Deploy and Host Vane on Railway

Vane is a privacy-focused, self-hosted AI answering engine that combines web search with local or cloud language models. It turns questions into clear conversational answers, highlights supporting sources with citations, supports multiple search modes and providers, and keeps research history and application data under your control.

About Hosting Vane

Hosting Vane on Railway uses a single Docker service exposed through a generated domain targeting port 3000. Its bundled search stack and application run together, so no database, cache, or companion service is required. A Railway volume mounted at /home/perplexica/data preserves primary application state across deployments. Railway allows one volume per service, so the Umbrel upload mount at /home/perplexica/uploads cannot also be retained; uploaded files stored there are ephemeral and may be lost during redeploys or restarts. The Umbrel package requires no environment variables. After deployment, open Vane's web UI to configure model providers, search providers, API keys, and preferred models.

Common Use Cases

• Researching topics with concise AI answers and cited web sources
• Using local or cloud language models through one private search interface
• Exploring technical, academic, and general questions with follow-up searches

Dependencies for Vane Hosting

• Persistent volume mounted at /home/perplexica/data for primary application state
• Credentials for a supported model provider, configured after deployment in Vane's UI

Deployment Dependencies

• Vane on GitHub
• Vane documentation
• Docker image: itzcrazykns1337/vane

Implementation Details

The template runs the pinned itzcrazykns1337/vane:v1.12.2 image as one service named web, with the generated Railway domain targeting port 3000. It defines no environment variables. Railway's single-volume limit preserves /home/perplexica/data; /home/perplexica/uploads remains container-local and ephemeral.

Why Deploy Vane 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 Vane 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.