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Midjourney has no referral code and no discount code. The fine print underneath is the real story.
103 articles is the whole of Midjourney's public help centre, and we searched every title and every article body in it. Not one describes a referral, affiliate, partner or refer-a-friend programme, and a second reader repeated the pull independently. So any page waving a "Midjourney promo code" at you invented it.
What pays what
| You, for signing up through anybody's link | Nothing |
|---|---|
| A friend who sends you to Midjourney | Nothing |
| This site, if you subscribe after reading this | Nothing |
| The 2,000 members who rate the most images that day | 1 extra hour of Fast time |
| That free hour, if you have no active subscription | Unusable |
| That free hour, 30 days after it lands | Expired |
| Committing to a year instead of a month | 20% off, paid upfront |
The annual commitment is the only price cut Midjourney publishes, and the full year fee is paid upfront. Read the refund rule below before you commit.
What the plans actually cost
| Basic, 3.3 hours of Fast GPU time a month (200 minutes) | $10, or $96 a year |
|---|---|
| Standard, 15 hours of Fast GPU time a month | $30, or $288 a year |
| Pro, 30 hours of Fast GPU time a month | $60, or $576 a year |
| Mega, 60 hours of Fast GPU time a month | $120, or $1,152 a year |
| Extra GPU time, on every tier | $4 an hour |
Annual works out at $8, $24, $48 and $96 a month. Fast time is the quick queue; when it runs out you either buy more at $4 an hour or drop to Relax mode, which is slower but unmetered. Relax mode for unlimited image generation starts at Standard, so the $10 Basic plan stops when its 200 minutes stop, and unlimited video in Relax mode needs Pro or Mega. Stealth Mode, the setting that keeps your images and videos private, is sold only with Pro and Mega, which means privacy on Midjourney starts at $60 a month. Every plan renews automatically, monthly or yearly, unless you set it to cancel.
Do this, in this order
- Start on the smallest plan that fits, and decide about the year later. Basic is $10 a month and gives you 3.3 hours of Fast time. The 20% annual discount is real, but the full year is paid upfront, so an annual Mega plan is $1,152 leaving your account on day one. Commit to a year after you know the tool suits you, not before.
- Decide inside your first twenty GPU minutes, because that is the entire refund window. Midjourney's rule is flat: you are eligible for a refund only if you have used less than 20 GPU minutes across the whole lifetime of the account, and that counts Fast, Turbo and Relax time together. Twenty minutes is roughly an afternoon of curiosity. If you qualify, the refund option appears by itself when you cancel; if you do not see it, Midjourney says it is unable to provide a refund. There is no proration anywhere in these terms, so a year paid upfront and abandoned in month two is simply gone.
- Read the licence before you type anything you care about. You own the assets you create, and that ownership survives cancelling. But by using the service you also grant Midjourney a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright licence to reproduce, adapt, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense and distribute both what you put in and what you get out. In Midjourney's own words, that licence survives termination of the agreement by any party, for any reason. Leaving does not take it back.
- Assume your work is public unless you have paid to hide it. Midjourney describes itself as an open community, and states that by default your content is publicly viewable and remixable by others. Stealth Mode is the paid answer, it exists only on Pro and Mega, and even then Midjourney promises only to make best efforts not to publish your assets. Anything you make in a shared or open space such as a Discord chatroom is visible to everyone in that room whether Stealth is on or not. If a client brief or an unreleased product is in your prompt, that matters.
- If you or your employer earn over $1,000,000 a year, price in the Pro plan. This clause catches freelancers as often as companies. Midjourney's terms say that if you are a company, or any employee of a company, with more than $1,000,000 US a year in revenue, you must be subscribed to Pro or Mega to own the assets you make. The cheap plan does not merely lack features for you; it fails the ownership test you are buying the tool for. Upscaling someone else's image is a separate exception: those images stay owned by whoever created them.
- Cancel the scheduled change first, then cancel the plan. Cancellation happens on the Manage Subscription page, and if you already have an upgrade or downgrade queued you have to clear it with the Cancel Change button before the cancellation will go through. This trips people who downgrade and then change their mind. Cancelling takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle, and you keep every feature including any remaining Fast time until then, so there is no reason to cancel early and no benefit in doing so.
- Know what cancelling does not do. It does not delete your generated images or your account history, and images you had made private stay private. You can resubscribe whenever you like. If you want your work gone rather than merely unpaid for, cancelling is not the mechanism.
The fine print that can still cost you
There is no reward to lose here, so the loss surface is different: it is money you cannot get back, rights you cannot claw back, and a service that promises you nothing. These are the clauses that decide it. I have read this one closely, and it is a more one-sided document than most people paying $10 a month realise.
The licence you grant is permanent, and it can be handed on. It runs to Midjourney, its affiliates, its successors and its assigns. It is sublicensable, which means Midjourney can pass those rights to somebody else. It covers what you input as well as what you produce. And it survives termination of the agreement by any party, for any reason, so deleting your account does not end it.
Your ownership has three exceptions, and one of them is a revenue test. You own your assets to the fullest extent possible under applicable law, subject to your obligations under the agreement and to any third-party rights. Then comes the $1,000,000 revenue rule that pushes commercial users onto Pro or Mega, and the rule that upscaled images belong to their original creators. The good news is also in writing: your ownership persists even if you later downgrade or cancel.
The privacy you pay for is a best-efforts promise, not a guarantee. Stealth Mode costs $60 a month at the lowest, and the terms say Midjourney agrees to make best efforts not to publish your assets where you have engaged it. Best efforts is a weaker promise than it sounds. And the carve-out is explicit: anything made in a shared or open space such as a Discord chatroom is viewable by anyone in that chatroom regardless of Stealth.
A suspension takes the refund with it. Refund eligibility does not apply if the account is suspended or terminated for breaking the terms of service or the community guidelines. The terms restate it from the other side: Midjourney reserves the right to end your access for any reason, you will not be refunded for the current subscription period, and you simply will not be charged after it ends. On an annual plan paid upfront, that is a long period to lose.
Nothing about the service is warranted. No guarantees are made about the quality, stability, uptime or reliability of the service, and the terms ask you in plain words not to create any dependencies on any attribute of the service or of the assets. Both are provided as is, without warranties or conditions of any kind. If your business plan requires Midjourney to be there next quarter, the contract you signed says do not assume that.
Disputes go to arbitration in California, and you waive a jury. The parties first try in good faith to settle within 30 days; after that it is binding arbitration, not court, run by the American Arbitration Association's International Centre for Dispute Resolution, conducted in English in Santa Clara County, California. By agreeing, you and Midjourney knowingly and irrevocably waive any right to trial by jury. For a $10 subscription this rarely matters. For a company that built a pipeline on it, it matters a great deal.
The refund email arrives long before the money. Midjourney sends a confirmation within a few minutes of an approved refund, while the money itself can take up to ten business days depending on your bank. The gap is normal, not a problem.
Skip this offer if
- You need your prompts and outputs kept confidential on a budget. Privacy is a Pro-and-above feature at $60 a month, it is worded as best efforts, and it does not reach into shared Discord rooms. Client work under an NDA does not fit comfortably inside those three facts.
- You want the option of getting your money back. Twenty GPU minutes for the lifetime of the account is one of the tightest refund gates in consumer software, and nothing is prorated. Treat the first payment as spent.
- You are building something that has to keep working. The terms explicitly ask you not to create dependencies on the service, and disclaim uptime and reliability. That is a fair warning, and it is worth taking literally.
Is it worth your time?
If you are here hunting a code, stop: there is no referral programme, no affiliate programme and no coupon, and the only discount Midjourney publishes is the 20% for paying a year upfront. That is worth knowing, because the pages promising you otherwise are guessing. If you are here deciding whether to subscribe, the honest summary is that the tool is priced clearly and the contract underneath it is not generous. You get a real product from $10 a month; you give a permanent, sublicensable licence over everything you type and everything you make, your output is public by default, the privacy fix starts at $60, and your money stops being refundable after about twenty minutes of use. None of that makes it a bad buy. It makes it a buy you should make deliberately, on the smallest plan, having decided quickly.