# Install ComfyUI

ComfyUI is a toolkit to build Generative AI pipelines and execute them. It is very powerful but have a complex node-graph interface that makes it hard to use. 

Most CushyStudio Apps build on top of ComfyUI as a backend

You can find install instructions here: <https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI?tab=readme-ov-file#installing>&#x20;

## LOCAL (same machine)

if you're on windows or linux and if your local machine has a powerful GPU, installing ComfyUI localy is probably a good idea.

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### Install from scratch

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### Pre-existing ComfyUI

if you already have a working ComfyUI setup, you can just use-it without any more work.

* Go to your host section
* add custom host
* 🚧🎥 image

### Managed ComfyUI

There are a few services that offer managed ComfyUI instances.

It's not our focus yet, but we may also try to offer managed ComfyUI instances in the future.

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## LOCAL network

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## CLOUD


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