Midjourney vs Krea vs Ideogram

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Written head to head: Midjourney vs Ideogram, with when to choose each side.

Compared on	Midjourney From $8/mo Visit Remove	Krea Free plan · from $5/mo Visit Remove	Ideogram Free plan · from $15/mo Visit Remove
What it is	AI image and video generator sold as a monthly or yearly subscription	AI suite for generating, editing and upscaling images, video and 3D	AI image generator with credit-based plans and a developer API
Free plan	No	100 compute units per day (refills daily); image concurrency 1 and video concurrency 0; LoRA training up to 50 images; upscaling up to 2K; community support via Discord	30 credits a week for accounts that sign in with Google, Apple or Microsoft (none for email-and-password accounts); every generation uses credits; images are public; PNG downloads need a paid plan
Cheapest paid plan	$8/mo billed annually (Basic)Midjourney pricing	$5/mo billed annually (Basic)Krea pricing	$15/mo billed annually (Plus)Ideogram pricing
What it covers	$96 billed yearly; 3.3 hours (200 minutes) of Fast GPU time per month.	5,000 compute units per month.	$180 billed annually; 2,400 priority credits a month plus unlimited slow credits.
Free trial	Limited trial only in the niji·journey app (iOS and Android); none on Discord or midjourney.com	None stated	None stated
Platforms	Web	Web, iOS, API	Web, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated
Open source	No	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	Generating and editing images, then upscaling them for print or web Trying several video models from one account Training a LoRA on product or character photos for consistent results	Designing posters, social graphics and other images from a text prompt Keeping a character consistent across a set of images Generating many design variations at once (batch generation on Pro)
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: 100 compute units per day, 1 image job at a time and video concurrency listed as 0 Commercial licence is only on paid plans Compute units on Basic, Pro and Max do not roll over	Free accounts cannot generate privately; images are published by default Unused subscription priority credits expire at the end of each billing cycle AI editing features (Edit with AI, Image Reference) need priority credits and are not available in the slow queue
Made by	Midjourney	Krea	Ideogram

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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