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Midjourney

Text-to-image generation via Discord and web UI, known for artistic quality, v7 default, v8 Alpha available (5× faster, native 2K). Midjourney Video v1 launched 2025 with 8× GPU cost per clip.

MiniMax

MiniMax pay-as-you-go API platform. Video generation via Hailuo models (2.3 / 2.3 Fast / Hailuo-02), image generation via image-01, plus speech and LLM endpoints. Developer-facing alternative to the Hailuo consumer subscription.

Pricing model

Subscription

Pay-per-use

Free tier

Access

Web UI

APIWeb UI

Cheapest plan

Basic4 plans total

$0.00/mo

Models offered

Midjourney Video v1, Midjourney v7, Midjourney v7 (Draft Mode)

MiniMax Hailuo 02, MiniMax Hailuo 2.3, MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast, MiniMax Image-01, MiniMax Music 2.6 +4 more

Pros

High-quality aesthetic output; strong text coherence in v7/v8
Relax Mode on Standard+ for unlimited slower generations
Video generation included on all tiers (Fast mode)

Cons

No official public API (enterprise-only, by application)
No affiliate or referral program
Video costs ~8× a standard image in GPU-hours

Model availability

Every model offered by at least one selected tool, plus trending models (marked ) shown even when neither tool hosts them. A · means that tool does not host the model.

Midjourney v7

Midjourney · 1K

≈$0.0333/gen

FLUX.2 Klein 9B

Black Forest Labs

FLUX.2 Max

Black Forest Labs

FLUX.2 Pro

Black Forest Labs

Seedream 4

ByteDance

Nano Banana 2

Google

Nano Banana Pro

Google

GPT Image 2

OpenAI

Recraft V3

Recraft

Recraft V4

Recraft

Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large

Stability AI

Z-Image

Midjourney v7 (Draft Mode)

Midjourney · 1K

≈$0.0167/gen

MiniMax Image-01

MiniMax · 1K

$0.0035/gen

Veo 3.1

Google

Kling 3.0 Video Pro

Kuaishou

Kling 3.0 Video Standard

Kuaishou

Ray 2

Luma AI

Magnific Creative Video Upscaler

Magnific

Sora 2

OpenAI

Runway Gen-4

Runway

Grok Imagine Video

xAI

Midjourney Video v1

Midjourney · 480p

≈$0.0533/sec

Midjourney Video v1

Midjourney · 720p

≈$0.1733/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 02

MiniMax · 480p

$0.0167/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 02

MiniMax · 720p

$0.0467/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 02

MiniMax · 1080p

$0.0817/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3

MiniMax · 720p

$0.0467/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3

MiniMax · 1080p

$0.0817/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast

MiniMax · 720p

$0.0317/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast

MiniMax · 1080p

$0.0550/sec

Minimax Music

MiniMax · music

$0.03/gen

Minimax Music 2.5

MiniMax · music

$0.15/gen

MiniMax Music 2.6

MiniMax · music

$0.15/gen

MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD

MiniMax · music

$0.10/gen

MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo

MiniMax · music

$0.06/gen

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May 14, 2026

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