Leonardo AI vs. Midjourney V5: The Ultimate AI Art Generator Showdown!

Join me as we pit two of the leading AI art generators, Leonardo AI and Midjourney, against each other in a comprehensive comparison. We'll delve into pricing, ease of use, and challenge them with three distinct art categories: Photo-realistic Imagery, Illustration & Rendering, and a special Creative Challenge. Which platform will reign supreme? Dive in to find out, and don't forget to check out our unique prompts in the description below!
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Prompts used:
Taylor Swift in front of a wall with graffiti, wearing casual clothes, fall vibes, blushed, looking at the camera, colorful scene, midshot, focus on face, professional photography, ultra sharp focus, photorealistic
Keanu reeves-cyborg, ruins of mars background, Sony Alpha 7S III (A75 III), Simple, hyperdetailed, cinematic, medium shot, photorealistic
Architecture illustration of white designer houses in hill in forest with lots of vegetation, bushes, trees, happy people walking and enjoying sunshine, scandinavian design, contemporary architecture, white houses, modern, futuristic, trees, photorealistic, v-ray tracing, ultra detailed, octane render
A grand floating academy set amidst the clouds. In the distance, a group of students is seen summoning elemental spirits
The embodiment of time as a tangible entity, with hourglasses for eyes and wings made of ticking clock hands

[@ewallt]

I haven’t used Leonardo, but have done a lot with MidJourney. Often MidJourney images can be improved by referencing an artist or photographer. You can also reference specific camera information, such as camera, lens, film, f stop, etc. So if you want an image in the style of Monet, you can request that, or of a modern artist, like Banksy. You can combine artists as well. Are these things you can do in Leonardo?

[@user-jg7nu3fk8i]

Leonardo alchemy, magic prompt V3 and photoreal options destroy whole midjourney ai generator

[@tcorcreative]

Yeah, since the making of this video. I've been using Leonardo more than MJ.
Which AI tool are you using more?

[@Selene-AI]

I totally agree. Leonardo is constantly coming up with great new features and has thus gotten pretty strong in the past few months!

[@user-jg7nu3fk8i]

@@tcorcreative I am using Leonardo ai more

[@HF-rc1tr]

Would you use all 3 together? How do you use all 3 for an AI redering? Where do you find them? I'd like to try this out and see how it is compared to midjourney and Leo

[@user-jg7nu3fk8i]

These three are premium plan features of Leonardo ai

[@raoumarjaved4587]

Good video btw. Thank you. Best comparison video so far. Others don't tell so much.

[@nettstrike]

Nice work!

[@tcorcreative]

Thanks!

[@AI3EFX]

I mess with MJ and Leonardo AI. Leonardo AI seems to be less restrictive with adult/nsfw content. Leonardo AI is constantly making strives with their software. I prefer Leo AI most of the time over MJ. But each prompt has it's pluses/minuses depending on what software suite is used. Another great video!

[@tcorcreative]

Thanks 🙏 appreciate the kind words. I’ve only produced nsfw once and it was completely by accident. Have you tested any other AI tools? Earlier today, a friend of mine was telling me check out adobes new tool.

[@rarf2142]

Do you have any tips for really photorealistic NSFW? It always messes up the hands when I try with SD locally.. maybe Leonardo can do better?

[@puja1985]

I am currently using both $30 subscriptions to try them out for the first couple of months, until I can decide which one is more dominant to my needs and workflow.
So far, I really can't tell the difference between them in terms of tools and capabilities.
They both seem to complement each other well.
Ideally, I would lower the monthly subscription for Leonardo to $10 and remain at $30 for the Midjourney monthly plan. so i get best of both world

[@tcorcreative]

$30 subscriptions! You’re definitely a power-user. What kind of work do you do? And how are you using these tools together?

[@bingbang9643]

what about the inpainting, i find it to be essential after it came out for midjourney... even planing to move to SD cuz of the flexibility.... i need it for storyboarding and poses are very important

[@puja1985]

@@bingbang9643 Both have an inpainting feature, although midjourney inpainting is relatively new, it is already quite reliable. For Leonardo, the inpainting feature can be found in canvas mode, and it is as good as midjourney. The advantage of Leonardo's inpainting is that you can use your own uploaded images, whereas midjourney can only inpaint the already generated images.

[@puja1985]

@bingbang9643 and If you want flexibility, go with Leonardo AI. The "image to image" and "ControlNet" features give you more precise images as intended, and it works wonders in combination with Photoshop. Midjourney, on the other hand, can be somewhat of a guessing game at the moment.

[@spike8298]

Which one Is the best?

[@raoumarjaved4587]

You didn't add the fact that Leonardo has a image to image prompt that midjourny is not offering. Moreover, you haven't mentioned how Leonardo has FAR TOO MAY models to pick from. You can make your own model in it too. So I think Leonardo is a clear winner.

[@harambae117]

MJ has to be the most frustrating thing to use. Mfers censors everything.

[@tcorcreative]

Have you had much luck being able to produce NSFW content on Leonardo?

[@harambae117]

@@tcorcreative haven’t tried Leo yet. It does kind of look like stable diffusion though. SD is so good for NSFW now I don’t even bother with others when I want explicit stuff. It’s just annoying that so many useful words are considered NSFW in MJ.

[@bingbang9643]

i needed a skeleton, blood stains, a dead cat for a storyboard and it all got flagged in midjourney... really want to move out but the inpainting is a dealbraker... can I do inpainting in leonardo? .... i jut remembered my generation got flagged for writing "wet under the rain".

[@SaDTV]

They've definitely clamped down on it a bit more on Leo over the past few months, unfortunately

[@sdk58]

Midjourney user here. Maybe I missed, but you didn't indicate the Style and seeding parameters when creating in MJ.

[@simondouville8592]

Won't be long for MidJourney to come up with its own UI App/online app, to compete against Leornado and Krea

[@adsertheblade]

Midjourney seems to give me consistently better results. i don't know if my prompts are better suited for it, or if there is something else going on, but that's my experience

[@Shakalakahiki8]

I think in the bonus round Leonard was far more creative.

[@tcorcreative]

I've been very impressed with Leonardo.
Do you prefer Leonardo over MJ?

[@xayberoptix]

Stable Diffusion.

[@theaceofspades31]

I'll stick to mj

[@tcorcreative]

I'll continue to use MJ but would love it if I could use it with its own UI

[@gerryjunpyo2462]

UI??

[@tcorcreative]

@@gerryjunpyo2462i was referring to the User interface(UI) or visual interface.

[@Sup3riorr]

Leonardo is quite bullshit just because of the tokens, reminds me of them shit games on smartphones pay to win. Using up to 2000 images my ass, once u use alchemy and other stuff suddenly you on 8 tokens for 1 image. 2500tokens divided on 40 lets say 4 images each costing 10 tokens = 64ish images..... just bullshit

[@jonathanedwardgibson]

Don’t see your bias for Leonardo rendering {architecture example} over Midjorney. Neither addressed the prompts you gave, like happy people, but you gloss over all sorts of these details and hand ‘rendering’ to Leonardo for your own reasons.
Yawn.