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Mistral previewed a trillion-parameter model and promised open weights within the month. It has not said yet what licence those weights will carry. OpenAI put GPT-6 in front of every ChatGPT tier at once. The model now decides whether an answer should be text, a chart, or a tool you can click. Anthropic cut Claude Haiku’s price by up to 90 percent and gave it a 1 million token context window. The cheap-model tier of the price war just got a lot more capable. Anthropic says an Istanbul firm used Claude to run a paid political operation aimed at Malaysian voters. Its report found no sign the campaign reached real communities. The White House ordered federal agencies to stop saying “AI.” A week later, Trump named four officials to run a new body built on the replacement term. Claude for Government left public beta on 30 September 2026. Anthropic is now selling Washington a spending cap, not just a chatbot. OpenAI says it will not release a flagship model it had been testing. The company that races itself on capability now says it will also lose to its own safety bar. DeepSeek shipped a new small model on a new architecture. It undercuts its own flagship on price, not just rivals. Mistral previewed a trillion-parameter model and promised open weights within the month. It has not said yet what licence those weights will carry. OpenAI put GPT-6 in front of every ChatGPT tier at once. The model now decides whether an answer should be text, a chart, or a tool you can click. Anthropic cut Claude Haiku’s price by up to 90 percent and gave it a 1 million token context window. The cheap-model tier of the price war just got a lot more capable. Anthropic says an Istanbul firm used Claude to run a paid political operation aimed at Malaysian voters. Its report found no sign the campaign reached real communities. The White House ordered federal agencies to stop saying “AI.” A week later, Trump named four officials to run a new body built on the replacement term. Claude for Government left public beta on 30 September 2026. Anthropic is now selling Washington a spending cap, not just a chatbot. OpenAI says it will not release a flagship model it had been testing. The company that races itself on capability now says it will also lose to its own safety bar. DeepSeek shipped a new small model on a new architecture. It undercuts its own flagship on price, not just rivals.
Model prices /1M out
GPT-5.6 Luna $1.20 —
Qwen3.8-Max $6.00 —
Mistral Medium 3.5 $7.50 —
Claude Sonnet 5 $10.00 —
GPT-5.6 Terra $12.00 —
GPT-5.6 Sol $20.00 —
Claude Opus 5 $25.00 —
Claude Fable 5 $50.00 —
AI APP PROFILE

Midjourney

The best looking output of any image generator, on the most aggressive content terms of anything on this site.

Source review Last reviewed August 7, 2026 By Midjourney

The facts at a glance

ProviderMidjourney
TypeImage generation
Free optionNo. There is no free tier and no free trial in Midjourney's own documentation
Paid priceBasic USD 10 per month or USD 96 per year, Standard USD 30 or USD 288, Pro USD 60 or USD 576, Mega USD 120 or USD 1,152
AvailabilityWeb, Discord

Pricing last checked August 7, 2026. Prices change and vary by region. Check the official pricing page ↗

Assessment

What it does well

  • Consistently the strongest aesthetic defaults in image generation
  • Clear tiered pricing with a 20 percent annual discount
  • Fast GPU hours scale predictably from 3.3 to 60 per month across the tiers

Where it falls short

  • No free tier at all, so evaluation costs USD 10
  • Generations are public and remixable by default, and Stealth Mode is restricted to the USD 60 Pro and USD 120 Mega tiers
  • Midjourney's terms grant it a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable licence to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, and distribute content users input

Privacy and data control

Midjourney's terms grant it a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable licence over content users input, and state that content is publicly viewable and remixable by default. Privacy requires the Pro or Mega tier through Stealth Mode. No model training opt out is named for lower tiers.

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The longer read

Read the licence before you use it for client work

Midjourney’s terms are unusually broad: a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable licence over what you put in, with generations public and remixable unless you pay for the USD 60 Pro tier or above. For personal creative work that is a normal trade. For a client brief under an NDA, the entry tier is not appropriate and you should budget for Pro from the start.

How it performs by outcome

We assess products against a job, not a leaderboard. These are the outcomes this entry is compared under.

Worth comparing against

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How this profile was produced

Source review. Every fact here is drawn from the provider documentation linked below and checked on the date shown. We have not yet run this entry through a controlled test, and no scoring is implied.

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