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Runflow
ComfyDeploy Alternative

Your workflows deservea platform built to last.

Runflow is production infrastructure for ComfyUI workflows, run as a managed service. Deploy your workflows through us, or hand us the use case and our team builds the pipeline, runs it in production, and helps you ship the integration. Sentinel scores every output.

25 minutes with the team that runs it

✓Deploy in one-click, same experience·✓All your custom nodes and models·✓Up to 58% cheaper than ComfyDeploy·✓Sentinel · Retries · Loops on top

Managed service

A working integration,built and run for you.

ComfyDeploy gave you a deploy button and left the rest to your team. Runflow is a managed service: we take the use case and hand back a pipeline your product can call.

01
We scope and build the pipeline
We benchmark models for your use case, build the workflow, and host every model it needs on infrastructure we already run. Bring your own ComfyUI workflows and we port them.
02
We run it in production
Retries, quality thresholds, failover, and scaling stay on our side. Your team gets one API key and one invoice, with no machines to size.
03
We help you ship the integration
We work through how the flow fits your product with you, down to how the interface should behave while a generation runs.

A one-off build starts at $7,500 per workflow, or commit from $500 a month in API spend on a 12-month term and the builds, maintenance, and lower per-call rates come included. Teams who prefer to run their own workflows keep the self-serve deploy path on Runflow Deploy.

What you keep

Every capability you relied on.Zero migration friction.

Your existing ComfyUI workflows run on Runflow exactly as they did on ComfyDeploy. Same deploy experience, same environment control, same API surface.

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Deploy in one-click
Deploy your workflow directly from ComfyUI in one-click. API endpoint live instantly: no Docker, no DevOps.
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Any custom node, any model
FLUX, SDXL, ControlNet, IPAdapter, LoRAs. Full environment support: if it ran in ComfyDeploy, it runs here.
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Auto-scaling GPU
Scales to zero when idle, bursts on demand. RTX 4090 · A100 · L40S · H100: billed by the second. Up to 58% cheaper than ComfyDeploy on like-for-like hardware.
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Version history
Full workflow history, one-click rollback to any previous version. Iterate with confidence.
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Dev → Staging → Prod
Full environment control. Test before you promote. No production surprises.
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Clean REST API
Typed inputs matching your workflow parameters, auto-generated API docs, call from any language.
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Parallel generation
Hundreds of parallel jobs on demand. No queues, no waiting: your team generates simultaneously.
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Team collaboration
Share workflows, manage environments, and give your whole team access: no ComfyUI knowledge required.

What you gain

The three things ComfyDeploynever built.

ComfyDeploy shipped the deployment layer. Runflow ships the production layer on top, the capabilities that turn a deployed workflow into a reliable product.

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Sentinel quality evaluation
Every output is scored across multiple quality dimensions before delivery. Bad outputs trigger auto-retry automatically. Your users only ever see passing results. Built into every Solution API. Add it as a node in any custom Runflow workflow.
Not available on ComfyDeploy
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Auto-retries
If a generation fails technically or scores below your Sentinel threshold, Runflow automatically re-queues it. Set max retries and fallback behavior from the dashboard: zero code required. Failed outputs no longer ship silently.
Not available on ComfyDeploy
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Loops
Run your workflow in a controlled loop: iterating until the output passes your quality threshold. Useful for batch processing, iterative refinement, and generating multiple variants. Not possible in ComfyUI or on ComfyDeploy.
Not available on ComfyDeploy

Or skip building entirely

17 pre-built Solution APIs.Ready to call today.

Not every team needs custom workflows. Background removal, AI headshots, virtual try-on, cloth transfer, and more. Each Solution API includes quality evaluation, auto-retry, and fixed per-image pricing.

Background RemovalAI HeadshotsCloth TransferReplace BackgroundFace InpaintingObject RemovalPose Guided GenerationShopping Tag Removal+9 more
Browse all Solution APIs →

Sentinel in action

Bad outputs never reach your users.Fully automated.

Other platforms tell you when a generation fails technically. Sentinel tells you when it fails quality, fully automated. Allowing you to fix it before your user sees it.

Sentinel evaluation, virtual try-on workflow✓ Passed, auto-retried once
Stage 1. Pre-processing
Face similarity✓ PASS0.97
Segmentation (garment)✓ PASS0.91
Pose analysis✓ PASS0.94
Stage 2. LLM Judges
Identity preservation✓ PASS0.96
Garment fit + drape✓ PASS0.88
Skin realism⚠ RETRY0.71
Skin realism (retry 1)✓ PASS0.89
✓ DELIVERED· 4.1s total · 1 auto-retry · 0 bad outputs reached your user

How to migrate

Three steps. We domost of them with you.

Your ComfyUI workflows stay as they are. The deploy experience is identical. You gain a production layer and a team that operates it.

01
Book a migration assessment
25 minutes with the team. We go through your ComfyDeploy workflows, custom nodes, models, and volume, then tell you what moving takes and what it costs.
02
Your workflow deploys in one-click
From within ComfyUI, your workflow deploys straight to Runflow in one-click. We parse the node graph and create the API endpoint. Same process you already know.
03
We turn on Sentinel, retries, and loops
The production layer gets configured with you: quality evaluation, auto-retry thresholds, loop behavior. Your team operates it through the dashboard. We keep it running.

Runflow vs ComfyDeploy

Everything you had.Plus what was always missing.

Runflow pairs the deployment layer with a team that runs your workflows in production.

Runflow
ComfyDeploy
Who builds the pipeline
Runflow's team scopes and builds it
Your team, on a self-serve platform
Who runs it in production
Runflow, including retries and scaling
Your team
Integration support
We design the flow and the UI with you
Docs and community
Output quality scoring
Sentinel scores every output
None
ComfyDeploy
Deploy and call API
The deployment layer, now open-sourcing
What it included
✓Deploy in one-click, deploy your workflow, get a live API endpoint instantly.
✓Custom nodes and models, full environment support.
✓Auto-scaling GPU, scales to zero, bursts on demand.
✓Version history, workflow versioning and rollback.
What was missing
✕No quality evaluation, bad outputs reached users silently.
✕No auto-retries, failed generations shipped. Your app handled recovery.
✕No loops, iterative generation wasn't possible on the platform.
✕Machine-tied, configurations are edited per-instance inside the cloud editor. 100 machines means 100 manual fixes.
✕No automated dependency resolution, missing models must be manually tracked down, downloaded, and re-uploaded per machine. Every new deployment is a manual debugging session.
✕Open-sourcing, commercial future uncertain.
Runflow
Deploy, scale, ship
Everything above, plus the production quality layer
Same experience as ComfyDeploy
✓Deploy in one-click, same experience, deploy your workflow from ComfyUI in one-click.
✓Custom nodes and models, any workflow that ran on ComfyDeploy runs here.
✓Up to 58% cheaper on A100. Higher-tier capacity on demand. Billed by the second.
✓Version history, full versioning and one-click rollback.
Only on Runflow
✓Sentinel quality evaluation, every output scored before delivery. Auto-retry on fail.
✓A team that builds and runs it, we scope the pipeline, port your workflows, wire in Sentinel, and operate it in production with you.
✓Auto-retries, failed or below-threshold outputs never ship to users.
✓Loops, iterative generation built into the platform. No code.
✓Fleet-managed scaling, deploy once, configuration propagates. Version-controlled and rollback-ready at any scale: no per-machine manual fixes.
✓Automated dependency resolutionComing Soon, Runflow resolves model dependencies on deploy. No manual tracking, no per-machine re-upload.
✓Commercial roadmap, actively built, funded, and committed to this space long-term.

Pricing

Cheaper than ComfyDeploy.And you never run the machine.

Three ways to work with us. Most teams have us build and operate the pipeline, then pay per API call.

We build and run itMost teams
From $7,500
one-off per workflow, or from $500/month in API spend on a 12-month term with builds and maintenance included
Our team ports your workflows, wires Sentinel and retries, and operates the pipeline in production.
Solution APIs✓ 17 live
Per call
simple fixed price per image, published per endpoint
Quality evaluation and auto-retry are included in the price. No idle cost, no GPU to size.
See pricing →
Deploy through usSelf-run
Up to 58% cheaper GPU time than ComfyDeploy.
RTX 4090 · A100 · L40S · RTX Pro 6000 · H100. Billed by the second, zero idle cost.
See the GPU rate card →
✓ ZERO IDLE COST. SCALE TO ZERO WHEN NOT RUNNING✓ BILLED BY THE SECOND. NO HOURLY ROUNDING✓ SENTINEL · USAGE-BASED PRICING · AVAILABLE AS API OR WORKFLOW NODE
Case Study

From 40% to 87% gross margin in 12 months

BetterPic processes hundreds of thousands of AI inference jobs monthly, portraits, background removal, segmentation, and more. Runflow's orchestration layer handles GPU routing, automatic failover, and retry across datacenters, so their team ships product instead of debugging infrastructure. This is the platform we now run for customers.

30%+
Savings vs in-house
87%
Current gross margin
100K+
AI jobs per month
See Case Study →
Margin Trend Analysis✓ Strong Upward Trend
90%60%30%0%Jan '25Mar '25May '25Jul '25Sep '25Nov '25Jan '26
Your new home for ComfyUI

Your workflows are ready.Runflow is ready for them.

Same deploy experience. Better pricing. Plus the production quality layer that ComfyDeploy never shipped, operated by our team.

Your custom nodes work here today