ComfyUI Tutorial Series Ep 44: HiDream AI – How to Set Up & Choose the Best Model

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 Get the workflows and instructions from discord for free https://discord.gg/gggpkVgBf3 Check Other Episodes https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-pohOSaL8P9kLZP8tQ1K1QWdZEgwiBM0 Unlock exclusive perks by joining our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmMbwA-s3GZDKVzGZ-kPwaQ/join 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 #comfyui #hidream #texttoimage