ComfyUI · 2026-04-24 · notable
ComfyUI Raises $30M at $500M Valuation, Pledges to Stay Open Source Forever
ComfyUI closed a $30M Series B at a $500M valuation (total: $48M), led by Craft Ventures. The node-based creative AI platform — 4M users, 60K+ community nodes, 150K daily downloads — pledged to remain self-hostable and open source forever.
The open-source node-based AI image/video workflow tool just raised $30M and committed to staying free and self-hostable forever.
Key specs
| Funding round | $30M Series B |
|---|---|
| Valuation | $500M |
| Total funding | $48M |
| Users | 4M+ |
| Community nodes | 60K+ |
| Daily downloads | 150K+ |
What is it?
ComfyUI is a free, open-source workflow editor for running AI image, video, and audio generation models — primarily diffusion models like Stable Diffusion and its successors. Instead of a single prompt box, users wire together modular nodes: sampler, decoder, ControlNet, LoRA, upscaler, compositor. It has 4M users, 60K+ community-built nodes, and 150K daily downloads. The $30M Series B at $500M valuation was led by Craft Ventures (with Pace Capital, Chemistry, and TruArrow), bringing total funding to $48M.
How does it work?
The node graph model lets creators chain any combination of models and post-processors into reusable pipelines. Each node handles one discrete operation and its outputs flow into the next. Community nodes extend the base set to cover video generation, LoRA training, API integrations, and custom samplers. Workflows save as portable JSON. The funding goes toward cloud infrastructure, enterprise tooling, and a hosted runtime wrapping community workflows.
Why does it matter?
ComfyUI nodes have become a job title — 'ComfyUI artist' appears on studio job boards, and agency Silverside AI used it to produce SVEDKA's 2026 Super Bowl ad, claimed as the first primarily AI-generated Super Bowl commercial. Craft Ventures backing at $500M signals that open-source creative AI infrastructure has crossed into serious business territory. The explicit open-source pledge — 'you will always be able to run ComfyUI on your own machine, on your own terms' — directly addresses the fear that VC money will kill the project's free tier.
Who is it for?
VFX artists, ad studios, AI content creators, developers building creative AI pipelines
Try it
github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI # or desktop app at comfy.org