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Midjourney v4 by Midjourney — Pricing, Benchmarks & Real Outputs

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Updated Feb 28, 2025
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Midjourney v4 performance data on Rival is based on blind head-to-head community voting. Overall win rate: 55.6% across 9 duels. All vote data is part of Rival's open dataset of 21,000+ human preference judgments across 200+ AI models. Model responses are curated from 3 challenges.

Midjourney v4

Midjourney v4

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Midjourney v4 marked a major leap forward with dramatically improved photorealism, coherence, and prompt understanding, trained on Google TPUs for the first time.

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Provider
Midjourney
Release Date
2022-11-05
Size
LARGE
Parameters
Not disclosed (proprietary diffusion model)

Benchmarks

Human Preference Rate
83.7%
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Model Responses

3 outputs from Midjourney v4

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Midjourney v4Futuristic Cyberpunk City
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Midjourney v4Hyperrealistic Portrait
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Midjourney v4
Hyperrealistic Portrait
Hyperrealistic Portrait
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Midjourney v4Fantasy Character
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Fantasy Character
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