ComfyUI-BasicOllama
A simplified node that provides access to Ollama. It allows you to send prompts, system prompts, and images to your Ollama instance and receive text-based responses.
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ComfyUI-BasicOllama
A simplified node that provides access to Ollama. It allows you to send prompts and images to your Ollama instance and receive text-based responses with support for reasoning/thinking and system prompts.
⚠️ Requirements
You must have Ollama installed and running on your local machine for this node to function. You can download it from https://ollama.com/.
🚀 Features
- Zero Startup Impact: This node loads asynchronously and will not slow down your ComfyUI browser loading time.
- Direct Ollama Integration: Seamlessly connect to your local Ollama instance.
- Automatic Image Detection: The node automatically detects if an image is connected and sends it to Ollama for multimodal analysis.
- Reasoning Support: Toggle "think" mode to capture reasoning traces.
- System Prompt Support: Utilize the
systemparameter in the Ollama API for more control over model behavior. - Dynamic Prompt Templates: Easily load your own system prompts from
.txtfiles in thepromptsdirectory. - Dynamic Image Inputs: Start with one image input, and automatically add more as you connect them.
- Easy Configuration: Quickly set up your Ollama URL via a
config.jsonfile.

📦 Installation
- Clone the Repository:
Navigate to your
ComfyUI/custom_nodesdirectory and clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/BobRandomNumber/ComfyUI-BasicOllama.git
- Restart your ComfyUI instance to load the new custom node.
✨ Usage
The BasicOllama node can be found under the Ollama category in the ComfyUI menu. Connect optional image/s to the image inputs to have it automatically included in your prompt if desired.
Inputs
| Name | Type | Description |
| ---------------------- | --------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| prompt | STRING | The main text prompt to send to the Ollama model. |
| ollama_model | COMBO | Asynchronously populated list of available Ollama models. Use the Refresh button to update the list from your Ollama instance. |
| generation_seed | INT | Seed for randomness. Includes control for incrementing or fixing the seed after generation. |
| enable_think | BOOLEAN | If enabled, requests and captures the reasoning/thinking trace for supported models. |
| saved_sys_prompt | COMBO | A dropdown list of saved system prompts from the .txt files in the prompts directory. |
| use_sys_prompt_below | BOOLEAN | If checked (True), the system_prompt text box below will be used instead of the dropdown selection. |
| system_prompt | STRING | A multiline text box for a custom, one-off system prompt. |
| image | IMAGE | Optional image inputs for multimodal models. Connecting an image automatically creates a new input slot. |
Outputs
| Name | Type | Description |
| ---------- | -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| text | STRING | The main text-based response from the Ollama model. |
| thinking | STRING | The reasoning trace generated by the model (if enable_think is active). |
✍️ Adding Custom System Prompts
You can easily add your own reusable system prompts to the saved_sys_prompt dropdown menu.
- Navigate to the
ComfyUI-BasicOllama/promptsdirectory. - Create a new text file (e.g.,
my_prompt.txt). - Write your system prompt inside this file.
- Save the file and refresh your ComfyUI browser window.
The name of your file (without the .txt extension) will now appear as an option in the saved_sys_prompt dropdown.
⚙️ Configuration
By default, the BasicOllama node will attempt to connect to your Ollama instance at http://localhost:11434.
If your Ollama instance is running on a different URL/port, you can change it by editing the config.json file located in the ComfyUI-BasicOllama directory:
{
"OLLAMA_URL": "http://your-ollama-url:11434"
}
🙏 Attribution
A special thank you to @al-swaiti for creating the original ComfyUI-OllamaGemini whose Ollama node served as the foundation and inspiration for this. This project is licensed under the MIT License.