ComfyUI Migration Guide

If you’re coming to InvokeAI from ComfyUI, welcome! You’ll find things are similar but different - the good news is that you already know how things should work, and it’s just a matter of wiring them up!

Node Granularity

InvokeAI’s nodes tend to be more granular than default nodes in Comfy. This means each node in Invoke will do a specific task, and you might need to use multiple nodes to achieve the same result. The added granularity improves the control you have over your workflows.

Backend Differences

InvokeAI’s backend and ComfyUI’s backend are very different, which means Comfy workflows are not able to be imported directly into InvokeAI. However, we have created a list of popular workflows for you to get started with Nodes in InvokeAI!

Node Equivalents

Finding the right node is the hardest part of switching. Use the categories below to find the InvokeAI equivalents for the ComfyUI nodes you are used to.

Sampling

ComfyUI Node	Invoke Equivalent
KSampler	Denoise Latents
Ksampler Advanced	Denoise Latents

Loaders

ComfyUI Node	Invoke Equivalent
Load Checkpoint	Main Model Loader or SDXL Main Model Loader
Load VAE	VAE Loader
Load Lora	LoRA Loader or SDXL Lora Loader
Load ControlNet Model	ControlNet
Load ControlNet Model (diff)	ControlNet
Load Style Model	Reference Only ControlNet will be coming in a future version of InvokeAI
unCLIPCheckpointLoader	N/A
GLIGENLoader	N/A
Hypernetwork Loader	N/A
Load Upscale Model	Occurs within “Upscale (RealESRGAN)“

Conditioning

ComfyUI Node	Invoke Equivalent
CLIP Text Encode (Prompt)	Compel (Prompt) or SDXL Compel (Prompt)
CLIP Set Last Layer	CLIP Skip
Conditioning (Average)	Use the .blend() feature of prompts
Conditioning (Combine)	N/A
Conditioning (Concat)	See the Prompt Tools Community Node
Conditioning (Set Area)	N/A
Conditioning (Set Mask)	Mask Edge
CLIP Vision Encode	N/A
unCLIPConditioning	N/A
Apply ControlNet	ControlNet
Apply ControlNet (Advanced)	ControlNet

Latent

ComfyUI Node	Invoke Equivalent
VAE Decode	Latents to Image
VAE Encode	Image to Latents
Empty Latent Image	Noise
Upscale Latent	Resize Latents
Upscale Latent By	Scale Latents
Latent Composite	Blend Latents
LatentCompositeMasked	N/A

Image

ComfyUI Node	Invoke Equivalent
Save Image	Image
Preview Image	Current
Load Image	Image
Empty Image	Blank Image
Invert Image	Invert Lerp Image
Batch Images	Link “Image” nodes into an “Image Collection” node
Pad Image for Outpainting	Outpainting is easily accomplished in the Unified Canvas
ImageCompositeMasked	Paste Image
Upscale Image	Resize Image
Upscale Image By	Upscale Image
Upscale Image (using Model)	Upscale Image
ImageBlur	Blur Image
ImageQuantize	N/A
ImageSharpen	N/A
Canny	Canny Processor

Mask

ComfyUI Node	Invoke Equivalent
Load Image (as Mask)	Image
Convert Mask to Image	Image
Convert Image to Mask	Image
SolidMask	N/A
InvertMask	Invert Lerp Image
CropMask	Crop Image
MaskComposite	Combine Mask
FeatherMask	Blur Image

Advanced

ComfyUI Node	Invoke Equivalent
Load CLIP	Main Model Loader or SDXL Main Model Loader
UNETLoader	Main Model Loader or SDXL Main Model Loader
DualCLIPLoader	Main Model Loader or SDXL Main Model Loader
Load Checkpoint	Main Model Loader or SDXL Main Model Loader
ConditioningZeroOut	N/A
ConditioningSetTimestepRange	N/A
CLIPTextEncodeSDXLRefiner	Compel (Prompt) or SDXL Compel (Prompt)
CLIPTextEncodeSDXL	Compel (Prompt) or SDXL Compel (Prompt)
ModelMergeSimple	Model Merging is available in the Model Manager
ModelMergeBlocks	Model Merging is available in the Model Manager
CheckpointSave	Model saving is available in the Model Manager
CLIPMergeSimple	N/A