{"id":602,"date":"2026-09-13T18:40:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T09:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/2026\/09\/13\/comfy-org-yue2-comfyui-release\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:28:52","slug":"comfy-org-yue2-comfyui-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/13\/comfy-org-yue2-comfyui-release\/","title":{"rendered":"YuE2: 12GB+ VRAM, ComfyUI Paths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- lmw:facts --><\/p>\n<h2>At a Glance<\/h2>\n<div class=\"lmw-table-scroll\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"overflow-x:auto;-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch;max-width:100%;\">\n<table style=\"width:max-content;min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Item<\/th>\n<th>Value<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Repository<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Comfy-Org\/YuE2\">Comfy-Org\/YuE2<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Family guide<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/model-m-a-p-yue2-en\/\">YuE2 guide (3 articles)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Publisher guide<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/publisher-m-a-p-en\/\">M-A-P: models and licenses<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Published<\/td>\n<td>2026-09-11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>License<\/td>\n<td>cc-by-nc-4.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Formats<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/format-safetensors-en\/\">safetensors<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Source type<\/td>\n<td>Primary source (the publisher itself)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Values determined by this site&#8217;s code when the information was collected. Dates are JST.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/lmw:facts --><\/p>\n<h2>Overview<\/h2>\n<p>Comfy-Org has released <code>Comfy-Org\/YuE2<\/code>, a set of model files repackaging the open music generation model &#8220;YuE2-3B&#8221; for execution within ComfyUI. It is a text-to-audio model that generates songs with vocals and accompaniment from lyrics and style prompts, allowing control over melodies and chords via editable scores.<\/p>\n<h2>Specifications<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Parameter Count: 3.6B (based on specifications of the base model <code>m-a-p\/YuE2-3B<\/code>)<\/li>\n<li>Architecture: AR-NAR Mixture-of-Transformers (<code>YuE2ForCausalLM<\/code>)<\/li>\n<li>Output Specification: 48 kHz stereo audio<\/li>\n<li>Supported Languages: Chinese (zh), English (en)<\/li>\n<li>License: cc-by-nc-4.0 (non-commercial use only)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Performance and Quality<\/h2>\n<p>Evaluation results on WildSongBench and SHS100K are published in the base model&#8217;s model card. Below are the evaluation results for full song generation on WildSongBench.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lmw-table-scroll\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"overflow-x:auto;-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch;max-width:100%;\">\n<p class=\"lmw-table-hint\" style=\"margin:0 0 4px;font-size:0.85em;opacity:0.7;\">\u2192 Scroll horizontally to see all columns<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:max-content;min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Model<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: right;\">Musicality \u2191<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: right;\">SongBench Avg \u2191<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: right;\">MuLan \u2191<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: right;\">AllMusicCaps \u2191<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: right;\">Q3O \u2191<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: right;\">PER \u2193<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>YuE 1<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">4.0847<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">4.9165<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.2623<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.2882<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">3.7301<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">36.38%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SongBloom<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">3.4493<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">4.2350<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.2697<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.1926<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">3.0287<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">19.19%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>LeVo 2<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">5.4590<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">6.3247<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.3542<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.2680<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">3.9458<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">26.12%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ACE-Step 1.5<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">5.1588<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">6.0118<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.4372<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.3869<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">4.5809<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">7.46%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HeartMuLa<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">5.4963<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">6.2483<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.3823<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.2786<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">3.4907<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">10.71%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DiffRhythm 2<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">4.4775<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">5.2428<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.3782<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.3255<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">4.0870<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">18.41%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Muse<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">5.1692<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">6.0349<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.3937<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.3466<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">4.4038<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">33.42%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MiniMax Music 3<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">5.3482<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">6.2830<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.3928<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.3609<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">4.4362<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>6.27%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>YuE2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">5.9075<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">6.7316<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>0.5068<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>0.4054<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">4.6819<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">8.44%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>YuE2 (best-of-8)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>6.2666<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>6.9632<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.5051<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">0.3980<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>4.7009<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">9.79%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>The base model YuE2 records the highest SongBench average among the evaluated open and proprietary models. On the other hand, other models excel in certain metrics, demonstrating a balance between generation quality and prompt compliance.<\/p>\n<h2>Strengths and Use Cases<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to generating music from lyrics and style prompts, the base model supports melody and chord planning, score editing via ABC notation, and agent-based song editing and revision. It supports Chinese and English lyrics, and is intended for zero-shot cover song generation and text-based music production.<\/p>\n<h2>Differences from Similar Models<\/h2>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/2026\/09\/10\/yue2-3b\/\">Music Generation Model &#8220;YuE2-3B&#8221; Released, Producing Songs from Lyrics and Style<\/a> covered the standalone release of the base model &#8220;YuE2-3B&#8221;, <code>Comfy-Org\/YuE2<\/code> covered in this article repackages those model files to fit the directory structure for ComfyUI.<\/p>\n<p><!-- lmw:hardware --><\/p>\n<h2>Hardware Requirements<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Estimated requirements (calculated by Local Model Watch)<\/strong> \u2014 3.6B parameters (taken from the base model m-a-p\/YuE2-3B)<\/p>\n<div class=\"lmw-table-scroll\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"overflow-x:auto;-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch;max-width:100%;\">\n<table style=\"width:max-content;min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Your VRAM<\/th>\n<th>Quantization<\/th>\n<th>File size<\/th>\n<th>Est. memory needed<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>12GB (RTX 4070 \/ 3060 12GB, etc.)<\/td>\n<td>BF16<\/td>\n<td>6.8GB<\/td>\n<td>8.1GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Memory estimates add a 20% runtime overhead (KV cache, etc.) to the actual size of the distributed files. Actual usage varies with context length, batch size and inference engine. These figures are computed by this site from file sizes, not published by the model&#8217;s authors. Compare with other models in our <a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/vram-guide-en\/\">VRAM quick reference<\/a>. What the quantization names mean: <a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/glossary-quantization-en\/\">glossary<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/lmw:hardware --><\/p>\n<p><!-- lmw:runnability --><\/p>\n<h2>Can You Run It Locally?<\/h2>\n<p>The publisher distributes this model as safetensors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>License \u2014 <code>cc-by-nc-4.0<\/code> (Commercial use prohibited):<\/strong> <strong>Commercial use is prohibited<\/strong> (NC = NonCommercial). Internal business use can also count as commercial, so avoid this license for work use.<\/p>\n<p><em>Compiled by this site&#8217;s code from the published formats and the license field. License summaries are not legal advice \u2014 check the publisher&#8217;s original terms before relying on them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/lmw:runnability --><\/p>\n<p><!-- lmw:lab --><\/p>\n<h2>Our Own Measurements<\/h2>\n<h3>Measurements We Did Not Take<\/h3>\n<p>This model&#8217;s license (<code>cc-by-nc-4.0<\/code>) does not permit commercial use. Because this site carries advertising, we did not run the model (no CPU run, answers, quantization comparison, conversion or generation).<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/lmw:lab --><\/p>\n<p><!-- lmw:files --><\/p>\n<h2>Distributed Files<\/h2>\n<p><em>Weight files published in <a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Comfy-Org\/YuE2\/tree\/main\">Comfy-Org\/YuE2<\/a>, listed by this site from the Hugging Face API. Sizes are the actual file sizes.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"lmw-table-scroll\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"overflow-x:auto;-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch;max-width:100%;\">\n<table style=\"width:max-content;min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>File<\/th>\n<th>Size<\/th>\n<th>ComfyUI folder<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><code>audio_encoders\/sheetsage2_bf16.safetensors<\/code><\/td>\n<td>1.39GB<\/td>\n<td><code>models\/audio_encoders\/<\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>checkpoints\/yue2_3b_bf16.safetensors<\/code><\/td>\n<td>7.80GB<\/td>\n<td><code>models\/checkpoints\/<\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>checkpoints\/yue2_3b_int8_convrot.safetensors<\/code><\/td>\n<td>3.96GB<\/td>\n<td><code>models\/checkpoints\/<\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>The ComfyUI folder is shown only where the repository&#8217;s layout mirrors ComfyUI&#8217;s <code>models\/<\/code> directory.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/lmw:files --><\/p>\n<h2>How to Get It<\/h2>\n<p>Available from Hugging Face at <code>Comfy-Org\/YuE2<\/code>. Place the files according to the following folder structure:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-text\">\ud83d\udcc2 ComfyUI\/\n\u2514\u2500\u2500 \ud83d\udcc2 models\/\n    \u251c\u2500\u2500 \ud83d\udcc2 audio_encoders\/\n    \u2502   \u2514\u2500\u2500 sheetsage2_bf16.safetensors\n    \u2514\u2500\u2500 \ud83d\udcc2 checkpoints\/\n        \u2514\u2500\u2500 yue2_3b_bf16.safetensors\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><!-- lmw:related --><\/p>\n<h2>Related Articles<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/15\/mothersuperior-yue2-realaudio-toolkit\/\">yue2-mothersuperior-realaudio-tokenizer-v4: 12GB+ VRAM, File List<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/10\/yue2-3b-music-generation-model\/\">YuE2-3B Music Generation Model for Lyrics and Style: 12GB+ VRAM<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/comfy-org-ming-image-released\/\">Ming-Image UI Design-Specialized Image Generation Model: ComfyUI Paths<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/2026\/09\/16\/comfyui-v0360-released\/\">ComfyUI v0.36.0 Released: Generic Loops, Yue2 &amp; Marigold v2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \/lmw:related --><\/p>\n<p><!-- lmw:next-steps --><\/p>\n<h2>What to Read Next<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Find models by VRAM<\/strong> (This model runs from the 12GB tier) \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/vram-guide-12gb-en\/\">Other models that run on a 12GB GPU<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Explore the same model family<\/strong> \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/model-m-a-p-yue2-en\/\">YuE2 family overview (3 articles)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Engines that run this model<\/strong> \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/engine-comfyui-en\/\">ComfyUI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Formats this model is available in<\/strong> \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/format-safetensors-en\/\">Safetensors format guide and models<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Learn about the publisher<\/strong> \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/publisher-m-a-p-en\/\">M-A-P: models, licenses and articles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \/lmw:next-steps --><\/p>\n<h2>Sources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Comfy-Org\/YuE2\">https:\/\/huggingface.co\/Comfy-Org\/YuE2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/m-a-p\/YuE2-3B\">https:\/\/huggingface.co\/m-a-p\/YuE2-3B<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- lmw:updates --><\/p>\n<h2>Update History<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>2026-09-24: Rebuilt the article: Added a &#8220;can you run it locally?&#8221; 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