ComfyUI

The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI and backend.

This ui will let you design and execute advanced stable diffusion pipelines using a graph/nodes/flowchart based interface. For some workflow examples and see what ComfyUI can do you can check out:

ComfyUI Examples

Installing ComfyUI

Features

• Nodes/graph/flowchart interface to experiment and create complex Stable Diffusion workflows without needing to code anything.
• Image Models
  • SD1.x, SD2.x,
  • SDXL, SDXL Turbo
  • Stable Cascade
  • SD3 and SD3.5
  • Pixart Alpha and Sigma
  • AuraFlow
  • HunyuanDiT
  • Flux
• Video Models
  • Stable Video Diffusion
  • Mochi
  • LTX-Video
  • Hunyuan Video
• Stable Audio
• Asynchronous Queue system
• Many optimizations: Only re-executes the parts of the workflow that changes between executions.
• Smart memory management: can automatically run models on GPUs with as low as 1GB vram.
• Works even if you don't have a GPU with: --cpu (slow)
• Can load ckpt, safetensors and diffusers models/checkpoints. Standalone VAEs and CLIP models.
• Embeddings/Textual inversion
• Loras (regular, locon and loha)
• Hypernetworks
• Loading full workflows (with seeds) from generated PNG, WebP and FLAC files.
• Saving/Loading workflows as Json files.
• Nodes interface can be used to create complex workflows like one for Hires fix or much more advanced ones.
• Area Composition
• Inpainting with both regular and inpainting models.
• ControlNet and T2I-Adapter
• Upscale Models (ESRGAN, ESRGAN variants, SwinIR, Swin2SR, etc...)
• unCLIP Models
• GLIGEN
• Model Merging
• LCM models and Loras
• Latent previews with TAESD
• Starts up very fast.
• Works fully offline: will never download anything.
• Config file to set the search paths for models.

Workflow examples can be found on the Examples page

Shortcuts

Keybind	Explanation
Ctrl + Enter	Queue up current graph for generation
Ctrl + Shift + Enter	Queue up current graph as first for generation
Ctrl + Alt + Enter	Cancel current generation
Ctrl + Z/Ctrl + Y	Undo/Redo
Ctrl + S	Save workflow
Ctrl + O	Load workflow
Ctrl + A	Select all nodes
Alt + C	Collapse/uncollapse selected nodes
Ctrl + M	Mute/unmute selected nodes
Ctrl + B	Bypass selected nodes (acts like the node was removed from the graph and the wires reconnected through)
Delete/Backspace	Delete selected nodes
Ctrl + Backspace	Delete the current graph
Space	Move the canvas around when held and moving the cursor
Ctrl/Shift + Click	Add clicked node to selection
Ctrl + C/Ctrl + V	Copy and paste selected nodes (without maintaining connections to outputs of unselected nodes)
Ctrl + C/Ctrl + Shift + V	Copy and paste selected nodes (maintaining connections from outputs of unselected nodes to inputs of pasted nodes)
Shift + Drag	Move multiple selected nodes at the same time
Ctrl + D	Load default graph
Alt + +	Canvas Zoom in
Alt + -	Canvas Zoom out
Ctrl + Shift + LMB + Vertical drag	Canvas Zoom in/out
P	Pin/Unpin selected nodes
Ctrl + G	Group selected nodes
Q	Toggle visibility of the queue
H	Toggle visibility of history
R	Refresh graph
F	Show/Hide menu
.	Fit view to selection (Whole graph when nothing is selected)
Double-Click LMB	Open node quick search palette
Shift + Drag	Move multiple wires at once
Ctrl + Alt + LMB	Disconnect all wires from clicked slot

Ctrl can also be replaced with Cmd instead for macOS users

Installing

Windows

There is a portable standalone build for Windows that should work for running on Nvidia GPUs or for running on your CPU only on the releases page.

Direct link to download

Simply download, extract with 7-Zip and run. Make sure you put your Stable Diffusion checkpoints/models (the huge ckpt/safetensors files) in: ComfyUI\models\checkpoints

If you have trouble extracting it, right click the file -> properties -> unblock

How do I share models between another UI and ComfyUI?

See the Config file to set the search paths for models. In the standalone windows build you can find this file in the ComfyUI directory. Rename this file to extra_model_paths.yaml and edit it with your favorite text editor.

Jupyter Notebook

To run it on services like paperspace, kaggle or colab you can use my Jupyter Notebook

Manual Install (Windows, Linux)

Note that some dependencies do not yet support python 3.13 so using 3.12 is recommended.

Git clone this repo.

Put your SD checkpoints (the huge ckpt/safetensors files) in: models/checkpoints

Put your VAE in: models/vae

AMD GPUs (Linux only)

AMD users can install rocm and pytorch with pip if you don't have it already installed, this is the command to install the stable version:

pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm6.2

This is the command to install the nightly with ROCm 6.2 which might have some performance improvements:

pip install --pre torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/rocm6.2.4

Intel GPUs (Windows and Linux)

(Option 1) Intel Arc GPU users can install native PyTorch with torch.xpu support using pip (currently available in PyTorch nightly builds). More information can be found here

1. To install PyTorch nightly, use the following command:

pip install --pre torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/xpu

2. Launch ComfyUI by running python main.py

(Option 2) Alternatively, Intel GPUs supported by Intel Extension for PyTorch (IPEX) can leverage IPEX for improved performance.

1. For Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics utilizing IPEX, create a conda environment and use the commands below:

conda install libuv
pip install torch==2.3.1.post0+cxx11.abi torchvision==0.18.1.post0+cxx11.abi torchaudio==2.3.1.post0+cxx11.abi intel-extension-for-pytorch==2.3.110.post0+xpu --extra-index-url https://pytorch-extension.intel.com/release-whl/stable/xpu/us/ --extra-index-url https://pytorch-extension.intel.com/release-whl/stable/xpu/cn/

For other supported Intel GPUs with IPEX, visit Installation for more information.

Additional discussion and help can be found here.

NVIDIA

Nvidia users should install stable pytorch using this command:

pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu124

This is the command to install pytorch nightly instead which might have performance improvements:

pip install --pre torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cu124

Troubleshooting

If you get the "Torch not compiled with CUDA enabled" error, uninstall torch with:

pip uninstall torch

And install it again with the command above.

Dependencies

Install the dependencies by opening your terminal inside the ComfyUI folder and:

pip install -r requirements.txt

After this you should have everything installed and can proceed to running ComfyUI.

Others:

Apple Mac silicon

You can install ComfyUI in Apple Mac silicon (M1 or M2) with any recent macOS version.

1. Install pytorch nightly. For instructions, read the Accelerated PyTorch training on Mac Apple Developer guide (make sure to install the latest pytorch nightly).
2. Follow the ComfyUI manual installation instructions for Windows and Linux.
3. Install the ComfyUI dependencies. If you have another Stable Diffusion UI you might be able to reuse the dependencies.
4. Launch ComfyUI by running python main.py

Note: Remember to add your models, VAE, LoRAs etc. to the corresponding Comfy folders, as discussed in ComfyUI manual installation.

DirectML (AMD Cards on Windows)

pip install torch-directml Then you can launch ComfyUI with: python main.py --directml

Running

python main.py

For AMD cards not officially supported by ROCm

Try running it with this command if you have issues:

For 6700, 6600 and maybe other RDNA2 or older: HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0 python main.py

For AMD 7600 and maybe other RDNA3 cards: HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=11.0.0 python main.py

AMD ROCm Tips

You can enable experimental memory efficient attention on pytorch 2.5 in ComfyUI on RDNA3 and potentially other AMD GPUs using this command:

TORCH_ROCM_AOTRITON_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL=1 python main.py --use-pytorch-cross-attention

You can also try setting this env variable PYTORCH_TUNABLEOP_ENABLED=1 which might speed things up at the cost of a very slow initial run.

Notes

Only parts of the graph that have an output with all the correct inputs will be executed.

Only parts of the graph that change from each execution to the next will be executed, if you submit the same graph twice only the first will be executed. If you change the last part of the graph only the part you changed and the part that depends on it will be executed.

Dragging a generated png on the webpage or loading one will give you the full workflow including seeds that were used to create it.

You can use () to change emphasis of a word or phrase like: (good code:1.2) or (bad code:0.8). The default emphasis for () is 1.1. To use () characters in your actual prompt escape them like \( or \).

You can use {day|night}, for wildcard/dynamic prompts. With this syntax "{wild|card|test}" will be randomly replaced by either "wild", "card" or "test" by the frontend every time you queue the prompt. To use {} characters in your actual prompt escape them like: \{ or \}.

Dynamic prompts also support C-style comments, like // comment or /* comment */.

To use a textual inversion concepts/embeddings in a text prompt put them in the models/embeddings directory and use them in the CLIPTextEncode node like this (you can omit the .pt extension):

embedding:embedding_filename.pt

How to show high-quality previews?

Use --preview-method auto to enable previews.

The default installation includes a fast latent preview method that's low-resolution. To enable higher-quality previews with TAESD, download the taesd_decoder.pth, taesdxl_decoder.pth, taesd3_decoder.pth and taef1_decoder.pth and place them in the models/vae_approx folder. Once they're installed, restart ComfyUI and launch it with --preview-method taesd to enable high-quality previews.

How to use TLS/SSL?

Generate a self-signed certificate (not appropriate for shared/production use) and key by running the command: openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem -sha256 -days 3650 -nodes -subj "/C=XX/ST=StateName/L=CityName/O=CompanyName/OU=CompanySectionName/CN=CommonNameOrHostname"

Use --tls-keyfile key.pem --tls-certfile cert.pem to enable TLS/SSL, the app will now be accessible with https://... instead of http://....

Note: Windows users can use alexisrolland/docker-openssl or one of the 3rd party binary distributions to run the command example above.

If you use a container, note that the volume mount -v can be a relative path so ... -v ".\:/openssl-certs" ... would create the key & cert files in the current directory of your command prompt or powershell terminal.

Support and dev channel

Matrix space: #comfyui_space:matrix.org (it's like discord but open source).

See also: https://www.comfy.org/

Frontend Development

As of August 15, 2024, we have transitioned to a new frontend, which is now hosted in a separate repository: ComfyUI Frontend. This repository now hosts the compiled JS (from TS/Vue) under the web/ directory.

Reporting Issues and Requesting Features

For any bugs, issues, or feature requests related to the frontend, please use the ComfyUI Frontend repository. This will help us manage and address frontend-specific concerns more efficiently.

Using the Latest Frontend

The new frontend is now the default for ComfyUI. However, please note:

1. The frontend in the main ComfyUI repository is updated weekly.
2. Daily releases are available in the separate frontend repository.

To use the most up-to-date frontend version:

1. For the latest daily release, launch ComfyUI with this command line argument:

   --front-end-version Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_frontend@latest
   

2. For a specific version, replace latest with the desired version number:

   --front-end-version Comfy-Org/[email protected]
   

This approach allows you to easily switch between the stable weekly release and the cutting-edge daily updates, or even specific versions for testing purposes.

Accessing the Legacy Frontend

If you need to use the legacy frontend for any reason, you can access it using the following command line argument:

--front-end-version Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_legacy_frontend@latest

This will use a snapshot of the legacy frontend preserved in the ComfyUI Legacy Frontend repository.

QA

Which GPU should I buy for this?

See this page for some recommendations