I tested Flux vs Midjourney to see which AI image generator is best — here's the winner

[admin]

Midjourney and Flux are both capable of generating hyperrealistic images of people and so I’ve put the two models head-to-head with 5 complex prompts.

I tested Flux vs Midjourney to see which AI image generator is best — here's the winner : Read more

 

[theOtherTom]

Hi Ryan
What is notable but not pointed out in your article it's that both Flux and Midjourney used the same human as the subject in each of your prompts. This it's because they were trained on the same images. It also means that some consistency can be attained for characters in both. I wonder what the humans who recognise that the model in these images is actually them will think of these generations?

 

[karmamule]

Hi Ryan
What is notable but not pointed out in your article it's that both Flux and Midjourney used the same human as the subject in each of your prompts. This it's because they were trained on the same images. It also means that some consistency can be attained for characters in both. I wonder what the humans who recognise that the model in these images is actually them will think of these generations?

With the exception of the paramedic they look like different people to me in those pics? (Albeit they are similar but in ways that I think are due to good prompt adherence) I used the same prompts in midjourney and got a different set of people.

 

[karmamule]

Thanks for the article! I assume since you're running flux locally that it's flux dev, in which case it is worth mentioning flux pro does take it a notch further. I'm running flux locally in comfyui as well and added a realism LoRA and that also boosts it a bit in my opinion.

I'm also happy to see you mention Ideogram, as that is rapidly becoming my favorite of the bunch if I want a down-to-earth realism. (for example it can be hard to get most generators to make realistic people vs gorgeous models, and Ideogram seems to default to realistic everyday people.) I'm also impressed by Leonardo Phoenix recently and would recommend checking that out if you haven't.

 

[theOtherTom]

With the exception of the paramedic they look like different people to me in those pics? (Albeit they are similar but in ways that I think are due to good prompt adherence) I used the same prompts in midjourney and got a different set of people.

The Gardner lady is wearing the same shirt in both generations and that is not in the prompt. She looks very similar in both. The chef looks the same. Same blue badges. The musician is the same person at different ages, the astronaut is the same person, in one of the pics with a beard - the other sans beard. I have repeated prompts in both and got the same person from both!

 

[theOtherTom]

Oh yes I didn't mention I'm not running them locally. I'm running out on web. Maybe running locally changes the outputs?

 

[kingofpain]

Which version of Flux? Schnell, Dev or Pro?