In this episode of the ComfyUI tutorial series, we take a close look at HiDream, a free and open-source text-to-image model released by HiDream-ai. It's now compatible with ComfyUI, and in this video, you'll learn how to install it, compare all the different versions, and decide which one works best for your system and creative needs.
🔹 What You'll Learn:
- How to set up HiDream in ComfyUI
- Differences between Full, Dev, Fast, FP8, and quantized versions
- Which version works best for different types of art
- Real-world comparisons with Flux and paid AI models
- Running HiDream on lower VRAM setups or in the cloud
- Workflow tips and how to handle missing nodes or update issues
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HiDream Page
https://huggingface.co/HiDream-ai/HiDream-I1-Full
HiDream Comfy Blog Page
https://blog.comfy.org/p/hidream-i1-native-support-in-comfyui
HiDream Examples
https://comfyanonymous.github.io/ComfyUI_examples/hidream/
FP8 Models
https://huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/HiDream-I1_ComfyUI/tree/main/split_files/diffusion_models
TextEncoders
https://huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/HiDream-I1_ComfyUI/tree/main/split_files/text_encoders
VAE
https://huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/HiDream-I1_ComfyUI/tree/main/split_files/vae
Full GGUF models
https://huggingface.co/city96/HiDream-I1-Full-gguf/tree/main
Dev GGUF Models
https://huggingface.co/city96/HiDream-I1-Dev-gguf/tree/main
Fast GGUF Models
https://huggingface.co/city96/HiDream-I1-Fast-gguf/tree/main
Run HiDream on the Cloud on RunningHub website
https://www.runninghub.ai/post/1915015405390495746?utm_source=kol02-RH003
Chapters
00:00 Intro to HiDream
00:25 HiDream Full, Dev, Fast
01:36 HiDream Full vs Dev vs Fast Model
04:41 HiDream Full - FP8 vs Q8 GGUF vs Q4 GGUF
06:24 HiDream vs Flux vs Fluxmania
07:58 HiDream vs Kplors 2 vs ChatGpt 4o
09:41 How to setup HiDream in ComfyUI
14:57 HiDream In the Cloud
15:44 Final Thoughts & Model Recommendations
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