Midjourney vs Claude

Even if you own your creations, you give Midjourney an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, display, modify, sublicense, and distribute your inputs and outputs forever. This survives account termination.

Your prompts and creations are generally public and can be remixed by others unless you use paid stealth features. Even then, content shared in places like Discord chatrooms may still be visible to others.

Disputes must go to binding arbitration in Santa Clara County instead of court, and you waive jury trial rights. This usually makes it harder to bring claims in a public court.

Midjourney can modify features, algorithms, pricing, or discontinue the service at any time, and continued use means acceptance of updated terms. This creates uncertainty if you rely on specific tools or policies.

The service is provided as-is, with broad warranty disclaimers, and Midjourney caps its liability to fees paid in the prior 12 months. Users also agree to indemnify the company for third-party claims related to their use.

Midjourney says you own assets you create, which is a significant user benefit compared with some AI services. However, larger companies need a higher-tier plan to keep that ownership.

The privacy policy offers account-based ways to access, delete, correct, restrict, object to processing, and port data for certain regions, with California rights too. That gives users meaningful control over their information.

You can cancel anytime, but Midjourney says you will not get a refund for the current subscription period. That can matter if the service changes, disappoints, or your account is terminated mid-cycle.

Midjourney collects prompts, uploads, IP address, usage data, cookies, and some third-party data, and may share data with service providers, analytics and advertising partners, and in business transfers. This is broader than a minimal-data service.

Midjourney says payment cards are handled by third-party processors and it keeps only payment confirmation. That reduces the amount of sensitive financial data held directly by Midjourney.

If law enforcement requests your personal data, Midjourney says it will promptly notify you and provide a copy unless legally prohibited. That is a useful transparency commitment not all services make.

Your prompts, outputs, and feedback may be used to improve services and train models unless you opt out. Even after opting out, flagged content and reported feedback can still be used for training or safety review.

Users can bring disputes in court, and EEA/Swiss consumers may also file claims in their local courts. That preserves ordinary legal remedies instead of forcing private arbitration.

Anthropic says you retain rights in your submitted content, and it assigns any rights it has in outputs to you. This is unusually favorable compared with services that claim broad ownership over user content.

Deleted conversations are removed from your history immediately and from Anthropic’s back-end within 30 days. This is a concrete and user-friendly retention promise for chat history.

Anthropic expressly says it does not “sell” personal data under applicable privacy laws. It also offers opt-outs for targeted advertising and says it honors global privacy controls.

Anthropic collects not just account and payment details, but also prompts, outputs, support messages, IP address, device data, usage logs, and cookies. That gives the service a detailed picture of your activity and interactions.

Paid plans renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current term. Payments are generally nonrefundable outside legal cancellation rights.

Anthropic may revise the terms and modify, suspend, or discontinue services, usually with 30 days' notice for material changes. This gives it significant flexibility to alter features, pricing, or rules later.

If something goes wrong, Anthropic’s liability is capped at the greater of what you paid in the prior six months or €100, subject to mandatory legal exceptions. That can sharply limit compensation for losses.

Depending on location, users may request access, deletion, correction, portability, restriction, objection, and consent withdrawal. The policy also points to Privacy Settings and a dedicated privacy email for requests.

Anthropic may suspend or terminate access for breaches, legal compliance, security needs, or long inactivity, and it may delete materials tied to your account after termination. Users should not assume indefinite access to stored chats or content.

Personal data may be transferred to the US and other countries, with Anthropic relying on adequacy decisions or standard contractual clauses. This is common, but it means your data may be processed outside your home jurisdiction.