Cloud Lora Loader (Model Only)

Cloud Lora Loader (Model Only) is the sibling of Cloud Lora Loader that a lot of people end up wanting without knowing its name. Same idea - patch a cloud checkpoint with a LoRA that never touches your disk - but with the clip socket removed entirely. You hand it a CLOUD_MODEL, a LoRA name, and a strength, and you get a patched model handle back. That's it.

Why does that variant exist? Plenty of models you run through Comfy Cloud don't have a text encoder wired into the model handle at all. Video models, distilled checkpoints, and UNET-style diffusion models are the usual suspects - there's nothing for a LoRA to patch on the CLIP side, so the two-socket loader is the wrong tool. The cloud equivalent of ComfyUI's LoraLoaderModelOnly is exactly this: patch the weights, leave text encoding alone.

Inputs

• model - a CLOUD_MODEL handle from your checkpoint or UNET loader.
• lora_name - dropdown of the LoRAs on Comfy Cloud. Same story as its sibling: it starts as the placeholder <run Cloud List Models (loras) to populate> until you populate the cache.
• strength_model - default 1, range −10 to 10. How hard the LoRA rewrites the diffusion weights. This is your whole tuning surface here, since there's no CLIP strength.

One output, model, a patched CLOUD_MODEL that continues down the chain into your sampler.

Installation

Same pack, same steps as every other Cloud node:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/Dobidop/ComfyUI-CloudAPI-worker

Copy config.json.example to config.json, paste your API key from https://platform.comfy.org/profile/api-keys, restart. It's in ComfyUI Manager under "ComfyUI-CloudAPI-worker"; deps are just requests, Pillow, safetensors.

Gotchas

• The refresh dance again: empty lora_name dropdown means run Cloud List Models with folder=loras and restart ComfyUI. Queue with the placeholder and you get the same No LoRA selected error as the full loader.
• If you picked this node because you don't have a clip handle, good instinct. If you picked it and you do have a clip and a LoRA that modifies text conditioning, go back to Cloud Lora Loader - model-only will silently leave the text encoder unpatched.
• Remember the pack's status: it's a proof of concept from a small community project (the author posted it on r/comfyui in 2026), so don't expect the polish of a maintained pack with hundreds of installs. It works, but it's DIY territory.