Midjourney support was discontinued on June 24, 2026. See the service notice for details — including how to cancel your subscription or request a prorated refund.

Midjourney V7 image generation is still available through the MiniMax API — see Midjourney V7 via MiniMax for examples and pricing.

Cancel Running Job

October 27, 2025

Table of contents

  1. Request Headers
  2. Path Parameters
  3. Responses
  4. Examples
  5. Try It

Cancel a running job by ID.

Only running jobs can be cancelled:

  • Status must be: created, started, or progress
  • Cannot cancel: completed, failed, or moderated jobs

Job will be marked as failed:

  • Status updated to failed
  • Error message: “Job cancelled by user”
  • Job removed from running jobs list and will not longer returned by GET /jobs

Discord cleanup:

  • The API does not delete the Discord message
  • Message remains in your Midjourney DM (direct messages) channel

https://api.useapi.net/v3/midjourney/jobs/jobid

Request Headers 

Authorization: Bearer {API token}

Path Parameters

  • jobid is required. The job ID to cancel.

Responses

  • 204 No Content

    Job cancelled successfully.

    No Content (empty response body)

    The job status has been updated to failed and removed from running jobs list.

  • 401 Unauthorized

    Invalid API token.

    {
  "error": "Unauthorized"
}

  • 404 Not Found

    Job not found.

    {
  "error": "Job not found"
}

  • 410 Gone

    Job expired (older than 62 days).

    {
  "error": "Job j1023... has expired"
}

Examples 

  • curl -X DELETE \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
     "https://api.useapi.net/v3/midjourney/jobs/j1023141520123456789i-u12345-c1234567890123456789-bot:midjourney"

  • const jobId = 'j1023141520123456789i-u12345-c1234567890123456789-bot:midjourney';

const response = await fetch(
  `https://api.useapi.net/v3/midjourney/jobs/${jobId}`,
  {
    method: 'DELETE',
    headers: {
      'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'
    }
  }
);

if (response.status === 204) {
  console.log('Job cancelled successfully');
} else {
  console.error('Failed to cancel job:', response.status);
}

  • import requests

job_id = 'j1023141520123456789i-u12345-c1234567890123456789-bot:midjourney'

response = requests.delete(
    f'https://api.useapi.net/v3/midjourney/jobs/{job_id}',
    headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'}
)

if response.status_code == 204:
    print('Job cancelled successfully')
else:
    print(f'Failed to cancel job: {response.status_code}')

Try It