ERNIE-Image / ERNIE-Image-Turbo Workflows

ERNIE-Image / ERNIE-Image-Turbo Workflows

What this is (read first)

ERNIE-Image is Baidu's open-weight TEXT-TO-IMAGE model, an ~8B single-stream Diffusion Transformer (DiT), Apache-2.0, released April 2026 and repackaged for ComfyUI by Comfy-Org. It is not an instruction-based image editor.

• ERNIE-Image (base): ~50 steps for peak quality.
• ERNIE-Image-Turbo: distilled (Distribution Matching Distillation + RL), high-fidelity in ~8 steps at cfg 1. The downloaded pack uses Turbo (ernie-image-turbo-*.gguf).

Pick ERNIE when the job is precise text/typography rendering (multilingual, including Chinese), posters/signage/UI mockups, manga/anime storyboards and multi-panel layouts, or structured multi-object scenes from a complex prompt. Do not pick ERNIE for "edit this photo / change the shirt / swap the background". That is instruction-grounded editing, which ERNIE does not do. Use qwen-image-edit or Flux Kontext for those. ERNIE's "image-to-image" here is plain denoise-based refinement (style pass / detail pass), not reference-grounded editing.

Niche vs siblings. ERNIE is the best open-weight text rendering + layout T2I. Qwen-Image-Edit does instruction editing. Flux Kontext does reference editing. Z-Image Turbo does fast general T2I, and this same pack pairs the two; see Combo pipelines.

Separated packs (render-verified)

The original ernie monolith was a single toggle-template graph (every pipeline shipped bypassed; you activated one via the rgthree group toggles). It's now split into standalone, single-purpose packs, each a clean activated graph that renders headlessly with no group-toggling:

Working details verified live: the prompt-enhancer LLM is OFF by default (the ENHANCE PROMPT boolean is false; leave it off unless you want the 3B enhancer to rewrite the prompt). The grain/sharpen post-proc (FastFilmGrain/FastLaplacianSharpen, comfyui-vrgamedevgirl) needs librosa installed. In ernie-combo the Z-Image half's VAE is saved as z-image-ae.safetensors; its weights differ from Flux/ERNIE's ae.safetensors despite the same size, and the rename avoids a filename clash.

Source of truth & a provenance warning

This skill is derived from the actual pack files in C:\Users\Artokun\Downloads\:

• ERNIE-IMAGE-ULTRA-WORKFLOW.json (authoritative; the ComfyUI graph)
• ERNIE-IMAGE_ULTRA-MODELS-NODES_INSTALL.bat, ...-COMFYUI-MANAGER_AUTO_INSTALL.bat, ...-AUTO_INSTALL-RUNPOD.sh

Installer warning (verified). The three install scripts are copy-pasted from a Z-Image pack. Their headers literally say "Z-IMAGE-BASE"/"Z-IMAGE Base", and they download both ERNIE and Z-Image files. The model URLs/folders below are taken from those scripts but mirror this confusion. They pull z_image_turbo-*.gguf, Qwen3-4B-*.gguf, and ae.safetensors, which belong to the Z-Image half of the combo, not ERNIE. The ERNIE-only files are flagged below. All weights come from a third-party mirror huggingface.co/Aitrepreneur/FLX, not the official huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/ERNIE-Image (which hosts the same filenames; see Official sources).

Models

ERNIE-Image (the files ERNIE actually uses)

Confirmed from the workflow's virtual wires (Set_*/GetNode): the nodes tagged "ERNIE" resolve to these exact files.