How do I deploy InvokeAI on Railway?

You can deploy InvokeAI on Railway by clicking the "Deploy Now" button on this page. Railway will automatically set up all the necessary services and configurations for you.

What are the system requirements?

Railway handles all the infrastructure requirements. You only need a web browser to deploy and manage your application.

Is this template free to use?

Yes, this template is free to use within your existing Railway account.

Can I customize this template?

Yes, you can fully customize this template. After deployment, you will have full control of what you've deployed in your Railway project.

How do I get support for this template?

You can get support through our community forum: invoke-ai-fcc7d92e, or join our Discord community for more assistance.

Deploy and Host InvokeAI on Railway

InvokeAI is a leading creative engine for Stable Diffusion models, empowering professionals and artists to generate and manipulate visual media. It features a streamlined WebUI, a powerful unified canvas for infinite out-painting, and a node-based backend for custom workflows, offering complete ownership and control over the creative process.

About Hosting InvokeAI

Hosting InvokeAI involves deploying a Python-based application that serves a React frontend and a FastAPI backend. Key considerations include managing significant storage requirements for model weights (often several gigabytes) and configuring the environment with necessary libraries like PyTorch and Diffusers. When self-hosting on a cloud platform, you must ensure adequate system resources—specifically RAM and ideally GPU acceleration—to handle image generation tasks efficiently.

Common Use Cases

Professional Image Generation: Creating high-quality assets for game design, concept art, and marketing materials using fine-tuned Stable Diffusion models.
Unified Canvas Editing: Seamlessly extending images (out-painting) or modifying specific areas (in-painting) within a single, infinite workspace.
Custom Workflow Automation: Building and deploying reproducible generation pipelines using the node-based graph architecture for specific creative tasks.

Dependencies for InvokeAI Hosting

Persistent Storage: A volume to retain large model weights, LoRAs, and generated output databases across deployments.

Deployment Dependencies

InvokeAI GitHub Repository

Why Deploy InvokeAI on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying InvokeAI on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.