ComfyUI Gets OpenRouter LLM Node

This is a meaningful quality-of-life upgrade for anyone already chaining models inside ComfyUI: model routing, vision, reasoning, and web-grounded outputs now live in the same visual workflow surface.

• –The official docs show support for text chat, vision, video input, reasoning effort, and Perplexity-style search, so this is a real multimodal integration rather than a thin API wrapper.
• –OpenRouter’s value prop maps cleanly to ComfyUI’s workflow model: swap providers without rewiring the graph or maintaining separate SDK glue.
• –For builders, this lowers the cost of prototyping composite pipelines that mix LLMs with image and video nodes.
• –The tradeoff is operational complexity: once graphs span multiple models and pricing tiers, debugging latency and spend gets harder.
• –This is strongest for power users and tool builders, not casual creators who just want a simpler UI.