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the six Ws · specification

W1 Who

Hobbyists, artists and developers building custom Stable Diffusion, video and audio generation pipelines.

W2 What

A node-based graphical interface for building and running Stable Diffusion, video and audio diffusion model workflows.

W3 Where

Self-hosted desktop or server application, runs locally or on a rented GPU cloud instance.

W4 When

First released in 2023 by comfyanonymous, now maintained by Comfy-Org with continuous updates through 2026.

W5 Why

Gives fine-grained visual control over complex multi-model diffusion pipelines that simple text-box UIs cannot express.

W6 With

Requires Python, PyTorch and a CUDA-capable GPU (or CPU/MPS fallback) plus downloaded model checkpoints.

W7 Watch

Open source under GPL-3.0, self-hosted, no credentials required, actively maintained by Comfy-Org, over 120k GitHub stars.

node-basedstable-diffusionworkflow-editorimage-generationvideo-generationself-hosted

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