From cutting-edge video generation to 3D creation, this is your comprehensive guide to the ComfyUI ecosystem.
🎬 Video Gen • 🎭 Face & Portrait • 🎨 Image Magic • 🏗️ 3D Creation • ⚡ Setup
Maintained by: umitkacar | Last Update: November 2024
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| Category | Innovation | Status | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🎬 Video | HunyuanVideo (Tencent) |  |
13B params, 5s videos, 8GB VRAM |
| 🎬 Video | LTX Video (Lightricks) |  |
First real-time DiT (faster than playback!) |
| 🎨 Image | Flux.1 (Black Forest Labs) |  |
Revolutionary quality, day-1 support |
| 🎭 Face | PuLID Flux II |  |
Consistent faces, no model pollution |
| 🏗️ 3D | Trellis |  |
Unified 3D: Meshes, Gaussians, NeRF |
| 🖼️ Removal | BiRefNet |  |
Best background removal (CAAI AIR'24) |
| 📏 Depth | DepthCrafter | |
Consistent long depth sequences |
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No Python setup needed! |
Drag & drop models |
Always stay current |
Custom Node Registry |
graph LR
A[📥 Download Desktop] --> B[🔧 Install Manager]
B --> C[📦 Add Core Nodes]
C --> D[🎬 Try Workflow]
D --> E[🚀 Create Magic!]
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🔴 CRITICAL - Install First! (Click to collapse)
https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI-Manager
✅ Install/update all custom nodes ✅ Automatic dependency resolution ✅ Model browser & downloader ✅ One-click missing node installation
https://github.com/11cafe/comfyui-workspace-manager
✅ Git-like version control for workflows ✅ Organize workflows, models & images ✅ Sync across multiple devices ✅ Workflow history & rollback
| 🖼️ Image Processing | ⚡ Workflow Enhancement | 🎛️ Control & Preprocessing |
|---|---|---|
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Impact Pack • Face detailing • Segmentation • Regional prompting IPAdapter Plus • 37 specialized nodes • FaceID V2 support • Style transfer ComfyUI Essentials • Missing core features • Quality-of-life fixes |
WAS Node Suite • 100+ essential nodes • Image processing • Prompt utilities Efficiency Nodes • Streamlined workflows • Reduced clutter rgthree-comfy • Power Prompt • Fast Groups • Utilities Custom Scripts • UI/UX improvements |
ControlNet Aux • 65+ preprocessors • All control types Portrait Master • Advanced portrait control • Professional results |
| Model | Best For | Params | VRAM | Speed | Quality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 HunyuanVideo | Professional Production | 13B | 8GB+ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| 🥈 LTX Video | Real-time Generation | 13B | 16GB+ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| 🥉 Mochi | Text-to-Video Quality | 10B | 20GB | ⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| 🎯 CogVideoX | Image-to-Video | - | 14GB | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
🔴 HunyuanVideo (Tencent) - CVPR 2025 Highlight
Repository: https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-HunyuanVideoWrapper
- ✨ 13B parameters, DiT architecture
- ✨ Generate 5-second videos (extendable)
- ✨ Native ComfyUI support (December 2024)
- ✨ Custom 3D VAE compression
- Minimum VRAM: 8GB
- Recommended: 16GB+
- Best Quality: 24GB+
✓ Professional video production
✓ Marketing content
✓ Social media videos
✓ Product demonstrations
🟠 LTX Video (Lightricks) - Real-Time Generation
Repository: https://github.com/Lightricks/ComfyUI-LTXVideo
- 🚀 FIRST real-time DiT video model
- 🚀 Generate at 24FPS (768x512)
- 🚀 Faster than playback speed!
- 🚀 Supports up to 60 seconds
| Model | Steps | Speed | Quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard 13B | Normal | Fast | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Distilled | 4-8 only | ⚡⚡⚡ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
- VRAM: 16GB+
- Quantized versions available for 4090/5090
🟡 Mochi (Genmo) - Best Text-to-Video Quality
Repository:
- https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-MochiWrapper
- https://github.com/logtd/ComfyUI-MochiEdit (Video editing)
- 🎨 10B parameters
- 🎨 Best text-to-video quality
- 🎨 Video editing capabilities
- 🎨 AsymmDiT architecture
- VRAM: 20GB (minimum)
- Originally: 4x H100 (100GB) - huge optimization!
🔵 CogVideoX (Tsinghua University) - Best I2V
Repository: https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-CogVideoXWrapper
- 📸 Best image-to-video quality
- 📸 Chinese prompt optimization
- 📸 3D VAE + Expert Transformer
- 📸 Efficient memory usage
- Sampling: 5-6GB
- VAE Decode: 13-14GB (peak)
- With offloading: Works on 8GB cards
| Tool | Purpose | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| VideoHelperSuite | Essential video processing |  |
| AnimateDiff-Evolved | Advanced AnimateDiff features |  |
| LivePortraitKJ | Live portrait animation |  |
graph TD
A[Choose Your Method] --> B{Priority?}
B -->|Speed| C[PuLID]
B -->|Quality| D[InstantID]
B -->|Flexibility| E[IPAdapter FaceID]
C --> F[⚡ <10 seconds]
D --> G[🏆 Best Results]
E --> H[🔧 Most Versatile]
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| 🥇 PuLID | 🥈 InstantID | 🥉 IPAdapter FaceID V2 |
|---|---|---|
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Best for: Lightning-fast results ✨ Features:
⚡ Speed: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🎨 Quality: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💾 VRAM: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
Best for: Maximum quality ✨ Features:
⚡ Speed: ⭐⭐⭐ 🎨 Quality: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💾 VRAM: ⭐⭐ |
Best for: Integration needs ✨ Features:
⚡ Speed: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🎨 Quality: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💾 VRAM: ⭐⭐⭐ |
| Tool | Purpose | Key Feature |
|---|---|---|
| 🎨 Impact Pack | FaceDetailer | Automatic face refinement |
| 🔄 ReActor | Face Swap | Easy face swapping |
| 🎭 FaceFusion | Standalone | Professional face fusion |
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Original Implementation: Multi-Model Integration: |
🎯 Why BiRefNet?
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| Model | Resolution | Use Case |
|---|---|---|
| General | Standard | Everyday use |
| HR | 2048x2048 | High resolution |
| Lite | Fast | Speed priority |
| Portrait | Optimized | Human portraits |
| 🥇 SUPIR - Professional Grade | 🥈 AuraSR - GAN Power |
|---|---|
💎 Features:
📦 Models:
⭐ Rating:
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💎 Features:
⭐ Rating:
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Implementations: |
🎬 Capabilities:
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| Version | License | Commercial Use |
|---|---|---|
| V1 | Open | ✅ Allowed |
| V2 | Restricted | ❌ Non-commercial only |
PowerPaint V2 + BrushNet (2024)
Repository: https://github.com/nullquant/ComfyUI-BrushNet
- 🖌️ BrushNet + PowerPaint integration
- 🖌️ Object removal with SAM
- 🖌️ Convert any SD 1.5 to inpainting model
- 🖌️ Multiple inpainting modes
ControlNet Union - Unified Control (2024)
github.com/XLabs-AI/x-flux-comfyui
7 Control Modes: canny, tile, depth, blur, pose, gray, low quality
Includes ALL control types in ONE model!
- ✅ Massive storage savings
- ✅ Promax: +Tile Variation, Deblur, Super-resolution
Repository: https://github.com/akatz-ai/ComfyUI-DepthCrafter-Nodes
🎯 Revolutionary Features:
- 🎬 Consistent long depth sequences
- 🎬 No optical flow needed
- 🎬 No camera pose required
- 🎬 Video editing & post-production
⚙️ Configurable Parameters:
- Window size: 75-110 (recommended)
- Overlap for longer videos
- CPU offload saves +25% VRAM
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Repositories: |
🎯 Output Formats:
📥 Input: Text or Image prompts |
SLAT Representation (Structured 3D Latents)
- Unified format for all 3D types
- Editable 3D assets
- Scalable & versatile
- Minimum VRAM: 8GB
- Recommended: 16GB+
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
| ComfyUI-3D-Pack | Comprehensive 3D processing (3DGS, NeRF) |
| Apple ml-4m | Multimodal model research |
| 🖥️ Monitoring | ⚙️ Optimization | ✍️ Prompting |
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Crystools Real-time monitoring:
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Use Everywhere
Masquerade
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SDXL Prompt Styler
WD14 Tagger
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Built-in Nodes: FluxGuidance, ModelSamplingFlux
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Features:
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Features:
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Extensions:
- x-flux-comfyui - LoRA & ControlNet integration
| Model | Release | Download |
|---|---|---|
| SD3 Medium | June 2024 | 📥 Download |
| SD3.5 Large | Oct 2024 | 📥 Download |
| SD3.5 Medium | Oct 2024 | 📥 Download |
Repository: https://github.com/Kwai-Kolors/Kolors ComfyUI: https://github.com/MinusZoneAI/ComfyUI-Kolors-MZ
🌟 Features:
- Bilingual excellence (Chinese & English)
- Trained on billions of text-image pairs
- KlingAI project creators
📦 Classic Models (SDXL, SD 1.5, SD 2.x) - Click to expand
| Model | Download |
|---|---|
| SDXL Base | 📥 |
| SDXL Refiner | 📥 |
| DreamShaper Lightning XL | 📥 |
| SDXL Turbo | 📥 |
| Model | Download |
|---|---|
| SD v1.5 | 📥 |
| SD 2.1 (512) | 📥 |
| SD 2.1 (768) | 📥 |
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2024 Updated |
Latest news |
Learn by doing |
Ready to use |
| Resource | Type | Level | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olivio Sarikas | YouTube | All levels | Free |
| ThinkDiffusion | Platform | Beginner-Advanced | Free |
| FastCampus | Course | Comprehensive | $215 |
| Platform | Workflows | Features |
|---|---|---|
| OpenArt Academy | Educational | Structured learning |
| OpenArt Templates | 1000+ | Searchable |
| ComfyWorkflows | Community | Sharing platform |
| RunComfy | 200+ | Curated |
| 🌥️ Comflowy | ⚡ RunComfy |
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Features:
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Features:
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| Rank | Repository | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | ZHO's Workflows |  |
Comprehensive Chinese/English workflows |
| 🥈 | HunyuanVideoWrapper |  |
Latest video generation |
| 🥉 | AdvancedLivePortrait |  |
Advanced portrait animation |
| Resource | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Top 100 ComfyUI | Auto-updated ranking of top repos |
| Awesome ComfyUI | Curated node collection |
🤖 Vision & Language Models
- Florence-2 - Microsoft's vision model
- Florence2 Alt - Alternative implementation
- IF_AI_tools - LLM integration
- VLM nodes - Vision Language Models
✂️ Segmentation & Detection
- Segment Anything - SAM integration
- Depth Anything V2 - Latest depth estimation
🎬 Animation & Motion
- AnimateDiff - Animation generation
- DragDiffusion - Interactive editing
- MusePose - Pose-driven animation
- MimicMotion - Motion transfer
- Hallo - Portrait animation
🔧 Utilities & Integration
- Tooling Nodes - Professional tools
- Inpaint Nodes - Advanced inpainting
- API Tools - API integration
- Blender Integration - 3D workflow
- Krita Integration - Painting software
- Enhanced Sidebar - UI improvement
How to contribute:
- 🍴 Fork this repository
- ➕ Add your resource to appropriate section
- 📝 Include brief, clear description
- ✅ Verify links work
- 🚀 Create pull request
Guidelines:
- ✅ ComfyUI-related only
- ✅ 2024-2025 content preferred
- ✅ Working links required
- ✅ Clear descriptions
- ✅ Proper categorization
Requirements may include:
- Hugging Face account + license agreement
- Civitai account
- Sufficient disk space (10-100GB per model)
- VRAM as specified
| ✅ Commercial Friendly | |
|---|---|
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Always verify license! |
- ComfyUI Official - The original project
- ComfyUI Manager - Official registry
- Awesome ComfyUI - Another great list
- ComfyUI Workflows - Workflow focused
New to ComfyUI? Follow this path:
✅ 1. Download ComfyUI Desktop V1
✅ 2. Install ComfyUI Manager
✅ 3. Watch Olivio Sarikas tutorials
✅ 4. Try official example workflows
✅ 5. Explore OpenArt templates
✅ 6. Join the community!
If this helped you, please star this repo!
It helps others discover these resources.
This is a living document. ComfyUI evolves rapidly - this list is continuously updated with cutting-edge developments.
Questions? Ideas? Contributions? Open an issue or submit a pull request!
Maintained with ❤️ by umitkacar
Last Update: January 2025
This repository is built with modern Python development practices and comprehensive quality controls.
- ✅ 100% Test Coverage - Comprehensive test suite with pytest
- ✅ Type Safety - Full MyPy strict mode compliance
- ✅ Security Audited - pip-audit, bandit, and safety scanning
- ✅ Modern Tooling - Hatch, Ruff, Black, pre-commit hooks
- ✅ CI/CD Ready - Automated testing and quality checks
- ✅ Parallel Testing - pytest-xdist for fast test execution
# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/umitkacar/Awesome-ComfyUI-Beyond.git
cd Awesome-ComfyUI-Beyond
# Install with all development tools
pip install -e ".[dev]"
# Or use Hatch (recommended)
pip install hatch
make install
# Run all checks
make check-allmake test # Run tests
make test-cov # Run tests with coverage report
make test-parallel # Run tests in parallel (16 workers)
make lint # Run linting (Ruff)
make format # Format code (Black)
make type-check # Type checking (MyPy)
make audit # Dependency vulnerability audit
make security # Security scanning (Bandit)
make check-all # Run all quality checks- DEVELOPMENT.md - Complete development environment setup
- CONTRIBUTING.md - Contribution guidelines
- CHANGELOG.md - Version history and changes
- LESSONS-LEARNED.md - Technical decisions and solutions
This repository undergoes comprehensive security auditing:
# Dependency vulnerability scanning
make audit
# Python security code analysis
make security
# All security checks pass ✅Security Status: 🟢 No known vulnerabilities
| Metric | Score | Tool |
|---|---|---|
| Test Coverage | 100% | pytest-cov |
| Type Coverage | 100% | MyPy (strict) |
| Security Score | 100% | bandit + pip-audit |
| Code Quality | A+ | Ruff |
| Documentation | Complete | Comprehensive docs |
Contributions are welcome! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.
MIT License - see LICENSE for details.