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Midjourney v5 by Midjourney — Pricing, Benchmarks & Real Outputs

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Updated Feb 28, 2025
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Midjourney v5 performance data on Rival is based on blind head-to-head community voting. Overall win rate: 37.5% across 8 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 v5

Midjourney v5

Midjourney:
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Midjourney v5 produces realistic images.

Image Generation
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Feature this model
Provider
Midjourney
Release Date
2023-11-01
Size
LARGE
Parameters
Not disclosed

Benchmarks

CLIP Score
91.2
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Model Responses

3 outputs from Midjourney v5

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Midjourney v5Hyperrealistic Portrait
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Midjourney v5
Hyperrealistic Portrait
Hyperrealistic Portrait
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Midjourney v5Futuristic Cyberpunk City
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Midjourney v5
Futuristic Cyberpunk City
Futuristic Cyberpunk City
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Midjourney v5Fantasy Character
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Midjourney v5
Fantasy Character
Fantasy Character
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