What each week held
Withheld: something was read in 1 week of the last 12. A series needs at least 2 to say anything a single reading does not.
What it declares
- paid commercial license
- user ownership of output (paid tier)
- Stealth/private mode
- high-resolution upscaling
- aspect ratio control
- unlimited Relax Mode generation
- multiple prompt variations per generation
As the company’s own pages describe it. Forge did not test any of these.
What users raised
- no free trial/tier for commercial use
- outputs public by default unless paying extra
- commercial license does not equal copyright protection
- risk of trademark/character infringement in outputs
- free competitors (ChatGPT, Gemini) now adequate for casual use
- weak prompt-text accuracy relative to alternatives
Themes people raised in public. A complaint is somebody’s opinion, not a measurement of the product.
Everything on record
5 observed claims. Newest first; the tag on each row is what kind of claim you are reading.
- PRODUCTCOMPANY CLAIMSep 30, 2026
On Leonardo.Ai, free-tier users' generated images are public and owned by Leonardo.Ai as between the user and the platform, while paid subscribers retain ownership but grant Leonardo a license to use published content and make it available to other users.
Highlights a two-tier ownership model that buyers comparing commercial-rights terms must account for
leonardo.ai/news/can-you-use-ai-generated-images-commercially - COMPLAINTUSER OPINIONSep 30, 2026
Commentary on Midjourney in 2026 notes that with free, genuinely good image generation now inside ChatGPT and Gemini, casual users no longer need to pay for Midjourney, since the platform lacks a free tier and has weaknesses in text and prompt precision.
Signals competitive pressure on Midjourney's paid-only commercial-rights model from free alternatives
academy.techpresso.co/reviews/is-midjourney-worth-it - PRICINGFACTSep 30, 2026
Midjourney's paid tiers range from a $10/month Basic plan up to a $120/month Mega plan, with the $30 Standard plan including unlimited Relax Mode generation, and commercial use rights require at least the paid Basic tier since the platform has no free trial.
Sets the cost floor for anyone seeking commercial rights via Midjourney specifically
www.myarchitectai.com/blog/midjourney-pricing - PRODUCTCOMPANY CLAIMSep 30, 2026
Midjourney offers commercial usage rights only after purchasing a paid subscription or commercial license, and grants users ownership of generated images under these commercial licenses for full use in commercial projects.
Free-tier or trial users of Midjourney cannot legally use outputs commercially
vidpros.com/ai-platforms-rights/ - DISCOURSEFACTSep 30, 2026
Under current US law, purely AI-generated images are not copyrighted because the Copyright Office requires human authorship; a platform's commercial license is a contractual permission separate from copyright, meaning raw machine output can enter the public domain and be copied by others despite a platform granting you usage rights.
Buyers assuming a 'commercial license' equals exclusive ownership are exposed to competitors reusing the same raw output
www.pixelbin.io/blog/can-you-use-ai-generated-images-commercially
A record of what Forge read in public about Commercial rights to generated images — its own pages and what people wrote about it. Nothing here is a test of the product, a ranking or a score, and Forge has no relationship with this company.