Offload CLIP / T5 / Gemma text encoding to a separate GPU machine and use the results directly in ComfyUI. Frees the ComfyUI machine from having to load large text encoder models locally.
RemoteTextEncoder/
├── server/ ← run this on your GPU / encoding machine
└── (root) ← install this folder as a ComfyUI custom node
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Clone or copy this folder into your ComfyUI custom nodes directory:
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Install dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt
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Set your server URL in
rte_config.json(in the node folder) so the model dropdown populates automatically on startup:{ "server_url": "http://your-server-hostname:8288" }Without this step the dropdown will be empty until the node is executed once — after that the URL is saved automatically for future restarts.
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Restart ComfyUI.
Press R on the Remote CLIP Loader node at any time to refresh the model list (e.g. after loading a new model on the server).
See server/README.md for full details.
cd server pip install torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121 # CUDA # or: pip install torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm6.0 # ROCm pip install -r requirements.txt python server.py --port 8288
Place models in server/models/ — see server/models/README.txt for the
supported layouts (HF model directory or single .safetensors file).
| Node | Inputs | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Remote CLIP Loader | server_url, model_name, clip_skip, timeout, api_key |
REMOTE_CLIP |
| CLIP Text Encode (Remote) | remote_clip, text, max_length |
CONDITIONING |
| CLIP Text Encode Couple (Remote / SDXL) | remote_clip_l, remote_clip_g, text_l, text_g |
CONDITIONING |
| LTX-Video Text Encode (Remote) | remote_t5, remote_gemma, text, t5_max_length, gemma_max_length |
CONDITIONING |
RemoteCLIPLoader ──► CLIPTextEncodeRemote (positive) ──┐
RemoteCLIPLoader ──► CLIPTextEncodeRemote (negative) ──┤
▼
KSampler ◄── VAELoader, CheckpointLoader ...
RemoteCLIPLoader (clip-l) ──┐
├──► CLIPTextEncodeCoupleRemote (positive) ──┐
RemoteCLIPLoader (clip-g) ──┘ │
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RemoteCLIPLoader (clip-l) ──┐ KSampler
├──► CLIPTextEncodeCoupleRemote (negative) ──┘
RemoteCLIPLoader (clip-g) ──┘
RemoteCLIPLoader (T5-XXL) ──┐
├──► LTXVTextEncodeRemote ──► CONDITIONING
RemoteCLIPLoader (Gemma-3-12B) ──┘