Want to integrate Midjourney's mind-blowing AI art into your app?
You're not alone.
Plenty of developers are itching to use the Midjourney API. The problem? Midjourney doesn't have an official API (yet).
Bummer, right? Not so fast.
Turns out, there's a whole bunch of APIs that can help you automate the image generation process.
Both unofficial Midjourney APIs, as well as official alternatives producing similar quality of results.
Let's have a look.
These third-party solutions typically use Selenium to automate the image generation workflow using your Midjourney account. As any kind of automation is against MJ's terms, you risk getting your account banned.
Yet, many such APIs are still up and running.
While we don't endorse any of them, here's a list of the most talked-about unofficial Midjourney APIs out there.
ImagineAPI is one of the most user-friendly Midjourney APIs out there.
It offers an easy-to-use REST API that supports text-to-image and image-to-image generation. The images are instantly upscaled without costing you extra credits which is a nice bonus.
It has an admin panel where you can monitor the image generation progress and import multiple prompts using CSV files.
It also integrates with Zapier and Make if you want to automate the workflow further.
They also have an open-source version of their API available.
Requires a Midjourney account? Yes
Pricing: from $10/month (Basic plan) for unlimited generations.
APIFRAME is a stable and scalable third-party AI image generation API for Midjourney.
It's fully managed (you don't risk your account getting banned) and its plans support from 5 to 100 concurrent jobs.
For no-code workflows, it's also available via Zapier, Make, n8n, and Pipedream.
Aside from image generation, APIFRAME also offers Luma and Suno APIs for programmatic video and music generation.
Requires a Midjourney account? No
Pricing: 100 starter credits, unlocked with a phone check or a one-time $1 payment. Then, plans start at $39/month for 4,000 credits a month.
ImaginePro is an unofficial Midjourney API that gives you access to all MJ's features such as text-to-image, image-to-image, image-to-text, inpainting, zoom, upscale, pan, and more.
The API has built-in load balancing for optimal performance and offers a free trial with 50 credits (no credit card required).
Requires a Midjourney account? Optional
Pricing: plans start at $49/month ($33/month billed annually) for 1,600 credits a month. A DIY plan that uses your own Midjourney account costs $45/month ($20/month billed annually).
UserAPI offers an unofficial Midjourney API with a free plan for testing.
And for more complex (no-code) automations, you can use their Make connector.
Pricing: free plan includes 50 requests. Then, it's $0.04 per request or $25/month for full access.
If you want to comply with Midjourney's terms and conditions (recommended), use one of these Midjourney API alternatives. They provide similar level of quality and customizability but don't risk getting your account banned.
Best for: architecture, interior design, furniture design
MyArchitectAI, a leading AI renderer, has a reliable and scalable API that lets you generate concepts (especially architectural) in under 10 seconds per image.
Unlike other tools on this list, MyArchitectAI's API is an alternative to Midjourney that uses it's own AI generation model. So by using it, you're not breaking Midjourney's terms and conditions and not risking a ban. The same rendering software for architects is available as a standalone web app if you prefer a no-code workflow.
It offers endpoints such as:
MyArchitectAI also offers a free Midjourney upscaler that lets you overcome the 2K limit.
Pricing: from $0.03 per generation, pay as you go. The API has no free credits and no subscriptions (MyArchitectAI's web-app plans are priced separately).
Best for: Midjourney-like vibes
Flux by Black Forest Labs is great at prompt following, designed for low-latency loops, and offers powerful in-context generation and editing.
If you're looking for a Midjourney feel with an official API, pick Flux.
Pricing: from $0.014/image (FLUX.2 [klein]); FLUX.2 [pro] starts at $0.03/image
Best for: typography, logos, posters
Ideogram's model is optimized primarily for typography - it lets you reliably render long, stylized text for logos, posters, and packaging. It also has an editing mode with masks, supported in the official API node workflows,
Its three different throughput tiers (Turbo/Default/Quality) lets you adjust the speed-to-fidelity ratio based on your needs.
Pricing: pay per image; current rates are listed on Ideogram's API pricing page.
Best for: all-purpose image generation
OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 models (gpt-image-2.5-sunburst for precise editing and gpt-image-2.5-flare for fast everyday generation) offer C2PA provenance and configurable moderation, and the Images API handles both generation and on-the-fly edits at multiple sizes with strong text rendering. It’s enterprise-ready with a solid safety stack, and customer API data isn’t used for training by default.
Pricing: token-based, $30 per 1M image output tokens ($15 with Batch processing). OpenAI doesn't publish a per-image price for GPT Image 2.5.
Here are the most popular open-source third-party Midjourney APIs on GitHub:
midjourney-client is an unofficial Node.js client with over 1.9k stars created by Eric Heyden.
midjourney-proxy is a Chinese Java-based proxy for the Midjourney Discord channel with 5.4k stars.
Midjourney_api is an unofficial Midjourney API written in Python with over 400 stars.
This comprehensive library allows users to interact with Midjourney through Discord and integrate the results into PHP applications.
Here are two ideas.
As one Reddit user mentioned in his comment, you can hire a freelancer who will generate the images for you based on your prompts. Then, they would send them to you and transfer the copyright of these images to you (based on a signed agreement).
Another (much more scalable) solution is to use a LoRa mimicking Midjourney's style. There are plenty of quality models on Civitai created as a result of the lack of a MJ API.
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If none of these solutions are good enough for you, you'll just need to patiently wait until Midjourney releases its official API.
When?
No specific dates have been mentioned yet.
There are plenty of courses teaching Midjourney prompting techniques on the market that will get you up to speed in no time.
Other than that, you should study other users' prompts and simply learn by doing. There's no better way than than.
No. Midjourney doesn't have an official API yet. While there are plenty of unofficial solutions, they not only violate MJ's terms of service but also put you at risk of getting your account banned. However, Midjourney is considering launching an enterprise API, but the release date is still unknown.
The best official alternatives are the MyArchitectAI API (architecture and interior design), Flux by Black Forest Labs (Midjourney-like look), Ideogram (typography and logos), and OpenAI's GPT Image models (all-purpose generation). Unlike unofficial Midjourney APIs, they don't put a Midjourney account at risk.
A few unofficial Midjourney APIs offer free trial credits, such as APIFRAME (100 one-time starter credits, unlocked with a phone check or a one-time $1 payment, not a recurring free plan), ImaginePro (50 credits), and UserAPI (50 requests). You can also use any of the open-source GitHub projects mentioned earlier in the article. Note that the MyArchitectAI API has no free credits: it's pay-as-you-go from $0.03 per generation.
Third-party Midjourney APIs start at $10/month (ImagineAPI, plus your own Midjourney subscription) or $0.04 per request (UserAPI), depending on how many images you need to generate.
