diff --git a/invokeai/app/invocations/compel.py b/invokeai/app/invocations/compel.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..87f6f0fcca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/invokeai/app/invocations/compel.py
@@ -0,0 +1,272 @@
+from typing import Literal, Optional, Union
+from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
+
+from invokeai.app.invocations.util.choose_model import choose_model
+from .baseinvocation import BaseInvocation, BaseInvocationOutput, InvocationContext, InvocationConfig
+
+from ...backend.util.devices import choose_torch_device, torch_dtype
+from ...backend.stable_diffusion.diffusion import InvokeAIDiffuserComponent
+from ...backend.stable_diffusion.textual_inversion_manager import TextualInversionManager
+
+from compel import Compel
+from compel.prompt_parser import (
+    Blend,
+    CrossAttentionControlSubstitute,
+    FlattenedPrompt,
+    Fragment,
+)
+
+from invokeai.backend.globals import Globals
+
+
+class ConditioningField(BaseModel):
+    conditioning_name: Optional[str] = Field(default=None, description="The name of conditioning data")
+    class Config:
+        schema_extra = {"required": ["conditioning_name"]}
+
+
+class CompelOutput(BaseInvocationOutput):
+    """Compel parser output"""
+
+    #fmt: off
+    type: Literal["compel_output"] = "compel_output"
+    # name + loras -> pipeline + loras
+    # model: ModelField           = Field(default=None, description="Model")
+    # src? + loras -> tokenizer + text_encoder + loras
+    # clip:  ClipField            = Field(default=None, description="Text encoder(clip)")
+    positive: ConditioningField = Field(default=None, description="Positive conditioning")
+    negative: ConditioningField = Field(default=None, description="Negative conditioning")
+    #fmt: on
+
+
+class CompelInvocation(BaseInvocation):
+
+    type: Literal["compel"] = "compel"
+
+    positive_prompt: str = Field(default="", description="Positive prompt")
+    negative_prompt: str = Field(default="", description="Negative prompt")
+
+    model: str = Field(default="", description="Model to use")
+    truncate_long_prompts: bool = Field(default=False, description="Whether or not to truncate long prompt to 77 tokens")
+
+    # name + loras -> pipeline + loras
+    # model: ModelField = Field(default=None, description="Model to use") 
+    # src? + loras -> tokenizer + text_encoder + loras
+    # clip: ClipField = Field(default=None, description="Text encoder(clip) to use")
+
+    # Schema customisation
+    class Config(InvocationConfig):
+        schema_extra = {
+            "ui": {
+                "tags": ["latents", "noise"],
+                "type_hints": {
+                  "model": "model"
+                }
+            },
+        }
+
+    def invoke(self, context: InvocationContext) -> CompelOutput:
+
+        # TODO: load without model
+        model = choose_model(context.services.model_manager, self.model)
+        pipeline = model["model"]
+        tokenizer = pipeline.tokenizer
+        text_encoder = pipeline.text_encoder
+
+        # TODO: global? input?
+        #use_full_precision = precision == "float32" or precision == "autocast"
+        use_full_precision = False
+
+        textual_inversion_manager = TextualInversionManager(
+            tokenizer=tokenizer,
+            text_encoder=text_encoder,
+            full_precision=use_full_precision,
+        )
+
+        # lazy-load any deferred textual inversions.
+        # this might take a couple of seconds the first time a textual inversion is used.
+        textual_inversion_manager.create_deferred_token_ids_for_any_trigger_terms(
+            self.positive_prompt + "[" + self.negative_prompt + "]"
+        )
+
+        compel = Compel(
+            tokenizer=tokenizer,
+            text_encoder=text_encoder,
+            textual_inversion_manager=textual_inversion_manager,
+            dtype_for_device_getter=torch_dtype,
+            truncate_long_prompts=self.truncate_long_prompts,
+        )
+
+
+        # TODO: support legacy blend?
+
+        positive_prompt: Union[FlattenedPrompt, Blend] = Compel.parse_prompt_string(self.positive_prompt)
+        negative_prompt: Union[FlattenedPrompt, Blend] = Compel.parse_prompt_string(self.negative_prompt)
+
+        if True: #getattr(Globals, "log_tokenization", False):
+            log_tokenization(positive_prompt, negative_prompt, tokenizer=tokenizer)
+
+        # TODO: add lora(with model and clip field types)
+        c, c_options = compel.build_conditioning_tensor_for_prompt_object(positive_prompt)
+        uc, uc_options = compel.build_conditioning_tensor_for_prompt_object(negative_prompt)
+
+        if not self.truncate_long_prompts:
+            [c, uc] = compel.pad_conditioning_tensors_to_same_length([c, uc])
+
+        c_ec = InvokeAIDiffuserComponent.ExtraConditioningInfo(
+            tokens_count_including_eos_bos=get_max_token_count(tokenizer, positive_prompt),
+            cross_attention_control_args=c_options.get("cross_attention_control", None),
+        )
+
+        uc_ec = InvokeAIDiffuserComponent.ExtraConditioningInfo(
+            tokens_count_including_eos_bos=get_max_token_count(tokenizer, negative_prompt),
+            cross_attention_control_args=uc_options.get("cross_attention_control", None),
+        )
+
+        name_prefix = f'{context.graph_execution_state_id}__{self.id}'
+        name_positive = f"{name_prefix}_positive"
+        name_negative = f"{name_prefix}_negative"
+
+        # TODO: hacky but works ;D maybe rename latents somehow?
+        context.services.latents.set(name_positive, (c, c_ec))
+        context.services.latents.set(name_negative, (uc, uc_ec))
+
+        return CompelOutput(
+            positive=ConditioningField(
+                conditioning_name=name_positive,
+            ),
+            negative=ConditioningField(
+                conditioning_name=name_negative,
+            ),
+        )
+
+
+def get_max_token_count(
+    tokenizer, prompt: Union[FlattenedPrompt, Blend], truncate_if_too_long=False
+) -> int:
+    if type(prompt) is Blend:
+        blend: Blend = prompt
+        return max(
+            [
+                get_max_token_count(tokenizer, c, truncate_if_too_long)
+                for c in blend.prompts
+            ]
+        )
+    else:
+        return len(
+            get_tokens_for_prompt_object(tokenizer, prompt, truncate_if_too_long)
+        )
+
+
+def get_tokens_for_prompt_object(
+    tokenizer, parsed_prompt: FlattenedPrompt, truncate_if_too_long=True
+) -> [str]:
+    if type(parsed_prompt) is Blend:
+        raise ValueError(
+            "Blend is not supported here - you need to get tokens for each of its .children"
+        )
+
+    text_fragments = [
+        x.text
+        if type(x) is Fragment
+        else (
+            " ".join([f.text for f in x.original])
+            if type(x) is CrossAttentionControlSubstitute
+            else str(x)
+        )
+        for x in parsed_prompt.children
+    ]
+    text = " ".join(text_fragments)
+    tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(text)
+    if truncate_if_too_long:
+        max_tokens_length = tokenizer.model_max_length - 2  # typically 75
+        tokens = tokens[0:max_tokens_length]
+    return tokens
+
+
+def log_tokenization(
+    positive_prompt: Union[Blend, FlattenedPrompt],
+    negative_prompt: Union[Blend, FlattenedPrompt],
+    tokenizer,
+):
+    print(f"\n>> [TOKENLOG] Parsed Prompt: {positive_prompt}")
+    print(f"\n>> [TOKENLOG] Parsed Negative Prompt: {negative_prompt}")
+
+    log_tokenization_for_prompt_object(positive_prompt, tokenizer)
+    log_tokenization_for_prompt_object(
+        negative_prompt, tokenizer, display_label_prefix="(negative prompt)"
+    )
+
+
+def log_tokenization_for_prompt_object(
+    p: Union[Blend, FlattenedPrompt], tokenizer, display_label_prefix=None
+):
+    display_label_prefix = display_label_prefix or ""
+    if type(p) is Blend:
+        blend: Blend = p
+        for i, c in enumerate(blend.prompts):
+            log_tokenization_for_prompt_object(
+                c,
+                tokenizer,
+                display_label_prefix=f"{display_label_prefix}(blend part {i + 1}, weight={blend.weights[i]})",
+            )
+    elif type(p) is FlattenedPrompt:
+        flattened_prompt: FlattenedPrompt = p
+        if flattened_prompt.wants_cross_attention_control:
+            original_fragments = []
+            edited_fragments = []
+            for f in flattened_prompt.children:
+                if type(f) is CrossAttentionControlSubstitute:
+                    original_fragments += f.original
+                    edited_fragments += f.edited
+                else:
+                    original_fragments.append(f)
+                    edited_fragments.append(f)
+
+            original_text = " ".join([x.text for x in original_fragments])
+            log_tokenization_for_text(
+                original_text,
+                tokenizer,
+                display_label=f"{display_label_prefix}(.swap originals)",
+            )
+            edited_text = " ".join([x.text for x in edited_fragments])
+            log_tokenization_for_text(
+                edited_text,
+                tokenizer,
+                display_label=f"{display_label_prefix}(.swap replacements)",
+            )
+        else:
+            text = " ".join([x.text for x in flattened_prompt.children])
+            log_tokenization_for_text(
+                text, tokenizer, display_label=display_label_prefix
+            )
+
+
+def log_tokenization_for_text(text, tokenizer, display_label=None, truncate_if_too_long=False):
+    """shows how the prompt is tokenized
+    # usually tokens have '</w>' to indicate end-of-word,
+    # but for readability it has been replaced with ' '
+    """
+    tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(text)
+    tokenized = ""
+    discarded = ""
+    usedTokens = 0
+    totalTokens = len(tokens)
+
+    for i in range(0, totalTokens):
+        token = tokens[i].replace("</w>", " ")
+        # alternate color
+        s = (usedTokens % 6) + 1
+        if truncate_if_too_long and i >= tokenizer.model_max_length:
+            discarded = discarded + f"\x1b[0;3{s};40m{token}"
+        else:
+            tokenized = tokenized + f"\x1b[0;3{s};40m{token}"
+            usedTokens += 1
+
+    if usedTokens > 0:
+        print(f'\n>> [TOKENLOG] Tokens {display_label or ""} ({usedTokens}):')
+        print(f"{tokenized}\x1b[0m")
+
+    if discarded != "":
+        print(f"\n>> [TOKENLOG] Tokens Discarded ({totalTokens - usedTokens}):")
+        print(f"{discarded}\x1b[0m")
diff --git a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/common/util/parseMetadata.ts b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/common/util/parseMetadata.ts
index 433aa9b2a1..a017019125 100644
--- a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/common/util/parseMetadata.ts
+++ b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/common/util/parseMetadata.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { forEach, size } from 'lodash';
-import { ImageField, LatentsField } from 'services/api';
+import { ImageField, LatentsField, ConditioningField } from 'services/api';
 
 const OBJECT_TYPESTRING = '[object Object]';
 const STRING_TYPESTRING = '[object String]';
@@ -74,8 +74,38 @@ const parseLatentsField = (latentsField: unknown): LatentsField | undefined => {
   };
 };
 
+const parseConditioningField = (
+  conditioningField: unknown
+): ConditioningField | undefined => {
+  // Must be an object
+  if (!isObject(conditioningField)) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  // A ConditioningField must have a `conditioning_name`
+  if (!('conditioning_name' in conditioningField)) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  // A ConditioningField's `conditioning_name` must be a string
+  if (typeof conditioningField.conditioning_name !== 'string') {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  // Build a valid ConditioningField
+  return {
+    conditioning_name: conditioningField.conditioning_name,
+  };
+};
+
 type NodeMetadata = {
-  [key: string]: string | number | boolean | ImageField | LatentsField;
+  [key: string]:
+    | string
+    | number
+    | boolean
+    | ImageField
+    | LatentsField
+    | ConditioningField;
 };
 
 type InvokeAIMetadata = {
@@ -101,7 +131,7 @@ export const parseNodeMetadata = (
       return;
     }
 
-    // the only valid object types are ImageField and LatentsField
+    // the only valid object types are ImageField, LatentsField and ConditioningField
     if (isObject(nodeItem)) {
       if ('image_name' in nodeItem || 'image_type' in nodeItem) {
         const imageField = parseImageField(nodeItem);
@@ -118,6 +148,14 @@ export const parseNodeMetadata = (
         }
         return;
       }
+
+      if ('conditioning_name' in nodeItem) {
+        const conditioningField = parseConditioningField(nodeItem);
+        if (conditioningField) {
+          parsed[nodeKey] = conditioningField;
+        }
+        return;
+      }
     }
 
     // otherwise we accept any string, number or boolean
diff --git a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/components/InputFieldComponent.tsx b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/components/InputFieldComponent.tsx
index 21e4b9fcfb..01d6d01b48 100644
--- a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/components/InputFieldComponent.tsx
+++ b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/components/InputFieldComponent.tsx
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import BooleanInputFieldComponent from './fields/BooleanInputFieldComponent';
 import EnumInputFieldComponent from './fields/EnumInputFieldComponent';
 import ImageInputFieldComponent from './fields/ImageInputFieldComponent';
 import LatentsInputFieldComponent from './fields/LatentsInputFieldComponent';
+import ConditioningInputFieldComponent from './fields/ConditioningInputFieldComponent';
 import ModelInputFieldComponent from './fields/ModelInputFieldComponent';
 import NumberInputFieldComponent from './fields/NumberInputFieldComponent';
 import StringInputFieldComponent from './fields/StringInputFieldComponent';
@@ -84,6 +85,16 @@ const InputFieldComponent = (props: InputFieldComponentProps) => {
     );
   }
 
+  if (type === 'conditioning' && template.type === 'conditioning') {
+    return (
+      <ConditioningInputFieldComponent
+        nodeId={nodeId}
+        field={field}
+        template={template}
+      />
+    );
+  }
+
   if (type === 'model' && template.type === 'model') {
     return (
       <ModelInputFieldComponent
diff --git a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/components/fields/ConditioningInputFieldComponent.tsx b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/components/fields/ConditioningInputFieldComponent.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..29ce1e8dae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/components/fields/ConditioningInputFieldComponent.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import {
+  ConditioningInputFieldTemplate,
+  ConditioningInputFieldValue,
+} from 'features/nodes/types/types';
+import { memo } from 'react';
+import { FieldComponentProps } from './types';
+
+const ConditioningInputFieldComponent = (
+  props: FieldComponentProps<
+    ConditioningInputFieldValue,
+    ConditioningInputFieldTemplate
+  >
+) => {
+  const { nodeId, field } = props;
+
+  return null;
+};
+
+export default memo(ConditioningInputFieldComponent);
diff --git a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/types/constants.ts b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/types/constants.ts
index 01497651e3..73bd7bb0a1 100644
--- a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/types/constants.ts
+++ b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/types/constants.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ export const FIELD_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, FieldType> = {
   enum: 'enum',
   ImageField: 'image',
   LatentsField: 'latents',
+  ConditioningField: 'conditioning',
   model: 'model',
   array: 'array',
 };
@@ -63,6 +64,12 @@ export const FIELDS: Record<FieldType, FieldUIConfig> = {
     title: 'Latents',
     description: 'Latents may be passed between nodes.',
   },
+  conditioning: {
+    color: 'cyan',
+    colorCssVar: getColorTokenCssVariable('cyan'),
+    title: 'Conditioning',
+    description: 'Conditioning may be passed between nodes.',
+  },
   model: {
     color: 'teal',
     colorCssVar: getColorTokenCssVariable('teal'),
diff --git a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/types/types.ts b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/types/types.ts
index 4b5548e351..568c5fa831 100644
--- a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/types/types.ts
+++ b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/types/types.ts
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ export type FieldType =
   | 'enum'
   | 'image'
   | 'latents'
+  | 'conditioning'
   | 'model'
   | 'array';
 
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ export type InputFieldValue =
   | BooleanInputFieldValue
   | ImageInputFieldValue
   | LatentsInputFieldValue
+  | ConditioningInputFieldValue
   | EnumInputFieldValue
   | ModelInputFieldValue
   | ArrayInputFieldValue;
@@ -91,6 +93,7 @@ export type InputFieldTemplate =
   | BooleanInputFieldTemplate
   | ImageInputFieldTemplate
   | LatentsInputFieldTemplate
+  | ConditioningInputFieldTemplate
   | EnumInputFieldTemplate
   | ModelInputFieldTemplate
   | ArrayInputFieldTemplate;
@@ -162,6 +165,11 @@ export type LatentsInputFieldValue = FieldValueBase & {
   value?: undefined;
 };
 
+export type ConditioningInputFieldValue = FieldValueBase & {
+  type: 'conditioning';
+  value?: undefined;
+};
+
 export type ImageInputFieldValue = FieldValueBase & {
   type: 'image';
   value?: Pick<ImageField, 'image_name' | 'image_type'>;
@@ -229,6 +237,11 @@ export type LatentsInputFieldTemplate = InputFieldTemplateBase & {
   type: 'latents';
 };
 
+export type ConditioningInputFieldTemplate = InputFieldTemplateBase & {
+  default: undefined;
+  type: 'conditioning';
+};
+
 export type EnumInputFieldTemplate = InputFieldTemplateBase & {
   default: string | number;
   type: 'enum';
diff --git a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/util/fieldTemplateBuilders.ts b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/util/fieldTemplateBuilders.ts
index e37f446e00..6d057cc764 100644
--- a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/util/fieldTemplateBuilders.ts
+++ b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/util/fieldTemplateBuilders.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {
   ImageInputFieldTemplate,
   IntegerInputFieldTemplate,
   LatentsInputFieldTemplate,
+  ConditioningInputFieldTemplate,
   StringInputFieldTemplate,
   ModelInputFieldTemplate,
   InputFieldTemplateBase,
@@ -196,6 +197,21 @@ const buildLatentsInputFieldTemplate = ({
   return template;
 };
 
+const buildConditioningInputFieldTemplate = ({
+  schemaObject,
+  baseField,
+}: BuildInputFieldArg): ConditioningInputFieldTemplate => {
+  const template: ConditioningInputFieldTemplate = {
+    ...baseField,
+    type: 'conditioning',
+    inputRequirement: 'always',
+    inputKind: 'connection',
+    default: schemaObject.default ?? undefined,
+  };
+
+  return template;
+};
+
 const buildEnumInputFieldTemplate = ({
   schemaObject,
   baseField,
@@ -266,6 +282,9 @@ export const buildInputFieldTemplate = (
   if (['latents'].includes(fieldType)) {
     return buildLatentsInputFieldTemplate({ schemaObject, baseField });
   }
+  if (['conditioning'].includes(fieldType)) {
+    return buildConditioningInputFieldTemplate({ schemaObject, baseField });
+  }
   if (['model'].includes(fieldType)) {
     return buildModelInputFieldTemplate({ schemaObject, baseField });
   }
diff --git a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/util/fieldValueBuilders.ts b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/util/fieldValueBuilders.ts
index f2db2b5dc4..9221e5f7ac 100644
--- a/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/util/fieldValueBuilders.ts
+++ b/invokeai/frontend/web/src/features/nodes/util/fieldValueBuilders.ts
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ export const buildInputFieldValue = (
       fieldValue.value = undefined;
     }
 
+    if (template.type === 'conditioning') {
+      fieldValue.value = undefined;
+    }
+
     if (template.type === 'model') {
       fieldValue.value = undefined;
     }