Midjourney vs Canva

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Compared on	Midjourney From $8/mo Visit Remove	Canva Free plan · from $12/person/mo Visit Remove
What it is	AI image and video generator sold as a monthly or yearly subscription	Online design tool with templates, stock media and AI features
Free plan	No	5GB cloud storage; up to 20 Standard or Premium AI uses (monthly allowance); 1 Brand Kit (3 colours only); 1.6M+ templates
Cheapest paid plan	$8/mo billed annually (Basic)Midjourney pricing	$12/person/mo billed annually (Pro)Canva pricing
What it covers	$96 billed yearly; 3.3 hours (200 minutes) of Fast GPU time per month.	Published as US$144/year for one person (yearly billing); the monthly-billing price was not shown on the US pricing page as fetched.
Free trial	Limited trial only in the niji·journey app (iOS and Android); none on Discord or midjourney.com	Free trial offered for Pro and Business (length not stated on the pricing page)
Platforms	Web	Web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	Not stated
Open source	No	No
Good for	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	Making social media graphics and ads from templates Keeping team designs on brand with shared Brand Kits Scheduling social posts from the same tool used to design them
Watch out for	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	Free plan: 5GB storage and up to 20 Standard or Premium AI uses per month Ultra AI tools and Design in bulk are not available on Free SSO and SCIM provisioning require the Enterprise plan
Made by	Midjourney	Canva

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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