Adobe Firefly vs. Midjourney

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Firefly
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Adobe's Firefly models and services power generative AI features in Adobe creative apps, with features that can be used in Photoshop, Premiere Pro (beta), and the Firefly web app.
$9.99
per month (1 user & 2000 generative credits per month)
Midjourney
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Midjourney is a solution to turn text into images. Users can creating an image with Midjourney starting with a "prompt," which is simply the text or phrase used to tell Midjourney what kind of image is desired.N/A
Pricing
Adobe FireflyMidjourney
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe FireflyMidjourney
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Adobe FireflyMidjourney
Considered Both Products
Adobe Firefly
Chose Adobe Firefly
Both are excellent at image creation and both have put great effort into developing their usability. I personally feel that Adobe Firefly had a more considered approach to launching by looking into the ethical side of what it was trained upon where there is a lot of criticism …
Chose Adobe Firefly
I think Adobe Firefly is more suited to graphic design work, but in my opinion, it's equally as disappointing to use in terms of quality of images.
Chose Adobe Firefly
The quality of output is more consistent with Adobe Firefly and the general direction of the tool is showing a focus on expanding the capabilities with audio and vectors. This gives it an edge over the other visual generators
Midjourney

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Adobe FireflyMidjourney
Small Businesses
InVideo AI
InVideo AI
Score 9.1 out of 10
InVideo AI
InVideo AI
Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies

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User Ratings
Adobe FireflyMidjourney
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(196 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.4
(7 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Usability
8.1
(196 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.7
(3 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe FireflyMidjourney
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
While Adobe does and should establish policies with regard to censorship of certain types of images and words used in prompts, the restrictions do at times seem arbitrary and random, with little feedback in such cases as to what issues in particular are causing problems. For example, if using a reference image of a child to produce a video is forbidden, it would seem simple enough from an AI point of view to explain the limitation to the user.
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Midjourney
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Pros
Adobe
  • In Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Firefly does a great job with the Remix Tool which expands the length of an audio music track while matching notes and adding more beats to its length. The transitions are seamless, and after the generation is completed it is difficult to distinguish the new beats apart from the original composition.
  • In the Adobe Firefly, I use the standalone app to create graphic variations and visual concepts for quick mockups to streamline design ideas. This process helps me to speed up the creative process and to work more efficiently. It also presents me with additional creative ideas to incorporate in future ideations.
  • In Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Firefly is wonderful with the 'Generative Fill' which uses prompts to enhance an original image by adding complimentary content, replacing content, or even removing the background or content from an image altogether. The result is extremely realistic and amazing.
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Midjourney
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Cons
Adobe
  • Prompting is an art and takes some time to improve
  • The reality of the images can be hit or miss, such as details like hands or too many legs
  • I would like to see an easier way to upload a reference image and see outputs similar to what I uploaded.
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Midjourney
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe
Because while Adobe Firefly is a good tool (and comes integrated to a certain extent with your Adobe CC subscription) there is still a long way to go before it can have the support to be able to use it outside of the same program subscription.
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Midjourney
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Usability
Adobe
Easy to use on the web application, and its integration into Photoshop is super easy to utilize for my projects. I always get what I am looking for out of Firefly, and it's become an amazing tool to save me time on a heavy workload task.
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Midjourney
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Support Rating
Adobe
I have never contacted Support for Adobe Firefly.
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Midjourney
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Implementation Rating
Adobe
As I have noted in previous answers, the integration of Adobe Firefly is already done for you. It is part of the Adobe Suite and works seamlessly with all other Adobe products. If you don't happen to use Adobe products, it works just like any other AI image creation tool in that you can save and download your creations to edit in whatever software tools you prefer.
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Midjourney
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
Midjourney was not in this list but that is the most similar to Firefly in my opinion. I find that Adobe Firefly and Midjourney have a lot of overlap. The generative fill options on Photoshop and Illustrator also include very similar use cases with generating photography and extending areas of a photo to imagine outside of the crop.
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Midjourney
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • Firefly has saved us many hours by being able to generate images that were otherwise hard to find, or images that we'd need to request licenses to use. Those time saving equate to money savings as team members can move on to other paid tasks more quickly.
  • When using the generative fill feature, being able to extend the aspect ratio of images we already have in our library has saved us both time and money.
  • Using Firefly has been a useful part of our strategy to introduce Generative AI to our clients, which helps us stay on the front foot with new developments.
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Midjourney
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ScreenShots

Adobe Firefly Screenshots

Screenshot of how to generate images from text prompts and edit them within Firefly.Screenshot of where to send generated images from Firefly to Photoshop and Express.Screenshot of where to generate videos from prompts within Firefly.