Templates - ComfyUI Built-in Workflow Templates

Workflow Templates is the browser for ComfyUI’s natively supported model workflows and also some example workflows from custom nodes. In ComfyUI’s Workflow Templates, you can find:

Natively supported model workflows
Example workflows from custom nodes

How to open Templates in ComfyUI

Click the Templates icon in the sidebar to open Workflow Templates. You can also open it from the menu Workflow → Browse Workflow Templates.

How to use templates

Load a template: Click any template you want to load its workflow.
Download models: When loading a template, ComfyUI automatically checks whether all required model files exist. If anything is missing, it will prompt you to download the models.
Run the workflow: Once all requirements—such as models, input images, and prompts—are ready, click the Run button to start using the workflow.

Model storage location

Each workflow template embeds links to the required models. On first use, if those files are missing, ComfyUI does not show a separate modal. Instead it:

Highlights the affected loader nodes in red on the canvas.
Shows a small banner such as N errors found with View details.
Opens the details in the Right Side Panel Errors tab under Setup required / Missing Models.

Missing models for a template: Setup required lists each file with folder and size, Download per row, and Download all

In that list you can Download one file, Download all, Refresh, or use the locate control to jump to the node that needs the model. The same Missing models group stays available in the Errors tab while you work.

Desktop: Download / Download all saves files into the matching ComfyUI/models/… folders.
Self-hosted browser: the same actions start a browser download when a URL is available. Place each file under the matching folder. Example for the Qwen Image template in the screenshot:

📂 ComfyUI/
├── 📂 models/
│   ├── 📂 loras/
│   │   └── Qwen-Image-Lightning-8steps-V1.0.safetensors
│   ├── 📂 diffusion_models/
│   │   └── qwen_image_fp8_e4m3fn.safetensors
│   ├── 📂 vae/
│   │   └── qwen_image_vae.safetensors
│   └── 📂 text_encoders/
│       └── qwen_2.5_vl_7b_fp8_scaled.safetensors

Missing-file detection currently checks for a same-named file in the corresponding top-level directory (for example directly under ComfyUI/models/diffusion_models). If the model already lives in a subfolder such as ComfyUI/models/diffusion_models/wan_video, you can dismiss the prompt and select that file in the loader node instead. If you’re curious how model links are embedded, we add a models field under the node’s properties. Below is a complete snippet of a DualCLIPLoader node with embedded model information:

    {
      "id": 40,
      "type": "DualCLIPLoader",
      "pos": [
        -320,
        290
      ],
      "size": [
        270,
        130
      ],
      "flags": {},
      "order": 0,
      "mode": 0,
      "inputs": [],
      "outputs": [
        {
          "name": "CLIP",
          "type": "CLIP",
          "links": [
            64
          ]
        }
      ],
      "properties": {
        "Node name for S&R": "DualCLIPLoader",
        "cnr_id": "comfy-core",
        "ver": "0.3.40",
        "models": [
          {
            "name": "clip_l.safetensors",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/comfyanonymous/flux_text_encoders/resolve/main/clip_l.safetensors",
            "directory": "text_encoders"
          },
          {
            "name": "t5xxl_fp16.safetensors",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/comfyanonymous/flux_text_encoders/resolve/main/t5xxl_fp16.safetensors",
            "directory": "text_encoders"
          }
        ]
      },
      "widgets_values": [
        "clip_l.safetensors",
        "t5xxl_fp16.safetensors",
        "flux",
        "default"
      ]
    }

The models field inside properties includes name, url, and directory.

name: the model file name
url: a direct download link to the file (not a repository page)
directory: which subfolder under ComfyUI/models to store the file, e.g. vae means ComfyUI/models/vae

Currently, only links from Hugging Face and Civitai are supported. The model format must be a safe format such as .safetensors or .sft. Formats like .gguf are considered unsafe; when embedded they will be flagged as unsafe and the link will not be shown. You can use this tool to edit the model information in workflow templates. At the moment, @ComfyUI-Wiki only adds support for native nodes.

How to update templates?

Templates are managed and updated as a separate dependency: comfyui-workflow-templates. If, after updating ComfyUI, you don’t see the documentation or newly announced templates, you may need to update the corresponding dependency. You can check versions in ComfyUI/requirements.txt. Typically, the following three dependencies may be upgraded together when ComfyUI is updated:

comfyui-frontend-package==1.24.4
comfyui-workflow-templates==0.1.52
comfyui-embedded-docs==0.2.4

If you’re not sure how to update correctly, see Update ComfyUI for how to update ComfyUI and its dependencies.

How to contribute templates to the ComfyUI repository?

All templates are hosted in the workflow_templates repository. You can contribute templates by submitting a PR. For official templates, we require the following:

Do not use any third-party nodes (to avoid extra installations for users who lack those nodes).
The template must not duplicate existing ones and should target supported model capabilities.
You may open an issue in the repository to ask questions.

Custom node templates

If a custom node author provides templates and example workflows, you can also find them in the Templates browser. Usually, you can locate all templates by finding the category named after the node. If you are a custom node author, note that we currently only support a single directory level under the templates folder (no nested subdirectories), and only JSON-format templates are supported.

How to add templates for custom nodes?

See Custom Node Templates for how to add workflow templates for your custom nodes.

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Templates - ComfyUI Built-in Workflow Templates

How to open Templates in ComfyUI

How to use templates

Model storage location

How to update templates?

How to contribute templates to the ComfyUI repository?

Custom node templates

How to add templates for custom nodes?

​How to open Templates in ComfyUI

​How to use templates

​Model storage location

​How to update templates?

​How to contribute templates to the ComfyUI repository?

​Custom node templates

​How to add templates for custom nodes?

How to open Templates in ComfyUI

How to use templates

Model storage location

How to update templates?

How to contribute templates to the ComfyUI repository?

Custom node templates

How to add templates for custom nodes?