What is Ae?
Ae is a VAE (Variational Autoencoder) that encodes and decodes latent representations. You can run it locally in ComfyUI with full control over every parameter, or access it through Comfy Cloud. ComfyUI's node-based workflow editor lets you connect Ae with ControlNets, LoRAs, upscalers, and custom nodes to build any pipeline you need. There are 43 community workflow templates using Ae on Comfy Workflows, ready to load and customize.
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Ae is a VAE (Variational Autoencoder) that encodes and decodes latent representations. You can run it locally in ComfyUI with full control over every parameter, or access it through Comfy Cloud. ComfyUI's node-based workflow editor lets you connect Ae with ControlNets, LoRAs, upscalers, and custom nodes to build any pipeline you need. There are 43 community workflow templates using Ae on Comfy Workflows, ready to load and customize.
Follow the step-by-step tutorial at https://docs.comfy.org/tutorials/image/z-image/z-image-turbo. You can also load any of the 43 community workflow templates that use Ae directly in ComfyUI.
There are 43 community workflow templates that use Ae on Comfy Workflows. Each template is ready to run in ComfyUI and can be customized to suit your project.
ComfyUI is free and open source. Ae weights are available to download from Hugging Face. You only pay for compute when running on Comfy Cloud; local inference on your own hardware is always free.