Qwen-Image 4-Step Text/Image-to-Image
A ComfyUI workflow for Qwen-Image (Alibaba's 20B MMDiT) with the 4-Step Lightning LoRA — text-to-image, image-to-image and experimental inpainting. Generates 768×768 in ~80 seconds on mid-range GPUs.
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- GPU: NVIDIA RTX 30XX/40XX/50XX (FP16)
- VRAM: 6 GB minimum
- OS: Windows
- Storage: 40 GB+ free
Model downloads
- qwen-image Q3_K_S GGUF (→ unet) https://huggingface.co/city96/Qwen-Image-gguf/tree/main
- Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct Q4_0 GGUF (→ clip) https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-GGUF/tree/main
- qwen_image_vae.safetensors (→ vae) https://huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/Qwen-Image_ComfyUI/tree/main/split_files/vae
- Qwen-Image-Lightning 4-steps LoRA https://huggingface.co/lightx2v/Qwen-Image-Lightning/tree/main
- 2xLexicaRRDBNet_Sharp (upscaler) https://huggingface.co/Thelocallab/2xLexicaRRDBNet_Sharp/tree/main
- Qwen Image 20B diffusion models https://huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/Qwen-Image_ComfyUI/tree/main/split_files/diffusion_models
Custom nodes
- ComfyUI Manager https://github.com/ltdrdata/ComfyUI-Manager
- ComfyUI_LayerStyle https://github.com/chflame163/ComfyUI_LayerStyle
- ComfyUI-KJNodes https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-KJNodes
- ComfyUI-GGUF https://github.com/city96/ComfyUI-GGUF
- ComfyUI-Florence2 https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-Florence2
Setup steps
- Install the ComfyUI portable package and the custom nodes above.
- Download all models to their folders (unet, clip, vae, loras, upscale_models, diffusion_models).
- Load the Qwen-Image T2I/I2I workflow into ComfyUI.
- Use a text prompt for text-to-image, or load an image for image-to-image.
- For inpainting: right-click the image → "open mask editor", mask the area, add a prompt.
Notes & tips
- Inpainting is experimental — adjust denoise in the Basic Scheduler for consistency.
- RunPod template: https://get.runpod.io/Qwen-Image-Template
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