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ComfyUI Review 2026 — Best Open-Source AI Image Generation UI

ComfyUI is the professional node-based UI for Stable Diffusion. Supports Flux.1, SDXL, SD3, ControlNet, and 500+ extensions. 60K+ GitHub stars.

ComfyUI Review 2026 — Best Open-Source AI Image Generation UI

ComfyUI lets users connect models, processing steps, parameters, and outputs on a visual node graph. Workflows can be saved, reused, extended with custom nodes, and run locally on supported hardware or through Comfy Cloud.

It is used by artists, developers, VFX teams, advertisers, game studios, and researchers. The local application is free and runs offline, while Comfy Cloud, Partner Nodes, API usage, storage, and some model licenses cost extra.

Features

  • Visual node graph for building image, video, audio, 3D, and text workflows
  • Save and load workflows as JSON
  • Recover workflows and seeds from supported generated media
  • Run locally on Windows, Linux, and macOS
  • Support custom nodes and community workflow templates
  • Partial graph re-execution, queueing, VRAM management, and model offloading
  • Local API for integrating workflows into applications
  • GPL-3.0 open-source license

Use cases

  • Build reusable image-generation workflows without writing application code
  • Create and iterate on video, audio, 3D, or text-generation pipelines
  • Automate batch generation through the local or cloud API
  • Develop custom nodes for specialized models and production tasks
  • Run AI workflows locally without sending core processing to a server

Pros

    Cons

      Latest updates

      • v0.44.0 (v0.44.0)

        Added Patina texture and VEED Dubbing nodes; updated workflow templates.

      • v0.43.0 (v0.43.0)

        Added MOSS-image rope scaling and color-depth controls, plus HeyGen, ClarityAI, and FLUX 3 partner-node updates.

      • v0.42.0 (v0.42.0)

        Added Krea 3 Image and MOSS-image support; removed retired Arrow 1.x models.

      • v0.41.0 (v0.41.0)

        Added ImageSDRToHDR, ReferenceMultiLatent, latent geometry nodes, default-workflow route, and MiniMax-H3 LightVAE/Flux3-image support.

      • v0.40.0 (v0.40.0)

        Adds a local asset export API, camera-info node, standard 3D outputs, video metadata extraction, and prompt metadata on websocket messages.

      Capabilities

      • Edits images — “Built-in tools for inpainting, outpainting, reference conditioning, masks and compositing, model merging, upscaling, frame interpolation, segmentation, depth estimation, and media processing.” source
      • Upscales — “Built-in tools for inpainting, outpainting, reference conditioning, masks and compositing, model merging, upscaling, frame interpolation, segmentation, depth estimation, and media processing.” source
      • Style or character reference — “Built-in tools for inpainting, outpainting, reference conditioning, masks and compositing, model merging, upscaling, frame interpolation, segmentation, depth estimation, and media processing.” source
      • Image to video — “*Based on 5s videos created with the Wan 2.2 Image-to-Video template using default settings (81 frames, 18fps, 640x640, 4-step sampler)” source
      • Commercial use — “All available models can be used for commercial purposes.” source
      • API — “Reusable subgraphs, workflow templates, App Mode, and a local API for integrating workflows into applications.” source

      Get it

      Pricing

      Starting price
      $16/mo
      Prices checked
      2026-10-26

      Free

      Free

      • 5 free runs on real GPUs
      • Free Comfy Agent credits for new users

      Standard

      • $16
      • $192 billed yearly
      • $20 /month
      • 30 minute max workflow runtime
      • Add more credits anytime
      • 4 concurrent agent sessions per workspace
      • 5 API builds
      • 2 deployments
      • Up to 2 workers per deployment

      Creator

      • $28
      • $336 billed yearly
      • $35 /month
      • Import your own models
      • 6 concurrent agent sessions per workspace
      • 5 API builds
      • 2 deployments
      • Up to 2 workers per deployment

      Pro

      • $80
      • $960 billed yearly
      • $100 /month
      • Longer workflow runtime (up to 1 hr)
      • 8 concurrent agent sessions per workspace
      • 10 API builds
      • 5 deployments
      • Up to 10 workers per deployment

      Team

      • $630 /month
      • $7,560 billed yearly
      • $665 /month
      • from $200 to $2,500/month
      • from $200 to $2,500/month
      • Invite up to 50 members
      • Members can run workflows concurrently
      • Shared credit pool for all members
      • Role-based permissions
      • 16 concurrent agent sessions per workspace
      • 40 API builds

      Enterprise

      Price on request

      • Higher API rate limits
      • Advanced security
      • Dedicated support
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