ComfyUI Manager not showing up

[kato42]

I cannot seem to get the ComfyUI manager to show up and run in ComfyUI.
I am running the regular version of ComfyUI - i.e. not the 'portable' version.

I open up the cmd window. cd to the comfyui/custom_nodes directory, and then run the git clone command.
It runs just fine:

D:\ComfyUI\resources\ComfyUI\custom_nodes>git clone https://github.com/ltdrdata/ComfyUI-Manager
Cloning into 'ComfyUI-Manager'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 28204, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (713/713), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (330/330), done.
remote: Total 28204 (delta 573), reused 386 (delta 383), pack-reused 27491 (from 3)
Receiving objects: 100% (28204/28204), 129.50 MiB | 16.85 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (20902/20902), done.
Updating files: 100% (96/96), done.

But when I start up ComfyUI, there is no Manager button. There is a Custom Nodes Manager button, but that was there before, and when I click on it the window that is opened doesn't look anything like the screenshots.

As a note, the _init_py file is in the folder, I've seen comments that it isn't supposed to be, but the clone puts it there.
Also there are two custom_nodes folders, one in the users directory (same directory structure where the program puts things) and the one in the executable directory where the program is installed. Does it matter which one I put it in? I've tried both.

Any ideas on what is wrong?

[dduede]

The communication on this feels bad, its spread across multiple subissues, documentations and blog posts, but the gist is:
You dont need to install ComfyUI Manager anymore, its now shipped with ComfyUI and enabled by default. The problem is that it also changed its look (and feature set in new look). The Custom Nodes Manager IS the ComfyUI Manager, but it lacks a ton of features.

For the time being, you will have to go into the Settings -> Server-Config -> Scroll down to General -> Use Legacy Manager UI (enable this)
after a restart, the handlebar icon on top right ("Custom Nodes Manager") will show the usual Manager UI most people should be familiar with.

Note: The Server-Config section is not available when accessing ComfyUI via web (i.e. --listen 0.0.0.0) and you will also need to configure the security settings for comfyui manager to use network_mode = personnal_cloud and a reduced security_level. I'm using "weak" since I'm using it on my local network, I would not recommend setting this if you are hosting it in the cloud. For cloud solutions, using (Web-)VNC with proper authentication is probably a better idea.

[kato42]

I had started to suspect that this was the case - although had no idea about the legacy option - from a couple things I saw. And yes, this is extremely poorly communicated not just with the manager installations available here and on CivitAI saying nothing about the current state of affairs, but instructions for some things talking about the legacy version of the manager.

Thank you very much for clearing this up.

[everygamer]

Yeah, the documentation on ComfyUI's repo, and on ComfyUI-Manger's repo could be better. So just to be clear, the only way to access the Manager is through the legacy mode?

Also, when I do a clean install of ComfyUI by git cloning it, I don't see the newer Custom Nodes Manager, there is no menu in the top right, so how would I even access the new included manager?

[hunter-lz]

作为一个2026年5月才用comfyui的新手，看网络上的新手教程总有安装manager的课程，自己网络搜索折腾了半天原来自带的本来就有，只不过改了ui，真的离了大普。
太感谢了