vs Image-only node tools (like ComfyUI)
Specialized node tools only create pictures. NodeTool provides a complete studio that connects images, video, audio, text, and editing on one canvas.
Free & Open SourceDescribe it.
Describe it.
An agent builds it.
An open-source visual pipeline that stays yours.
- Built-in editors for every step
- Your own provider accounts
- Open source, yours to keep
The way it works today
Creating one project
shouldn't require five separate apps.
Work on a single visual board. Use your own AI accounts. Keep the complete project file when you're done.
See how NodeTool compares- Juggling five browser tabs
One app for images, another for animation, a third for voiceovers, and a separate video editor to stitch them together.
- Export, import, repeat
Moving files between apps loses your settings, prompts, and original ideas along the way.
- Paying marked-up credit packs
Buying expensive proprietary credits locked to whatever tools that platform chooses for you.
- Losing access when tools change
Subscriptions jump in price, features disappear, and your projects are trapped in someone else's system.
A standard chatbot gives you text.
This agent builds your actual project.
NodeTool's AI assistant doesn't just chat. It operates the studio tools for you: it sets up the steps directly on your canvas, generates the assets, and keeps every part visible so you can tweak, rerun, or reuse it.
How agents and workflows work together →
It reads the studio before it answers
The agent checks what this install actually has — nodes, packs, example workflows — instead of guessing from a system prompt. The answer is a map of your workspace, not of the product.
Every step runs in the open
A storyboard created, six keyframes rendered, a contact sheet built — each call is a card you can expand to see the code it ran and what came back. No spinner standing in for the work.
You see the bill before you pay it
Your keys, your invoice. Asked to price the render, the agent reads the providers' own pages and puts the four candidates side by side, so the decision is yours and not a credit balance's.
It leaves documents, not a transcript
The teaser is cut, and so are a storyboard, a timeline and a reusable workflow — each one a link that opens the editor. Change a shot and re-run; nothing has to be rebuilt from the chat.
A trailer generated end-to-end in NodeTool — script, key art, animation, and sound from one workflow on the canvas.
01Start with an idea
Describe your goal — a product video, a movie trailer, a social campaign. That's all it takes to begin. Prefer to wire it yourself? It's the same canvas.
Audio Input
Whisper
GPT Image 2
02Watch it build in real time
The agent selects the right tools, connects the steps on your board, and runs them from start to finish — generation, editing, and assembly chained into a finished piece, on your own accounts at provider prices.
Logs2.4s
- Workflow started
- Text written
- Image generated
- Clip assembled
- Workflow finished
Preview
1024×1024PNG
03Take full control
Click into any step to swap a tool, change an image, or adjust a prompt. Everything remains editable, and the workflow is yours to save and reuse.
Editors
Use cases
From a brief to a finished asset
Real workflows you can open, run, and change. Each one runs from the brief to the finished piece without leaving the canvas, and every one is built from the blocks you get on day one.
Film
Movie Trailer Generator
Type one logline and the canvas builds a cinematic teaser. A Director node storyboards it into shots, each shot is rendered as key art, animated, and cut into a finished trailer.
LoglineStoryboardShotsKey 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 caseProfessional editing tools built right next to the AI
Edit and refine your work directly on the canvas without switching software. A storyboard becomes a script, the script becomes takes, the takes land on a timeline — and an agent works every one of them through the tools you click.
Visual storyboards
Plan out scenes card by card. Generate low-cost draft images first to lock in the look before spending time and compute on full animation.
More on storyboard →Script & voice studio
Write your script, assign unique AI voices to each character, and generate natural-sounding dialogue takes. Change the words and the take goes stale, so you see what still needs voicing.
More on script & voice →Timeline video editor
Arrange, trim, and layer AI-generated video and audio clips across multiple tracks to render a finished video. An agent edits the same document when you ask it to tighten the opening.
More on timeline →Layered drawing canvas
Sketch, paint with brushes, and blend hand-drawn elements with AI-generated layers. Bind a layer to a prompt and regenerate that layer alone.
More on sketch →Spatial composition you can reproduce
Place primitives and lights in a glTF scene by hand or by tool call. The same operations run headlessly, so a scene is reproducible.
One workspace, several doors
Choose the setup that fits your workflow.
Whether you use the desktop app or the browser version, you get the exact same features, tools, and capabilities: the same agent, the same workflows, the same models.
Desktop app
Studio
Runs directly on your computer. Keeps your files and settings private on your hard drive, with optional offline support.
Go to StudioIn your browser
Cloud
Runs in your web browser with zero installation needed. The fastest way to jump in and start creating. Currently in alpha.
Go to CloudFor creators
Creatives
Focus on the creative vision — images, video, voice — and let the software handle the technical plumbing.
Go to CreativesFor developers
Developers
Connect custom scripts, automate tasks, and integrate your own code into the visual canvas, through the SDK, the CLI, or an MCP server.
Go to DevelopersProduce campaigns
Marketing
Turn a brief into a production workflow you run again for every product, market, and variant.
Go to MarketingComparison
Bring all your creative tools under one roof.
You're probably using two or three of these already. Here's what changes when they all live on one canvas.
vs Closed platforms
Other platforms force you into monthly credit bundles and restricted feature lists. NodeTool is open source: you use your direct provider accounts and pay raw rates with no middleman markup.
vs A dozen separate web apps
Instead of copying files between disconnected websites, NodeTool connects your favorite AI tools into a single, repeatable workflow.
How does NodeTool compare with ComfyUI and Figma Weave?
ComfyUI goes deep on diffusion images and runs locally. Figma Weave is a hosted canvas with a curated model list, billed in its own AI credits. NodeTool is open source, covers image, video, audio, and text, and calls every provider on your own keys.
| NodeTool | ComfyUI | Figma Weave | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media on one canvas | Image, video, audio, text | Diffusion images | Hosted creative canvas |
| Models | Every major provider and media type | Stable Diffusion and other diffusion models | Hand-picked list |
| What you pay | Provider list prices, on your own keys | Your own compute and provider accounts | Figma Weave AI credits |
| Source | Open source (AGPL-3.0) | Open source | Closed |
| Where it runs | Desktop app and browser, self-host any time | Your own machine | Browser only |
Where NodeTool fits
Every model. Your keys. Your canvas.
Take Seedance, one of today's best video models. It is sold by FAL, Replicate, and KIE at different prices, and NodeTool lets you pick the cheapest of the three. When the next Veo or Kling arrives, you switch to it in one click.
That is what staying independent buys you: the best model at the best price each week, and nothing to lose if your favorite tool is bought by someone else.
Access top AI tools directly.
No middlemen, no markups.
Pick the best AI service for the job — OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, or a specialized image and video engine — and switch between them with one click. NodeTool charges you what the providers charge, and is released under a license that outlives whoever built it.
Use your own provider keys
Connect directly to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, FAL, KIE, Replicate, and specialized video generators. Your account keys stay on your disk in Studio, encrypted in Cloud.
Pay official rates directly
Skip artificial credit systems. If an image costs $0.03 to generate through a provider, you pay exactly $0.03 to that provider. NodeTool takes no cut.
100% open source
Free to use and inspect. Studio and Cloud are built from the same AGPL-3.0 source, with no artificial paywalls or locked features, and you can host it yourself at any time.
Run private models on your computer
Download and run free, open-weight models locally on your own hardware — MLX, Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, and LM Studio — with no internet connection.
The newest models, the day they arrive.
The leading image, video, audio, and language models from every major provider, or the same kind of models running on your own computer when you prefer that.
Latest Models
GPT-5.6Claude Fable 5Claude Opus 5Claude Sonnet 5Gemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3.1 ProQwen ImageVeo 3.1Kling 3Seedance 3Hailuo 2.3Wan 2.5FLUXWhisperElevenLabs
Cloud Providers
Cost transparency
See what every run actually costs
NodeTool records what each step costs and adds it up by workflow, provider, or model. Because you use your own keys and pay providers directly, these are the amounts you are actually billed.
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 step
Every run is priced on its own and can be grouped by step, workflow, provider, or model.
No markup
Pay OpenAI, fal.ai, and the rest directly with your own keys. NodeTool takes no cut.
Export anytime
Download the full breakdown as a spreadsheet for your own books or client invoices.
The same model, priced twice
NodeTool bills you nothing per generation — you hold the keys and pay each provider its list price. Set a workload and compare it with the same models bought as Figma Weave credits.
- 750 images / month$0.035 / image
Stills, variations, and every reroll you throw away.
- 24 clips / month$0.0175 / second
A provider bills the second, a credit plan bills the clip — so the length matters to one side and not the other.
- 120 minutes / month$50 / 1M characters
Narration minutes, billed by character (~950 per minute). Figma Weave has no voice model, so this line has nothing to compare against.
Your keys, direct
$35.31/ month
- Images · Seedream V5$26.25
- Video · Seedance 1.5$3.36
- Voice · Eleven Turbo v2.5$5.70
- NodeTool Studio$0
The same models on Figma Weave
$45.00/ month
3,744 of 4,000 credits. Against $29.61 for the same images and clips on your own keys.
4 credits an image, 31.01 a clip, derived from Figma Weave's own table. It prices a clip, not a second, and does not publish clip length.
The picker holds the 10 models Figma Weave sells that Kie or AtlasCloud also serves, so both columns price the same model. Its other 13 are left out because neither provider carries them. Prices via genspend.io, updated 2026-08-23. Figma Weave plans read 2026-08-24. Local models through Ollama, MLX, and llama.cpp cost nothing per call.
One canvas
for the whole craft
Image, video, audio, and text on a single visual canvas, with the editing tools you already rely on sitting right next to the models. You direct the whole piece instead of generating parts of it.
Workflow Editor
Edit where you generate
Mask, retouch, extend, relight, upscale, layer, and composite. The editing tools you reach for live on the same canvas as the models.
Watch every step render
Results appear as each step finishes. Inspect any frame, swap a model, and re-run from that point on.
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, and Suno, all on one canvas under their real names. You always know which model you are running.
Storyboard before you spend
Write a brief and a visual style, press Direct, and get a shot list back — action, camera, motion, and duration per card. Approve the stills you like, render only those into clips, then assemble the whole thing into the timeline editor in one click.
Stills cost cents, clips cost dollars
Generate stills until one looks right and pick it. Only then do you pay to animate the shot into a clip.
Revise one shot, not the reel
"Darker, add rain" runs video-to-video on that clip and swaps it in place. Fixing shot 3 never re-rolls shots 1–5.
A cast that stays consistent
Characters, locations, styles, and props are named entities with a fixed descriptor that goes into every prompt that names them.
Write the script, then voice it
A script is its own document, not a byproduct of a timeline. The words are the source of truth and the audio is derived from them: draft the lines, cast a voice per speaker, voice the script, and send the takes to a timeline as clips that carry word-level captions.
A voice per speaker
Cast each speaker once — provider, model, voice — and every line they own inherits it until you override that line.
Takes you can audition
Voicing a line saves a take with its own word timings. Keep several, compare them, pick the read you want.
Edits mark themselves stale
Change a line's words or its voice and the line flags itself against the take that no longer matches. Re-voice that line, not the script.
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.
Wrap the graph in a screen
A workflow is for you. An app is for everyone else — the same graph with inputs, a run button, and a place for the result. Here is Image Enhance, and the app it became.
Nothing is regenerated in between. The app names the workflow's inputs and outputs, so a change to the graph shows up in the screen — and an agent can place the widgets for you. Open Photo Studio →
Turn workflows into simple apps you can share
Once you build a workflow, turn it into a clean interface with a few input boxes and a Generate button. Hand that screen to a teammate or client so they get results without navigating the canvas underneath — which stays yours to open and change.
Drag a widget, wire a port
Fields, sliders, pickers, and result displays bind to the inputs and outputs of the workflows the app runs. Results stream in as the run happens.
An agent builds and grades it
Describe the app and it plans the workflows, places the widgets, replays every interaction, and has a second model judge whether the result matches the ask. No passing verdict, no app.
One file to hand over
Export an app as a bundle — the screen plus the full graph of every workflow behind it — and import it on another machine.
All the
building blocks
Hundreds of ready-made blocks for models, data, and files, plus one for every model on Replicate, FAL, and Kie.ai.
Organize Everything
Built-in Asset Manager
Drag files in once, use them in any workflow.
Import & organize
Drag and drop. Files sort themselves by type, project, or tag.
Preview files
Built-in preview for images, audio, video, and documents.
Use in workflows
Point any workflow at a single file or a whole folder.
Images & Graphics
PNG, JPG, GIF, SVG, WebP
Audio & Video
MP3, WAV, MP4, MOV, AVI
Documents & Data
PDF, TXT, JSON, CSV, DOCX
Hello
HuggingFace
Search, download, and manage models straight from Hugging Face.
Organize your local library without leaving the app.
Model Manager
Frequently asked questions
What is NodeTool?
NodeTool is the open creative AI workspace. Every major model from every major provider, including FAL, KIE, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Replicate, sits on one visual canvas that you run on your own machine or in the browser. Image, video, music, and text share that canvas, alongside agents that carry out longer jobs step by step.
Read more →Is NodeTool open source?
Yes. The whole project is AGPL-3.0 on GitHub. Studio and Cloud are built from the same source, and nothing is held back for a paid tier. You can host it yourself at any time.
Read more →How much does NodeTool cost?
NodeTool Studio, the desktop app, is free and open source. NodeTool Cloud is a subscription that covers hosting; it is in alpha and its price is set at full release. In both editions you bring your own API keys and pay each provider their list price directly, so what a run costs is whatever the provider charges for it. Local models through Ollama, MLX, or llama.cpp cost nothing per call.
Read more →Is NodeTool local-first and private?
NodeTool Studio runs on your own machine: the workspace, your workflows, your files, and your API keys stay there, and open-weight models can run locally through MLX, Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, and LM Studio. When you call a hosted model, that request goes from your machine straight to the provider you chose, on your key — it does not pass through NodeTool servers. Cloud is the same open-source app hosted in the browser, and your keys still call the providers directly.
Read more →Which models are supported?
The leading models, including Flux, Seedance, Wan, Veo, Kling, Hailuo, Qwen Image, Whisper, ElevenLabs, and Suno, reached through providers such as FAL, KIE, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Replicate, Together, Groq, Mistral, OpenRouter, and HuggingFace. Models can also run on your own computer through MLX, Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, and LM Studio.
Read more →What does it mean that NodeTool is agent-first?
Every editor in NodeTool — the node canvas, sketch pad, storyboard, video timeline, script editor, 3D scene, and app builder — is exposed to agents as tools, around 120 in all. An agent doesn't describe what you could do; it builds the workflow, runs it, and repairs what fails, on the same surfaces you use. The same tools are exposed over MCP, so outside agents such as Claude Desktop and Claude Code can drive NodeTool too.
Read more →Do I need a GPU to run NodeTool?
No. NodeTool works entirely with cloud providers — bring your own API key, and the model runs on the provider's hardware with nothing to install locally. A GPU only matters if you choose to run open-weight models yourself through Ollama, MLX, or llama.cpp: it speeds those up, but many smaller local models run fine on CPU too, just slower.
Read more →Made with working creatives
NodeTool is open source under AGPL-3.0. Star the project on GitHub, join us on Discord, and share workflows with the artists, motion designers, and studios already using it on real jobs.
Get in
touch
Questions, bug reports, feature requests — we answer.
Built out in the open.
Describe what you want to create. Watch the agent build it. Keep the whole project. NodeTool is free, open-source software built alongside working artists, designers, and video editors — download the desktop app, or try it in your browser with nothing to install.