Midjourney is untouched for creative work and I don't think that changes anytime soon. But for "same person looks identical across dozens of outputs" it wasn't designed for that and the alternatives have gotten serious.
Foxy ai: trains on about 3 reference photos, builds personalized model. Strong identity preservation across poses and settings, images and short video. From $14/month. Viral presets useful for batch content without detailed prompting.
Rendernet: facelock for consistency, controlnet for poses. Free tier (10 credits daily), paid from $9/month. More granular control per image, better for deliberate creative direction, slower for pure batch speed.
Stable diffusion locally with dreambooth or lora: quality ceiling for this use case. Maximum control, zero ongoing cost. Needs gpu (12gb+ vram), technical setup, real learning curve.
Leonardo ai: character consistency and lora on paid plans from $10/month. Leans stylized over photorealistic, better for editorial portraits than "real instagram selfie" content.
Flux with IP-adapter: decent face matching without training. Less consistent than dedicated tools but more accessible for quick experiments.
For midjourney users: --cref flag helps for similar poses, drifts fast with angle or lighting changes. If you need true consistency across varied content, trained model approach is the reliable path forward.
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