ComfyUI raises $30M to scale open-source AI for creative production

Building the AI creation engine for visual professionals

We’re announcing a $30 million financing at a $500 million valuation, bringing our total funding to $47 million. The round was led by Craft, with participation from Pace Capital, Chemistry, TruArrow and others.

ComfyUI started as a community project: one developer, one open-source repo, and a fast-growing group of creators who wanted more control over how they created with AI. That community now spans 4 million users, 60,000+ nodes built by contributors, and 150,000+ daily downloads. This round is a reflection of what that community has built together.

ComfyUI is already the best software for creative AI but now we can make it even better: more features, more optimizations and more stability while accelerating our already rapid pace of development.

“With this funding we can make sure open source wins.” said Yannik Marek, cofounder and the creator of ComfyUI, “We and many in the community have spent a lot of effort: countless hours, even years working directly and indirectly on ComfyUI. Without you we would not exist. We want to live in a world where the best tool is open source. Now we can finally make our dream real.”

How professional creators are using ComfyUI

ComfyUI has become the standard for creator-controlled AI workflows, spanning image, video, 3D, and audio, locally or in the cloud. Studios, agencies, and enterprise teams are using it to power production-grade creative pipelines.

Creative studios like Black Math are using ComfyUI to build modular creative pipelines connecting their motion, texture, and generative tools in ComfyUI enabling teams to move beyond one-off deliverables and instead create scalable design systems that clients can build on over time.

Agencies & Ad studios like Silverside AI use ComfyUI to power major brand campaigns, for example, developing SVEDKA’s 2026 Super Bowl commercial, the first primarily AI-generated Super Bowl ad. This enables precise creative control, consistent quality, and faster production timelines.

Technical artists use ComfyUI the way engineers use code, composing models, LoRAs, ControlNets, and community nodes into precise, reproducible workflows. A concept artist chains an image generation model to a depth estimator and an inpainting pass, so every iteration preserves geometry while exploring style. A VFX freelancer builds a texture synthesis pipeline that processes hundreds of assets overnight. When the workflow is done, it lives in a JSON file: portable, versionable, shareable.

“ComfyUI is so important to us because it allows us to know that we always play on the bleeding edge. Not only because of the technology itself, but because of the entire community shaping the product and developing extensions,” PJ Pereira, Co-founder, Silverside AI.

“Using ComfyUI really brings artist empowerment to the forefront. I want my employees to feel like they have control over the process. The more exposed they can be to how the models work, the more we feel we’re creating something that only we could make,” Jeremy Sahlman, Co-founder & CCO, Black Math.

ComfyUI has quietly become a hiring signal. Across job boards at Enterprise companies and creative studios, “ComfyUI artist” has emerged as a job title in high demand. Creative directors, technical artists, and pipeline engineers are now expected to build in ComfyUI. What began as an open-source tool built by a single developer has become infrastructure for a new creative profession.

A community that compounds

The open ecosystem is what makes ComfyUI structurally different from any closed tool. With 60,000+ community-built nodes and extensions, every new model, every new technique, every workflow shared publicly makes the platform more powerful for everyone. No product team could ship that fast. No single company could cover that much ground.

And the platform only grows stronger as more creators build on it, extend it, and push it in directions we never anticipated.

“Comfy has innovated a new and powerful ecosystem for creativity without compromising creative control. It has been amazing to watch technical artists and curious creative minds leverage Comfy to explore the full surface area of their ideas,” Scott Belsky, Founder of Behance.

What we’re building next

We’re already one of the most widely used platforms for generative AI. But we think ComfyUI can be the best creative engine for professionals. Period. Here’s where the funding goes:

• Comfy Cloud, built for teams

  • We’re scaling cloud infrastructure to bring ComfyUI to creators who don’t have access to high-end local compute, and to studios that demand security and infrastructure out of the box.

• Collaborative workflows

  • Creative work is rarely solo. We’re building the features that let teams share, version, and iterate on workflows together so the way ComfyUI works in a studio finally matches how studios actually work.

• Investing in local experience

  • The power was always there. We are continuing to invest in Comfy Local and making updates a seamless and stable experience

• Ecosystem stability

  • 60,000+ community nodes are one of ComfyUI’s greatest strengths. We’re investing in the infrastructure and standards that make them more reliable on Local and Cloud and easier to build.

• Model support, always current

  • Every major model release should work in ComfyUI on day one. We’re building the integrations and partnerships to make that a guarantee.

We are not building a walled garden. We are building open infrastructure, the kind that lasts, the kind that empowers rather than locks in.

Why join us

ComfyUI is built by a team of engineers and operators who don’t do average. We’re solving hard problems at the intersection of creative tooling, ML infrastructure, and distributed systems, problems that matter to millions of people who create things for a living.

If you want to build tools that technical artists and studios depend on every day, if you’re the kind of engineer who gets excited when a community of 4 million people finds unexpected ways to use what you’ve built, you should be here.

Thank You to our community

None of this exists without you.

The 60,000+ nodes you’ve built. The workflows you’ve shared. The bugs you’ve filed, the fixes you’ve submitted, the tutorials you’ve posted.

ComfyUI exists because of you. The funding, the valuation, the enterprise adoption, all of it traces back to a group of people who cared enough to build something together, in public, for anyone to use.

What we’re committing to: the ComfyUI will always stays open. You will always be able to run ComfyUI on your own machine, on your own terms, with full access to everything you’ve built. Open source lasts forever, and we intend to prove it.

This round gives us the resources to go further: better infrastructure, better tooling, more support for the ecosystem you’ve created. We’ll keep building in the open, keep listening, and keep getting out of the way when the community knows better than we do.

Thank you. Genuinely.

Team Comfy