Midjourney API (via Replicate)
World-class artistic image generation via Replicate
Paid Only
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🇺🇸 United States
Midjourney does not offer an official public API, but its models are accessible through Replicate’s model hosting platform. Replicate provides a simple REST API to run any ML model including Midjourney-style fine-tunes, SDXL, and other state-of-the-art image models. Pricing is per prediction second. Replicate is the go-to solution for developers needing API access to image generation models that don’t have their own APIs. Ideal for apps requiring diverse model options without managing GPU infrastructure.
API Details
Auth Method
API Key
Pricing Model
Paid Only
Free Tier
No
Rate Limit
Concurrent predictions vary by plan
Format
REST / JSON
Versioning
Model-specific versions
SLA / Uptime
99%
Compliance
GDPR
Geographic Restrictions
Global
Last Verified
2026-02-20
Categories
Frequently Asked Questions
Midjourney does not have an official public API as of early 2026. The primary access methods are: the Discord interface, and unofficial third-party APIs via Replicate or wrapper services. Replicate hosts community-maintained Midjourney-compatible models. For a supported API, consider DALL-E 3, Stable Diffusion, or Fal.ai.
Replicate is a cloud platform that hosts open-source AI models and provides a simple API to run them. You send an API request with your prompt and parameters, and Replicate runs the model on its GPU infrastructure and returns the result. Pricing is per-second of compute time, typically $0.0023u2013$0.0230 per image for diffusion models.
Via Replicate you can access models like SDXL, Flux (by Black Forest Labs), Kandinsky, and community fine-tunes that produce similar aesthetics to Midjourney. Flux.1-dev and Flux.1-schnell are widely considered the closest open-source alternatives to Midjourney v6 in terms of image quality and aesthetic style.
Replicate charges per second of compute time. Most image generation models cost $0.0023 per second on Nvidia A100 GPUs. A typical Stable Diffusion image takes 2u20135 seconds to generate, so the effective cost is around $0.005u2013$0.012 per image u2014 cheaper than DALL-E 3. New users get $5 in free credits.