Maya runs a small branding studio that produces visual content for clients across food, fashion, and lifestyle. When Midjourney emerged as the dominant AI image tool in 2022 and 2023, she adopted it immediately. The output quality was genuinely impressive and it gave her team a way to produce concept imagery for client presentations faster than any method they had tried before. For about a year, it was the tool she recommended to everyone. Then she started hitting the edges.
The Discord interface was the first friction point. Generating images inside a public Discord server -- where anyone could see her prompts and outputs -- was uncomfortable when working on unreleased product campaigns or confidential brand projects. The Stealth Mode that would make her images private cost $60 per month, which moved the platform from useful creative tool into a line item that required justification. When a client asked her to integrate image generation into their internal content production tool, she discovered Midjourney had no API at all. Not a limited API, not a waitlisted API -- simply no programmatic access. Her developer spent two days investigating workarounds using browser automation before concluding it could not be done reliably. That limitation, combined with the Discord dependency and the absence of any free tier to test prompting strategies before billing began, sent her looking at alternatives. What she found surprised her: the competitive landscape in AI image generation had moved fast, and several tools had overtaken Midjourney in meaningful ways for professional work.
She now uses a combination of tools depending on the job. Adobe Firefly for client-facing commercial work where intellectual property safety matters, DALL-E 3 for quick concept generation inside ChatGPT, and locally-run Stable Diffusion for high-volume iteration where she wants to experiment without per-image costs. The Midjourney subscription lapsed and she has not renewed it.
"Midjourney produces beautiful images in a channel where everyone can see what you're making. That's fine for art. It's not fine for a client campaign."
Why People Look for Midjourney Alternatives
Midjourney produces some of the most visually striking AI-generated images available. The artistic quality and its characteristic aesthetic -- rich, painterly, highly detailed -- made it the defining tool of the first wave of AI image generation. The reasons professionals look for alternatives are not about image quality in the abstract. They are about specific constraints that the platform imposes.
The Discord-only interface creates real workflow friction. Every image generated on Midjourney happens inside Discord. This was a pragmatic choice by the company in its early days -- Discord provided instant infrastructure for a fast-growing product. In 2026, it remains a barrier. Professional users working in enterprise environments often cannot use Discord. The public nature of Discord channels means prompts and outputs are visible unless you pay for a higher tier. The interface is not designed for iterative professional workflows. You cannot organize projects, share results with clients, or integrate with design tools from within Discord itself.
There is no free tier. Midjourney removed its free trial entirely in 2023. The minimum paid plan is $10 per month, which gives approximately 200 fast generations. Testing whether Midjourney suits your specific prompting style and visual needs requires spending money before you have enough information to decide whether it is worth spending. Every meaningful competitor offers either a free tier or a trial that allows genuine evaluation.
Images are public by default on lower plans. Images generated on the Basic ($10/month) and Standard ($30/month) plans appear in the public Midjourney gallery and are visible to other users. Private generation requires the Pro plan ($60/month) or Mega plan ($120/month). For personal creative work this may not matter. For commercial creative work, professional branding, or any project with confidentiality requirements, this is a direct problem.
There is no API for developers. Midjourney has not released a public API. Developers building applications, automation workflows, or internal tools cannot integrate Midjourney. This is a hard limitation with no workaround.
Usage is capped on all paid plans. The Basic plan gives roughly 200 fast generations per month. The Standard plan gives 15 GPU hours of fast generations, with unlimited slower generation. Intensive iteration -- running variations, trying different styles, exploring prompts systematically -- consumes these limits quickly. Several competitors offer effectively unlimited generation on paid plans or very generous daily free limits.
Midjourney is optimized for a specific aesthetic, not for photorealism. The tool produces excellent artistic and stylized images. It is not optimized for photorealism, product photography, or images that need to look like photographs. If that is what you need, there are better-suited tools.
DALL-E 3 via ChatGPT (OpenAI)
OpenAI's DALL-E 3 is accessible through ChatGPT and through the OpenAI API. The ChatGPT integration makes it the most conversational image generation experience available: you describe what you want, see the result, and ask for changes in plain language without learning prompt syntax.
Features: Natural language prompting with strong instruction following. Integration into ChatGPT conversation means you can ask for revisions, explain what is wrong, request style changes, and iterate without re-entering full prompts. 1024x1024 and 1792x1024 and 1024x1792 generation sizes. API access with clear pricing and a stable SDK. Strong at following specific compositional instructions -- placing specific objects in specific positions, applying described styles, rendering text in images accurately. Images generated through ChatGPT have full commercial rights under OpenAI's terms.
Pricing: Included in ChatGPT Plus at $20/month (limited generations per day). API pricing: $0.04-0.12 per image depending on size and quality. Free access via limited daily generations through some Microsoft integrations.
Pros vs Midjourney: No Discord required. Conversational editing is faster for iteration. API access available. Clear commercial rights. Strong text rendering in images. No Discord visibility of your prompts.
Cons vs Midjourney: Midjourney produces more aesthetically striking, artistically styled images for visual impact. DALL-E 3 is more literal and less stylistically dramatic. ChatGPT Plus has daily generation limits that restrict heavy usage.
Best for: Business users, marketers, and non-technical creatives who want natural language prompting without a learning curve. Developers who need API access. Teams where commercial IP safety matters.
Adobe Firefly
Adobe Firefly is the AI image generation system built into Adobe Creative Cloud. It is trained exclusively on Adobe Stock imagery, openly licensed content, and public domain material, which makes it the most commercially safe AI image tool available.
Features: Text-to-image generation with strong instruction following and photorealistic or artistic style controls. Generative fill in Photoshop: select any area of an existing image and replace or extend it with AI-generated content. Generative expand: extend an image beyond its original borders. Text effects: apply AI-styled textures and effects to typographic elements. Recolor vectors in Illustrator. Integration with Photoshop, Illustrator, Express, and InDesign means generated content moves directly into professional design workflows. Monthly free credit allocation for all Adobe accounts including free Creative Cloud accounts.
Pricing: Monthly free credits for all Adobe accounts ($0 for the allocation). Firefly Premium credits from $4.99/month for additional credits. Included in Creative Cloud plans ($54.99/month for All Apps). Business plans with commercial indemnification available for enterprise.
Pros vs Midjourney: Explicit commercial indemnification -- Adobe will cover legal costs for copyright claims on Firefly-generated content for business subscribers. Direct integration with Photoshop and Illustrator is a major workflow advantage for designers already in the Adobe ecosystem. No Discord. Generous free credits.
Cons vs Midjourney: The artistic ceiling is lower -- Firefly produces clean, competent images that lack the visual drama of Midjourney's best outputs. The style range is narrower. Advanced users who want full control over the generative process find it less configurable than Stable Diffusion.
Best for: Professional designers and agencies already in Adobe Creative Cloud. Any use case where intellectual property safety is not negotiable. Marketing teams producing commercial assets.
Stable Diffusion
Stable Diffusion is an open-source image generation model that can be run locally on a personal computer with a capable GPU. It represents a fundamentally different model from subscription tools: no usage fees, no privacy concerns, no internet dependency once installed, and complete configurability.
Features: Full local execution with no data sent to external servers. Two major interfaces: AUTOMATIC1111 (WebUI, highly configurable, thousands of extensions) and ComfyUI (node-based workflow editor, powerful for complex pipelines). Access to the entire ecosystem of community-trained fine-tuned models on Civitai and Hugging Face covering photorealism, anime, architecture, character art, and hundreds of specific styles. LoRAs (Low-Rank Adaptation models) for adding specific styles, characters, or aesthetics. ControlNet for controlling pose, depth, edge, and composition precisely. Inpainting, outpainting, img2img transformation. Unlimited generation with no per-image cost.
Pricing: Free and open-source. Requires a PC or Mac with a capable GPU (NVIDIA RTX 3060 or better recommended for comfortable speeds). Cloud-based Stable Diffusion via platforms like RunDiffusion, Mage.space, or Replicate from $0.001-0.01 per image.
Pros vs Midjourney: Completely free once set up locally. Total privacy -- images never leave your computer. Unlimited generation. Access to specialized models for any visual style or domain. Full API and automation capability for developers.
Cons vs Midjourney: Setup is technical and time-consuming for newcomers. Requires hardware investment for good local performance. Quality varies significantly by model selection and prompt crafting. No managed update process -- keeping models current requires manual attention. The learning curve is steeper than any managed service.
Best for: Developers building AI-powered applications. Photographers and digital artists who want unlimited generation. Privacy-conscious users. Organizations that cannot send creative content to external cloud services.
Leonardo.ai
Leonardo.ai is a managed AI image platform originally built around game asset generation that has expanded into a general-purpose creative tool with a strong free tier and a distinctive focus on fine-tuning and model training.
Features: Text-to-image generation using Stable Diffusion-based models with a clean web interface that removes the setup barrier of self-hosted Stable Diffusion. Canvas editor for inpainting and compositing. Phoenix model (Leonardo's proprietary model) for high-quality stylized generation. Fine-tuning: train a custom model on your own images to generate consistent characters, products, or styles. Motion: turn still images into short video clips. API access on higher plans. Prompt magic for enhanced automatic prompt processing.
Pricing: Free tier: 150 credits per day (each generation uses 2-8 credits depending on settings). Apprentice $10/month (8,500 tokens/month, private generations). Artisan $24/month (25,000 tokens/month). Maestro $48/month (60,000 tokens/month).
Pros vs Midjourney: Generous free tier makes it usable without commitment. No Discord interface. Private generation on paid plans without paying premium tier prices. Fine-tuning capability for consistent character and product imagery. API available on higher plans.
Cons vs Midjourney: The free tier's 150 daily credits reset, but heavy users burn through paid tokens faster than expected. The proprietary Phoenix model, while capable, does not consistently match Midjourney's artistic ceiling on complex stylized images.
Best for: Game developers and character designers who need consistent asset generation. Creative teams that want Stable Diffusion-quality outputs without local setup. Users who need fine-tuned models for brand-consistent imagery.
Ideogram
Ideogram is an AI image generator with a specific capability that Midjourney lacks entirely: reliable text rendering inside images. It can generate images with legible, stylistically integrated typographic elements -- posters, logos, cards, and signage where text is part of the visual composition.
Features: Text-in-image generation where specified text appears legibly and styled within the image composition. Style presets including realistic, design, illustration, 3D, and anime. Negative prompts. Aspect ratio control. Magic prompt for automatic prompt enhancement. Canvas for editing and extending existing images. Bulk generation on higher plans.
Pricing: Free tier: approximately 10-20 free generation sessions daily. Basic $7/month (400 priority generations/month). Plus $16/month (1,000 priority generations/month). Pro $48/month (3,000 priority generations/month).
Pros vs Midjourney: Text rendering in images -- Midjourney consistently fails at this. Coherent text for posters, greeting cards, social media graphics, and signage is Ideogram's primary advantage. Good free tier. No Discord.
Cons vs Midjourney: Outside of text-in-image use cases, Midjourney's stylistic output remains stronger for artistic work. Ideogram's photorealism is improving but still behind the best dedicated photorealism models.
Best for: Marketers and designers who need AI-generated images with integrated text -- promotional graphics, greeting cards, poster concepts, social media content with text overlay. Any use case where text legibility inside the image is a requirement.
Canva AI (Magic Media)
Canva's Magic Media is AI image generation embedded directly inside Canva's design tool. For users who generate images to use in designed outputs -- social posts, presentations, marketing materials -- the ability to generate and immediately place imagery in a design without switching applications is a genuine workflow advantage.
Features: Text-to-image generation with style options (photo, illustration, watercolor, 3D, and others). Generation directly onto the Canva canvas with drag-and-drop placement. Magic Edit: modify specific parts of a generated or uploaded image with text instructions. Background removal, image enhancement, and other AI editing features integrated alongside generation. Canva's full design tool available for any generated asset.
Pricing: Free Canva account includes limited Magic Media credits. Canva Pro $13/month (significantly more credits, all Pro design features). Canva Teams $10/person/month.
Pros vs Midjourney: Workflow integration is the primary advantage -- generated images go directly into designs without file management. Canva Pro's value extends beyond image generation to the full design tool. No technical knowledge required. No Discord.
Cons vs Midjourney: Image quality is noticeably below Midjourney and below standalone tools like DALL-E 3 or Stable Diffusion. The style control is limited compared to dedicated image generation platforms. Not suitable for high-quality standalone image generation where the image itself is the deliverable.
Best for: Non-technical users who create design outputs (social media, presentations, marketing materials) and want image generation as one step in a broader design workflow rather than a standalone tool.
Bing Image Creator (Microsoft Designer)
Bing Image Creator, now integrated into Microsoft Designer, is free AI image generation powered by DALL-E technology, available to anyone with a Microsoft account. The quality is competitive with paid tools for many use cases.
Features: DALL-E-powered generation via Microsoft's integration. Available inside Microsoft Designer, Bing, and Edge. Aspect ratio options. Integration with Microsoft 365 products. No subscription required for basic use -- free generations with a Microsoft account, with a daily boost limit that resets.
Pricing: Free with a Microsoft account. Microsoft 365 subscribers get additional generation capacity.
Pros vs Midjourney: Completely free for regular use. No Discord. Available inside Microsoft's product ecosystem. DALL-E quality is competitive for many prompt types. Commercial use allowed under Microsoft's terms.
Cons vs Midjourney: Generation speed varies. Daily boost limits restrict heavy use. Style range is less distinctive than Midjourney's aesthetic. Less configurability than dedicated platforms.
Best for: Casual users who want free AI image generation. Microsoft 365 users who want image generation integrated into familiar tools. Anyone wanting to experiment with AI image generation before committing to a paid service.
Runway Gen-3
Runway is primarily known for AI video generation but also offers image generation capabilities. It is the best choice when the workflow involves both still images and video generation, since managing one platform relationship covers both.
Features: Gen-3 Alpha for video generation from text or image prompts -- extend an image into a video clip. Image-to-image transformation. Motion brush: add motion to specific regions of an image. Text-to-image with Gen-3 capabilities. Inpainting and outpainting. Camera controls for video generation. Professional-grade outputs suitable for commercial video production.
Pricing: Free tier: 125 one-time credits. Standard $15/month (625 credits/month). Pro $35/month (2,250 credits/month). Unlimited $95/month.
Pros vs Midjourney: The only option here that covers both image and video generation credibly. Video generation quality is among the best available. Professional production workflows where stills and video share source material benefit from the integrated approach.
Cons vs Midjourney: Credit costs are high -- a single video generation can consume 5-20 credits depending on length and settings. Not primarily an image generation tool. The learning curve for video generation is steeper than for still generation.
Best for: Video producers, filmmakers, and content creators who need both still and motion AI generation. Creative agencies producing video content alongside static assets.
Playground AI
Playground AI is a web-based image generation platform with a strong free tier, photorealism focus, and an accessible interface that provides more control than ChatGPT-style tools without requiring local Stable Diffusion setup.
Features: 500 free image generations per day on the free tier. Multiple model options including SDXL, SSD-1B, and Playground's proprietary v2 model optimized for photorealism. Canvas editor for inpainting and compositing. Style presets. Negative prompts. Guidance scale control. Private generation on paid plans.
Pricing: Free tier: 500 images per day (with limitations on resolution and features). Pro $15/month (unlimited images, faster generation, private, higher resolution). Enterprise pricing available.
Pros vs Midjourney: The free tier is genuinely generous -- 500 images per day is usable for real creative work. No Discord. Web interface with intuitive controls. Strong photorealism on the v2 model. Private generation on paid plans at a lower price than Midjourney's equivalent.
Cons vs Midjourney: The free tier images include a watermark and have lower resolution. Midjourney's artistic quality and prompt interpretation for complex stylistic descriptions is still stronger.
Best for: Users who need high-volume generation without high cost. Designers and photographers who want photorealistic outputs with an accessible interface. A strong starting point for anyone who wants significant free access before committing to a paid plan.
Comparison Table
| Tool | Free Tier | Paid Pricing | API | Private Images | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midjourney | None | $10-120/month | No | Pro plan+ ($60+/month) | Artistic stylized images |
| DALL-E 3 (ChatGPT) | Limited via Bing | $20/month (ChatGPT Plus) | Yes | Yes | Natural language prompting, API |
| Adobe Firefly | Monthly free credits | $4.99-9.99/month standalone | Limited | Yes | Commercial safety, CC integration |
| Stable Diffusion | Free (local) | Free or $0.001-0.01/image cloud | Yes (self-hosted) | Yes (local) | Developers, unlimited use, privacy |
| Leonardo.ai | 150 credits/day | $10-48/month | Higher plans | Paid plans | Game assets, fine-tuning |
| Ideogram | 10-20 sessions/day | $7-48/month | No | Yes | Text-in-image graphics |
| Canva AI | Limited credits | $13/month (Pro) | No | Yes | Design workflow integration |
| Bing Image Creator | Free | Free with Microsoft 365 | No | Yes | Free general use |
| Runway Gen-3 | 125 credits | $15-95/month | Yes | Yes | Image + video combined |
| Playground AI | 500/day | $15/month | No | Paid plans | High-volume photorealism |
Who Should Switch from Midjourney
Switch if you are a developer who needs API access. Midjourney offers no API and never has. DALL-E 3 via OpenAI or Stability AI are the immediate alternatives. Switch if you work on commercial projects and need intellectual property certainty -- Adobe Firefly's commercial indemnification is worth the trade-off in artistic range. Switch if you are uncomfortable with your prompts and images being visible in Discord public channels -- every alternative here provides more privacy. Switch if you need text inside your images -- Ideogram does this well, Midjourney does not. Switch if the Discord interface is a genuine workflow barrier -- every alternative here works in a standard web browser or application.
Switch if cost is the constraint and quality is acceptable at free tier levels -- Bing Image Creator, Playground AI, and Leonardo.ai all provide real value without a subscription. Switch if you generate high volumes of images -- Stable Diffusion locally or Playground AI Pro are far more economical at scale.
Who Should Stay with Midjourney
Midjourney remains the best choice for users whose primary need is visually striking, artistically rich images where the aesthetic quality is the primary deliverable. Editorial illustration, concept art, fantasy environments, character design for personal projects, and atmospheric visual storytelling are areas where Midjourney's output quality is still difficult to match. If you use Discord already, the interface barrier disappears. If your volumes fit within the plan limits and you generate content without confidentiality concerns, the $10-30/month tiers represent reasonable value for the quality. If you have developed strong Midjourney prompting skills over months of use, the productivity advantage of that expertise has real value that switching will temporarily cost you.
The honest assessment: Midjourney is no longer the obvious default choice it was in 2022 and 2023. The competitive field has developed. The correct tool depends on your specific workflow, volume, commercial requirements, and whether you need an API. For pure artistic quality in a personal or unconstrained context, Midjourney is still excellent. For professional and commercial workflows with real constraints, most of the tools above offer better answers.
For related reading, see the Best Alternatives to Canva for Design Tools article covering the design workflow context where many AI-generated images end up being used.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why are people looking for Midjourney alternatives?
The most common reasons people look for Midjourney alternatives are the Discord-only interface, the absence of a free tier, and privacy concerns. Midjourney requires users to generate images inside Discord channels, which is awkward for professional workflows and uncomfortable for anyone who does not want their image prompts visible to other Discord members. The platform has no free tier at all -- the cheapest plan is \(10/month -- so there is no way to test it meaningfully before committing. Images generated on the Basic and Standard plans are public by default and appear in the Midjourney gallery, which creates a privacy issue for commercial or sensitive creative work. Developers face an additional barrier: Midjourney does not offer a public API, which means it cannot be integrated into applications or automated workflows. For teams that need programmatic access, Midjourney simply does not work. Finally, usage limits apply even on paid plans -- the Basic \)10/month plan gives approximately 200 images per month, which runs out quickly when iterating on designs.
What free AI image generators compare to Midjourney?
Several free AI image generators produce strong results without requiring a subscription. Bing Image Creator is free for Microsoft account holders and uses DALL-E technology from OpenAI, producing high-quality images with good prompt understanding and no cost barrier. Playground AI offers 500 free image generations per day on its free tier, which is genuinely useful for regular creative work. Leonardo.ai provides 150 free credits daily on its free plan, sufficient for dozens of generations depending on settings. Adobe Firefly offers monthly free credits that reset, and the free tier is usable for limited commercial exploration. Stable Diffusion is free in the strongest sense -- the model weights are open-source and can be run locally on a capable computer with no usage limits, no subscription, and no dependency on any external service. The local setup requires technical comfort with tools like AUTOMATIC1111 or ComfyUI, but once configured, generation is unlimited and private.
What AI image tools are safe for commercial use?
Commercial safety is a significant distinction between AI image tools and one of the most important factors for professional and business use. Adobe Firefly is the clearest choice for commercial safety: Adobe trained Firefly exclusively on Adobe Stock images, openly licensed content, and public domain material, and explicitly indemnifies business customers against copyright claims on Firefly-generated content. This makes it the safest option for agencies, designers, and companies that cannot afford intellectual property risk. DALL-E 3 via OpenAI gives users full ownership rights to generated images including commercial use, and OpenAI's terms of service are clear that generated outputs are the user's property. Bing Image Creator, which uses DALL-E technology, allows commercial use under Microsoft's terms. Leonardo.ai grants commercial rights to images generated on paid plans. Midjourney allows commercial use on paid plans but has faced ongoing copyright questions about its training data, and the company's legal position on training data has been less transparent than Adobe's. Stable Diffusion's open-source models vary: the base Stable Diffusion license from Stability AI allows commercial use, but fine-tuned community models each have their own licenses that must be reviewed individually.
What Midjourney alternatives work best for product photography?
For product photography specifically -- clean backgrounds, realistic lighting, accurate product representation -- several tools outperform Midjourney. Playground AI in its photorealistic mode is optimized for realistic image generation and handles product-on-surface compositions well. DALL-E 3 has improved product rendering significantly and handles prompts like 'product on white background, studio lighting, 4K, photorealistic' reliably. Adobe Firefly's generative fill and generative expand features in Photoshop are particularly useful for product photography because they allow placing existing product images into AI-generated backgrounds, which is more controlled than generating product images from scratch. Stable Diffusion with commercial fine-tuned models like RealVisXL or Juggernaut XL produces highly photorealistic outputs when run with the right settings and can be configured for consistent studio-style outputs. The advantage of the Stable Diffusion approach for product photographers is that the same prompt with the same seed produces reproducible results, which matters for maintaining visual consistency across a product catalog.
What AI image generators have the best API for developers?
For developers who need programmatic image generation, the API quality, stability, and documentation vary significantly between providers. OpenAI's DALL-E 3 API is the most polished and best-documented, with straightforward REST endpoints, clear pricing (\(0.04-0.12 per image depending on size and quality), a stable SDK in Python and Node.js, and a provider with strong API reliability. Stability AI offers an API for Stable Diffusion models with more configuration options than DALL-E -- model selection, sampler settings, CFG scale -- at lower per-image cost (\)0.002-0.04 per image). Replicate.com provides API access to dozens of open-source models including Stable Diffusion variants, FLUX, and others, making it a flexible platform for developers who want to experiment with multiple models under a single API contract. Fal.ai is a newer inference provider with fast generation times and simple API access to open-source models. Leonardo.ai has an API on higher-tier plans. Midjourney notably has no public API at all, which is a hard blocker for any developer use case.
What alternatives to Midjourney create realistic photos?
Midjourney is primarily associated with an artistic, painterly, highly stylized aesthetic rather than photorealism. Several alternatives perform better specifically at photorealistic output. Playground AI in its photorealistic configuration using models like SSD-1B or SDXL with photorealism LoRAs is optimized for this. Stable Diffusion with RealVisXL, Juggernaut XL, or similar fine-tuned models produces impressive photorealistic results when configured correctly. DALL-E 3 has strong photorealism for many subjects, particularly people, objects, and scenes described clearly. Adobe Firefly has improved photorealism substantially with its newer model versions. Imagen 3 from Google is among the most photorealistic models currently available and is integrated into Google products including Gemini. FLUX.1, an open-source model available on Replicate and other platforms, produces notably photorealistic outputs and has gained significant attention for its quality.
What is the best Midjourney alternative for beginners?
Canva AI (Magic Media) is the strongest recommendation for beginners because the image generation is embedded directly inside a design tool that most non-technical users already understand. You can generate an image and immediately use it in a social media post, presentation, or marketing material without switching applications or managing file downloads. Bing Image Creator is a close second for pure ease of use -- it requires only a Microsoft account, has no cost, and the interface is a single text box. DALL-E 3 via ChatGPT Plus is excellent for beginners who already use ChatGPT: image generation is a conversation, you can ask for revisions in plain English, and the results are good enough for most uses without learning prompt engineering. Leonardo.ai has a clean web interface with a free tier and guided prompt helpers that make it approachable for users who want more control without the complexity of Stable Diffusion's local tools. The tools to avoid as a first choice for beginners are Stable Diffusion (requires technical setup), Runway (more complex, video-focused), and Midjourney itself (Discord interface is counterintuitive for newcomers).