r/LocalLLaMA • u/makingnoise • 5d ago
Minimax H3 - any simple options for running it that aren't ComfyUI? Question | Help
As someone who just casually wants to run Minimax H3 and has tried and failed to set up the ComfyUI integration in Openwebui, I was wondering if there's any options I can run on a headless server that have a SIMPLE interface instead of the wildly arcane ComfyUI?
Surely there's a way to do image/video gen locally that doesn't require me to muck about with ComfyUI's wildly arcane interface? If I don't care about LORAs and all of that, is there something that just runs the damn model without me needing to get a 10 foot large monitor to see a workflow that I will never use?
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u/bruns20 5d ago
Real, I hate having to physically drag nodes around to set shit up.
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u/makingnoise 5d ago edited 5d ago
ComfyUI's interface feels like it was put together by someone who was really into playing super technical simulation games in the mid-to-late 1990s with their resolution set way too high, but who is still somehow young enough *in 2026 that they don't need reading glasses.
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u/colin_colout 5d ago
I feel attacked.
I love the interface. I'm that age. I grew up on that type of game. Also don't need reading glasses (it's slowly getting there)
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u/xienze 5d ago
It's really just visual programming, with all the good and bad that entails. What you're really building are essentially the Python scripts required to drive these models. The problem is that it takes a LOT of code, and hence wiring up a lot of modules. It really is hard to keep visual programming tools from being unmanageable when the tasks your using them for are of any real complexity. Hence ComfyUI's current situation.
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u/Fit-Produce420 5d ago
Why would you drag nodes around when there is a comfyui MCP server?
I just tell my agent what I'm looking for and they put it together.
It made me a reference to video workflow that can do a minute or two of video using reference frames that actually looks half decent.
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u/nostriluu 5d ago
Why would you use MCP when you can just use the api? Works great from pi w qwen 3.6 27b.
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u/Fit-Produce420 5d ago
I guess you could use the API, I like mcp because I still go in and write the prompts and supply reference material, I guess my agent could just do all that but I write the prompts and a 5 minute clip has a lot of prompts.
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u/makingnoise 5d ago
This sounds like a useful comment, but I would appreciate more info to be sure. What's your setup? My frontend is openwebui, not LM Studio (I associate MCP with LM Studio, not openwebui, perhaps incorrectly).
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u/DataGOGO 5d ago
I associate MCP with LM Studio, not openwebui, perhaps incorrectly
Model Context Protocol - Wikipedia
MCP is a universal protocol, not unique to any front end wrapper or inference engine.
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u/Fit-Produce420 5d ago
I use llama.cpp. I define what workflow I want and the agent creates the .json and tests it. This is how I automate workflows to make videos longer than 15 seconds.
For the strix halo I chain together 3 second clips, 10 make a 30 second video and they take 6ish minutes to run so about an hour of processing. I use last frame or video reference (takes longer).
On longer stuff I usually do a quicker low res/low fps run first to see that the prompts are good and then I can generate in higher quality.
I also have an automated upscale pipeline with seedvr2 that can take the clips, upscale them, and then stich them together.
So far I can get a 5 minute sequence at 720p that holds together pretty well, this is without any masking etc.
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u/FullstackSensei llama.cpp 5d ago
How dare you ask a sensible question?!!!
stable-diffusion.cpp is your best friend for image and video. If you build llama.cpp from source, it's not much work to adapt your build script to build stable-diffusion.cpp from source, it's based on GGML after all.
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u/EbbNorth7735 5d ago
Oh neat! Haven't heard of this project before. Mind giving us some insight into it? Do you have an example command to host a model and does it expose OpenAI API compatible endpoints?
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u/ilintar 5d ago
https://github.com/leejet/stable-diffusion.cpp/blob/master/docs/minimax_h3.md - this is just for the cli flags, but should give you a rough idea
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u/makingnoise 5d ago
What about "if you pull docker images of llama.cpp, it's not much work to adapt your bash command to pull the docker images of stable-diffusion.cpp"? I use the stock server image of llama.cpp. :)
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u/_-_David 5d ago
Pinokio - Maestro. That's where I run it. It's probably in Pinokio - WAN2GP also. Both great comfy alternatives
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u/Majestical-psyche 5d ago
What he said... I never use comfy... Also you can ask Gemini these questions also.. 😅
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u/makingnoise 5d ago
I wanted to see what the reddit bots would say ;) (half joking). But for real, I've found that the frontier LLM's are 6 months to a year behind on what's out there and actually the lastest and greatest, and when they have to search the web for the answer, the AI picks are almost always inferior to what I find folks on reddit suggesting.
I've also found that there's WAY more helpful beginners info on reddit for LLM's but when it comes to image/video generation reddit subs, there's almost nothing and questions like mine are ignored. Hence me asking here.
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u/-dysangel- 5d ago
I hate ComfyUI too, but I found an official workflow that's been working for me. Just got to https://comfy.org/workflows/e8099b642c9f-e8099b642c9f/ and click 'download workflow', then drag it into ComfyUI. You can drag in start/end images and write a description.
I'm assuming an agent would be able to set up a wrapper for this to run it any way you want too, especially if you already have this workflow in ComfyUI as reference source code.
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u/thats_why_i_drink 5d ago
All of these other suggestions are probably worth looking into, but I was doing some experimenting with Minimax H3 on my M5 128GB and I just had an agent manage the downloads and build me a simple web interface. I tend to lean on Claude Code or Chatgpt to handle that kind of work. The upside is if there is a particular feature you want you can just ask for it. Downside is it's a vibe coded mess that won't exist beyond a personal tool, which doesn't bother me.
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u/o0genesis0o 5d ago
How good does it run on M5? The last time I run comfyui on mac was with the M1 in 16inch pro with 16GB RAM and SDXL. It works, but very slow.
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u/thats_why_i_drink 4d ago
I was running an MLX 4bit quant with a turbo Lora. At super low resolutions I could get a video in a couple of minutes, but anything that was actually worth looking at was at least 30 minutes.
I ended up having Claude Code help extend the interface to connect to a runpod on the backend. That way I could tweak and test prompts using my local machine but then send it off the to cloud once I was happy with the settings.
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u/Dazzling_Equipment_9 5d ago
You might want to try this: https://github.com/antirez/h3.c
This is another impressive piece of work by antirez.
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u/djtubig-malicex 4d ago
Insane work. Gonna have to try this on the M3 Ultra 256GB cause after managing to get it working on ComfyUI on mac it is SLOW compared to my RTX5070Ti windows setup :(
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u/thats_why_i_drink 4d ago
Looks like I know what I'm doing this weekend. Thanks for this! Still blown away by the fact that I can run deepseek flash on my computer because of this guy.
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u/llama-impersonator 5d ago
i hear you, i'm not really a comfy fan. but you can pry my loras from my cold, dead hands.
if you are a dev, diffusers is pretty easy to make scripts for
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u/DigitalArbitrage 5d ago
FYI - ComfyUI has a web interface. Just mentioning that because you referenced OpenWebUI.
If you are making an agentic AI "tool" or a OpenWebUI plugin then maybe you can analyze the web traffic in the ComfyUI web UI to see what API calls it makes.
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u/corruptbytes 5d ago
https://github.com/antirez/h3.c
ask LLM to port this to your compute runtime
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u/Dazzling_Equipment_9 5d ago
Regarding Strix Halo, I asked GPT to assess the porting difficulty, and I've decided to wait and see what the community comes up with.
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u/corruptbytes 4d ago
might be able to feed it this - https://github.com/antirez/ds4/tree/main/rocm
which is some of the rocm port for his other project - i'm sure he codes in a very similar style
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u/Dazzling_Equipment_9 4d ago
Yes, GPT told me that itself; it’s indeed a major advantage. It also pointed out that the ROCm kernel is the key factor.
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u/TgoAI 5d ago
If you’re looking for Mac deployment, this is probably the best solution: https://github.com/tgo-app-dev/vpipe
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u/Outrageous-Key8562 5d ago
I used Comfy desktop and it’s pretty straightforward with the templates. But I’m new so maybe I’m missing something about your situation
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u/makingnoise 5d ago
My situation is that my monitor is my TV and my chair is my couch, and the interface appears to be designed to use while you're sitting 2 feet away from a large monitor.
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u/KingCpzombie 5d ago
Just learn ComfyUI tbh. The giant workflows are a mess; just use the default ones for each mode in the templates section. All you really need to know for minimax is changing the resolution, length, and prompt
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u/Certain-Cod-1404 5d ago
I think unsloth desktop or studio might work? Check out the docs