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Taking AI image pipelines to production. ComfyUI deployment, Docker, serverless GPU, cold starts, authentication, and scaling.
Why Replicate cold starts happen, when they affect custom vs public models, and the exact fixes. Cost breakdown for keeping models warm on Replicate versus switching providers.
Replicate vs fal.ai vs Runware vs Together AI vs RunPod vs Vast.ai. Decision matrix for production ComfyUI deployments based on latency, cost, cold starts, and DevOps burden.
Cold start times documented across Replicate, fal.ai, Modal, and RunPod. What causes serverless GPU cold starts, which providers handle them best, and how to fix them in production.
ComfyUI exposes a WebSocket API, not REST. Here is how to use the /prompt endpoint, poll results, and build a reliable production wrapper around it.
How to run ComfyUI in Docker for production: the --listen flag most guides skip, volume strategy for large models, GPU passthrough, and health checks.
RunPod, Modal, fal.ai, Replicate, and Comfy Cloud compared for ComfyUI serverless deployment. Verified pricing, cold start benchmarks, and custom node support — May 2026.
ComfyUI has no built-in auth. Here is how to secure it with Nginx, API keys, JWT, rate limiting, and a hardening checklist — before the next botnet finds your port.