Comparing Midjourney and Flux for AI Image Generation

AI image generators are changing how we create art and visuals. Midjourney is a popular tool, known for its high-quality results. Recently, the team behind Stable Diffusion released Flux, a new image generator. Flux is free and can even run on a laptop. This post compares Flux (specifically the powerful Flux Pro version) with the latest Midjourney V6.1. We used the same prompts for both tools across different styles to see how they performed based on the look of the images and how well they followed instructions.

Testing AI Image Styles

Here is how Midjourney and Flux stacked up across different visual styles.

Cartoon Style Images

In the first cartoon test, Midjourney did a better job showing specific characters with correct details like hair color and masks. However, with a prompt asking for multiple animals (lion, rabbit, elephant), Flux created all of them correctly. Midjourney struggled, generating images with odd faces and bodies. We also saw this difficulty with Midjourney when asking for children building a treehouse; it seemed to struggle with more than three characters. Flux handled multiple characters and details well. Flux had a more consistent cartoon look overall.

Flux gets the point for cartoon style.

Photorealistic Images

Both generators are excellent at making photorealistic images. It's good to have a free option like Flux that can create realistic pictures like Midjourney. We looked at images generated by the basic Flux version too. Faces looked good on both tools, and objects were detailed and realistic.

This style test is a tie.

Text Generation

AI image generators often struggle with text. Midjourney's text results were disappointing. It often misspelled words or added extra letters. Flux was much better at generating correct text and kept the general style of the image well.

Flux gets the point for text generation.

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Pixel Style Images

Midjourney performed better with this style. The pixels were more visible, and the overall details looked better in Midjourney's images.

Midjourney gets the point for pixel style.

3D Render Style Images

Flux's images were okay here, but Midjourney's were slightly better.

Midjourney gets the point for 3D render style.

Minimalist Logo Style

Creating logos with specific words can be hard. Midjourney was terrible at generating words for minimalist logos and the logos themselves didn't look great. Flux handled the text perfectly and created better logos.

Flux gets the point for minimalist logos.

Abstract Style Images

This was a close competition. Both tools did well with abstract images.

This style test is a tie.

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Hand-Drawn Art Style Images

Midjourney captured the hand-drawn style much better. Its images looked more convincing and realistic for this style. Flux's images looked more like digital art.

Midjourney gets the point for hand-drawn style.

Old Photograph Style Images

Both Flux and Midjourney did great with this style. They accurately made the images look like old photographs.

This final style test is a draw.

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Final Thoughts

After comparing across different styles, the final score is 6 to 6. This score shows that Midjourney and Flux are very close in performance.

• Flux is better at generating text and following detailed prompts.

• Midjourney is slightly better in other areas like specific art styles (Pixel, 3D Render, Hand-Drawn).

Overall, Flux looks like a powerful free AI image generator. It's impressive to see an open-source tool from Black Forest Labs perform so well against a leading tool like Midjourney. It will be interesting to see how these tools improve in the future.