Does Midjourney Add a Watermark?
Midjourney is the odd one out among the big AI image generators: it has never stamped a visible watermark on renders — no corner glyph, no badge, on any plan from Basic to Mega. What it does embed is invisible IPTC metadata (your prompt, username and an AI-media tag). With AI-transparency laws now in force, that watermark-free status is under real pressure and could change with one release — the status above is kept current. Meanwhile, if a Midjourney render picked up a visible mark elsewhere in your workflow — an overlay from an editing app, a template badge, added text — the inpainting tool below removes it.
Watermark status — updated August 11, 2026
Midjourney applies no visible watermark on any plan tier — renders are clean pixels with only invisible IPTC metadata embedded. California's AI transparency law (operative August 2, 2026) puts Midjourney under pressure to add provenance marks, so this can change; we update this page when it does.
How to remove a visible mark from a Midjourney render
Confirm where the mark came from
Midjourney itself doesn't stamp renders (see the status box) — a visible mark was added by another app in your pipeline, and that's what you'll remove.
Brush the overlay
Paint over the badge, logo or text sitting on your render, including any drop shadow, so no ghost remains.
Download the clean render
Export the image with the marked region reconstructed at the original resolution.
Good to know
Midjourney itself ships clean pixels — a visible mark on a render came from somewhere else in your pipeline. The status box above is updated if Midjourney ever starts stamping output.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Midjourney watermark its images?
Not visibly. On every plan tier the rendered pixels are clean — there's no logo or badge to remove. Midjourney does embed invisible IPTC metadata (prompt, username, an AI-generated-media tag), which lives in the file's metadata, not the image.
Will Midjourney add a visible watermark?
It's under real regulatory pressure to: California's AI transparency law became operative on August 2, 2026 and Midjourney currently ships no compliant provenance mark. If that changes with a release, the status box on this page is updated and the removal steps will apply to the new mark.
Then why does my Midjourney image have a mark on it?
It came from somewhere downstream — an editor's trial overlay, a template badge, a social export tag, or text someone added. Whatever stamped it, the removal is the same: brush the mark and the region is rebuilt.
Does this tool touch the invisible IPTC metadata?
No. It edits visible pixels only — metadata and provenance signals are a separate layer it does not target, the same stance our other AI pages take on SynthID and C2PA.
Is removal okay on Midjourney renders?
Clean up renders you generated or are licensed to use. Platforms may still expect AI-generated images to be disclosed as such, whatever the pixels show.
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Automate it with the API
Send a file, get a job id back, poll for the clean result. Same AI engine as the web tool, in two requests.
curl -X POST https://api.watermarkremoverai.com/v1/watermark/remove-image/ \
-H "Authorization: YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
-F "files=@photo.jpg" \
-F "auto_detect=true"
# => {"uuid": "..."}
# Poll for the result
curl -X POST https://api.watermarkremoverai.com/v1/watermark/results/ \
-d "uuid=..."
import requests
API = "https://api.watermarkremoverai.com/v1/watermark"
headers = {"Authorization": "YOUR_API_TOKEN"}
with open("photo.jpg", "rb") as f:
job = requests.post(API + "/remove-image/",
headers=headers,
files={"files": f},
data={"auto_detect": "true"}).json()
result = requests.post(API + "/results/",
data={"uuid": job["uuid"]}).json()
print(result)
Prefer a manual mask? Send mask=@mask.png instead of auto_detect, or pass mask_x / mask_y / mask_width / mask_height (add mask_is_percentage=true for percentages). Optional dilation=5 grows the masked area.
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Upload, mark the area, and download the clean result. No account needed to try it free.
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