diff --git a/invokeai/app/invocations/generate.py b/invokeai/app/invocations/generate.py
index 88a76e930c..c9d82ae8de 100644
--- a/invokeai/app/invocations/generate.py
+++ b/invokeai/app/invocations/generate.py
@@ -181,6 +181,8 @@ class InpaintInvocation(BaseInvocation):
             device = context.services.model_manager.mgr.cache.execution_device
             dtype = context.services.model_manager.mgr.cache.precision
 
+            vae.to(dtype=unet.dtype)
+
             pipeline = StableDiffusionGeneratorPipeline(
                 vae=vae,
                 text_encoder=None,