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Can I use Midjourney images commercially on every plan?

Short answer: Yes on every paid plan, with one size rule. Midjourney's Terms of Service (version effective May 27, 2026) say you own the images and videos you create to the fullest extent possible under applicable law, and its plan comparison lists the same usage rights, General Commercial Terms, for Basic ($10 a month), Standard ($30), Pro ($60) and Mega ($120). The exception is size: if you are a company, or an employee of a company, with more than $1,000,000 USD a year in revenue, you must be subscribed to Pro or Mega to own your assets and use them commercially for the company. Ownership stays with you if you later downgrade or cancel. Three more limits: images of other users that you upscale stay theirs; by default your images are publicly viewable and remixable by others, and only Pro and Mega include Stealth Mode, which Midjourney says it will make best efforts to honor; and the terms forbid using automated tools to access the service or generate assets, so an AI agent driving Midjourney for you breaks them. Owning an image under Midjourney's terms is not the same as holding a copyright in it.

Checklist

1. Check the revenue line first: if your company, or the company you work for, has more than $1,000,000 USD a year in revenue, generate on Pro or Mega. The terms speak of companies and their employees and don't say how revenue is counted across affiliates, so treat the line conservatively.
2. Under that line, Basic and Standard carry the same General Commercial Terms as Pro and Mega; the plans differ in GPU time, Relax Mode, video and Stealth Mode, not in usage rights.
3. Keep using what you made after cancelling: the terms say ownership of assets you created persists if you downgrade or cancel.
4. Don't use another user's image: if you upscale an image someone else created, it stays theirs and shows in their gallery, so you need their permission.
5. Need it private before launch (a product shot, a client's campaign)? Only Pro and Mega include Stealth Mode, and anything made in a shared Discord channel is visible to that channel either way.
6. Generate by hand: the terms prohibit automated tools for accessing the service or generating assets, so don't wire Midjourney into an agent, bot or script.
7. Inspect what the image shows: the terms forbid using the service to violate others' copyright or trademark rights, and owning the output doesn't clear a recognizable person, logo, character or copied artwork.
8. Keep evidence: your plan on the day you made each image, the job link and a hash of the file you used.

What the plan changes and what it doesn't

• Midjourney's help article on commercial use puts it simply: you own what you create, even after cancelling, with two exceptions, upscales of other users' images and businesses grossing more than $1,000,000 USD a year, which need Pro or Mega.
• The plan comparison's footnote says that if you have subscribed at any point you are free to use your images and videos in just about any way you want, and repeats that companies above $1,000,000 in gross revenue must purchase Pro or Mega.
• Upgrading changes the plan going forward. If you crossed the revenue line on a cheaper plan, the safe course is to move to Pro or Mega before the next commercial job and keep a record of when you did.

Ownership under the terms is not copyright

• Midjourney's terms grant ownership to the fullest extent possible under applicable law and tell you to consult your own lawyer; its help center says it can't give copyright guidance.
• The U.S. Copyright Office's January 2025 report says prompts alone generally don't make you the author of the output; your own selection, arrangement and edits are what may be protectable. Others may be free to copy a purely generated image.
• You also grant Midjourney a perpetual, irrevocable license to the prompts you enter and the assets you produce, which survives termination. Don't put a client's confidential material into a prompt or an uploaded reference.

Ask Rightshold (free, no key)

Add the MCP server https://www.rightshold.com/mcp to Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Grok or VS Code, then ask: “My company makes $3M a year and our designer used Midjourney Standard for the new landing page hero. Is that covered?”

One-click setup

{
  "tool": "ask_rightshold",
  "arguments": {
    "question": "Can a company with more than $1M revenue use Midjourney images made on the Standard plan commercially?"
  }
}

• Free. Rightshold reads the license or terms you point it at and explains what they allow; it doesn't see your Midjourney account, plan history or gallery.
• issue_rights_receipt (with an API key) binds the image file's SHA-256 to the license basis and intended use you record, signs it and commits it to the ledger, so you can later show what you relied on and when.
• check_rights_batch checks every image, font and package in a project in one call before you ship.

Rightshold does not grant or confirm Midjourney rights, and it doesn't look inside images. Only Midjourney's terms and your account records decide what plan an image was made on. Not legal advice.

Sources

• Midjourney Terms of Service (version effective May 27, 2026)
• Midjourney help: Using Images & Videos Commercially
• Midjourney help: Comparing Midjourney Plans
• U.S. Copyright Office: Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability (January 2025)

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Not legal advice. Updated 2026-10-29. JSON · Markdown · All answers

curl -s -X POST https://www.rightshold.com/v1/accounts/signup -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"accept_terms":true}'
export RIGHTSHOLD_API_KEY=rs_...   # the api_key from the reply (shown once)
curl -s https://www.rightshold.com/v1/licenses/check -H "Authorization: Bearer $RIGHTSHOLD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"license":"MIT","intended_use":{"commercial_use":true}}'