ComfyUI-GGUF
ComfyUI custom nodes that run GGUF-quantized diffusion transformers on low-VRAM GPUs.
About
Running FLUX-class models on modest hardware is the point of ComfyUI-GGUF, a set of custom nodes by city96 that brings the GGUF quantization format from the llama.cpp ecosystem to native ComfyUI models. It targets transformer and DiT architectures such as FLUX.1-dev, FLUX.1-schnell, and Stable Diffusion 3.5 large, which tolerate low-bit quantization far better than older UNet designs, and it also loads quantized T5-XXL text encoders to claw back further memory. Installation means cloning the repository into ComfyUI's custom_nodes folder and installing the gguf Python package, after which quantized checkpoints drop into the standard model folders and load through dedicated loader nodes; city96's prequantized GGUF conversions on Hugging Face are among the most widely used files for these models. Tooling for producing custom quantizations lives in the repository's tools folder. The project is Apache-2.0 licensed with about 3,900 stars, and it has become the default route for running FLUX and other large diffusion transformers on GPUs with limited VRAM.
Should you use ComfyUI-GGUF?
Pick it when
Pick ComfyUI-GGUF when you already work in ComfyUI and your GPU lacks the VRAM for full precision FLUX or SD 3.5 Large, so you can choose a quantization level per model and load a quantized T5-XXL text encoder too.
Look elsewhere when
Skip it for SD 1.5 or SDXL, whose older UNet designs tolerate low-bit quantization poorly, and look at Nunchaku first if speed matters as much as memory, since its 4-bit SVDQuant models report large speedups on supported cards.
Alternatives to ComfyUI-GGUF
- Nunchaku
4-bit SVDQuant reported an 8.7x FLUX speedup and 3.6x less memory on a 16 GB laptop 4090, but it needs SVDQuant checkpoints and an NVIDIA 20 to 50 series GPU.
- stable-diffusion.cpp
Runs GGUF quantized models without Python or ComfyUI on CPU, Vulkan, Metal, or CUDA, but gives up the node graph and custom node ecosystem.
- Forge
Loads NF4 and GGUF FLUX variants in a form-based A1111-style UI with leaner memory management, if you prefer forms to wiring node graphs.
- SD.Next
On-the-fly quantization inside a full web UI, so no hunting for GGUF files, but you leave the ComfyUI node workflow behind.
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Details
- Category
- Diffusion Model Tools & UIs
- Price
- Free
- Platform
- Local/Desktop
- Difficulty
- Easy (2/5)
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Added
- Jul 29, 2026
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