Dittoshot vs Midjourney
Checked on 15 October 2026
Pick Midjourney for style, art direction, editing and video, and bring your own references: in V8.2 the Edit Model replaced --cref and Omni Reference. Pick Dittoshot for a believable everyday person from text, with the face checked on every photo and no subscription.
Create your first person| Midjourney | Dittoshot | |
|---|---|---|
| How you create the character | Prompts plus reference images. In V8.2 the Edit Model takes up to 4; it replaced Omni Reference and Character Reference (--cref). | A text description. Dittoshot draws a three-frame reference sheet from it. |
| Photos you need | A reference image of the character, uploaded or generated earlier. | None. Uploading photos isn't possible. |
| Consistency check | None; you review results and choose yourself. | Automatic: identity and realism scored 0–10, retaken up to 3 times below 7. |
| Pricing | Subscription: Basic $10 (200 fast GPU minutes), Standard $30, Pro $60, Mega $120. 20% off yearly. | Token packs from $5. No subscription; tokens don't expire. |
| Cost per image | Measured in GPU time: about 0.8 minutes per SD image on V8.1. Extra GPU time is $4 an hour. | 5 tokens per photo, about $0.42–0.50, retakes included. A new person is 11 tokens. |
| Free to try | No free trial on midjourney.com. | 16 tokens at sign-up: one person and their first photo. |
| Video | Yes; HD video from the Standard plan. | No, still photos only. |
| Commercial use | Yes on every plan; companies over $1M yearly revenue need Pro or Mega. | You own the images, to the extent the law allows, on any pack. |
Choose Midjourney if
- You care most about style and art direction, from painterly to editorial.
- You want inpainting, outpainting, video and personalization in one place.
- You're comfortable managing reference images and prompts yourself.
Choose Dittoshot if
- You want candid, phone-style photos of an ordinary life, not art.
- You want the face checked against a reference sheet and retaken automatically.
- You'd rather pay per photo than keep a monthly plan running.
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Facts about other tools come from their own pages on the date at the top. Prices are monthly, in US dollars, before tax. Spotted something out of date? Write to hello@dittoshot.app.
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