Comfy

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.

Name

Comfy

Legal name

Comfy Organization, Inc.

Website

https://comfy.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 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

akta.pro rank

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)

Keywords

• Visual AI workflows
• Node-based AI engine
• Generative AI platform
• AI image generation
• AI video generation

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels12 records

Core 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).
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers17 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration21 records

AI capability11 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

20 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• SoniloflagshipTechnology or Integration · 14 April 2026Sonilo, 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)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 August 2024Co-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.
• CivitAIcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration 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 FacecoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration 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)flagshipTechnology or IntegrationGoogle'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)flagshipTechnology or IntegrationByteDance'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)flagshipTechnology or IntegrationGrok 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)flagshipTechnology or IntegrationKling 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.
• IdeogramcoreTechnology or IntegrationIdeogram v4 (text-to-image and API variant) is exposed as a Partner Node on Comfy.
• KreacoreTechnology or IntegrationKrea 2 (style reference, moodboards, text-to-image) is exposed as a Partner Node on Comfy.
• ElevenLabscoreTechnology or IntegrationElevenLabs text-to-speech is exposed as a Partner Node on Comfy for audio generation.
• Stability AI (Stable Audio 3.0)coreTechnology or IntegrationStable Audio 3.0 Medium Base workflow is published as an official ComfyUI template for audio generation.
• ViducoreTechnology or IntegrationVidu Q3 Audio-Visual Video Generation is exposed as a Partner Node on Comfy.
• PixVersecoreTechnology or IntegrationPixVerse text-to-video is exposed as a Partner Node on Comfy.
• OpenAI (Sora 2)flagshipTechnology or IntegrationSora 2 (text & image to video) is exposed as a Partner Node on Comfy.
• Lightricks (LTX / LTXV)flagshipTechnology or IntegrationLTX-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)flagshipTechnology or IntegrationWan 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)flagshipTechnology or IntegrationFlux.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.
• RunwaycoreTechnology or IntegrationRunway is listed as a partner model accessible through the Comfy Cloud API endpoint alongside open-source models.
• LumacoreTechnology or IntegrationLuma is listed as a partner model accessible through Comfy Cloud.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct 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

• GitHubgithub.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@ComfyOrg
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/comfyui

Compliance7 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors8 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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