ComfyUI-Manager Installation

How to install ComfyUI-Manager for different setups

Desktop users

If you’re using ComfyUI Desktop, ComfyUI-Manager is already included and enabled by default. No additional installation is required.

Portable users

For users running the Windows Portable version, the new ComfyUI-Manager is built into ComfyUI core but needs to be enabled.

1. Install the manager dependencies:

   .\python_embeded\python.exe -m pip install -r ComfyUI\manager_requirements.txt
   

2. Launch ComfyUI with the manager enabled:

   .\python_embeded\python.exe -s ComfyUI\main.py --windows-standalone-build --enable-manager
   pause
   

Manual install users

For users with a manual installation, the new ComfyUI-Manager is built into ComfyUI core but needs to be enabled.

1. Activate your virtual environment:

   # Windows
   venv\Scripts\activate
   
   # Linux/macOS
   source venv/bin/activate
   

2. Install the manager dependencies:

   pip install -r manager_requirements.txt
   

3. Enable the manager with the --enable-manager flag when running ComfyUI:

   python main.py --enable-manager
   

Command line options

Flag	Description
--enable-manager	Enable ComfyUI-Manager
--enable-manager-legacy-ui	Use the legacy manager UI instead of the new UI (requires --enable-manager)
--disable-manager-ui	Disable the manager UI and endpoints while keeping background features (requires --enable-manager)

Legacy installation methods

Method 1: Git clone (general installation)

To install ComfyUI-Manager in addition to an existing installation of ComfyUI:

1. Navigate to ComfyUI/custom_nodes directory in terminal
2. Clone the repository:
   git clone https://github.com/ltdrdata/ComfyUI-Manager comfyui-manager
   
3. Restart ComfyUI

Method 2: Portable version (Windows)

1. Install Git for Windows (standalone version, select “use windows default console window”)
2. Download install-manager-for-portable-version.bat into your ComfyUI_windows_portable directory
3. Double-click the batch file to install

Method 3: comfy-cli (recommended for new installations)

comfy-cli provides various features to manage ComfyUI from the CLI.

Prerequisites: Python 3, Git

Windows:

python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate
pip install comfy-cli
comfy install

Linux/macOS:

python -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install comfy-cli
comfy install

See also: comfy-cli documentation

Method 4: Linux + venv

Prerequisites: python-is-python3, python3-venv, git

1. Download install-comfyui-venv-linux.sh into an empty install directory
2. Run:
   chmod +x install-comfyui-venv-linux.sh
   ./install-comfyui-venv-linux.sh
   
3. Execute ComfyUI with ./run_gpu.sh or ./run_cpu.sh

Installation precautions:

• ComfyUI-Manager files must be accurately located in the path ComfyUI/custom_nodes/comfyui-manager
• Do not decompress directly into ComfyUI/custom_nodes (files like __init__.py should not be in that directory)
• Do not install in paths like ComfyUI/custom_nodes/ComfyUI-Manager/ComfyUI-Manager or ComfyUI/custom_nodes/ComfyUI-Manager-main