Open-Sourcing ComfyDeploy (github.com)

ComfyDeploy has been re-open-sourced — this time with the entire cloud platform (frontend + backend) published so teams can self-host the full deployment stack or use a new pay-as-you-go cloud tier. The founders framed the move as a pivot driven by market pressure: growth was steady but constrained as closed-source models and potential ComfyUI cloud offerings reduced differentiation. The project started as a solution to the tricky problem of running ComfyUI in serverless environments, grew through viral interest and YC support, and is now being released to the community while existing customers and the hosted service remain supported. For practitioners, the release is immediately practical: the repo includes dev instructions (bun i; bun run dev), Docker/OrbStack compatibility, and sample envs covering S3-compatible storage, ngrok, Clerk auth, Redis/Upstash, Modal, Neon DB, Vercel frontend, and options to run backend on Railway or any serverless/stateful host. You can consolidate Redis instances, generate JWT/secret keys, and follow provided docs/tutorials to deploy locally or at scale. Open-sourcing the full platform lowers the barrier to experiment with ComfyUI workflows in production-like setups, gives teams freedom from vendor lock-in, and preserves interoperability as the ecosystem shifts toward both powerful closed models and community-built tooling.