ae.safetensors

Download ae.safetensors (0.3 GB)

Where to put it

Put the file in ComfyUI/models/vae/ (in the portable version: ComfyUI_windows_portable/ComfyUI/models/vae/). Then press R in ComfyUI, or restart it, so the file shows up in Load VAE (VAELoader).

If a workflow says “Value not in list” for this node, the file name in the workflow is different from yours, or the file is in another folder. Click the node and pick the file from the list.

What it does

The VAE turns the finished latent into pixels (and pixels into latents, for image-to-image and editing). It is small, but each model family needs its own: a VAE from another family gives grey, noisy or coloured-noise images.

Models that use ae.safetensors

VRAM of the graphics card, for the model with the file this site picks for that card. Open a model to see every file and every GPU.

Other versions of this VAE

Same encoder, different precision. Any of them works in the same loader node; pick one and select it in the node.

Tested with this file

I use this exact file in 6 of my free workflows, measured on an RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB:

• FLUX.1 [dev] — FP8 — 36.4 s per 1024×1024 image
• FLUX.1 [dev] — GGUF Q8_0 — 40.6 s per 1024×1024 image
• FLUX.1 [schnell] — GGUF Q8_0 — 9.4 s per 1024×1024 image
• Z-Image Turbo — 16-bit — 11.0 s per 1024×1024 image
• FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] — FP8 — 53.3 s per edit (1024×1024)
• FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] — GGUF Q8_0 — 82.1 s per edit (1024×1024)

All free workflows →

Not sure your card can run these models? Check your GPU. All shared files: ComfyUI model files.

Size and source read from Hugging Face (2026-10-01).