AI Image Prompt Extractor

Extract the generative AI prompt from any image. Reverse-engineer Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and Flux prompts, paste an image and get a working prompt instantly.

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Needs the internet: the image is sent to our AI endpoint for analysis. Nothing is stored after the request.

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What an image-to-prompt extractor actually does

An AI image prompt extractor reads a picture and writes the text prompt most likely to recreate it. Paste any AI-generated image (or a photo you want to match the style of) and the tool analyses its subject, style, lighting, colour and composition, then hands you a ready-to-use prompt for Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E or Flux, no signup, and the image is never stored.

This tool does not read a hidden 'original prompt' out of the file, most AI images do not carry one. Instead it looks at what the image shows, its subject, art style, lens and lighting, colour palette, mood and composition, and reconstructs a natural-language prompt that describes those traits. That reconstructed prompt is what you feed back into an image generator to produce a picture in the same style. It is the fastest way to turn 'I love how this looks' into a prompt you can actually reuse.

Features

  • AI-generation detection and confidence score
  • Style, composition, and lighting analysis
  • Balanced, Detailed, and Creative prompt variants
  • Bento-grid visual metadata breakdown
  • Reads the exact prompt, negative prompt and settings saved in Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI, NovelAI, InvokeAI and Midjourney files

How to use AI Image Prompt Extractor

  1. 1

    Add your image

    Paste, drag, or upload the AI image (or reference photo) you want a prompt for. Analysis runs on the visual content, so any format works.

  2. 2

    Read the style breakdown

    The tool reports the detected subject, art style, lighting, colour palette and composition, plus a confidence score for whether the image was AI-generated.

  3. 3

    Pick a prompt variant

    Copy the Balanced, Detailed, or Creative prompt depending on how closely you want to match the original versus explore new directions.

  4. 4

    Generate and refine

    Paste the prompt into Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E or Flux, then adjust a word or two and re-run until the result matches what you had in mind.

Common use cases

  • Recreating an AI image you liked but have no prompt for
  • Matching one consistent style across a whole series of images
  • Porting a Midjourney look over to Stable Diffusion, Flux or DALL-E
  • Learning prompt vocabulary by reverse-engineering images you admire

Detailed guide

Recreate a Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E or Flux image

You get three prompt variants, Balanced, Detailed and Creative, so you can trade fidelity against room to experiment. The Detailed variant packs in style, lighting and camera cues for a close match; the Creative variant loosens the description so the generator can surprise you. The wording works across Midjourney v6, Stable Diffusion XL, DALL-E 3 and Flux; you may tweak a few tokens for each model's syntax, but the core description carries over.

Learn prompt-writing by reverse example

Seeing which words the extractor chose, 'volumetric lighting', 'shallow depth of field', 'muted earth tones', teaches you the vocabulary that drives a look. Run it on a handful of images you admire and you quickly build an instinct for the phrasing that separates a flat result from a striking one.

What it can and can't recover

It depends on the file. Many Stable Diffusion (A1111, Forge), ComfyUI, NovelAI, InvokeAI and Midjourney downloads save the original prompt inside the PNG or JPEG; when that metadata is present the extractor shows the exact prompt, negative prompt, seed, sampler and model, read in your browser. Most social sites strip it on upload, so for those images the prompt is inferred from what's visible: expect a strong stylistic match, typically 70-90% for recreating the style, not the exact string the author typed, and no seed or sampler settings. Treat a reconstructed prompt as an excellent starting point to refine.

Frequently asked questions

How do I find the prompt used to generate an AI image?

Upload the AI image to this tool. The Gemini Vision AI analyzes the visual content, style, lighting, and composition to reverse-engineer a working prompt. You get three variants: Balanced, Detailed, and Creative.

Does this work for Midjourney images?

Yes. The tool analyzes the image's visual characteristics (style, lighting, composition, color palette, subject) and generates a prompt optimized for Midjourney v6, Stable Diffusion XL, DALL-E 3, and Flux.

Can I detect if an image was made with AI?

Yes. The tool performs a forensic analysis looking for AI artifacts: unnatural lighting, too-perfect symmetry, pattern repetition, and other statistical signatures. It returns a confidence percentage of AI generation.

How accurate are the extracted prompts?

If the image still carries its generation metadata (common for Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI, NovelAI and Midjourney PNG downloads), you get the exact original prompt and settings. Otherwise the prompt is reconstructed from visual analysis, which is typically 70-90% accurate for recreating the style, with minor variations between generations.

Is my image uploaded to a server?

The image is sent to Google's Gemini Vision API for analysis (Gemini Flash model). Google processes it transiently, images are not stored or used for training. The analysis result is returned and displayed locally.

What AI image generators work with the extracted prompts?

The extracted prompts are optimized for: Midjourney v6, Stable Diffusion XL, DALL-E 3 (via ChatGPT or API), and Flux. Minor prompt adjustments may be needed for different platforms due to their unique prompt syntax.

How do I get the prompt from an AI-generated image?

Upload the image and the tool analyses its subject, style, lighting and composition to reconstruct a text prompt you can reuse in Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E or Flux. The analysis is an interpretation, not the exact original prompt.

Which AI image models does the extracted prompt work with?

The generated prompt is written to work across Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E and Flux; you may tweak wording per model, but the description captures the key elements to recreate the look.

Can I use the extracted prompt commercially?

The prompt itself is just text you can reuse freely. Whether the resulting image is commercially usable depends on the terms of the generator you run it through, not on this tool.

Does it work on photos that aren't AI-generated?

Yes: it will still describe the style, lighting, and composition, which is useful if you want to generate an AI image in the style of a real photograph.

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