diff --git a/api/onnx_web/convert/diffusion/lora.py b/api/onnx_web/convert/diffusion/lora.py
index 7a1d1b54..4f5f9ab4 100644
--- a/api/onnx_web/convert/diffusion/lora.py
+++ b/api/onnx_web/convert/diffusion/lora.py
@@ -205,27 +205,15 @@ def merge_lora(
         else:
             logger.info("could not find any nodes for %s", base_key)
 
-    logger.info("node counts: %s -> %s, %s -> %s", len(fixed_initializer_names), len(base_model.graph.initializer), len(fixed_node_names), len(base_model.graph.node))
+    logger.info(
+        "node counts: %s -> %s, %s -> %s",
+        len(fixed_initializer_names),
+        len(base_model.graph.initializer),
+        len(fixed_node_names),
+        len(base_model.graph.node)
+    )
 
-    if dest_path is None or dest_path == "" or dest_path == "ort":
-        # convert to external data and save to memory
-        (bare_model, external_data) = buffer_external_data_tensors(base_model)
-        logger.info("saved external data for %s nodes", len(external_data))
-
-        external_names, external_values = zip(*external_data)
-        opts = SessionOptions()
-        opts.add_external_initializers(list(external_names), list(external_values))
-        sess = InferenceSession(bare_model.SerializeToString(), sess_options=opts, providers=["CPUExecutionProvider"])
-        logger.info("successfully loaded model: %s", [i.name for i in sess.get_inputs()])
-    else:
-        convert_model_to_external_data(base_model, all_tensors_to_one_file=True, location=f"lora-{dest_type}.pb")
-        bare_model = write_external_data_tensors(base_model, dest_path)
-        dest_file = path.join(dest_path, f"lora-{dest_type}.onnx")
-
-        with open(dest_file, "w+b") as model_file:
-            model_file.write(bare_model.SerializeToString())
-
-        logger.info("successfully saved model: %s", dest_file)
+    return base_model
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
@@ -238,4 +226,24 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
 
     args = parser.parse_args()
     logger.info("merging %s with %s with weights: %s", args.lora_models, args.base, args.lora_weights)
-    merge_lora(args.base, args.lora_models, args.dest, args.type, args.lora_weights)
+
+    blend_model = merge_lora(args.base, args.lora_models, args.dest, args.type, args.lora_weights)
+    if args.dest is None or args.dest == "" or args.dest == "ort":
+        # convert to external data and save to memory
+        (bare_model, external_data) = buffer_external_data_tensors(blend_model)
+        logger.info("saved external data for %s nodes", len(external_data))
+
+        external_names, external_values = zip(*external_data)
+        opts = SessionOptions()
+        opts.add_external_initializers(list(external_names), list(external_values))
+        sess = InferenceSession(bare_model.SerializeToString(), sess_options=opts, providers=["CPUExecutionProvider"])
+        logger.info("successfully loaded blended model: %s", [i.name for i in sess.get_inputs()])
+    else:
+        convert_model_to_external_data(blend_model, all_tensors_to_one_file=True, location=f"lora-{args.type}.pb")
+        bare_model = write_external_data_tensors(blend_model, args.path)
+        dest_file = path.join(args.path, f"lora-{args.type}.onnx")
+
+        with open(dest_file, "w+b") as model_file:
+            model_file.write(bare_model.SerializeToString())
+
+        logger.info("successfully saved blended model: %s", dest_file)
diff --git a/api/onnx_web/diffusers/load.py b/api/onnx_web/diffusers/load.py
index b616fba4..340be21d 100644
--- a/api/onnx_web/diffusers/load.py
+++ b/api/onnx_web/diffusers/load.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ from diffusers import (
     PNDMScheduler,
     StableDiffusionPipeline,
 )
+from onnxruntime import SessionOptions
 from transformers import CLIPTokenizer
 
 from onnx_web.diffusers.utils import expand_prompt
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     from ..diffusers.stub_scheduler import StubScheduler as UniPCMultistepScheduler
 
+from ..convert.diffusion.lora import merge_lora, buffer_external_data_tensors
 from ..params import DeviceParams, Size
 from ..server import ServerContext
 from ..utils import run_gc
@@ -220,6 +222,28 @@ def load_pipeline(
                 path.join(inversion, "tokenizer"),
             )
 
+        # test LoRA blending
+        lora_models = [path.join(server.model_path, "lora", f"{i}.safetensors") for i in [
+            "arch",
+            "glass",
+        ]]
+
+        logger.info("blending text encoder with LoRA models: %s", lora_models)
+        blended_text_encoder = merge_lora("text_encoder", lora_models, None, "text_encoder")
+        (text_encoder_model, text_encoder_data) = buffer_external_data_tensors(blended_text_encoder)
+        text_encoder_names, text_encoder_values = zip(*text_encoder_data)
+        text_encoder_opts = SessionOptions()
+        text_encoder_opts.add_external_initializers(list(text_encoder_names), list(text_encoder_values))
+        components["text_encoder"] = OnnxRuntimeModel.from_pretrained(text_encoder_model, sess_options=text_encoder_opts)
+
+        logger.info("blending unet with LoRA models: %s", lora_models)
+        blended_unet = merge_lora("unet", lora_models, None, "unet")
+        (unet_model, unet_data) = buffer_external_data_tensors(blended_unet)
+        unet_names, unet_values = zip(*unet_data)
+        unet_opts = SessionOptions()
+        unet_opts.add_external_initializers(list(unet_names), list(unet_values))
+        components["unet"] = OnnxRuntimeModel.from_pretrained(unet_model, sess_options=unet_opts)
+
         pipe = pipeline.from_pretrained(
             model,
             custom_pipeline=custom_pipeline,