ComfyUI Qwen VL Nodes

This repository provides ComfyUI nodes that wrap the latest vision-language and language-only checkpoints from the Qwen family. Both Qwen3 VL and Qwen2.5 VL models are supported for multimodal reasoning, alongside text-only Qwen2.5/Qwen3 models for prompt generation.

What's New

• Custom Model Support: Load any Qwen2.5/Qwen3 compatible model from HuggingFace via custom_models.json
• Multi-Image Input: QwenVL node now supports up to 4 image inputs for multi-image reasoning
• Bypass Mode: Skip model inference and pass text directly through for workflow debugging
• Increased Token Limit: Max tokens increased to 8000 for longer outputs
• System Prompt: QwenVL node now exposes system prompt for custom instructions
• Added support for the Qwen3 VL family (Qwen3-VL-4B-Thinking, Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking, etc.)
• Retained compatibility with existing Qwen2.5 VL models
• Text-only workflows support both Qwen2.5 and Qwen3 instruct checkpoints

Performance & Attention Modes

Attention Mode Options: auto, sdpa, flash_attention_2, eager

| Mode | Recommendation | |------|----------------| | sdpa | Recommended - Best compatibility and performance on most GPUs | | flash_attention_2 | Fastest on SM 80-90 GPUs (RTX 30/40 series). Requires pip install flash-attn | | eager | Fallback for compatibility issues | | auto | Defaults to SDPA |

Quantization Notes:

• Non-quantized with SDPA: ~17 tokens/sec on RTX 5090
• 4-bit quantization: May be slower on newer GPUs (Blackwell) due to kernel compatibility

Sample Workflows

• Multimodal workflow example: workflow/Qwen2VL.json
• Text generation workflow example: workflow/qwen25.json

Installation

You can install through ComfyUI Manager (search for Qwen-VL wrapper for ComfyUI) or manually:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/alexcong/ComfyUI_QwenVL.git
   

2. Change into the project directory:

   cd ComfyUI_QwenVL
   

3. Install dependencies (ensure you are inside your ComfyUI virtual environment if you use one):

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

   Note: This only installs a minimal set of dependencies that aren't already provided by ComfyUI:

   • huggingface_hub - For downloading models
   • accelerate - For efficient model loading with quantization
   • qwen-vl-utils - Qwen vision-language utilities
   • bitsandbytes - Quantization support (4bit/8bit)

   Core dependencies like PyTorch, Transformers, NumPy, and Pillow are already included with ComfyUI.

Supported Nodes

QwenVL Node (Vision-Language)

Multimodal generation with Qwen3 VL and Qwen2.5 VL checkpoints.

Inputs:

• system – System prompt for model instructions (default: "You are a helpful assistant.")
• text – User prompt/question
• image1, image2, image3, image4 – Up to 4 optional image inputs (processed in order)
• video_path – Optional video input
• model – Select from built-in or custom models
• quantization – none/4-bit/8-bit for memory optimization
• keep_model_loaded – Cache model between runs
• bypass – Pass text directly to output without inference
• temperature – Sampling temperature (0-1)
• max_new_tokens – Maximum output tokens (up to 8000)
• seed – Manual seed for reproducibility (-1 for random)

Qwen Node (Text-Only)

Text-only generation backed by Qwen2.5/Qwen3 instruct models.

Inputs:

• system – System prompt
• prompt – User prompt
• model – Select from built-in or custom models
• quantization – none/4-bit/8-bit
• keep_model_loaded – Cache model between runs
• bypass – Pass prompt directly to output without inference
• temperature, max_new_tokens, seed – Generation parameters

Custom Models

You can add any Qwen2.5 or Qwen3 compatible model from HuggingFace by editing the custom_models.json file in this directory.

Adding Custom Models

Edit custom_models.json with the following structure:

{
  "hf_models": {
    "My-Custom-Model-Name": {
      "repo_id": "username/model-repo-name",
      "model_class": "Qwen3",
      "default": false,
      "quantized": false,
      "vram_requirement": {
        "4bit": 4,
        "8bit": 6,
        "full": 12
      }
    }
  }
}

Field Descriptions

| Field | Required | Description | |-------|----------|-------------| | repo_id | Yes | HuggingFace repository ID (e.g., "coder3101/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct-heretic") | | model_class | No | Force model architecture: "Qwen3" or "Qwen2.5". Auto-detected from name if omitted. | | default | No | Reserved for future use | | quantized | No | Informational: whether the model is pre-quantized | | vram_requirement | No | Informational: estimated VRAM usage in GB for each quantization level |

Model Type Detection

• VL (Vision-Language) models: Names containing -VL- are added to the QwenVL node dropdown
• Text-only models: All other models are added to the Qwen node dropdown
• Model class: Auto-detected from name (Qwen3 if name contains "Qwen3", otherwise Qwen2.5)

Example: Adding a Fine-tuned Model

{
  "hf_models": {
    "Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct-Heretic": {
      "repo_id": "coder3101/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct-heretic"
    },
    "My-Qwen3-8B-Finetune": {
      "repo_id": "myusername/my-qwen3-8b-finetune",
      "model_class": "Qwen3"
    }
  }
}

Models are automatically downloaded from HuggingFace on first use and stored in ComfyUI/models/LLM/.

Model Storage

Downloaded models are stored under ComfyUI/models/LLM/.

Bypass Mode

Both nodes include a bypass toggle. When enabled:

• QwenVL: The text input is passed directly to the output without model inference
• Qwen: The prompt input is passed directly to the output without model inference

This is useful for workflow debugging or when you want to conditionally skip expensive model calls.