Deploy and Host LobeChat with Bifrost on Railway

Running your own AI chat usually means picking one provider and locking yourself to it, or pasting raw API keys into a tool with no failover, no cost visibility, and no shared control. This template fixes that. LobeChat gives you a polished chat interface, and Bifrost sits behind it as the gateway, so every message can reach OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and more through one connection, with provider failover and request logging built in.

What you get

LobeChat is an open source, modern AI chat interface. Bifrost is an open source AI gateway that routes to more than twenty providers behind one OpenAI compatible API. LobeChat is pre wired to Bifrost over Railway private networking, so you add provider keys once in Bifrost and use them from the chat UI, rather than scattering keys across tools.

About Hosting This Stack

The stack runs three services: LobeChat as the interface, Bifrost as the gateway, and Postgres as Bifrost storage for configuration and request logs. After deploy, open Bifrost and add a provider key, then open LobeChat, enter your access code, and start chatting. Every request routes through Bifrost, so you get failover and full request logs without changing anything in the chat app.

Common Use Cases

• A private chat interface that talks to many model providers through one endpoint
• A personal assistant where you control cost and switch providers without touching the UI
• A single place to test and compare models on real conversations

Dependencies for This Stack

• Postgres for Bifrost configuration and request log storage

Deployment Dependencies

• LobeChat: https://github.com/lobehub/lobe-chat
• Bifrost docs: https://docs.getbifrost.ai
• Bifrost Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/maximhq/bifrost

Why Deploy This Stack on Railway?

Railway runs your whole stack on one platform, so you do not wire services together by hand and can scale each piece as traffic grows. By deploying LobeChat with Bifrost on Railway, you get a private chat interface connected to every major provider in minutes, with cost control and logging built in.