What happens to a Midjourney account when someone dies
Midjourney publishes no process specific to a deceased person's account; a written request goes in through Midjourney's support ticket system.
Under Midjourney's terms, a Midjourney account closes when the holder dies and nothing in it passes to anyone.
Midjourney publishes no process specific to a deceased person's account; a written request goes in through Midjourney's support ticket system. The request takes 4 documents.
What to do
- •The death certificate
- •Letters testamentary, letters of administration or a court order
- •Government-issued photo ID of the requester
- •An export of the generated image and video archive, which the subscriber owns
- •The subscription and payment records for the estate inventory
- •A hold on deletion while the estate is being opened
- •Deletion cancels the subscription immediately.
- •The request can be reversed within 7 days.
- •The account and its data are deleted within 30 days and cannot be restored.
Required Documents
- Death certificate
- Letters testamentary, letters of administration or a court order
- Government-issued photo ID of the requester
- The account email address or Midjourney ID
What Midjourney, Inc.'s terms say at death
- The terms
“Just a heads-up, your Midjourney subscription and image history can't be transferred. In some cases, we might be able to offer a credit transfer if you need to subscribe using a different account. However, your image gallery, image count history, and other account-specific details won't move with you.”1
What Midjourney, Inc. says happens6
- Who owns the asset
Under the Terms of Service, the subscriber owns all Assets they create to the fullest extent possible under applicable law, and that ownership persists after a downgrade or cancellation; an upscale of another user's image remains owned by the original creator.2
The Terms grant Midjourney a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free copyright license over the Content input into the Services and the Assets produced, which survives termination, so the estate's ownership of the assets does not displace Midjourney's license.2
A company, or an employee of a company, with more than $1,000,000 USD a year in revenue must be subscribed to a Pro or Mega plan to own the Assets it creates.3
- Subscriptions and billing
Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle, and subscription features, including any remaining Fast time, stay available until then.4
Cancelling does not delete the generated images or the account history, and private images stay private.4
- Deletion and data retention
An account deletion started from the Manage Subscription page cancels the subscription immediately, and the account and its associated data are deleted within 30 days of the request, after which the account cannot be restored.5, 6
- Restoring a deleted account
A deletion request opens a 7-day window in which it can be reversed.5
- Balances, payouts and refunds
A refund applies only to an account that has used less than 20 GPU minutes over its lifetime, counting Fast, Turbo and Relax time, and not to an account suspended or terminated for a Terms or Community Guidelines violation; the option appears at cancellation.7
A refund, where the account qualifies, can take up to 10 business days to reach the bank, with a confirmation email within a few minutes.7
- How requests are reviewed
A survivor can write to Midjourney support to ask, as a discretionary matter, for an export of the archive, the subscription and purchase records, and a hold on purging the account while the estate is opened; Midjourney promises no result.2
Not in Midjourney's published guidance11
- How long a request takes
- A process for a deceased account holder
- A form for estate requests
- Memorialization
- A mailing address for a written request
- A phone number for this
- A complete list of the documents to send
- Whether a certified death certificate is required
- Court orders and legal process
- A hold on deletion while an estate is opened
- An escalation path to a legal or estates team
Sources7
- 1.Transferring Your Subscription
- 2.Terms of Service, Version Effective Date: May 27, 2026
- 3.Using Images & Videos Commercially
- 4.Canceling Your Subscription
- 5.Deleting Your Data
- 6.Data Deletion and Privacy FAQ, Last Updated: September 3, 2026
- 7.Requesting a Refund
A written request to Midjourney can ask it to disclose the account’s content, disclose a record of the account’s communications, provide purchase and transaction records for the estate inventory, transfer the accounts to a named family member, preserve the account while the estate is opened and close the account.
Nothing in the account survives the holder, and Midjourney allows no lifetime transfer of it either.
Digital Assets Recovery Letter for Midjourney drafts that request from the estate's details.
Sources
Data sourced from Midjourney, Inc. primary sources (11 pages reviewed). How we research.
Midjourney estate claims
Midjourney Billing Support
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