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ComfyUI
Python2023–2026
Comfy-Org / ComfyUI

ComfyUI

The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface. The fastest local inference engine in the world.

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29Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
146.6KGitHub stars
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What it is

The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface. The fastest local inference engine in the world.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

Highly recommended: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 5:05:26 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year29 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-01-27 08:28:03 UTC to 2026-07-13 08:07:22 UTC.

0369122023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 5 submissions, 7 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 1 submissions, 9 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1019
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
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What Hacker News says

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For runtime, I use ComfyUi [0] which is node based and therefore a bit hard to learn. But you can just look at the examples on their github. Foocus [1] also seems to be popular and a bit more conventional perhaps, though I didn't try it. For models, Flux [2] is pretty good and quite straightforward to use. (In general, you will have a runtime and then you have to get the model weights seperately). Which Flux variant depends on your graphics card, the Flux.1 schnell should work for most decently modern ones. (And the website, civitai.com is a repository for models and other associated tools.) [0] https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI [1] https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus [2] https://civitai.com/models/618692?modelVersionId=699279
In AI model for near-instant image creation on consumer-grade hardware
Didn't believe that anyone would be bridge-burning-happy enough to put this in their official docs, but you're not kidding: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI/wiki/Which-GPU-sho... In retrospect, the fact that Intel and AMD's stock prices both closed slightly up when Microsoft announced the Snapdragon X on Windows 11 was a dead giveaway that the major players knew behind the scenes that it was being released seriously under baked.
In AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU
The non standard licensing puts me off in contributing or using this. It is frustrating how the phrase opensource has been diluted in the AI/ML community. ComfyUI has a GPL license [1] while this project uses this [2]. I honestly don't know where I stand since this is a legal document using non-standard phrasing to describe how the rights around the source code. This is a project that uses a custom license with less rights provided than the ComfyUI project it self-describes as improving. Am not sure the title is reflective of the project. [1] - https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI/blob/master/LICENS... [2] - https://github.com/6174/comflowyspace/blob/main/LICENSE
In ComflowySpace: An open-source version of better ComfyUI
Thank you for the support and the valuable feedback! Sorry about the response time, I haven't expected the incoming volume of requests. * For changing prompt in the middle - I'll take a crack at it this week. It's on top of my post launch list. * Feedback button: Thanks for reporting this. The button was supposed to open default email client to email feedback@recurse.chat * LLaVA model: I'll add more documentation. You are right Llava could not generate images. It can only describe images (similar to GPT-4v). For image generation, it's not supported in the app. While I don't have immediate plans for image generation, check out these projects for local image generation. - https://diffusionbee.com/ - https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI - https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
In Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver
I use Stable Diffusion family models for innovative art products. On a small scale, you have to professionalize ComfyUI’s development. My PR to make it installable and to make a plugin ecosystem that makes sense should not be sitting unmerged (https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI/pull/298). On a medium scale, CLIP is holding you back. I would eagerly buy a 48GB card to accommodate a batch size 1, gradient checkpointed LoRA-trainable model with T5 for conditioning. I want PixArt-a or DeepFloyd/IF with the SDXL dataset and training. I get I can achieve so much with SDXL on 24GB, including just barely a fine tuning, I understand the engineering decisions here, but it’s too weak on prompts. On a large scale, I’m willing to spend a little money up front. In those conditions you can be far more innovative, you don’t have to make everything
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for $0. Shane Carruth didn’t make Primer for $0. I’m sure you’ve seen this movie, you get how astoundingly good it is. But he still spent something. He spent only slightly more than an RTX 6000 Ada. Innovators have budgets. It’s still worth releasing the most powerful possible model for expensive hardware, this is why everyone is talking about Mixtral, but it’s especially true of visual art.
In Stable Code 3B: Coding on the Edge

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