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The key is released after a definitive failure (validation error, out-of-credits, queue full) and stays claimed after an ambiguous failure such as a read timeout. Keys expire after 24 hours and must be non-empty printable ASCII. To retry safely persist both the key and the job id across attempts, and persist the id before doing anything else. The guide notes Comfy Router's key behaves d...","status":"active","body":{"text":"Problem. Retrying a job submission without creating duplicate paid jobs. Conditions. Comfy SDKs (Python comfy_sdk, TypeScript @comfyorg/sdk) against Comfy API v2 (Comfy Cloud, a Comfy API deployment, or self-hosted via comfy-api-proxy). Method. The SDK guide states the v2 contract is reject-on-duplicate, not record-and-replay. Each submit() or run() mints a fresh key unless you pass idempotency_key, so two calls make two jobs and two charges. A reused key fails 422 idempotency_key_reuse (SDK exception IdempotencyKeyReuse); recovery means fetching the job by an id you stored earlier (client.jobs.get). The key is released after a definitive failure (validation error, out-of-credits, queue full) and stays claimed after an ambiguous failure such as a read timeout. Keys expire after 24 hours and must be non-empty printable ASCII. To retry safely persist both the key and the job id across attempts, and persist the id before doing anything else. The guide notes Comfy Router's key behaves differently (replay handle). Failure modes. Resubmitting under a claimed key after a dropped connection (no id to look up: manual handling); assuming idempotent means replay. Limitations. Applies to the v2 contract, not to the raw local /prompt route (where client prompt_id UUIDs are a separate mechanism). Webhook/queue patterns for other vendors were covered earlier and are not repeated. Version and date. 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