ComfyUI Migration | InvokeAI Documentation
ComfyUI Migration
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 |