INSTANTID – REQUIRED FILES AND PATHS (COMFYUI)

To run InstantID / IPAdapter workflows correctly in ComfyUI, the following models and dependencies are required.

INSTANTID CONTROLNET

Location:

/ComfyUI/models/controlnet/instantid-controlnet.safetensors

Download: [https://huggingface.co/xingren23/comfyflow-models/blob/8297c11e55592e513093be0a4085dd666d3789e4/controlnet/instantid-controlnet.safetensors)

CONTROL LORA DEPTH RANK256

Location:

/ComfyUI/models/controlnet/control-lora-depth-rank256.safetensors

Download: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/control-lora/resolve/main/control-LoRAs-rank256/control-lora-depth-rank256.safetensors?download=true

IP-ADAPTER (InstantID)

Location:

/ComfyUI/models/instantid/ip-adapter.bin

Repository: https://huggingface.co/InstantX/InstantID

Direct download: https://huggingface.co/InstantX/InstantID/resolve/main/ip-adapter.bin?download=true

INSIGHTFACE (Face Analysis)

Required folder:

/ComfyUI/models/insightface/antelopev2

Download release: https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface/releases

Extract the antelopev2 folder inside : /home/theboss/ai/ComfyUI/models/insightface/models/antelopev2

CLIP VISION MODEL

Location:

/ComfyUI/models/clip_vision/open_clip_model.safetensors

Download:

https://huggingface.co/laion/CLIP-ViT-H-14-laion2B-s32B-b79K/resolve/main/open_clip_model.safetensors?download=true

PYTHON DEPENDENCIES TO INSTALL IN THE COMFYUI ENVIRONMENT

Install inside the ComfyUI virtual environment:

your/env/python -m pip install insightface onnxruntime-gpu opencv-python

Installed libraries:

insightface
onnxruntime-gpu
opencv-python
CUSTOM NODES TO INSTALL FROM THE COMFYUI MANAGER

ComfyUI_IPAdapter_plus https://github.com/cubiq/ComfyUI_IPAdapter_plus

ComfyUI_InstantID https://github.com/cubiq/ComfyUI_InstantID

Some additional dependencies or models, if missing, may be automatically downloaded the first time the workflow is executed.