Different use case.

I can run SDXL 1.0 offline from my home. I can’t do this with Midjourney.

A closed source model that doesn’t have the limitation of running on consumer level GPUs will have certain advantages.

What type of setup do you have at home? What type of GPU? MJ completes a pretty high quality photo in about a minute. Does SD compare?

With an RTX 4090, you can crank out several images per minute, even at high resolutions.

I haven't done it in a while but I was cranking images out at 11s/output on a 3080. But it depends on your workflow, too. I started low res/low samples (32-64) and scaled up or used recursion until I got a desirable result or found a nice seed. I think I was doing 512x916 or something close to that.

With SD you have a lot of control over not just basics like image size and prompt complexity, but also things like how many iterations of which different sampler(s) get used.

So speed can vary wildly depending on how you're choosing to use it. And that's without even getting into the wide variance of hardware.

But generally speaking, it will usually be significantly faster than one image per minute.

I use both but StableDiffusion has better control over the workflow. With automatic111 I can generate a matrix of output based on prompt variations or parameter changes. I can also do bigger batches. And I can open multiple tabs and queue up several prompt variation matrices at once, then leave for an hour. I have a laptop rtx 2070 and a 512x768 takes about 20 seconds[0] or so. automatic111 also includes some upscaling AI once you've found the base image you want.

StableDiffusion needs you to be way more specific than Midjourney. MJ will fill in the gaps of your prompt to get a better image. SD usually won't.

MJ photos are higher quality with easier prompting IMO, but with a distinctive style. Even if you ask it to mimic some other style, it has that midjourney feel.

I mainly it for generating setting or character images for a D&D game. I use Midjourney more for characters.

[0] This is at ~25 iterations.

Midjourney is destroyed by the ecosystem around stable diffusion, especially all the features and extensions in automatic1111. It’s not even close

You still have to run midjourney through discord right? There isn't even an official API. Feels like a joke.

Been using https://omnibridge.io Pretty stable!

Got any way to get individual images in relax mode? As it gives 4 images combined, and upscale is available in fast mode only. So that kind of makes relax mode useless.

MJ quality is significantly worse. Everything has the Pixar look and barely follows the prompt. Its nice for a toy, but SD with Automatic1111 is miles ahead of MJ.