# ComfyUI alternatives: an honest guide to node canvases for image and video

ComfyUI, Figma Weave, FLORA, Krea Nodes, Magnific Spaces and Sloosh Spacelab compared by the question that matters most: who runs the workflow.

21 Oct 2026 · 10 min read · Guides · By Sloosh

Web page: https://sloosh.ai/alternatives/comfyui-alternatives

The best ComfyUI alternative depends on who runs the workflow. Keep ComfyUI for local, open-source, deepest control. Pick Figma Weave if your team lives in Figma, FLORA for a shared creative canvas, Krea Nodes to turn graphs into apps, and Sloosh Spacelab to publish a canvas as a form anyone, or any AI agent, can run.

## Key facts

| Tool | Runs where | Best for | Turn a graph into an app others run | Agents and API | Pricing |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ComfyUI | Your own GPU (Comfy Desktop) or Comfy Cloud | Deepest control, open models, custom nodes | Workflows can be deployed as an API | Comfy Agent, Comfy MCP and Comfy API listed on the homepage | Software is free and open source (GPL-3.0). Comfy Cloud has a free tier and paid plans from $16 a month billed yearly |
| Figma Weave (formerly Weavy) | Browser | Design teams, editing tools beside generation | "From Workflow to Tool" builds a simplified UI for your team | Weave tools and models run through the Figma MCP server; API on Enterprise | Free tier; paid plans from $24 a month billed yearly |
| FLORA | Browser | Brand teams and agencies iterating together | Decks, Studios | "Run FLORA from Claude, Codex or your own code" | Free tier; paid plans from $18 a seat a month |
| Krea Nodes | Browser | Building small apps from a graph | Node App Builder, public or team-only | Execute a Node App endpoint | Free tier; Pro $35 a month, less billed yearly |
| Magnific Spaces (formerly Freepik) | Browser | Teams already on Freepik or Magnific credits | Reusable workflows for teammates | Magnific MCP can save and run Spaces workflows; API access on paid plans | See Magnific's pricing page |
| Sloosh Spacelab | Browser | Publishing a workflow as a form people and agents run | Publish as a Space with its own form and sloo.sh link | MCP for Claude, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, plus ChatGPT Business and Enterprise/Edu (every Sloosh plan) | Creator, Pro and Max. Your first workspace gets 20 free starter credits. See pricing |

Each claim comes from the vendor's own pages, checked on 11 November 2026. These products ship fast, so check before you pay.

**Comfy Cloud pricing**

| Plan | Price | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | no price shown | 5 free runs |
| Standard | $16 / month | billed yearly, $20 monthly |
| Creator | $28 / month | billed yearly, $35 monthly |
| Pro | $80 / month | billed yearly, $100 monthly |
| Team | $630 / month | billed yearly, $700 monthly |

_Last checked 11 Nov 2026. Source: https://www.comfy.org/cloud/pricing_

**Figma Weave pricing**

| Plan | Price | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 150 credits a month, 5 workflows |
| Starter | $24 / month | billed yearly |
| Professional | $45 / month | billed yearly |
| Max | $100 / month | billed yearly |
| Team | $42 / user / month | billed yearly |

_Last checked 11 Nov 2026. Source: https://weave.figma.com/pricing_

**FLORA pricing**

| Plan | Price | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 1 seat, 3 active projects |
| Starter | $18 / seat / month |  |
| Pro | $50 / seat / month |  |
| Max | $200 / seat / month |  |

_Last checked 11 Nov 2026. Source: https://www.flora.ai/pricing_

**Krea pricing**

| Plan | Price | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | daily allowance |
| Basic | $9 / month |  |
| Pro | $35 / month |  |
| Max | $105 / month |  |
| Business | $200 / month | discounts shown for yearly billing |

_Last checked 11 Nov 2026. Source: https://www.krea.ai/pricing_

## Why do people look for a ComfyUI alternative?

Picture Arjun, a freelance designer. His graph worked on Friday.

On Monday he updated one custom node pack, and three boxes in the middle of his product-shot workflow turned red. His client, a shoe brand, wanted to run the same workflow themselves next week. Their marketing lead has never installed Python.

ComfyUI is brilliant, and it asks a lot of whoever keeps it running: a GPU or a cloud bill, node packs that update on their own schedule, and a graph only its builder can read.

People searching for an alternative usually want three things:

1. **No install.** It runs in a browser tab.
2. **No babysitting.** Someone else keeps the models and nodes working.
3. **Something a non-builder can run.** A form with three fields, instead of forty nodes.

Every tool below solves the first two. They differ most on the third.

## When is ComfyUI the right answer?

Often. Here's when to stay:

- **You need open models on your own hardware.** ComfyUI runs on Windows, Linux and macOS, on NVIDIA, AMD, Intel and Apple Silicon ([GitHub](https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI)). Run it locally with local models and your files stay on your machine.
- **You need a specific LoRA, ControlNet or custom node.** The [homepage](https://www.comfy.org/) counts "60,000+ nodes." No hosted canvas comes close to that breadth.
- **You want to own the stack.** It's GPL-3.0 open source with over 140,000 GitHub stars. You can read every line.
- **Your costs are mostly GPU hours.** If you already own the card, a long night of batch renders costs you electricity.

If two of those sound like you, keep ComfyUI. Comfy Cloud gives you the same graph without the local GPU.

## What is Figma Weave, and who should use it?

Figma Weave is the node canvas Figma bought. Figma acquired Weavy, a Tel Aviv startup, on October 30, 2025, and brought it in under the Figma Weave name ([TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/30/figma-acquires-ai-powered-media-generation-company-weavy)). weavy.ai now redirects to weave.figma.com.

Its strength is editing beside generation. The [homepage](https://weave.figma.com/) lists inpaint, outpaint, relight, mask extraction, depth, layers, type and blends, next to models from Google, Kling, OpenAI, Bytedance, Black Forest Labs, Runway, Luma and others.

Pick Weave if your team already works in Figma and wants a canvas from the same company.

Look elsewhere if you want people outside your team to run the workflow from a simple form, or an agent to build and edit the workflow itself. Figma's MCP server can run Weave tools and models, but Weave's [help centre](https://help.weavy.ai/en/articles/16202764-running-tools-from-external-agents-mcp) says creating and editing workflows over MCP isn't supported yet.

## What is FLORA, and FLORA vs Weavy?

[FLORA](https://www.flora.ai/) calls itself "the AI-powered canvas for designers, brand teams, and agencies," with "50+ models" on one infinite canvas. It adds Decks to present canvas work live, Studios for jobs like fashion, and an MCP and API so you can run it from Claude or Codex.

On FLORA vs Weavy: both are browser canvases with wide model lists. FLORA leans toward team review and presentation. Weave leans toward pixel-level editing and a home inside Figma.

Pick FLORA if your work ends in a client review, and the canvas itself is part of the pitch.

## What are Krea Nodes?

Krea Nodes is Krea's node canvas for image, video, 3D and audio, with motion transfer and lipsync nodes. Its Node App Builder turns a graph into a form-based app. You choose which fields to expose, and the app can be public or team-only. [Krea's docs](https://www.krea.ai/docs/user-guide/features/nodes.md) suggest keeping apps to 5 to 7 inputs, which is good advice for anyone.

Pick Krea if you want graph-to-app in the same place you already generate, and you're happy on Krea's plan tiers.

## What are Magnific Spaces, and why does the name sound familiar?

Freepik is now Magnific, and its node canvas is called [Spaces](https://www.magnific.com/spaces). It connects models, references and prompts as nodes, with real-time collaboration and coloured cursors. Free users can make up to 3 Spaces.

Here's the confusing bit: Sloosh also has Spaces. They're different things. A Magnific Space is a canvas. A Sloosh Space is the finished form a canvas becomes after you publish it. The Sloosh canvas is called Spacelab.

Pick Magnific Spaces if your team already buys Freepik or Magnific credits for stock and generation.

## What is Sloosh Spacelab?

[Spacelab](https://sloosh.ai/docs/spacelab) is the Sloosh canvas. You wire input nodes, model nodes and edit nodes together, run it, and see the cost of one run before you press the button.

Then you publish. Each input node becomes one field on a form. That form is a Space, with its own sloo.sh link. Your teammate fills in three fields and presses Generate. They never see the graph.

That's the part we care most about. Arjun's client would never open the canvas. Their marketing lead uploads a shoe photo, types a backdrop and gets the shots.

Three more things:

- **Agents can run it.** On every plan, Claude, Codex, Cursor, VS Code or ChatGPT (in a Business or Enterprise/Edu workspace) can find a Space over the [Sloosh MCP](https://sloosh.ai/docs/mcp), quote it and run it, and draft and test canvases too. Every paid run starts with a quote, and nothing paid runs until you set a daily limit.
- **One credit balance covers every model.** That's 24 image models and 22 video models, from Nano Banana 2.1 to Seedance 2.5 and Kling V3 Omni.
- **Remix is built in.** Remix copies someone's canvas into your workspace so you can change it, unless the owner keeps the canvas private.

For the longer version of run vs build, read [Space vs Spacelab](https://sloosh.ai/blog/space-vs-spacelab).

## What does "no-code ComfyUI" mean in practice?

It means two different jobs.

**Job one: build without code.** Every tool here, including ComfyUI, lets you drag nodes instead of writing Python. The difference is setup: hosted canvases skip the install and the node updates.

**Job two: run without the graph.** Someone who has never seen a node fills in a form and gets the output. Krea's Node Apps, Weave's simplified UI and Sloosh Spaces each do this their own way.

## How do you build and publish a workflow in Spacelab?

Here's a product-shot flow you can copy:

## A product-shot Space in seven steps

1. **Open Spacelab and add an Image Input node.** Name it "Product photo." That name becomes the form label.
2. **Add a Text Input node called "Backdrop."**
3. **Add a Prompt node** Add a Prompt node, press Add Variable, name it backdrop, and wire "Backdrop" into it. Write:

**Prompt node**

```text
Studio product photo of the uploaded item on {{backdrop}}. Soft key light from the left, gentle shadow, 50 mm lens, f/4, square crop, label sharp and readable.
```

1. Add an Image Model node and pick a model, such as Nano Banana 2.1. Feed it the prompt and the product photo.
2. Add an Upscaler after it.
3. Press Run till here on the model node to test that step, then Run for the full flow.
4. Press Publish. Autofill drafts the name, description and FAQ from your canvas. Turn on Publish to Community if you want it public, which needs at least one sample output.

The prompt stays the same for everyone who runs it. Only "Product photo" and "Backdrop" show up as fields.

## How do you choose?

Answer these in order and stop at the first yes:

1. Do you need local GPUs, open weights or a specific custom node? **ComfyUI.**
2. Does your team design in Figma and want editing tools next to models? **Figma Weave.**
3. Does the work end in a client presentation on the canvas? **FLORA.**
4. Do you already pay for Krea or Magnific? **Krea Nodes or Magnific Spaces.**
5. Do other people, or AI agents, need to run your workflow without seeing it? **Sloosh Spacelab.**

**Pick Sloosh Spacelab if:**

- People who never open the graph need to run it from a form
- You want AI agents to find, quote and run your workflow
- You'd rather not keep models and node packs updated yourself
- One credit balance across hosted image and video models suits you

**Stay on ComfyUI if:**

- You need open models or your own LoRAs on your own GPU
- Your graph depends on a specific community custom node
- You want the stack open source and in your hands
- You already own the hardware and your cost is electricity

## When is Sloosh the wrong tool?

- **When you need your own models.** Spacelab runs the hosted models in Sloosh. If you trained a LoRA or need an open checkpoint on your own GPU, ComfyUI wins.
- **When you need a niche node.** Sloosh has a set of input, generate, edit and output nodes. It doesn't have 60,000. If your graph depends on one community node, stay where that node lives.
- **When the canvas is the deliverable.** If you present the graph itself to a client, FLORA's Decks fit better.
- **When you want Veo.** The Sloosh model list doesn't include Veo today. Magnific Spaces lists Google Veo.

## One test settles it

Take the workflow you run every week and rebuild it once, then hand the link to someone who has never seen it.

Try it with 20 free credits at [sloosh.ai](https://sloosh.ai).

Related: [AI UGC video ads from product photos](https://sloosh.ai/blog/ai-ugc-video-ads) and [how to generate images in Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor](https://sloosh.ai/blog/generate-images-in-claude).

## FAQ

**What is the best ComfyUI alternative with no code?**

It depends on who runs the workflow. For designers, Figma Weave or FLORA. For publishing a workflow as a form that teammates or AI agents can run, Sloosh Spacelab or Krea's Node App Builder.

**Is ComfyUI free?**

ComfyUI is open-source software under GPL-3.0, so running it on your own hardware is free apart from the computer and electricity. Comfy Cloud and paid API nodes cost money; check comfy.org for current plans.

**Is Figma Weave the same as Weavy?**

Yes. Figma acquired Weavy in October 2025 and brought it under the Figma Weave name. weavy.ai now redirects to weave.figma.com.

**Can I move a ComfyUI workflow into Spacelab?**

There's no import for ComfyUI workflow files. Rebuild the graph with Spacelab's input, model and edit nodes, which is usually quick for flows that use hosted models. Flows built on custom nodes or local checkpoints should stay in ComfyUI.