# 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](/content/features/workflows/community-nodes/index.html) 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                                         |