diff --git a/.github/workflows/gpu-integ-test.yaml b/.github/workflows/gpu-integ-test.yaml
index bcc3b986..703e4e28 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/gpu-integ-test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/gpu-integ-test.yaml
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ jobs:
   tensorflow-integration-test:
     needs:
       - start-runner
-      # - pytorch-integration-test
+      - pytorch-integration-test
     runs-on: ${{ needs.start-runner.outputs.label }} # run the job on the newly created runner
     env:
       AWS_REGION: us-east-1
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 75080871..63c2b568 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ docker build -t starlette-transformers:gpu -f dockerfiles/starlette/tensorflow/D
 docker run -ti -p 5000:5000 -e HF_MODEL_ID=distilbert-base-uncased-distilled-squad -e HF_TASK=question-answering starlette-transformers:cpu
 ```
 
+
 3. Send request. The API schema is the same as from the [inference API](https://huggingface.co/docs/api-inference/detailed_parameters)
 
 ```bash
diff --git a/dockerfiles/starlette/pytorch/Dockerfile.cpu b/dockerfiles/starlette/pytorch/Dockerfile.cpu
index fe34fc77..04d0a1db 100644
--- a/dockerfiles/starlette/pytorch/Dockerfile.cpu
+++ b/dockerfiles/starlette/pytorch/Dockerfile.cpu
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ FROM huggingface/transformers-inference:4.24.0-pt1.13-cpu
 COPY starlette_requirements.txt /tmp/requirements.txt
 RUN pip install  --no-cache-dir -r /tmp/requirements.txt && rm /tmp/requirements.txt
 
-# Think about a better solution -> base contaienr has pt 1.11. thats why need below 0.13
-RUN pip install  --no-cache-dir sentence_transformers torchvision~="0.12.0"
+# Think about a better solution -> base contaienr has pt 1.13. thats why need below 0.14
+RUN pip install  --no-cache-dir sentence_transformers torchvision~="0.14.0" diffusers=="0.8.1" accelerate=="0.14.0"
 
 # copy application
 COPY src/huggingface_inference_toolkit huggingface_inference_toolkit
diff --git a/dockerfiles/starlette/pytorch/Dockerfile.gpu b/dockerfiles/starlette/pytorch/Dockerfile.gpu
index 45bc7f52..33e02056 100644
--- a/dockerfiles/starlette/pytorch/Dockerfile.gpu
+++ b/dockerfiles/starlette/pytorch/Dockerfile.gpu
@@ -4,12 +4,13 @@ FROM huggingface/transformers-inference:4.24.0-pt1.13-cuda11.6
 COPY starlette_requirements.txt /tmp/requirements.txt
 RUN pip install  --no-cache-dir -r /tmp/requirements.txt && rm /tmp/requirements.txt
 
-# Think about a better solution -> base contaienr has pt 1.11. thats why need below 0.13
-RUN pip install  --no-cache-dir sentence_transformers torchvision~="0.12.0"
+# Think about a better solution -> base contaienr has pt 1.13. thats why need below 0.14
+RUN pip install  --no-cache-dir sentence_transformers torchvision~="0.14.0" diffusers=="0.8.1" accelerate=="0.14.0"
 
 # copy application
 COPY src/huggingface_inference_toolkit huggingface_inference_toolkit
 COPY src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/webservice_starlette.py webservice_starlette.py
 
 # run app
-ENTRYPOINT ["uvicorn", "webservice_starlette:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "5000"]
\ No newline at end of file
+ENTRYPOINT ["uvicorn", "webservice_starlette:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "5000"]
+
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9200e5e8..b81e84dd 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -31,12 +31,13 @@
 extras = {}
 
 extras["st"] = ["sentence_transformers"]
+extras["diffusers"] = ["diffusers==0.8.1", "accelerate==0.14.0"]
 
 
 # Hugging Face specific dependencies
 # framework specific dependencies
 extras["torch"] = ["torch>=1.8.0", "torchaudio"]
-extras["tensorflow"] = ["tensorflow>=2.4.0"]
+extras["tensorflow"] = ["tensorflow==2.9.0"]
 # test and quality
 extras["test"] = [
     "pytest",
diff --git a/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/diffusers_utils.py b/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/diffusers_utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3db96940
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/diffusers_utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+import importlib.util
+import json
+import os
+
+
+_diffusers = importlib.util.find_spec("diffusers") is not None
+
+
+def is_diffusers_available():
+    return _diffusers
+
+
+if is_diffusers_available():
+    import torch
+
+    from diffusers import StableDiffusionPipeline
+
+
+def check_supported_pipeline(model_dir):
+    try:
+        with open(os.path.join(model_dir, "model_index.json")) as json_file:
+            data = json.load(json_file)
+            if data["_class_name"] == "StableDiffusionPipeline":
+                return True
+            else:
+                return False
+    except Exception:
+        return False
+
+
+class DiffusersPipelineImageToText:
+    def __init__(self, model_dir: str, device: str = None):  # needs "cuda" for GPU
+        self.pipeline = StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(model_dir, torch_dtype=torch.float16)
+        self.pipeline.to(device)
+
+    def __call__(self, prompt, **kwargs):
+
+        if kwargs:
+            out = self.pipeline(prompt, **kwargs)
+        else:
+            out = self.pipeline(prompt)
+
+        # TODO: return more than 1 image if requested
+        return out.images[0]
+
+
+DIFFUSERS_TASKS = {
+    "text-to-image": DiffusersPipelineImageToText,
+}
+
+
+def get_diffusers_pipeline(task=None, model_dir=None, device=-1, **kwargs):
+    """Get a pipeline for Diffusers models."""
+    device = "cuda" if device == 0 else "cpu"
+    pipeline = DIFFUSERS_TASKS[task](model_dir=model_dir, device=device)
+    return pipeline
diff --git a/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/serialization/audio_utils.py b/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/serialization/audio_utils.py
index 682f1a8a..bad4105b 100644
--- a/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/serialization/audio_utils.py
+++ b/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/serialization/audio_utils.py
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ def deserialize(body):
         return {"inputs": bytes(body)}
 
     @staticmethod
-    def serialize(body):
+    def serialize(body, accept=None):
         raise NotImplementedError("Audio serialization not implemented")
diff --git a/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/serialization/base.py b/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/serialization/base.py
index d55c5b99..d3b936d9 100644
--- a/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/serialization/base.py
+++ b/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/serialization/base.py
@@ -46,3 +46,12 @@ def get_deserializer(content_type):
             raise Exception(
                 f'Content type "{content_type}" not supported. Supported content types are: {", ".join(list(content_type_mapping.keys()))}'
             )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_serializer(accept):
+        if accept in content_type_mapping:
+            return content_type_mapping[accept]
+        else:
+            raise Exception(
+                f'Accept type "{accept}" not supported. Supported accept types are: {", ".join(list(content_type_mapping.keys()))}'
+            )
diff --git a/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/serialization/image_utils.py b/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/serialization/image_utils.py
index ecec38c9..43dbbe15 100644
--- a/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/serialization/image_utils.py
+++ b/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/serialization/image_utils.py
@@ -10,5 +10,11 @@ def deserialize(body):
         return {"inputs": image}
 
     @staticmethod
-    def serialize(body):
-        raise NotImplementedError("Image serialization not implemented")
+    def serialize(image, accept=None):
+        if isinstance(image, Image.Image):
+            img_byte_arr = BytesIO()
+            image.save(img_byte_arr, format=accept.split("/")[-1].upper())
+            img_byte_arr = img_byte_arr.getvalue()
+            return img_byte_arr
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(f"Can only serialize PIL.Image.Image, got {type(image)}")
diff --git a/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/serialization/json_utils.py b/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/serialization/json_utils.py
index fb15e457..a6387000 100644
--- a/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/serialization/json_utils.py
+++ b/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/serialization/json_utils.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ def deserialize(body):
         return orjson.loads(body)
 
     @staticmethod
-    def serialize(body):
+    def serialize(body, accept=None):
         return orjson.dumps(body, option=orjson.OPT_SERIALIZE_NUMPY, default=default)
 
 
diff --git a/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/utils.py b/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/utils.py
index 18dc4aa3..dd9437c6 100644
--- a/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/utils.py
+++ b/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/utils.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Optional, Union
 
-from huggingface_hub import HfApi
+from huggingface_hub import HfApi, login
 from huggingface_hub.file_download import cached_download, hf_hub_url
 from huggingface_hub.utils import filter_repo_objects
 from transformers import pipeline
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@
 from transformers.pipelines import Conversation, Pipeline
 
 from huggingface_inference_toolkit.const import HF_DEFAULT_PIPELINE_NAME, HF_MODULE_NAME
+from huggingface_inference_toolkit.diffusers_utils import (
+    check_supported_pipeline,
+    get_diffusers_pipeline,
+    is_diffusers_available,
+)
 from huggingface_inference_toolkit.sentence_transformers_utils import (
     get_sentence_transformers_pipeline,
     is_sentence_transformers_available,
@@ -127,6 +132,9 @@ def _load_repository_from_hf(
     """
     Load a model from huggingface hub.
     """
+    if hf_hub_token is not None:
+        login(token=hf_hub_token)
+
     if framework is None:
         framework = _get_framework()
 
@@ -146,7 +154,6 @@ def _load_repository_from_hf(
         repo_id=repository_id,
         repo_type="model",
         revision=revision,
-        token=hf_hub_token,
     )
     # apply regex to filter out non-framework specific weights if args.framework is set
     filtered_repo_files = filter_repo_objects(
@@ -267,6 +274,8 @@ def get_pipeline(task: str, model_dir: Path, **kwargs) -> Pipeline:
         "sentence-ranking",
     ]:
         hf_pipeline = get_sentence_transformers_pipeline(task=task, model_dir=model_dir, device=device, **kwargs)
+    elif is_diffusers_available() and check_supported_pipeline(model_dir) and task == "text-to-image":
+        hf_pipeline = get_diffusers_pipeline(task=task, model_dir=model_dir, device=device, **kwargs)
     else:
         hf_pipeline = pipeline(task=task, model=model_dir, device=device, **kwargs)
 
diff --git a/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/webservice_starlette.py b/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/webservice_starlette.py
index 76ca5478..9c3df0ee 100644
--- a/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/webservice_starlette.py
+++ b/src/huggingface_inference_toolkit/webservice_starlette.py
@@ -81,8 +81,14 @@ async def predict(request):
         # log request time
         # TODO: repalce with middleware
         logger.info(f"POST {request.url.path} | Duration: {(perf_counter()-start_time) *1000:.2f} ms")
+
+        # response extracts content from request
+        accept = request.headers.get("accept", None)
+        if accept is None or accept == "*/*":
+            accept = "application/json"
         # deserialized and resonds with json
-        return Response(Jsoner.serialize(pred), media_type="application/json")
+        serialized_response_body = ContentType.get_serializer(accept).serialize(pred, accept)
+        return Response(serialized_response_body, media_type=accept)
     except Exception as e:
         logger.error(e)
         return Response(Jsoner.serialize({"error": str(e)}), status_code=400, media_type="application/json")
@@ -98,22 +104,3 @@ async def predict(request):
     ],
     on_startup=[some_startup_task],
 )
-
-
-# for pegasus it was async
-# 1.2rps at 20 with 17s latency
-# 1rps at 1 user with 930ms latency
-
-# for pegasus it was sync
-# 1.2rps at 20 with 17s latency
-# 1rps at 1 user with 980ms latency
-# health is blocking with 17s latency
-
-
-# for tiny it was async
-# 107.7rps at 500 with 4.7s latency
-# 8.5rps at 1 user with 120ms latency
-
-# for tiny it was sync
-# 109rps at 500 with 4.6s latency
-# 8.5rps at 1 user with 120ms latency
diff --git a/starlette_requirements.txt b/starlette_requirements.txt
index e07d24d8..6139a106 100644
--- a/starlette_requirements.txt
+++ b/starlette_requirements.txt
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ orjson
 starlette
 uvicorn
 pandas
-huggingface_hub>=0.9.0
\ No newline at end of file
+huggingface_hub>=0.11.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/integ/config.py b/tests/integ/config.py
index d427fc1f..467afde2 100644
--- a/tests/integ/config.py
+++ b/tests/integ/config.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
     validate_summarization,
     validate_text2text_generation,
     validate_text_generation,
+    validate_text_to_image,
     validate_translation,
     validate_zero_shot_classification,
 )
@@ -101,6 +102,10 @@
         "pytorch": "cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2",
         "tensorflow": None,
     },
+    "text-to-image": {
+        "pytorch": "hf-internal-testing/tiny-stable-diffusion-torch",
+        "tensorflow": None,
+    },
 }
 
 
@@ -156,6 +161,7 @@
     },
     "sentence-embeddings": {"inputs": "Lets create an embedding"},
     "sentence-ranking": {"inputs": ["Lets create an embedding", "Lets create an embedding"]},
+    "text-to-image": {"inputs": "a man on a horse jumps over a broken down airplane."},
 }
 
 task2output = {
@@ -204,6 +210,7 @@
     "sentence-similarity": {"similarities": ""},
     "sentence-embeddings": {"embeddings": ""},
     "sentence-ranking": {"scores": ""},
+    "text-to-image": bytes,
 }
 
 
@@ -229,4 +236,5 @@
     "sentence-similarity": validate_zero_shot_classification,
     "sentence-embeddings": validate_zero_shot_classification,
     "sentence-ranking": validate_zero_shot_classification,
+    "text-to-image": validate_text_to_image,
 }
diff --git a/tests/integ/test_container.py b/tests/integ/test_container.py
index fe30952f..6c343c6a 100644
--- a/tests/integ/test_container.py
+++ b/tests/integ/test_container.py
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ def verify_task(container: DockerClient, task: str, port: int = 5000, framework:
         prediction = requests.post(
             f"{BASE_URL}", data=task2input[task], headers={"content-type": "audio/x-audio"}
         ).json()
+    elif task == "text-to-image":
+        prediction = requests.post(f"{BASE_URL}", json=input, headers={"accept": "image/png"}).content
     else:
         prediction = requests.post(f"{BASE_URL}", json=input).json()
     assert task2validation[task](result=prediction, snapshot=task2output[task]) is True
@@ -90,6 +92,8 @@ def verify_task(container: DockerClient, task: str, port: int = 5000, framework:
         "sentence-similarity",
         "sentence-embeddings",
         "sentence-ranking",
+        # diffusers
+        "text-to-image",
     ],
 )
 def test_pt_container_remote_model(task) -> None:
@@ -111,6 +115,7 @@ def test_pt_container_remote_model(task) -> None:
         device_requests=device_request,
     )
     # time.sleep(5)
+
     verify_task(container, task, port)
     container.stop()
     container.remove()
@@ -143,6 +148,8 @@ def test_pt_container_remote_model(task) -> None:
         "sentence-similarity",
         "sentence-embeddings",
         "sentence-ranking",
+        # diffusers
+        "text-to-image",
     ],
 )
 def test_pt_container_local_model(task) -> None:
diff --git a/tests/integ/utils.py b/tests/integ/utils.py
index 80c71ccf..813ba751 100644
--- a/tests/integ/utils.py
+++ b/tests/integ/utils.py
@@ -79,3 +79,8 @@ def validate_automatic_speech_recognition(result=None, snapshot=None):
 def validate_object_detection(result=None, snapshot=None):
     assert result[0].keys() == snapshot[0].keys()
     return True
+
+
+def validate_text_to_image(result=None, snapshot=None):
+    assert isinstance(result, snapshot)
+    return True
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_diffusers.py b/tests/unit/test_diffusers.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f0de073b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/test_diffusers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+import os
+import tempfile
+from PIL import Image
+from transformers.testing_utils import require_torch, slow
+
+from huggingface_inference_toolkit.handler import get_inference_handler_either_custom_or_default_handler
+from huggingface_inference_toolkit.diffusers_utils import get_diffusers_pipeline, DiffusersPipelineImageToText
+from huggingface_inference_toolkit.utils import _load_repository_from_hf, get_pipeline
+
+
+@require_torch
+def test_get_diffusers_pipeline():
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdirname:
+        storage_dir = _load_repository_from_hf(
+            "hf-internal-testing/tiny-stable-diffusion-torch", tmpdirname, framework="pytorch"
+        )
+        pipe = get_pipeline("text-to-image", storage_dir.as_posix())
+        assert isinstance(pipe, DiffusersPipelineImageToText)
+
+
+@slow
+@require_torch
+def test_pipe_on_gpu():
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdirname:
+        storage_dir = _load_repository_from_hf(
+            "hf-internal-testing/tiny-stable-diffusion-torch", tmpdirname, framework="pytorch"
+        )
+        pipe = get_pipeline("text-to-image", storage_dir.as_posix())
+        assert pipe.device.type == "cuda"
+
+
+@require_torch
+def test_text_to_image_task():
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdirname:
+        storage_dir = _load_repository_from_hf(
+            "hf-internal-testing/tiny-stable-diffusion-torch", tmpdirname, framework="pytorch"
+        )
+        pipe = get_pipeline("text-to-image", storage_dir.as_posix())
+        res = pipe("Lets create an embedding")
+        assert isinstance(res, Image.Image)
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_serializer.py b/tests/unit/test_serializer.py
index 5c9b9886..98e528e5 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_serializer.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_serializer.py
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ def test_json_image_serialization():
     Jsoner.serialize(t)
 
 
+def test_image_serialization():
+    image = Image.new("RGB", (60, 30), color="red")
+    Imager.serialize(image, accept="image/png")
+
+
 def test_json_deserialization():
     raw_content = b'{\n\t"inputs": "i like you"\n}'
     assert {"inputs": "i like you"} == Jsoner.deserialize(raw_content)