Shotcraft
Image generation

Midjourney V8.2

Midjourney's current default image model, released 24 July 2026 as an aesthetics and reliability update over V8.1. Vendor notes emphasise bolder, more sophisticated output, far fewer low-quality outliers, and personalization profiles built from a larger pool of rated images.

An image model by Midjourney · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing medium

Weights
Not released
Commercial use
Not established

Used through the Midjourney web app and Discord rather than a documented public API.

Commercial use — Not established

Proprietary hosted service governed by Midjourney's Terms of Service; asset ownership and commercial-use rights depend on subscription tier.

The licence notes recorded during research were read for a commercial-use position and did not state one. Read the licence before you rely on any of this. Nothing on this page is legal advice, and this site does not tell you a model is cleared for commercial use.

Specification

Vendor figures, read 2026-08-14Read from Midjourney's own documentation on 2026-08-14. Vendors change these between model versions without announcing it, so check theirs before you commit a shot to a number. Sourcing for this entry is mixed. Some fields came from pages we retrieved, others could not be confirmed and are left blank. Check the vendor's current documentation

What it takes in
text, image
What it makes
image
Maximum resolution
not established
Aspect ratios
not established
Controls
image-to-image, style-reference, reference-character-consistency, inpainting, outpainting
Weights
Not released
Pricing
subscription (monthly plans, metered in GPU minutes)
Released or updated
2026-07-24

Maximum resolution and supported aspect ratios are not established here. That means no page we could retrieve stated them, not that the model lacks them.

Strengths

  • Distinctive art direction and aesthetic quality
  • Strong personalization / style-profile system
  • Large ecosystem of prompt and style knowledge

Weaknesses

  • No documented public API, which blocks programmatic pipelines
  • Vendor docs are not machine-fetchable, so specs are hard to verify
  • Pricing is GPU-minute based rather than per-image, complicating cost modelling

Best for

Where the sources disagree

Recorded rather than resolved. Picking the tidier number would hide the fact that the vendor's own pages do not agree.

What to understand before using it

Explainers naming the mechanisms this model's own documentation mentions.

MCP servers that front Midjourney

Servers in the media MCP directory whose own description or homepage names this vendor. Absence of a server here is not evidence that none exists: most publish no tool list at all.

See it from the vendor

Shotcraft hosts no sample output. Judging a model means watching its own showreel with your own eyes, and a clip re-hosted here would be a clip we chose.

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Sources

Read on 2026-08-14. A source that has changed since then will not be reflected here until the next pass.