Remote Text Encoder

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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ComfyUI Node – Installation

1. Clone or copy this folder into your ComfyUI custom nodes directory:

   ComfyUI/custom_nodes/RemoteTextEncoder/
   

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. 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.

4. 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).

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Server – Installation

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).

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Node Reference

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

SD 1.x / SD 2.x

RemoteCLIPLoader ──► CLIPTextEncodeRemote (positive) ──┐
RemoteCLIPLoader ──► CLIPTextEncodeRemote (negative) ──┤
                                                        ▼
                              KSampler ◄── VAELoader, CheckpointLoader …

SDXL

RemoteCLIPLoader (clip-l) ──┐
                             ├──► CLIPTextEncodeCoupleRemote (positive) ──┐
RemoteCLIPLoader (clip-g) ──┘                                             │
                                                                           ▼
RemoteCLIPLoader (clip-l) ──┐                                           KSampler
                             ├──► CLIPTextEncodeCoupleRemote (negative) ──┘
RemoteCLIPLoader (clip-g) ──┘

LTX-Video 2.3

RemoteCLIPLoader (T5-XXL)      ──┐
                                  ├──► LTXVTextEncodeRemote ──► CONDITIONING
RemoteCLIPLoader (Gemma-3-12B) ──┘