ERNIE-Image / ERNIE-Image-Turbo Workflows

What this is (read first)

ERNIE-Image is Baidu's open-weight TEXT-TO-IMAGE model, an ~8B single-stream Diffusion Transformer (DiT), Apache-2.0, released April 2026 and repackaged for ComfyUI by Comfy-Org. It is not an instruction-based image editor.

• ERNIE-Image (base): ~50 steps for peak quality.
• ERNIE-Image-Turbo: distilled (Distribution Matching Distillation + RL), high-fidelity in ~8 steps at cfg 1. The downloaded pack uses Turbo (ernie-image-turbo-*.gguf).

Pick ERNIE when the job is precise text/typography rendering (multilingual, including Chinese), posters/signage/UI mockups, manga/anime storyboards and multi-panel layouts, or structured multi-object scenes from a complex prompt. Do not pick ERNIE for "edit this photo / change the shirt / swap the background". That is instruction-grounded editing, which ERNIE does not do. Use qwen-image-edit or Flux Kontext for those. ERNIE's "image-to-image" here is plain denoise-based refinement (style pass / detail pass), not reference-grounded editing.

Niche vs siblings. ERNIE is the best open-weight text rendering + layout T2I. Qwen-Image-Edit does instruction editing. Flux Kontext does reference editing. Z-Image Turbo does fast general T2I, and this same pack pairs the two; see Combo pipelines.

Separated packs (render-verified)

The original ernie monolith was a single toggle-template graph (every pipeline shipped bypassed; you activated one via the rgthree group toggles). It's now split into standalone, single-purpose packs, each a clean activated graph that renders headlessly with no group-toggling: