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Adobe Firefly vs Midjourney

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 16 October 2026.

Compared on
Adobe Firefly

Free plan · from $9.99/mo

Midjourney

From $8/mo

What it isAdobe's generative AI app for images, video and audio, with credit-based plansAI image and video generator sold as a monthly or yearly subscription
Free planFree daily generations across image, video and audio with access to popular models; limits refresh every dayNo
Cheapest paid plan$9.99/mo (Firefly Standard)Adobe Firefly pricing$8/mo billed annually (Basic)Midjourney pricing
What it covers2,000 generative credits per month.$96 billed yearly; 3.3 hours (200 minutes) of Fast GPU time per month.
Free trialFree trial offered on paid plans (length not stated on the plans page)Limited trial only in the niji·journey app (iOS and Android); none on Discord or midjourney.com
PlatformsWebWeb
Integrations (vendor's figure)Not statedNot stated
Open sourceNoNo
Good for
  • Generating images for social posts, presentations and marketing drafts
  • Creating short video clips and audio from text prompts
  • Trying AI image generation on a free daily allowance before paying
  • Creating concept art and mood boards for a campaign or product idea
  • Producing illustrations for presentations, blog posts or social media
  • Generating short video clips for social media
Watch out for
  • Free tier is limited to a daily allowance of generations
  • Paid plans are capped by monthly generative credits (2,000 on Firefly Standard)
  • No free plan, and no free trial on Discord or midjourney.com
  • Stealth Mode (private images and videos) is only on Pro and Mega
  • Companies with more than $1,000,000 in gross annual revenue must buy Pro or Mega
Made byAdobeMidjourney

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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