Stable Diffusion Multi-user
stable diffusion multi-user server API deployment that supports autoscaling, webui extension API...
https://image.stable-ai.tech/
[Option-1] Deploy with Django API
Features:
- a server code that provides stable-diffusion http API, including:
- CHANGELOG-230904: Support torch2.0, support extension API when calling txt2img&img2img, support all API parameters same as webui
- txt2img
- img2img
- check generating progress
- interrupt generating
- list available models
- change models
- ...
- supports civitai models and lora, etc.
- supports multi-user queuing
- supports multi-user separately changing models, and won't affect each other
- provides downstream load-balancing server code that automatically do load-balancing among available GPU servers, and ensure that user requests are sent to the same server within one generation cycle
- can be used to deploy multiple stable-diffusion models in one GPU card to make the full use of GPU, check this article for details
You can build your own UI, community features, account login&payment, etc. based on these functions!

Project directory structure
The project can be roughly divided into two parts: django server code, and stable-diffusion-webui code that we use to initialize and run models. And I'll mainly explain the django server part.
In the main project directory:
- modules/: stable-diffusion-webui modules
- models/: stable diffusion models
- sd_multi/: the django project name
- urls.py: server API path configuration
- simple/: the main django code
- views.py: main API processing logic
- lb_views.py: load-balancing API
- requirements.txt: stable diffusion pip requirements
- setup.sh: run it with options to setup the server environment
- gen_http_conf.py: called in setup.sh to setup the apache configuration
- SSH to the GPU server
- clone or download the repository
- cd to the main project directory(that contains manage.py)
- run sudo bash setup.sh with options(checkout the setup.sh for options)(recommende order: follow the file order: env, venv, sd_model, apache)
- if some downloads are slow, you can always download manually and upload to your server
- if you want to change listening ports: change both /etc/apache2/ports.conf and /etc/apache2/sites-available/sd_multi.conf
- restart apache: sudo service apache2 restart
- /: view the homepage, used to test that apache is configured successfully
- /txt2img_v2/: txt2img with the same parameters as sd-webui, also supports extension parameters(such as controlnet)
- /img2img_v2/: img2img with the same parameters as sd-webui, also supports extension parameters(such as controlnet)
- previous API version: checkout old_django_api.md
Deploy the load-balancing server
- SSH to a CPU server
- clone or download the repository
- cd to the main project directory(that contains manage.py)
- run sudo bash setup.sh lb
- run mv sd_multi/urls.py sd_multi/urls1.py && mv sd_multi/urls_lb.py sd_multi/urls.py
- modify ip_list variable with your own server ip+port in simple/lb_views.py
- restart apache: sudo service apache2 restart
- to test it, view ip+port/multi_demo/ url path
Test the load-balancing server locally
If you don't want to deploy the load balancing server but still want to test the functions, you can start the load-balancing server on your local computer.
- clone or download the repository
- requirements: python3, django, django-cors-headers, replicate
- modify ip_list variable with your own GPU server ip+port in simple/lb_views.py
- cd to the main project directory(that contains manage.py)
- run mv sd_multi/urls.py sd_multi/urls1.py && mv sd_multi/urls_lb.py sd_multi/urls.py (Rename)
- run python manage.py runserver
- click the url that shows up in the terminal, view /multi_demo/ path
Finally, you can call your http API(test it using postman).
[Option-2] Deploy using Runpod Serverless
Features:
- Autoscaling with highly customized scaling strategy
- Supports sd-webui checkpoints, Loras...
- Docker image separated with model files, upload and replace models anytime you want
see sd-docker-slim for deploy guide and also a ready-to-use docker image.
[Option-3] Deploy on Replicate
A replicate demo is deployed here
Features:
- Autoscaling
- latest sd-webui source code, latest torch&cuda version
- Docker image with torch 2.2
- Supports sd-webui API with extensions
- Supports sd-webui checkpoints, Loras...
Deploy steps:
- create a model on (replicate)(https://replicate.com)
- get a Linux GPU machine with 50GB disk space
- clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/wolverinn/stable-diffusion-multi-user.git
cd stable-diffusion-multi-user/replicate-cog-slim/
- modify line-30 in replicate-cog-slim/cog.yaml to your own replicate model
- [optional] modify replicate-cog-slim/predicy.py's predict() function for custom API inputs & outputs
- install cog: https://replicate.com/docs/guides/push-a-model
- install docker: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/#set-up-the-repository
- download the checkpoints/Lora/extensions/other models you want to deploy to corresponding directories under replicate-cog-slim/
- run commands:
Then you can see your model on replicate, and you can use it via API or replicate website.