Anyone who wanted to use the AI image generator Midjourney when it launched simply had to join a Discord server and interact with a bot. Late last year, the Midjourney team created a website for the service, but only for users who had already generated at least 10,000 images on Discord. Months later, the website is now open to everyone.
In a Discord message on Wednesday, Midjourney co-founder and CEO David Holz explained that anyone can visit Midjourney’s website, create an account and start creating images. New users can even create around 25 images for free.
If you want to know how to use the service before you waste all your free images, Midjourney has released a video on X to help new users get started:
Although new users can log in with a Google account or a Discord account, Holz recommends that current users stick with Discord to retain their image history. However, once you log in with your Discord account, you can merge the two accounts in the profile settings.
Once you’re signed up, you can enter prompts in the input box at the top of the page to have the AI generate images for you. I generated the image at the top of this page with the prompt: “A man sits on a sunny hill, typing on his laptop.” Midjourney shows me that I still have about 24 images to generate as part of my free trial. Depending on how complicated the image generation is, this could impact the total number of free images I receive.
After the free trial ends, you’ll have to pay to generate more images. Midjourney offers four plans, with the cheapest starting at $10 per month (or $96 per year).
