ComfyUI Extension: Advanced Model Manager

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Advanced Model Manager for ComfyUI — browse, search and download models from HuggingFace and GitHub workflows directly from the ComfyUI interface.

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📦 Advanced Model Manager for ComfyUI

A powerful model browser, downloader and manager built directly into ComfyUI. Browse hundreds of HuggingFace repositories, search across every file in every repo instantly, download models straight to the right folder, manage GitHub workflows, and track everything you have installed — all without leaving ComfyUI.


✨ Features at a Glance

| Feature | Description | |---|---| | 🔍 Instant cross-repo search | Type any word and find matching files across ALL repos simultaneously | | 📁 Repository browser | Repos grouped by author with model-family badges (WanVideo, Flux, LTX, etc.) | | ⬇️ One-click download | Files go straight to the correct ComfyUI model subfolder automatically | | 📋 Workflow browser | Browse and download ComfyOrg + Kijai example workflow JSONs from GitHub | | 💾 Downloaded tab | See every model you have installed, delete files, open folders | | 🌐 HuggingFace live search | Search HuggingFace directly to discover new repos not in the index | | 📊 Node widget | Shows live model counts (Diffusion, Text Encoders, VAE, LoRAs) on the graph node | | ⌨️ Keyboard shortcut | Ctrl + Shift + M to open/close the panel from anywhere |


🖼️ Screenshots

Browse Repositories

All HuggingFace repos listed in the left panel, grouped by author and tagged by model family. Click any repo to load its files.

Browse Repositories


View & Download Files

Select a repo to see all its files with sizes and download status. Files already on disk are marked. Click Download to save a file directly to the correct ComfyUI folder.

View and Download Files


Instant Search Across All Repos

Type any word in the search box — results appear instantly across all repos. Results are grouped by repo in the left panel. Matching files are shown on the right. Case-insensitive, multi-word, ignores underscores and dashes.

Cross-Repo Search


🚀 Installation

Option 1 — ComfyUI Manager (Recommended)

  1. Open ComfyUI ManagerInstall Custom Nodes
  2. Search for Advanced Model Manager
  3. Click Install and restart ComfyUI

Option 2 — Manual

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/BISAM20/ComfyUI-advanced-model-manager
cd ComfyUI-advanced-model-manager
pip install -r requirements.txt

Restart ComfyUI.


🎮 How to Use

Adding the node to your graph

Double-click on an empty area of the ComfyUI canvas to open the node search, type Advanced Model Manager, then click the result to place it.

Node search

Once placed, the node shows a live count of all your installed models and a button to open the manager panel:

Advanced Model Manager node

Browsing & Downloading Models

  1. The left panel lists all HuggingFace repos by author
  2. Click any repo name to load its files on the right
  3. Each file shows its size and whether it is already downloaded (✓ checkmark)
  4. Click ↓ Download to save a file — it goes to the correct ComfyUI subfolder automatically (e.g. models/diffusion_models/, models/loras/, etc.)

Searching Across All Repos

Just type in the search box — no button needed. The tool searches every file in every repo:

  • animate → finds all files with "animate" in the name across all repos
  • wan fp8 → finds Wan FP8 files even if the name uses underscores like Wan_fp8
  • ltx lora → multi-word search, both words must be present

Search is case-insensitive and normalises underscores, dashes and dots to spaces.

HuggingFace Live Search

Click 🌐 Search HuggingFace to search the live HuggingFace index for repos not already in the local index. Results are clickable and load their file list exactly like local repos.

Workflows Tab

Switch to 📋 Workflows mode to browse and download workflow JSON files from:

  • ComfyOrg official example workflows
  • Kijai WanVideoWrapper example workflows

Workflows are saved directly to your ComfyUI/user/default/workflows/ folder.

Downloaded Tab (💾)

Switch to the 💾 Downloaded tab to see all models currently on disk, organised by category. From here you can:

  • Click 📂 to open the containing folder in your file manager
  • Click 🗑️ to delete a file

Category Filter

Use the All Categories dropdown to filter the repo list and search results to a specific type: Checkpoints, LoRAs, VAE, Text Encoders, Upscalers, etc.

Refresh / Build Index

Click Refresh to rebuild the local file index. The index is what makes instant cross-repo search possible. Progress is shown live. Once built, search is instant even across hundreds of repos.


📊 Graph Node

Add the Advanced Model Manager node to your workflow graph to get a live dashboard showing how many models of each type you have installed. Click Open Model Downloader on the node to open the full panel.

Advanced Model Manager node

Model counts update automatically every 8 seconds.


📂 Where Files Are Saved

The tool automatically classifies files and saves them to the right folder:

| File type | Saved to | |---|---| | .safetensors, .ckpt checkpoint files | models/checkpoints/ or models/diffusion_models/ | | LoRA files | models/loras/ | | VAE files | models/vae/ | | Text encoder / CLIP files | models/text_encoders/ or models/clip/ | | Upscaler files | models/upscale_models/ | | ControlNet files | models/controlnet/ | | Workflow .json files | user/default/workflows/ |


⚙️ Requirements

  • ComfyUI (any recent version)
  • Python 3.10+
  • huggingface_hub >= 0.20.0
  • requests >= 2.28.0

🔑 HuggingFace Token (Optional)

For downloading gated models (e.g. Meta Llama), set your HuggingFace token in your environment:

export HF_TOKEN=hf_your_token_here

Or log in via the CLI:

huggingface-cli login

📄 License

MIT License — see LICENSE for details.


🙏 Credits

Built for the ComfyUI community. Repos and models sourced from HuggingFace. Workflow JSONs from ComfyOrg and Kijai.

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