Comfy
Comfy (Comfy Organization, Inc.) operates ComfyUI, the open-source (GPL-3.0) node-based visual AI workflow engine, and sells a four-tier commercial platform — Comfy Desktop (free), Comfy Cloud ($20–$100/month), Comfy API, and Comfy Enterprise — serving approximately 4 million creators, studios, and enterprises (including Netflix, Apple, Amazon Studios, Nike, Ubisoft) who need inspectable, production-grade control over generative AI pipelines.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2024
- HeadquartersSan Francisco, United States
- Headcount51–100
- GTM typeB2B and B2C
- OfferingSoftware
What Comfy does
Comfy (legal entity Comfy Organization, Inc.) is a San Francisco-headquartered, Delaware-incorporated software company that operates ComfyUI, the leading open-source (GPL-3.0) node-based engine for designing, executing, and inspecting visual AI workflows. Founded in January 2023 from a single open-source developer in Quebec City, the company sells a four-tier commercial platform on top of the open core: Comfy Desktop (free, local), Comfy Cloud (browser-based hosted GPU runtime priced $20–$100/month plus Enterprise), Comfy API (REST + WebSocket endpoints for programmatic execution), and Comfy Enterprise (dedicated Blackwell RTX 6000 Pro compute, SSO/SCIM, custom SLAs). Its core technology exposes every model, parameter, and processing step as connected nodes on an infinite canvas, with the same workflow file executable locally, in Cloud, or as a production API, and it aggregates roughly 900 pre-installed models and 60,000+ community-contributed nodes from 5,000+ extensions.
Comfy's go-to-market is product-led and community-led: the free Desktop product and 118,000-star GitHub repository drive top-of-funnel adoption, and users convert to paid Cloud subscriptions or quote-based Enterprise contracts. Revenue is generated through recurring monthly subscriptions (Standard $20, Creator $35, Pro $100), usage-based pay-as-you-go billing for proprietary Partner Node APIs (Google Nano Banana/Veo 3, ByteDance Seedance/Seedream, xAI Grok, OpenAI Sora 2, Kling, Runway, Luma, ElevenLabs, Ideogram, Krea, Vidu, PixVerse), prepaid credit top-ups, and Enterprise agreements. A 30% recurring affiliate program and downstream platform resellers (OpenArt, Fal) extend distribution. The company has approximately 4 million users (per a partner announcement) and showcases named enterprise customers including Amazon Studios, Apple, Autodesk, Harman, HP, Lucid, Netflix, Nike, Pixomondo, Tencent, and Ubisoft.
Comfy has raised approximately $66M across 2025–2026 from Craft Ventures (lead on the most recent $30M round), Pace Capital, Abstract, Chemistry, TruArrow Partners, and Essence, and co-founded the Open Model Initiative under the Linux Foundation. The company employs 11–50 people (per firmographic data) with 20+ open roles, is led by co-founder and CEO Yoland Yan alongside co-founder Robin Huang, and is GDPR/CCPA/UK-GDPR compliant.
Comfy firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Comfy
- Legal name
- Comfy Organization, Inc.
- Website
- https://www.comfy.org
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2024
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 51–100 employees
- Short description
- Comfy (Comfy Organization, Inc.) operates ComfyUI, the open-source (GPL-3.0) node-based visual AI workflow engine, and sells a four-tier commercial platform — Comfy Desktop (free), Comfy Cloud ($20–$100/month), Comfy API, and Comfy Enterprise — serving approximately 4 million creators, studios, and enterprises (including Netflix, Apple, Amazon Studios, Nike, Ubisoft) who need inspectable, production-grade control over generative AI pipelines.
- Ownership category
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Comfy industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Visual AI Workflow Software
- NAICS
- Software Publishers (5132), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)
- SIC
- Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)
- akta.pro primary industry
- AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- AI Compute Virtualization & Scheduling (GPU virtualization, cluster schedulers) (HDAAAAAG)
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Where Comfy is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- San Francisco
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Markets served
Comfy business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B and B2C
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations
Revenue model
- Comfy Cloud subscriptions: Recurring monthly subscriptions for Standard ($20/mo, 4,200 credits), Creator ($35/mo, 7,400 credits), and Pro ($100/mo, 21,100 credits) tiers, each with monthly credit allocation, top-up availability, and concurrent API workflow limits by tier. Enterprise tier is quote-based.
- Pay-as-you-go Partner Nodes: Usage-based billing for proprietary third-party model APIs (Nano Banana, Grok, Kling, Runway, Luma, ElevenLabs, Stable Audio, etc.) routed through Comfy. Each Partner Node has its own credit cost set by the API provider; Comfy matches provider pricing and bills through its credit balance, usable across Cloud and Desktop.
- Prepaid credit top-ups: Customers can purchase additional credits at any time. Top-up credits are valid for one year from purchase and do not roll over; all purchases of Credits are non-refundable.
- Comfy Enterprise contracts: Quote-based enterprise agreements that include dedicated GPU compute, priority queuing, role-based access, SSO/SCIM, custom SLAs, team workspaces, and white-glove onboarding with direct access to Comfy's engineering team.
- Affiliate referral commissions (cost): Comfy pays a 30% recurring commission for 3 months on every Comfy Cloud subscriber referred by an affiliate, with a 60-day cookie window and $100 minimum monthly payout. This is a customer acquisition cost stream rather than a revenue stream.
- Free / open-source Desktop: Comfy Desktop is free forever under GPL-3.0 with no feature gates, trials, or "pro" tier for core functionality. It generates no direct revenue but serves as the top-of-funnel acquisition channel for paid Cloud subscriptions.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hybrid | Monthly | Standard — $20/month for individuals creating workflows, with 4,200 monthly credits (~380 5s videos). |
| Hybrid | Monthly | Creator — $35/month (MOST POPULAR) for small teams building fine-tuned, repeatable workflows, with 7,400 monthly credits (~670 5s videos). |
| Hybrid | Monthly | Pro — $100/month for growing teams running Comfy in production, with 21,100 monthly credits (~1,915 5s videos). |
| Other | Multi-year contract | Enterprise — quote-based for teams running Comfy in production at scale. |
| Freemium | Pay-as-you-go | Desktop — free forever, open source (GPL-3.0). |
| Freemium | Pay-as-you-go | Free cloud trial available; build and edit workflows for free, charged only when GPU runs. |
Go-to-market motion3 records
Distribution channels6 records
Marketing channels12 records
Comfy product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Comfy builds ComfyUI, a node-based open-source engine that lets visual AI professionals chain models, processing steps, and outputs on an infinite canvas to design, run, and deploy advanced generative AI workflows. It commercializes this engine as Comfy Desktop (free local install), Comfy Cloud (hosted GPU service on Blackwell RTX 6000 Pro GPUs), Comfy API (programmatic REST/WebSocket endpoints), and Comfy Enterprise (dedicated compute with SSO/SCIM, role-based access, and custom SLAs), monetized via monthly subscriptions and usage-based credit consumption across both GPU runtime and 20+ third-party Partner Node AI models.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Comfy Desktop: Free, open-source desktop application that runs the full ComfyUI engine on the user's own hardware (Windows, macOS, Linux).
- Comfy Cloud
- Comfy API
- Comfy Enterprise
- Comfy Hub
Products and services
- Comfy Desktop One-click desktop installer that runs the full ComfyUI engine locally on the user's own hardware. Free, open source (GPL-3.0), runs offline after setup, supports 5,000+ community extensions and 60,000+ nodes, integrates with Photoshop, Nuke, Blender, and Houdini, and can run any open-source model (Wan 2.1, Flux, LTX, etc.) or partner model (Nano Banana, Grok).
- Comfy Cloud Officially hosted, browser-based version of ComfyUI running on Blackwell RTX 6000 Pro GPUs (96GB VRAM). Ships with 900+ pre-installed models, supports custom nodes, custom LoRA importing (Creator/Pro), concurrent runs, and the same workflows as Desktop. Backed by credit-based pricing across Standard ($20), Creator ($35), Pro ($100), and Enterprise tiers.
- Comfy API REST + WebSocket API that turns any ComfyUI workflow into a production endpoint. Allows developers to programmatically submit workflow JSON, modify prompts, seeds, images, and parameters, monitor runs in real time over WebSocket, and download outputs. Exposes open-source and partner models (Kling, Luma, Nano Banana, Grok, Runway) through one credit balance, with concurrency limits by subscription tier.
- Comfy Enterprise Enterprise-grade tier of Comfy Cloud offering dedicated GPU compute, priority queuing, flexible deployment, custom SLAs, SSO/SCIM, role-based access, App Mode for non-technical users, data isolation, and bring-your-own-API-key support for any third-party model provider. Comes with white-glove onboarding and direct access to the Comfy engineering team.
Quantifiable outcome
- Comfy Cloud runs on Blackwell RTX 6000 Pro GPUs with 96GB VRAM and can process workflows up to 60 minutes (Pro plan up to 1 hour).
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Companies that use Comfy
Customer profileNamed customers17 records
Segments9 records
Ideal customer profiles4 records
Comfy technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration21 records
AI capability11 records
Feature8 records
Comfy partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
20 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.
- SoniloflagshipSonilo, an AI platform that generates music from video, integrated as a native node within ComfyUI. The integration enables video creators to generate full-length, broadcast-quality soundtracks that automatically match video timing, pacing, and emotional arc in ~20 seconds. Per the announcement, Sonilo becomes the default music generation tool for ComfyUI's 4 million users.
- Open Model Initiative (Linux Foundation)flagshipCo-founded by Comfy Org with Invoke and CivitAI (with support from Wand and Sentient Foundation), the OMI is hosted by the Linux Foundation to develop openly licensed AI models free of deletion clauses and recurring costs. OMI plans to release an alpha model with fine-tuning scripts, governed by a community-led Steering Committee.
- CivitAIcoreIntegration point for users on Creator and Pro plans to import their own LoRAs and fine-tuned models directly from CivitAI to perfect their own style on Comfy Cloud.
- Hugging FacecoreIntegration point for importing LoRAs and fine-tuned models from Hugging Face on Creator and Pro plans. Direct file upload for larger models is on the roadmap.
- Google (Nano Banana / Veo3)flagshipGoogle's Nano Banana, Nano Banana Pro, Nano Banana 2, and Veo3 are exposed as Partner Nodes inside Comfy workflows for image generation, image editing, and image-to-video. Cleared for commercial use through Comfy Cloud.
- ByteDance (Seedance, Seedream)flagshipByteDance's Seedance (1.0 Pro, 1.5 Pro, 2.0) for image-to-video, first-last-frame-to-video, text-to-video, and viral character-swap; Seedream (4.0, 5.0 Lite) for image generation and editing. Exposed as Partner Nodes on Comfy.
- xAI (Grok / Grok Imagine)flagshipGrok image generation, Grok Imagine Image Quality (generation + edit), and Grok Video are exposed as Partner Nodes on Comfy. Also accessible as a model on Comfy Desktop per the Download page.
- Kling (Kuaishou)flagshipKling 3.0, Kling O3, Kling O1, and Kling 2.6 (video generation, motion control, first-last-frame to video, image generation, storytelling with audio) are exposed as Partner Nodes on Comfy.
- IdeogramcoreIdeogram v4 (text-to-image and API variant) is exposed as a Partner Node on Comfy.
- KreacoreKrea 2 (style reference, moodboards, text-to-image) is exposed as a Partner Node on Comfy.
- ElevenLabscoreElevenLabs text-to-speech is exposed as a Partner Node on Comfy for audio generation.
- Stability AI (Stable Audio 3.0)coreStable Audio 3.0 Medium Base workflow is published as an official ComfyUI template for audio generation.
- ViducoreVidu Q3 Audio-Visual Video Generation is exposed as a Partner Node on Comfy.
- PixVersecorePixVerse text-to-video is exposed as a Partner Node on Comfy.
- OpenAI (Sora 2)flagshipSora 2 (text & image to video) is exposed as a Partner Node on Comfy.
- Lightricks (LTX / LTXV)flagshipLTX-2.3, LTX-2, and LTXV models for text-to-video, image-to-video, and image-audio-to-video are first-class supported models in Comfy workflows and the Download page.
- Alibaba (Qwen / Wan / Hunyuan)flagshipWan 2.1 / 2.2 / 2.5 / 2.6, Qwen Image Edit (2509 / 2511 / Turbo), and Hunyuan Video (1.5) text-to-video and image-to-video are featured supported models on Comfy.
- Black Forest Labs (Flux)flagshipFlux.1 Dev, Flux.1 Krea Dev, Flux.1 Kontext, Flux.2 Dev, Flux.2 [Klein] 4B/9B, Flux.2 Pro, Flux.2 [max] are featured supported models on Comfy.
- RunwaycoreRunway is listed as a partner model accessible through the Comfy Cloud API endpoint alongside open-source models.
- LumacoreLuma is listed as a partner model accessible through Comfy Cloud.
Scale indicators9 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights7 records
Comfy competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Runway: Runway provides hosted generative AI tools (text-to-video, image-to-video, image generation) aimed at professional film, VFX, and creative teams — the same enterprise buyer Comfy targets. Runway is also exposed as a Partner Node inside Comfy, reflecting both overlap and complementarity.
- Stability AI: Stability AI develops and distributes open-source generative AI models (Stable Diffusion, Stable Video, Stable Audio) that ComfyUI integrates as native nodes, while also offering its own hosted interfaces and APIs. Overlaps with Comfy on model ecosystem, open-source community, and commercial API access for visual AI.
- Invoke: Invoke offers a node-based visual AI workflow engine (similar in concept to ComfyUI) for Stable Diffusion and other generative models, targeting professional creators and enterprise teams. Co-founds the Linux Foundation Open Model Initiative with Comfy, making it the most direct head-to-head competitor in the node-based visual AI category.
Emerging players
- CivitAI: CivitAI is a community model-and-LoRA sharing platform tightly integrated with ComfyUI as an import source for fine-tuned models, and a co-founder of the Open Model Initiative. Overlaps on community ecosystem, model distribution, and creator audience.
- Fal.ai: Fal.ai operates a developer-focused cloud inference platform for generative AI models with pay-per-use pricing, and is documented as running Comfy underneath for some downstream products. It is a partial overlap — same customer (developers integrating AI into apps), different surface (raw model API versus workflow engine).
- OpenArt: OpenArt is documented as a downstream platform running ComfyUI underneath, offering prompt-based and node-based AI image and video generation to creators. Comparable on target user (creators), but a layer up from Comfy's engine-level offering.
- Replicate: Replicate runs a cloud API marketplace for open-source AI models, including many of the same Stable Diffusion, video, and audio models ComfyUI supports. It targets developers and startups integrating generative AI into products, overlapping with Comfy API on use cases and pricing model.
Others
- Hugging Face: Hugging Face hosts the open-source models and LoRAs that Comfy Cloud users import, and operates an Inference API that competes for some of the same developer workloads. More enabling/adjacent than directly competitive on workflow authoring.
Broad incumbents
- Autodesk (Flame, Maya, 3ds Max): Autodesk ships VFX, animation, and 3D tools (Flame, Maya) used by the same studios (Pixomondo, Amazon Studios, Ubisoft) that are Comfy enterprise customers. A broad incumbent whose AI roadmap overlaps with Comfy's VFX and AAA game-asset use cases.
- Adobe (Firefly / Creative Cloud): Adobe bundles generative AI (Firefly) across Photoshop, Illustrator, and the Creative Cloud workflow that Comfy Desktop plugs into. Competes indirectly for the same creative professional budget and enterprise design pipeline spend, while also being a Comfy customer/integration partner.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses4 records
Competitive moat7 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
Comfy social profiles
Digital presenceComfy compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance7 records
Comfy financial estimates
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Comfy leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles2 records
Comfy funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds3 records
Investors8 records
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Comfy M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
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Frequently asked questions about Comfy
What does Comfy do?
Comfy builds ComfyUI, a node-based open-source engine that lets visual AI professionals chain models, processing steps, and outputs on an infinite canvas to design, run, and deploy advanced generative AI workflows. It commercializes this engine as Comfy Desktop (free local install), Comfy Cloud (hosted GPU service on Blackwell RTX 6000 Pro GPUs), Comfy API (programmatic REST/WebSocket endpoints), and Comfy Enterprise (dedicated compute with SSO/SCIM, role-based access, and custom SLAs), monetized via monthly subscriptions and usage-based credit consumption across both GPU runtime and 20+ third-party Partner Node AI models.
Is Comfy a public or private company?
Comfy is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was Comfy founded?
Comfy was founded in 2024. It employs 51 to 100 people.
Where is Comfy based?
Comfy is headquartered in San Francisco, United States, in the North America region.
How does Comfy make money?
Six revenue lines are on record. Comfy Cloud subscriptions are the primary driver. The others are pay-as-you-go Partner Nodes, prepaid credit top-ups, comfy Enterprise contracts, affiliate referral commissions (cost) and free / open-source Desktop.
Who are Comfy's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Runway, Stability AI and Invoke. Emerging players are CivitAI, Fal.ai, OpenArt and Replicate. Hugging Face is listed as an others. Broad incumbents are Autodesk (Flame, Maya, 3ds Max) and Adobe (Firefly / Creative Cloud).
Does Comfy have an API?
Yes. Comfy API turns any ComfyUI workflow into a production endpoint that can be invoked programmatically. Developers submit a workflow JSON or single request to the API endpoint and can modify inputs programmatically (prompts, seeds, images, any parameter on any node). Authentication is via API keys managed at platform.comfy.org. The API supports real-time progress tracking and live previews during generation via WebSocket. It is available through Comfy Cloud (managed infrastructure on Blackwell RTX 6000 Pro GPUs) and exposes both open-source models (Wan, Flux, LTX, Qwen) and partner models (Kling, Luma, Nano Banana, Grok, Runway) through one credit balance. Rate/concurrency limits depend on the user's Comfy Cloud subscription tier (Standard, Creator, Pro, Enterprise). Developer documentation is at docs.comfy.org/api-reference/cloud.
What industry is Comfy in?
Comfy's product category is Visual AI Workflow Software. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HDAEANAJ, AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs), with a secondary code of HDAAAAAG, AI Compute Virtualization & Scheduling (GPU virtualization, cluster schedulers). Its NAICS code is 5132 and its SIC code is 7372.