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:

• Nodes/graph/flowchart interface to experiment and create complex Stable Diffusion workflows without needing to code anything.
• Fully supports SD1.x and SD2.x
• Asynchronous Queue system
• Many optimizations: Only re-executes the parts of the workflow that changes between executions.
• Command line option: --lowvram to make it work on GPUs with less than 3GB vram (enabled automatically on GPUs with low 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)
• Loading full workflows (with seeds) from generated PNG 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
• 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

Ctrl can also be replaced with Cmd instead for MacOS users

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.

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

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.

To run it on colab or paperspace you can use my Colab Notebook here: Link to open with google colab

Git clone this repo.

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

Put your VAE in: models/vae

At the time of writing this pytorch has issues with python versions higher than 3.10 so make sure your python/pip versions are 3.10.

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 --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm5.4.2

Nvidia users should install torch and xformers using this command:

pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118 xformers

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.

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.

Intel Arc

Mac/MPS: There is basic support in the code but until someone makes some install instruction you are on your own.

You don't. If you have another UI installed and working with it's own python venv you can use that venv to run ComfyUI. You can open up your favorite terminal and activate it:

source path_to_other_sd_gui/venv/bin/activate

or on Windows:

With Powershell: "path_to_other_sd_gui\venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1"

With cmd.exe: "path_to_other_sd_gui\venv\Scripts\activate.bat"

And then you can use that terminal to run Comfyui without installing any dependencies. Note that the venv folder might be called something else depending on the SD UI.

python main.py

Try running it with this command if you have issues:

HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0 python main.py

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 \}.

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

To get python 3.10 on fedora: dnf install python3.10

Then you can:

python3.10 -m ensurepip

This will let you use: pip3.10 to install all the dependencies.

Make sure you use the regular loaders/Load Checkpoint node to load checkpoints. It will auto pick the right settings depending on your GPU.

You can set this command line setting to disable the upcasting to fp32 in some cross attention operations which will increase your speed. Note that this will very likely give you black images on SD2.x models. If you use xformers this option does not do anything.

--dont-upcast-attention

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

I wanted to learn how Stable Diffusion worked in detail. I also wanted something clean and powerful that would let me experiment with SD without restrictions.

This is for anyone that wants to make complex workflows with SD or that wants to learn more how SD works. The interface follows closely how SD works and the code should be much more simple to understand than other SD UIs.