Midjourney V7 Review: Still the King of AI Art

Midjourney has been the aesthetic benchmark for AI image generation since V4 captured the imagination of artists and designers worldwide. V7 arrives with a proper web interface, improved character consistency, and the same uncanny ability to produce images that look like they belong in a gallery rather than a dataset. After generating hundreds of images across different styles and use cases, we can confirm: Midjourney is still the king of AI art, though the competition is finally getting interesting.

Goodbye Discord, Hello Web

The most immediately impactful change in V7 is the full web interface. Midjourney's Discord-only workflow was always its most divisive feature: power users loved the community aspect, while many potential users were put off by the clunky bot-command interface and the chaotic public channels. The web interface solves this decisively.

The new interface is clean, responsive, and well-designed. Image generation, variation, upscaling, and parameter adjustment are all available through intuitive controls. You can organize generations into projects, maintain style reference libraries, and iterate on prompts without scrolling through chat logs. There is also a gallery view that makes it easy to compare generations side by side.

Discord remains available for those who prefer it, and the community channels are still active and inspiring. But the web interface is unambiguously the better tool for professional work, and its arrival removes the biggest barrier to Midjourney adoption.

Aesthetic Quality: The Core Strength

Midjourney's defining advantage has always been its aesthetic sensibility, and V7 extends this lead. The model has an opinionated understanding of composition, lighting, color theory, and mood that consistently produces images that feel intentional and artful. Where competitors generate technically correct images, Midjourney generates beautiful ones.

Character work has improved substantially. V7 produces stylized characters with consistent proportions, expressive faces, and dynamic poses. Concept art for games and films is a particular strength, with the model excelling at character design sheets, environmental mood pieces, and narrative illustrations. We generated a series of characters for a hypothetical RPG and the results were immediately portfolio-worthy.

Concept art and environmental design remain Midjourney's bread and butter. Whether you are prompting for a rain-soaked cyberpunk alley, a sun-drenched Mediterranean village, or an alien landscape bathed in bioluminescence, V7 delivers with atmosphere and detail that consistently impresses. The model understands how light interacts with materials, how weather affects a scene, and how color palettes create emotional resonance.

Photorealistic generation has improved markedly. V7 can produce images that are genuinely difficult to distinguish from photographs, particularly for portraits, landscapes, and product photography. Skin textures, fabric folds, and reflective surfaces are all rendered with impressive fidelity. That said, close inspection still reveals telltale artifacts in some images, particularly around hands, jewelry, and complex fabric patterns.

Where It Struggles

Text rendering remains Midjourney's most significant weakness. Despite improvements in V7, the model still struggles to reliably render readable text within images. Simple words in prominent positions sometimes come out correctly, but anything more complex, multiple words, small text, or text that needs to wrap around surfaces, is unreliable. For designers who need text in their compositions, this means post-processing in Photoshop or Figma is still necessary.

Precise spatial control is another limitation. While Midjourney excels at generating aesthetically pleasing compositions, getting specific elements in exact positions remains challenging. If you need a character standing precisely to the left of a doorway with a cat sitting on a windowsill at a specific height, you will spend many generations trying to get the arrangement right. Competitors with explicit layout control mechanisms handle this better.

Consistency across generations has improved but is not fully solved. Generating the same character in multiple poses and settings for a comic or storyboard requires careful use of character references and style locks, and even then, subtle variations in facial features and body proportions creep in.

Comparison to FLUX and DALL-E

FLUX has emerged as Midjourney's most capable competitor, particularly for photorealistic imagery and text rendering. FLUX produces sharper, more accurate text, handles complex spatial arrangements more reliably, and offers more precise prompt adherence. However, FLUX images often lack the aesthetic magic that makes Midjourney outputs feel special. They are technically excellent but sometimes sterile.

DALL-E (via ChatGPT) offers the best integration with a conversational AI, making it the easiest to use for iterative creative work. Its quality has improved substantially, but it still sits a tier below both Midjourney and FLUX in terms of raw output quality. Its strength is accessibility and the seamless chat-to-image workflow.

Midjourney V7 wins on aesthetic quality and artistic style. FLUX wins on technical precision and text rendering. DALL-E wins on ease of use and integration. The right choice depends on your priorities.

Pricing and Plans

Midjourney's pricing starts at $10/month for the Basic plan (limited generations) and goes up to $60/month for the Pro plan with fast generation hours and stealth mode. The $30/month Standard plan is the sweet spot for most users, offering enough fast hours for regular use with unlimited slow generations.

For professional use, the pricing is reasonable. A single stock photo or commissioned illustration can cost more than a month of Midjourney Pro, and the model generates images in seconds that would take a human artist hours.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths:

• Unmatched aesthetic quality and artistic sensibility
• New web interface is a massive usability improvement
• Excellent character design and concept art capabilities
• Strong photorealistic generation for portraits and environments
• Active community provides inspiration and shared techniques
• Reasonable pricing for the quality of output

Weaknesses:

• Text rendering remains unreliable for anything beyond simple words
• Precise spatial control is limited compared to competitors
• Character consistency across multiple generations requires workarounds
• No open API for programmatic integration into custom workflows
• Prompt engineering still required to get best results
• Limited control over specific compositional elements

Verdict: 8.9/10

Midjourney V7 is the best tool for artistic and creative image generation. If you care about the aesthetic quality of your AI-generated images, about composition and mood and the ineffable quality that makes an image feel like art rather than output, Midjourney remains the clear leader. The web interface removes the Discord barrier, character work has improved, and the core aesthetic engine continues to set the standard. Its weaknesses in text rendering and precise spatial control are real, and workflows that demand those capabilities are better served by FLUX. But for concept artists, designers, creative directors, and anyone who wants their AI-generated images to be genuinely beautiful, Midjourney V7 is still the tool to beat.