mageflow / 4b-edit-turbo / editImage

This is the draft-machine version of MageFlow's edit model. The 4B-edit-turbo variant does instruction edits in 4 steps at CFG 1.0 - which, on Civitai's cloud, means it's the cheap, fast, iterate-until-it's-right node in the MageFlow family. Same model family as the 30-step edit, distilled down to the speed that makes trial-and-error editing affordable per job.

Reach for this one when you're sketching: try "make it night", "move the subject right", "change the mood" in quick succession, find the keeper, and only then spend the bigger Buzz on the full-fidelity edit node. It's the classic turbo workflow - draft fast, finish slow - except the "GPU" is Civitai's fleet.

How it works

Same civitai-comfy-nodes machinery as every recipe node: submit prompt + image to the Civitai Orchestration API, run MageFlow 4B-edit-turbo on Civitai's Comfy engine, long-poll, return an IMAGE tensor. The turbo distillation is why 4 steps is the default instead of 30 - guidance is effectively disabled (CFG 1.0), so leave those values alone unless you know what you're doing.

The inputs that matter

• prompt and images - both required. Source image plus a plain-language edit instruction.
• steps / cfg_scale - 4 / 1.0 defaults. This is a distilled model; cranking CFG fights the distillation and usually makes output worse, not better.
• diffusion_model (CIVITAI_AIR) and loras (CIVITAI_LORAS) - optional typed sockets for Civitai Model Selector / LoRA Selector nodes, if you want a finetune or LoRA stack on the cloud job.
• sampler / scheduler / seed / width / height / quantity (max 4) - standard.

Outputs

images → Preview/Save. errors, workflow_id, raw_json are diagnostics; raw_json has the full job result.

Installing and authenticating

Pack-wide install:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/civitai/civitai-comfy-nodes.git
pip install -r civitai-comfy-nodes/requirements.txt

or ComfyUI Manager → "Civitai Comfy Nodes" → Install → restart. Dependencies: requests, python-socketio[client].

Auth: Civitai Auth node → CIVITAI_API_TOKEN → stored key/OAuth → browser login. Headless:

export CIVITAI_API_TOKEN=your_token

Where people get burned

• Turbo means turbo quality. 4 steps is fast and cheap, but detail and coherence give way to the non-turbo edit. Don't judge MageFlow's editing ability from turbo drafts alone.
• CFG at 1.0 is a feature. Newcomers see cfg_scale and immediately set it to 7. For this node that's a mistake - it's a guidance-distilled model, not SDXL.
• Edits re-emit the whole frame, so unedited areas drift slightly and errors compound over chains. Keep the source clean.
• Per-job billing. It's the cheap node in the family, but "cheap" still isn't free - a long batch of drafts is a long batch of Buzz.
• Your prompt and image go to Civitai's servers. Same deal as every cloud node in this pack.