Dall-E2 vs MidJourney — Same Prompt, Different Results

Jim Clyde Monge
CodeX
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4 min readJun 20, 2022

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OpenAI and MidJourney promotional artworks
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For today’s story, I will be comparing OpenAI’s Dall-E2 and MidJourney AI art generator tool with identical prompts.

I have tried several other art generators out there but these two are the most powerful ones so far. Both are still in closed beta, so if you want to try them out, better get on the waitlist now if you haven’t already.

The comparison that I will be doing here is mainly on the visual quality of the output. It means I won’t take into account the differences in terms of other capabilities. For example, MidJourney is able to generate an image with 1792x1024 while Dall-E2 is stuck at 1024x1024 resolution. Dall-E2 can also take an existing image as an input and generate variations of it, while MidJourney can’t.

Okay, let’s make some art!

Side by Side Comparison

Prompt #1: Animated Pixar movie about two motorcyclists

Animated illustration of two motorcyclists. Generated by Artificial Intelligence.
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At first glance, the obvious difference is the style. Dall-E2 went to something a little more cartoony compared to MidJourney’s. The facial feature on the right though looks a little messed up, so I prefer the one’s from…

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