Midjourney's Market Share Is Dropping: Live Data from a Prompt Marketplace (promptbase.com)

PromptBase’s live marketplace sales data — updated weekly and built from real prompt purchases — is showing a clear drop in Midjourney’s share of prompt revenue and usage. Because PromptBase ranks models by actual commercial transactions, this decline is a direct signal of changing buyer preferences among creators who pay for ready-made prompts. The marketplace’s scope (hundreds of thousands of prompts and a large user base) makes its leaderboard a practical barometer of which image-generation models are in commercial demand right now. This shift matters because prompt marketplaces translate directly into where prompt-engineering skills, integrations, and ecosystem investments concentrate. A falling market share for Midjourney could reflect a mix of technical and economic factors — inference cost, output characteristics, licensing and commercial terms, accessibility of open-source alternatives (e.g., Stable Diffusion variants), or newer model releases from other vendors. For ML practitioners and tooling vendors, the takeaway is to monitor demand signals from real sales data, prioritize models that buyers are actually using, and adapt tooling, prompts and business models accordingly as the landscape evolves.