Midjourney V7 Arrives After a Year. Here’s What’s New

Midjourney is back, and it’s making waves. After nearly a year without a significant update, the company has launched Midjourney V7, which is now in alpha testing. With stunning visual quality, smarter prompt handling, and a brand-new Draft Mode, this release is more than just an upgrade; it signals a bold new creative chapter for AI-generated imagery.

Welcome to V7: Smarter, Sharper, and More Personal

Since April 3, 2025, users can test Midjourney’s V7 Alpha model through Discord. The team calls it “an amazing model,” and for good reason: the improvements are immediately noticeable:

• Smarter interpretation of text prompts
• Gorgeous textures and enhanced visual fidelity
• Major leaps in detail for bodies, hands, and objects
• Improved coherence and consistency throughout images

These refinements position V7 as a powerful tool for anyone in design, concept art, or creative storytelling, offering more real, emotionally resonant, and compositionally polished outputs.

Model Personalization: Your Style, Built-In

V7 is also the first Midjourney model with personalization enabled by default. Once you unlock it (a simple five-minute process), the model begins to tailor its generations to your preferences and visual tastes.

You can toggle personalization on or off at any time, giving users more flexibility and control over how the AI responds to their creative intent.

Introducing Draft Mode: Fast, Cheap, and Conversational

Perhaps the most groundbreaking new feature is Draft Mode, a high-speed, low-cost rendering engine designed for rapid ideation.

• Half the price of a standard image
• 10x faster render times
• Built for quick iterations and conversational interaction

Draft Mode even transforms the prompt bar into a chat-like interface when enabled on the web. You can say things like “Make it nighttime” or “Swap the cat for an owl,” the AI will automatically adjust your prompt and generate a new image.

Want to take it further? Hit the microphone icon to activate Voice Mode, where you can speak your ideas into existence.

You can also run Draft jobs manually using –draft, which is especially useful for testing variations or batch prompts with –repeat.

While Draft images are lower quality than standard mode, they’re incredibly consistent and faithful, perfect for quickly iterating. If you land on something you love, click ‘Enhance’ or ‘Vary’ to re-render the image at full quality.

Turbo vs Relax: Choose Your Speed (and Budget)

V7 launches in two rendering tiers:

• Turbo Mode – Lightning fast, but costs 2x more than standard V6 generation
• Relax Mode – Slower but more budget-friendly
• Standard Speed Mode – Still in development, expected soon

These options give users more flexibility based on time, budget, and workflow needs.

What’s Still Under Construction?

Some V7 features still rely on older models, including:

• Upscaling
• Image editing
• Retexturing

These fall back to V6 functionality, but the Midjourney team has confirmed updates are in the works.

Other tools like Moodboards and SREF (Style Reference) are compatible with V7 and are expected to see performance boosts in the coming weeks.

The Road Ahead

This release is just the beginning. Midjourney has committed to shipping new features every 1–2 weeks for the next 60 days, including a highly anticipated V7 character and object reference system, a feature many artists have asked for.

Midjourney plans to engage the community as the model evolves through roadmap voting sessions, ensuring future improvements reflect what creators actually want.

Final Thoughts

Midjourney V7 isn’t just faster or sharper. It’s more you. With smarter prompting, real-time drafting, and built-in personalization, this release represents a meaningful step toward AI tools that understand your creative intent.

For artists, designers, and dreamers exploring the frontier of AI art, V7 is not just an alpha; it’s an invitation to play, iterate, and find new visual horizons.

Stay tuned to Bitrora.com for more updates as we continue covering the future of AI, creativity, and next-gen tools reshaping the digital world.