion has made their AI image generation models open source, which also means that you can even download their code, and bring it to your PC.

You can download their models like Stable Diffusion XL, and SDXL Turbo as well, or you can even try them online. There is another website Clipdrop by Stability.ai, which is the company behind Stable Diffusion, where you can try SDXL Turbo and Stable Diffusion XL. Here you can find many other tools that are very useful in terms of graphics.
Here is how to try Stable Diffusion models –

• Open your browser.
• Type https://clipdrop.co/, or click here.
• Under the tools, you can find SDXL Turbo, Stable Diffusion XL, along with many other tools, and you just need to click on them and start using them(you may need to login)

To download the codes for these models, you would need to go to https://stability.ai/stable-image, where you would be able to download the code. It would take you to HuggingFace.

Leonardo AI

Leonardo AI is an amazing environment for AI art-related stuff. The good thing is that here they have multiple models, using which you can generate images, and even they have some options for editing the images.

The good thing is that they always keep on improving the platform, so you get to see many new things on the platform with time, and they are quite impressive as well. When you go to Leonardo AI, you can check from the community feed, how people are creating the images so that you get to know what potential Leonardo AI has.

Here is how you can use Leonardo AI –

• Just go to your browser.
• Type https://leonardo.ai/, or click here, and then click on the Launch App button.
• Upon creating an account, or signing in, you would find an interface full of options, and then you should be able to create AI images.

Although you can use the tool on a free plan, you would need a paid subscription, to use more features.

Ideogram

Ideogram is an AI image generation tool, that has gained popularity due to its ability to even enter Text into the images, while many other AI image generation tools are still struggling with this. Other than this, it’s an excellent image-generation tool, and you can easily use it. Here is how you can use it –

• Open your browser.
• Enter https://ideogram.ai/, or click here.
• After that, you would need to log in, and after that, you can generate images.

As you can see there are many alternatives to Midjourney. You can explore many / all of the alternatives stated above, or even more than these, and use the ones that you feel are most required by you, but there are many big players in the game of AI-based Image Generation, and there is a lot of innovation happening in this space.

Conclusion

Here, we explored some alternatives to Midjourney, which is an amazing AI image-generation tool. While Midjourney is one of the leading AI image generation tools available in the market today, there are many other leading competitors and alternatives, which you can look for, and use accordingly as needed.

We discussed some of the tools, like PlaygroundAI, LeonardoAI, DALL-E3, Ideogram, and more. If you want, you can many or all of them, to get an idea about the tools, and get familiar with them, so that you can comfortably use them.

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