Midjourney sells subscriptions and nothing else. The official plan chart lists four of them — Basic at $10 a month, Standard at $30, Pro at $60, Mega at $120, or $96, $288, $576 and $1,152 a year paid upfront. We opened that chart on 15 September 2026, so every figure below is read from it rather than from a comparison site.
What the plans meter is GPU time, not images, and a second official table lists what each job consumes. The arithmetic below is ours; the base figures are the vendor’s.
The four plans, as the official chart lists them
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Fast GPU time | Relax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $10 | $96 ($8/month) | 3.3 hr/month (200 minutes) | none |
| Standard | $30 | $288 ($24/month) | 15 hr/month | unlimited images |
| Pro | $60 | $576 ($48/month) | 30 hr/month | unlimited images and video |
| Mega | $120 | $1,152 ($96/month) | 60 hr/month | unlimited images and video |
Three rows decide most of the real questions. Stealth Mode is Pro and Mega only. Videos are standard definition on Basic and standard or HD above it. Extra GPU time costs $4 an hour everywhere, and annual billing takes 20% off. The chart also lists concurrency: 3 parallel image prompts on Basic, 12 on Pro and Mega. Your first grid is covered in the Midjourney quick-start guide.
What a plan buys: metered GPU time
The subscription is not a licence for unlimited jobs; it is a block of time on the GPUs. “When you subscribe to Midjourney, you’re actually buying time to use these GPUs,” the GPU speed page says.
It also draws the line pricing pages blur: “GPU time is only used when Midjourney is actively working to create images/videos for you.” A prompt sitting in a Relax queue costs nothing while it waits.
The documented cost of one job
| Job | GPU time |
|---|---|
| Standard-resolution image prompt | 0.8 minutes |
| HD image prompt | 1.3 minutes |
| Variation | under 1 min |
| Creative or Subtle upscale | 2 minutes |
| Edit Model prompt, standard resolution | 1 minute |
| Edit Model prompt, HD | 2.3 minutes |
| Batch of four standard-resolution videos | 8 minutes |
| Batch of four HD videos | 26 minutes |
Its round numbers are “about one minute” for an image prompt and eight for a video, with the caveat that “different tasks can use more or less.”
Fast, Relax and Turbo
Fast: an allowance that resets
Fast time is what the plan table measures, and it does not accumulate: “Each time your subscription renews, your Fast time is reset… any unused time doesn’t carry over to the next month.”
Relax: unlimited, but queued
Relax starts at Standard for images and at Pro for standard-definition video. It is unlimited, and the documented trade is time: prompts wait “ranging from 0 to 30 minutes”. Four features are unavailable there — permutation prompts, the repeat parameter, HD video and the legacy Max Upscale.
Turbo: double the Fast cost
Turbo runs on “a special, high-speed GPU pool” that is up to four times faster, and it “uses double the Fast time for each image”. It is also documented as unsupported in V8.1, and described as experimental, so its availability can change.
Extra time, free time, and the trial that exists
Running out of Fast time has three documented answers: buy more at $4 per GPU hour, switch to Relax if the plan has it, or earn it — “Each day, the top 2,000 members who rate the most images receive an extra hour of Fast time free.” Earned time needs an active subscription and “expires 30 days after it’s given”; surveys occasionally award more.
The trial question is answered in one official line, and it is not the answer most sites give: a limited trial exists on the niji · journey app for iOS and Android, and “No free trial is currently available in Discord or the midjourney.com website.” There is no free tier on the main product.
Worked example: three jobs priced in GPU minutes
The jobs below use the official per-job figures; every division is our arithmetic, not a published figure.
Job one: four stills and one upscale
a ceramics studio shelf at dusk, eight glazed bowls in a row, one lamp overhead, deep shadows, muted earth palette --ar 4:3The four images that come back are one prompt, documented at 0.8 minutes. Pick one and upscale it with Creative or Subtle at 2 minutes, and the session costs 5.2 GPU minutes. Basic’s 200 minutes cover about 38 sittings of that size; Mega’s 3,600 cover about 690. The upscale of one frame costs more than two and a half prompts.
Job two: one Edit Model instruction
make this silver knight ride the horse of fire holding the sword of flowers --ar 16:9This is the official example for combining up to four reference images into one composition, and it is an instruction rather than a description. Edit Model work is documented at 1 minute in standard resolution and 2.3 in HD: Basic’s 200 minutes cover about 200 standard edits or 86 HD ones, Mega’s 3,600 roughly 3,600 and 1,565. An edit inherits the first reference image’s shape, so set --ar.
Job three: a batch of four videos
One batch of four standard-resolution videos is documented at 8 minutes, so Basic’s 200 minutes buy about 25 batches — 100 clips. The same batch in HD costs 26 minutes, and Basic cannot run it: HD video starts one tier up, where Standard’s 900 minutes are about 34 batches.
Why other sites quote different numbers
Search for Midjourney pricing and the prices mostly agree, because they are copied from the same chart. What disagrees is the conversion into images: one review site reads Basic as “roughly 200 jobs”, another prints per-plan estimates in the thousands. Those are the sites’ own arithmetic, and none cites the per-job table.
Watch the domain too. Results include pages styled like an official plan page, and they are neither the documentation nor the account page. Prices belong to docs.midjourney.com and the Manage Subscription page. The same care applies to the Midjourney API guide, where third parties sell access the licence forbids.
Commercial terms, and what the chart does not state
Ownership is generous and conditioned. The official footnote says that “if you have subscribed at any point, you are free to use your images/videos in just about any way you want” — with one exception: a company making more than $1,000,000 USD in gross revenue per year must be on Pro or Mega.
What the same pages never state is worth listing, because each gap is filled in somewhere:
- A price per image: Midjourney prices subscriptions and GPU minutes, never a single render.
- A fixed monthly gift of Fast time. Rating and surveys are the documented ways to earn more.
- Relax queue priority per tier. The wait is documented as 0 to 30 minutes with no tier table.
- Any refund or pro-rata policy.
- A price history. The chart carries a warning instead: “Plan availability and features are subject to change.”
The Midjourney topic hub keeps the version facts — the default model, the interfaces — in one place.
Frequently asked questions
Is Midjourney free? No. Four paid tiers are listed, and the only trial is a limited one on the niji · journey app.
Which plan do I need for Stealth Mode? Pro or Mega. Unlimited Relax images start at Standard, and unlimited Relax video starts at Pro.
What does an extra GPU hour cost? $4, at every tier.
How many images does $10 buy? The chart sells 200 Fast minutes and a standard prompt is documented at 0.8 minutes: about 250 prompts by our division, fewer once you upscale, and none of them in Relax — Basic does not include it.
Do third-party price lists matter? Only as that site’s own quote. Check the date attached to it and compare against the official chart.