Adobe Firefly vs Midjourney: Commercial Safety vs Artistic Quality
Verdict
Midjourney V7 produces dramatically better standalone images. Firefly's advantage is Photoshop integration and commercial safety. For image quality: Midjourney. For editing workflow: Firefly.
TL;DR
This isn’t a close quality comparison. Midjourney V7 produces significantly better standalone images — more detailed, more creative, better compositions. Firefly’s advantages are its Photoshop integration (Generative Fill is excellent), commercially safe training data, and Adobe ecosystem benefits. Different tools for different purposes.
Comparison
| Aspect | Adobe Firefly | Midjourney V7 |
|---|---|---|
| Standalone Image Quality | Moderate | Excellent |
| Photoshop Integration | Yes (Generative Fill) | No |
| Commercial Safety | Trained on licensed data | Standard model |
| Pricing | From $9.99/month | From $10/month |
| API | Enterprise only | No official API |
| Video | No | Yes (5-21 seconds) |
| Community | Adobe users | Discord (millions) |
Verdict
Choose Firefly if: You need Photoshop’s Generative Fill, care about commercial safety of training data, or are locked into the Adobe ecosystem.
Choose Midjourney if: Image quality is your priority. For standalone generation, it’s not even close.
For API access and quality: Maginary with Flux Pro offers Midjourney-competitive quality with actual API access and an intuitive web interface — something neither Firefly nor Midjourney provide publicly.
What is Maginary?
Maginary is an AI image and video generation platform that gives you access to multiple frontier models — Flux Pro, Ideogram, Recraft, Google Imagen, Kling, Sora, and more — through a single interface and API.
- ✓ Multi-model: Pick the best model for each job, or let Maginary choose
- ✓ Full editing pipeline: Generate → vary → upscale → zoom out → pan → video
- ✓ API-first: Full REST API for developers and automation
- ✓ No forced subscriptions: Pay-per-use credits, transparent pricing
- ✓ Prompt understanding: Works in any language, infers your intent without over-embellishing