The first major difference has to do with image generation privacy.

Anything below that, and the art you generate will be published to a public feed.

As I write this, and it may change at some point,AI-generated images can’t be copyrighted.

An Ideogram and Midjourney robot facing off against each other in boxing gear

Sydney Louw Butler/How-To Geek/ MidJourney/Ideogram

However, if the generation is private, it means that only you have the original files.

MidJourney uses a convolutedsystem of commands issued via Discord.

Ideogram, on the other hand, uses a slick web interface.

Four images generated with the prompt ‘Painting of a robot looking directly at the viewer. In the robot’s left hand is an apple. In the robot’s right hand is an orange. The robot is purple and green.'

Sydney Louw Butler/How-To Geek/ MidJourney

There’s no use of arcane commands here to perform tasks like specifying a style or aspect ratio.

Just grab the options you want on the menu, and you’re good to go.

I’ve been using it extensively, and it’s far more polished than the Discord interface for MidJourney.

Four robots drawn by Ideogram using the prompt ‘Painting of a robot looking directly at the viewer. In the robot’s left hand is an apple. In the robot’s right hand is an orange. The robot is purple and green.'

Sydney Louw Butler/How-To Geek/ Ideogram

Still, it has a long way to go and still relies on text commands for some features.

Especially since MidJourney no longer has a free option.

Ideogram is generally more generous.

Four coffe mugs generated by MidJourney with an attempt at writing ‘Tested by HTG’ on them.

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Ideogram offers 1000 prompts resulting in 4000 images of “priority” time.

So about the same, but 33% less expensive on the Ideogram side of things.

Don’t forget that this tier includes private generations, so it’s great value for money.

Four cups attempted by Ideogram mean to have the text ‘Tested by HTG’ written on them.

Sydney Louw Butler/How-To Geek/Ideogram

Both offer unlimited standard speed generation at this tier.

In the robot’s left hand is an apple.

In the robot’s right hand is an orange.

The robot is purple and green."

So, for this test, I switched Magic Prompt feature off.

The results are mixed.

Of the four images Midjourney provided, two matched the prompt exactly.

On the other hand, all four of the images provided by Ideogram were consistent with each other.

Of course, this could change at any time as the two models are tweaked and updated.

So if a hand came out wrong, mark it and loop back and try.

With modern generators, this is a feature that’s been explicitly added.

Here I asked both systems to write some text on a coffee mug.

However, if you want more artistically interesting end results, MidJourney is the champ.