Midjourney vs Adobe Firefly
Two catalogue entries side by side. Not a benchmark: we have not tested these products against each other.
Catalogue checked September 23, 2026.
Midjourney
Plan price reference: Basic $10/month, or $96 billed yearly
- No free tier; a subscription is required
- No public API for regular subscriptions, and automation is prohibited
Adobe Firefly
Plan price reference: Page displayed Standard US$9.99/month and Pro US$19.99/month; purchase region and actual checkout unverified
- Third-party models reached in Firefly are governed by their own terms and are not covered by Adobe's indemnity
- A 23 September 2026 reading described conditions on some advertised unlimited third-party model access; current offer conditions remain unverified
Monthly and annual billing are different commitments: the annual figure is a prepayment, and an annual equivalent is not a monthly price. Nothing on this page is a test of output quality, and the list below names the official sources this entry uses with the date each was read - check them against the plan and the use you have in mind.
| What you are deciding | MidjourneyMidjourney | Adobe FireflyAdobe |
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| What it is for | AI image and video generation via web and Discord | Adobe's generative platform for image, video and audio |
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| Pricing model | Paid | Freemium |
| Plan pricing referenceFrom the vendor page listed, for the plan named. Not the lowest price worldwide: billing cycle, region and taxes change it. | Basic $10/month, or $96 billed yearly | Page displayed Standard US$9.99/month and Pro US$19.99/month; purchase region and actual checkout unverified |
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| Price | Not establishedThe registered record gives plan amounts and billing cadence, but the applicable purchase market/region and full account/channel conditions were not established. These are not asserted as a current global purchasable quote.Source: Midjourney docs - Comparing Midjourney Plans | Not establishedA page body read on 2 November displayed Standard US$9.99/month and Pro US$19.99/month, marked Monthly. An earlier separate rendering showed EUR with market unknown; applicable region, taxes and actual checkout remain unverified.Source: Adobe Firefly - plans |
| Availability | Not establishedMidjourney: supported client entry points and geographic access conditions were not established by the registered source statements. No contrary conclusion about the capability is inferred. | DocumentedThe Adobe Firefly FAQ states that Firefly is unavailable in Russia, Belarus and China. Adobe products and services also cannot be used in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Crimea, and the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. These exclusions are a published policy, not an independently tested access result.Source: Adobe Firefly FAQ - availability, licence and training |
| Commercial use | DocumentedMidjourney’s commercial-use guide permits commercial use of a user’s own generated images and videos, including after cancelling a subscription. A company with annual revenue over US$1 million, or its employee acting for it, needs Pro or Mega for company commercial use. Upscaling another user’s image does not transfer ownership and needs the original creator’s permission; third-party rights and the Terms still apply.Source: Midjourney - Commercial use of images and videos | DocumentedAdobe permits commercial use of output from non-beta Firefly features. Beta-feature output may also be used commercially unless the product explicitly states otherwise; the permission does not by itself provide third-party rights or an indemnity for every plan.Source: Adobe Firefly FAQ - availability, licence and training |
| Training on your data | Not establishedMidjourney’s training summary says user interaction data, including inputs and prompts, has been used to train its models. The privacy policy covers prompts/uploads and personal-data controls, but whether a particular subscriber’s input/output is included and the subscriber’s model-training opt-out conditions remain unestablished. Stealth visibility and advertising-sharing choices do not establish training exclusion.Source: Midjourney - Public Summary of Training Content | DocumentedAdobe says Firefly models use licensed Adobe Stock content and public-domain content. It does not train on Creative Cloud subscribers’ personal content; Adobe Stock contributor content is a different, licensed dataset. This statement is not extended here to every Firefly input or every third-party model.Source: Adobe Firefly FAQ - availability, licence and training |
| API billing | Documented"With a few rare exceptions that are explicitly granted, Midjourney does not provide an API, nor provide third-party apps or scripts, and automating interactions with Midjourney service is strictly prohibited."Source: Midjourney docs - Community Guidelines | Not establishedFirefly Services requires the relevant enterprise product provisioning, credentials and roles. Its qualifying shared-credit SKUs meter API actions in Operations, while a consumer Firefly subscription's API entitlement and coverage of those charges remain unestablished.Source: Adobe - Firefly Services and API billing · Official adobe-firefly reference |
| Export formats | DocumentedFor generated videos, Midjourney’s web Create or Organize menu lists Download for Social as MP4, Raw Video as MP4, and GIF download; Discord provides the raw video download. This evidence is limited to video downloads and does not establish image or layered-document export formats.Source: Midjourney - Video downloads | DocumentedAdobe’s Firefly Web technical requirements document JPG and PNG image downloads. This image-specific statement does not establish video or vector containers, third-party model exports or every plan’s access; none was independently exported here.Source: Adobe Firefly Web — technical requirements |
| Usage limits | DocumentedUnlimited Relax image generation is listed from Standard up, while unlimited Relax SD video generation needs Pro or Mega; Stealth is listed on Pro and Mega; higher tiers carry more Fast GPU hours, and a footnote states that organisations with more than $1M in annual revenue need Pro or Mega.Source: Midjourney docs - Comparing Midjourney Plans | DocumentedHistorical record from 23 September 2026, not rechecked in full on 2 November: US page: Individuals Standard is US$9.99 a month and Pro US$19.99 a month, both billed monthly; plan credits are 2,000, 4,000, 10,000 and 50,000 a month for Standard, Pro, Pro Plus and Premium. Standard image features such as Generative Fill are listed as unlimited while premium features consume credits, and access to third-party models advertised as unlimited is a limited-time arrangement with conditions such as a first year and specific models or sizes. Adobe also sells in local currency: the Australian version of the same page showed Standard at A$16.49 a month including GST. Accounts without a paid plan get a limited and variable number of generations a day on selected models; paid Firefly standard image and vector generation is separate from premium features that consume credits.Source: Adobe Firefly - plans · Adobe - generative credits FAQ |
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Entry read against its sources on September 23, 2026. |
Entry read against its sources on September 23, 2026. |
What the listings already say
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How does this compare with Midjourney?
They are separate products with their own entries and plan terms here, and we have not compared their output, so this page does not claim one looks better. The difference that matters is the licensing path: Adobe documents the training material behind its own models and offers indemnity under eligible enterprise agreements, Midjourney is a subscription service with its own terms, and Firefly can also reach third-party models that Adobe does not indemnify.