vs ComfyUI
ComfyUI is a node editor for image-generation models. NodeTool is the studio around it: image, video, music, and words on one canvas, every major model a click away.
Free & Open SourceThe open creative
The open creative
AI workspace.
One canvas. Every major model from every major provider, called with your own keys. Pay providers what they charge — no credits, no markup, no locked-down model list. When the next model ships, swap one node and you're on it the same day.
- Every model. Your keys. Your canvas.
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- Pay providers directly
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- Open source, runs anywhere
01Wire your canvas
Drag in models, edits, and assets. Connect them. Every model from every provider lives on the same canvas.
Audio Input
Whisper
GPT Image 2
02Render with your keys
Bring your own keys to FAL, KIE, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Replicate. Pay providers directly. Watch results stream in.
Logs2.4s
- Workflow started
- LLM response received
- Image generated
- Data transformed
- Workflow completed
Preview
1024×1024PNG
03Edit and finish
Drop the generated image or clip into the built-in editors. Crop, mask, cut, and arrange on the timeline — no export, no second app.
Editors
Use cases
From a brief to a finished asset
Real workflows you can open, run, and rewire. Each one is complete, not a demo, and built from the same nodes you get on day one.
Film
Movie Trailer Generator
Type one logline and the canvas builds a cinematic teaser. A showrunner agent writes the treatment, a list generator breaks it into shots, each shot is rendered as key art, animated, and cut into a finished trailer.
LoglineTreatmentShotsKey artTrailer
View use caseMarketing
Product Video Generator
Turn a campaign brief and a single product photo into a cinematic 16:9 product video. Your inputs feed a prompt, an agent directs the shot, and a text-to-video model renders it.
BriefPromptAgentText-to-Video
View use case
Design
Movie Poster Generator
From a title, genre, and audience, the canvas writes a creative strategy and renders a batch of cinematic movie poster concepts, title, tagline, billing block and all.
BriefStrategyConceptsKey art
View use caseOne canvas
for the whole craft
Image, video, audio, and text on a single node-based canvas — with the editing tools you rely on wired in right next to the model calls.
Workflow Editor
Edit where you generate
Mask, retouch, extend, relight, upscale, layer, and composite. The editing tools you reach for, wired into the same canvas as the model calls.
Watch every node render
Outputs stream in as nodes finish. Inspect any frame, swap a model, re-run from that node down.
Your keys, provider prices
Bring your own keys for FAL, KIE, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Replicate, and the rest. The bill comes from the provider, not from us.
Image, video, audio, text
Flux, Seedance, Wan, ControlNet, Whisper, ElevenLabs, Suno — all of it on one canvas, under their real names. No renamed mystery models.
All the
building blocks
Hundreds of nodes for models, data, and files — plus auto-generated nodes for every Replicate, FAL, and Kie.ai model.
Built-in video editor
Generate AI video and audio straight onto a multi-track timeline. Prompt a model at the playhead, drop the clip on a track, then trim, split, and export a finished cut.
Generate at the playhead
Prompt a model and the new clip lands on the track right under the playhead — no import step.
Multi-track video & audio
AI video and AI audio share one timeline. Stack tracks, trim, split, and rearrange clips.
Export a finished cut
Render the whole sequence to a single video — the edit happens where you generate, not in another app.
Built-in sketch editor
A full layer-based image editor with generation built in. Paint with real brushes, stack layers and blend modes, then prompt a model to create or refine any layer — and export a finished PNG without leaving the canvas.
A real brush engine
Round, soft, airbrush, and spray brushes with size, opacity, hardness, and angle. Pick any color and paint straight onto the canvas.
Layers & blend modes
Stack layers, set opacity and blend modes, reorder and mask — the same controls you reach for in a pro image editor.
Generate onto a layer
Describe an image and it lands on its own layer. Mix hand-painted strokes with text-to-image and image-to-image right where you draw.
Organize Everything
Built-in Asset Manager
Drag files in once, use them in any workflow.
Import & organize
Drag and drop. Files auto-organize by type, project, or tags.
Preview files
Built-in preview for images, audio, video, and documents.
Use in workflows
Reference assets in your workflows—folders or single files.
Images & Graphics
PNG, JPG, GIF, SVG, WebP
Audio & Video
MP3, WAV, MP4, MOV, AVI
Documents & Data
PDF, TXT, JSON, CSV, DOCX
Run your workflows
by chatting
Skip the canvas when you don't need it. Ask in plain English, the right workflow runs, results stream back inline.
Chat Assistant
Comparison
Where NodeTool fits among your tools
You're probably using two or three of these already. Here's what changes when they live on one canvas.
vs Weavy / closed canvases
Closed canvases lock you into a credit system and a hand-picked list of models. NodeTool is open source — every provider, your own keys, provider prices.
vs A dozen browser tabs
Midjourney, Runway, Photoshop, ElevenLabs, Suno — each in its own tab, none of them talking to each other. NodeTool wires them into one canvas you can run, share, and re-run.
Where NodeTool fits
Every model. Your keys. Your canvas.
Take Seedance, one of today's top video models. It's available on FAL, Replicate, and KIE at different price points. NodeTool lets you pick the cheapest. And when the next Veo or Kling ships, it's one node swap away.
That's what not being tied to one vendor buys you: the best model at the best price, every week — and nothing to lose if your favorite tool gets acquired.
Your keys. Your files.
Your roadmap.
Every closed AI tool ends the same way: a price hike, fewer models, or an acquisition that quietly rewrites the roadmap. NodeTool calls whatever models you choose, charges you what the providers charge, and ships under a license that outlives whoever built it.
Your keys, every provider
Bring your own keys to FAL, KIE, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Replicate, and more. Keys stay on your disk in Studio, encrypted in Cloud. We never mark up model calls.
Provider prices, no credits
No proprietary tokens. No minimum top-up. You pay providers what they charge. The same Seedance call that costs $0.18 on KIE costs $0.18 in NodeTool.
Open source, always
Both editions — Studio (desktop) and Cloud (hosted) — share the same AGPL-3.0 codebase. No closed-source layer, no “pro tier” hiding the good features. Self-host any time.
Run models on your own machine
MLX, Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, LM Studio — fully supported. Runs offline once models are downloaded. Local is a feature, not a religion.
Every model. Your keys.
The newest models from every major provider, called with the keys you already pay for. Swap models the day they launch. Run them on your own machine when you want to.
Latest Models
Claude Opus 4.8Claude Sonnet 4.6Claude Haiku 4.5Gemini 3 ProGemini 3 FlashQwen ImageVeo 3.1Kling 3Seedance 3Hailuo 2.3Wan 2.5FLUXWhisperElevenLabsClaude Opus 4.8Claude Sonnet 4.6Claude Haiku 4.5Gemini 3 ProGemini 3 FlashQwen ImageVeo 3.1Kling 3Seedance 3Hailuo 2.3Wan 2.5FLUXWhisperElevenLabs
Cloud Providers
Hello
HuggingFace
Search, download, and manage models straight from Hugging Face.
Organize your local library without leaving the app.
Model Manager
Cost transparency
See what every run actually costs
NodeTool tracks the cost of every node run and totals it by workflow, provider, or model. You bring your own keys and pay providers directly, so the numbers are the real ones.
Costs
Costs
Spend per node execution across 9 workflows · last 90 days
7d14d30d90d
Export CSVTotal spend
$7.71
across 9 workflows
Node executions
194
0 failed
Avg / execution
$0.040
across all node types
Top cost driver
BytedanceSeedance2
$3.08 · 40% of spend
Spend over timedaily · last 90 days
Kie$4.35OpenAI$1.85fal.ai$1.50
$5.39$2.70$0
Group by
ExecutionNode typeWorkflowProviderModel
5 of 31Node typeRunsShare of spendCost
BytedanceSeedance21$3.08
40%
GptImage2Edit10$1.41
18%
gpt-5.4-mini37$1.25
16%
GrokImagineTextToVideo21$1.01
13%
gpt-5-mini29$0.34
4%
Cost per node
Every run priced on its own, grouped by node, workflow, provider, or model.
No markup
Pay OpenAI, fal.ai, and the rest directly with your own keys. NodeTool takes zero cut.
Export anytime
Pull the full breakdown to CSV for your own books, billing, or client invoices.
Made with working creatives
NodeTool is AGPL-3.0 open source. Star the repo, jump into Discord, and trade workflows with other artists, motion designers, and studios using it for real work.
Get in
touch
Questions, bug reports, feature requests — we answer.
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