ComfyUI announced 500 million valuation, bringing total funding to $48 million. The round was led by Craft, with participation from Pace Capital, Chemistry, TruArrow, and others. The announcement follows rapid organic growth, with ComfyUI surpassing 4 million users, 60,000+ community-built nodes, and 150,000+ daily downloads, making it one of the fastest-growing platforms in creative AI.
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30MSeriesBat500M valuation led by Craft.
Surpassed 4 million users and 150,000+ daily downloads.
60,000+ community-built nodes in open ecosystem.
Powers SVEDKA's 2026 Super Bowl commercial, first primarily AI-generated Super Bowl ad.
Used by Black Math, Silverside AI, and leading studios.
"ComfyUI artist" emerging as job title across enterprise and creative studios.
ComfyUI started as an open source project and over the years has become the standard for creator-controlled AI workflows, with an open ecosystem spanning image, video, 3D, and audio, locally or in the cloud. Driven by community adoption and word-of-mouth, it is now used by leading studios, agencies, and enterprise teams to power AI-driven creative workflows. Creative studios like Black Math are using ComfyUI to build modular creative pipelines connecting their motion, texture, and generative tools. Agencies like Silverside AI used ComfyUI to develop SVEDKA's 2026 Super Bowl commercial, the first primarily AI-generated Super Bowl ad. Technical artists use ComfyUI the way engineers use code — composing models, LoRAs, ControlNets, and community nodes into precise, reproducible workflows.
With tens of thousands of community-built nodes and extensions, ComfyUI's ecosystem expands faster than traditional software models, creating a compounding advantage as new models and workflows emerge. ComfyUI has quietly become a hiring signal. Across job boards at enterprise companies and creative studios, "ComfyUI artist" has emerged as a job title in high demand. Creative directors, technical artists, and pipeline engineers are now expected to build in ComfyUI. What began as an open-source tool built by a single developer has become infrastructure for a new creative profession.
As Yannik Marek, cofounder and the creator of ComfyUI, stated: "With this funding we can make sure open source wins. We and many in the community have spent a lot of effort: countless hours, even years working directly and indirectly on ComfyUI. Without you we would not exist. We want to live in a world where the best tool is open source. Now we can finally make our dream real."
PJ Pereira, Co-founder of Silverside AI, added: "ComfyUI is so important to us because it allows us to know that we always play on the bleeding edge. Not only because of the technology itself, but because of the entire community shaping the product and developing extensions that we can use in our creative development process."
Jeremy Sahlman, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at Black Math, said: "We've used many different tools, but using ComfyUI really brings artist empowerment to the forefront. I want my employees to feel like they have control over the process. The more exposed they can be to how the models work, the more we feel we're creating something that only we could make."
Scott Belsky, Founder of Behance, stated: "Comfy has innovated a new and powerful ecosystem for creativity without compromising creative control. It has been amazing to watch technical artists and curious creative minds leverage Comfy to explore the full surface area of their ideas."
Sean Whitney, Investor at Craft, shared: "AI has fundamentally changed the creative process, and the best tools amplify human creativity rather than replace it — that's exactly what ComfyUI is doing. The creative suite of the future will look nothing like the tools of the past—we believe it will look like Comfy."
About ComfyUI
ComfyUI is a node-based workflow platform for generative AI, built for creators who require full control over their pipelines. It supports a wide range of models and is extensible through a growing ecosystem of community-developed nodes. Used by millions of creators, developers, and studios, ComfyUI enables users to build and run AI workflows across image, video, 3D, and audio. It is available as both a local installation and a hosted cloud service.
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