Moving ComfyUI to Production: Navigating Self-Hosted, Serverless, and Managed Deployment Trade-Offs

ComfyUI deployment involves far more than running the software—it requires solving GPU orchestration, model provisioning, authentication, and scaling challenges. This comprehensive guide provides a vendor-neutral decision framework comparing five deployment strategies with concrete cost analysis at different usage volumes. The right deployment choice can dramatically reduce both infrastructure costs and operational overhead for teams of any size.