--- title: "Deploy Claude Code UI" description: "CloudCLI: Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode in the browser, with a login" category: "AI/ML" url: https://railway.com/deploy/claude-code-ui --- # Deploy Claude Code UI CloudCLI: Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode in the browser, with a login **[Deploy Claude Code UI on Railway](https://railway.com/template/claude-code-ui)** Machine-readable deploy manifest (JSON, validated by TemplateCI): https://railway.com/deploy/claude-code-ui/manifest.json - **Creator:** Dektion - **Category:** AI/ML - **Total deploys:** 2 ## Template content ### CloudCLI https://raw.githubusercontent.com/siteboon/claudecodeui/7c3049fe8e157f12b7add3e496d8d2fe6fa5c014/public/logo.svg - **Source:** dektionstudio/railway-template-images - **Health check:** /health - **Public domain:** Yes ## Documentation # Deploy and Host Claude Code UI on Railway [CloudCLI](https://github.com/siteboon/claudecodeui), also known as Claude Code UI, is a web and mobile interface for coding agents. You chat with Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode in a project, browse and edit its files, review git changes, and pick up any earlier session, from a laptop or a phone. This template runs CloudCLI 1.37.4 on a server with the Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode CLIs installed and a login set at deploy. ## About Hosting Claude Code UI CloudCLI is single-user, and on a fresh install the first person to open it creates the account. On a public URL that would be whoever finds it first. So on first start the template runs CloudCLI on localhost only, creates the account from `CLOUDCLI_USERNAME` and the generated `CLOUDCLI_PASSWORD`, stops it, and only then opens the public port. In my test CloudCLI reported the account as already set up before anyone had opened the page. It runs as a normal user rather than root, since Claude Code won't run some modes as root. The whole home directory (`/home/node`) is a volume: CloudCLI's account database, the CLIs' logins, settings and sessions, and your projects under `~/projects` survive redeploys. The image is full Debian with Node.js 22, git and build tools, because the agents build and run code there. To use a Claude or ChatGPT subscription, open CloudCLI's shell, run `claude` or `codex` and sign in once; the login is saved on the volume. API keys work too: set `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` or `OPENAI_API_KEY` on the service, or the variable your OpenCode provider reads, such as `OPENROUTER_API_KEY`. Before publishing I tested it on Railway. The account existed before the first visit, and signing in with the generated password worked. I created an API key in CloudCLI's settings and used its agent API to give OpenCode a task on gpt-5-mini through OpenRouter: create `hello.txt` containing "Railway 42". It finished in 12 seconds, and reading the file back through CloudCLI's file API returned exactly that text. After a restart, sign-in, the project and the file were all still there. I didn't run Claude Code or Codex end to end (I had no keys for them in the test); both are installed, at 2.1.295 and 0.162.0, with OpenCode 1.18.35. Idle, it used 0.08 to 0.15 GB of RAM, around $1 a month on Railway's usage pricing. An agent at work uses more while it runs. ## Common Use Cases - Running Claude Code or Codex from your phone on a server that keeps going after you close the tab - One place for every agent session on your projects, with the files and git changes next to the chat - Triggering agent tasks from n8n, scripts or CI through CloudCLI's agent API with an API key ## Dependencies for Claude Code UI Hosting A Claude or ChatGPT account, or an API key for the agent you want to use. ### Deployment Dependencies - CloudCLI: https://github.com/siteboon/claudecodeui - Docs: https://cloudcli.ai/docs - The wrapper this template builds: https://github.com/dektionstudio/railway-template-images/tree/main/cloudcli ### Implementation Details ``` CLOUDCLI_URL # open this CLOUDCLI_USERNAME / CLOUDCLI_PASSWORD # the account created on first start /home/node # the volume: account, CLI logins and sessions, ~/projects ``` `CLOUDCLI_PASSWORD` is only read on the first start. To change the password later, do it in CloudCLI's settings. Packages installed with `apt` go away on the next redeploy, because only the home directory persists. CloudCLI is AGPL-3.0 licensed, and its makers also sell a hosted version at cloudcli.ai. ## Why Deploy Claude Code UI on Railway? Your agents run on a server instead of your laptop, behind a login, with their work on a volume. Railway bills the RAM the container uses, which is little while it waits for you. ## Similar templates - [Chat Chat](https://railway.com/deploy/-WWW5r) — Chat Chat, your own unified chat and search to AI platform. - [stella](https://railway.com/deploy/stella) — Self-host stella with web, API, Postgres, Redis, and object storage. - [Hermes Agent | OpenClaw Alternative with Dashboard](https://railway.com/deploy/hermes-agent-or-openclaw-alternative-wit) — Self-Hosted Hermes AI Agent for Telegram, Discord & Slack Open this page in a browser: https://railway.com/deploy/claude-code-ui