diff --git a/fastapi_startkit/src/fastapi_startkit/inertia/inertia.py b/fastapi_startkit/src/fastapi_startkit/inertia/inertia.py
index 0c97ef1e..a49e88d5 100644
--- a/fastapi_startkit/src/fastapi_startkit/inertia/inertia.py
+++ b/fastapi_startkit/src/fastapi_startkit/inertia/inertia.py
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 import inspect
+import asyncio
+import json
+import urllib.request
 from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Union
 from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
@@ -19,6 +22,8 @@ def __init__(self):
         self.root_view: str = "index.html"
         self.shared_props: dict = {}
         self.version = None
+        self.ssr_url: Optional[str] = None
+        self.ssr_timeout: float = 1.0
 
     def set_root_view(self, view: str):
         self.root_view = view
@@ -36,6 +41,11 @@ def get_version(self) -> Optional[str]:
         v = self.version() if callable(self.version) else self.version
         return str(v) if v is not None else None
 
+    def set_ssr(self, url: Optional[str], timeout: float = 1.0):
+        """Configure the Inertia SSR server endpoint. Pass None to disable SSR."""
+        self.ssr_url = url.rstrip("/") if url else None
+        self.ssr_timeout = timeout
+
     def render(self, component: str, props: dict) -> "InertiaResponse":
         return InertiaResponse(
             component=component,
@@ -43,6 +53,8 @@ def render(self, component: str, props: dict) -> "InertiaResponse":
             props=props,
             root_view=self.root_view,
             version=self.get_version() or "",
+            ssr_url=self.ssr_url,
+            ssr_timeout=self.ssr_timeout,
         )
 
 
@@ -54,6 +66,8 @@ def __init__(
         props: dict,
         root_view: str = "index.html",
         version: str = "",
+        ssr_url: Optional[str] = None,
+        ssr_timeout: float = 1.0,
     ):
         # Do not call supper().__init__() — body is built lazily in __call__
         self.background = None  # required by FastAPI's response handling
@@ -62,6 +76,8 @@ def __init__(
         self.props = props
         self.root_view = root_view
         self.version = version
+        self.ssr_url = ssr_url
+        self.ssr_timeout = ssr_timeout
 
     def with_(self, key: Union[str, Dict[str, Any]], value: Any = None) -> "InertiaResponse":
         if isinstance(key, dict):
@@ -114,6 +130,13 @@ async def to_response(self, request: Request):
             "version": self.version,
         }
 
+        # SSR is used only for the initial HTML response. Inertia XHR requests
+        # continue returning the regular page JSON and never contact Node.
+        if not request.headers.get(Header.INERTIA) and self.ssr_url:
+            rendered = await self._render_ssr(page)
+            if rendered:
+                page["ssr"] = rendered
+
         if request.headers.get(Header.INERTIA):
             return JSONResponse(
                 content=page,
@@ -135,6 +158,33 @@ async def to_response(self, request: Request):
             )
         )
 
+    async def _render_ssr(self, page: dict) -> Optional[dict]:
+        """Ask the configured Inertia Node server to render this page."""
+        ssr_url = self.ssr_url
+        if ssr_url is None:
+            return None
+
+        def request_ssr():
+            body = json.dumps(page).encode("utf-8")
+            req = urllib.request.Request(
+                ssr_url.rstrip("/") + "/render",
+                data=body,
+                headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
+                method="POST",
+            )
+            with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=self.ssr_timeout) as response:
+                result = json.loads(response.read().decode("utf-8"))
+            if not isinstance(result, dict) or not isinstance(result.get("body"), str):
+                raise ValueError("Invalid Inertia SSR response")
+            return {"body": result["body"], "head": result.get("head", [])}
+
+        try:
+            return await asyncio.to_thread(request_ssr)
+        except Exception:
+            # SSR is an enhancement: if its process is unavailable, send the
+            # normal page shell so the client can still hydrate it.
+            return None
+
     def _get_url(self, request: Request) -> str:
         parsed = urlparse(str(request.url))
         url = parsed.path
@@ -174,6 +224,11 @@ def share(key: Union[str, Dict[str, Any]], value: Any = None):
     def version(version):
         Inertia.instance().set_version(version)
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def ssr(url: Optional[str] = "http://127.0.0.1:13714", timeout: float = 1.0):
+        """Enable SSR through the standard Inertia SSR server endpoint."""
+        Inertia.instance().set_ssr(url, timeout)
+
     @staticmethod
     def get_version() -> Optional[str]:
         return Inertia.instance().get_version()
diff --git a/fastapi_startkit/src/fastapi_startkit/inertia/provider.py b/fastapi_startkit/src/fastapi_startkit/inertia/provider.py
index 92c090a8..0894b592 100644
--- a/fastapi_startkit/src/fastapi_startkit/inertia/provider.py
+++ b/fastapi_startkit/src/fastapi_startkit/inertia/provider.py
@@ -18,10 +18,19 @@ def boot(self) -> None:
             templates = self.app.make("templates")
 
             def inertia_helper(page):
-                encoded_page = json.dumps(page)
+                client_page = {key: value for key, value in page.items() if key != "ssr"}
+                encoded_page = json.dumps(client_page).replace("<", "\\u003c")
+                ssr_body = page.get("ssr", {}).get("body", "")
                 return Markup(
-                    f'<script data-page="app" type="application/json">{encoded_page}</script><div id="app"></div>'
+                    f'<script data-page="app" type="application/json">{encoded_page}</script><div id="app">{ssr_body}</div>'
                 )
 
+            def inertia_head(page):
+                head = page.get("ssr", {}).get("head", [])
+                if isinstance(head, str):
+                    head = [head]
+                return Markup("".join(str(item) for item in head))
+
             templates.env.globals["inertia"] = inertia_helper
+            templates.env.globals["inertia_head"] = inertia_head
             templates.env.globals["Inertia"] = self.app.make("inertia")
diff --git a/fastapi_startkit/tests/inertia/test_inertia.py b/fastapi_startkit/tests/inertia/test_inertia.py
index f6a9dced..e6c0e85d 100644
--- a/fastapi_startkit/tests/inertia/test_inertia.py
+++ b/fastapi_startkit/tests/inertia/test_inertia.py
@@ -38,6 +38,17 @@ def test_factory_render_returns_response(self):
         self.assertEqual(response.props, {"count": 10})
         self.assertEqual(response.shared_props, {"auth": {"user": None}})
 
+    def test_factory_ssr_configuration_is_forwarded_to_response(self):
+        factory = ResponseFactory()
+        factory.set_ssr("http://localhost:13714/", timeout=2.5)
+
+        response = factory.render("Dashboard", {})
+
+        self.assertEqual(factory.ssr_url, "http://localhost:13714")
+        self.assertEqual(factory.ssr_timeout, 2.5)
+        self.assertEqual(response.ssr_url, "http://localhost:13714")
+        self.assertEqual(response.ssr_timeout, 2.5)
+
     def test_facade_singleton(self):
         instance1 = Inertia.instance()
         instance2 = Inertia.instance()
@@ -52,3 +63,9 @@ def test_facade_proxies_to_instance(self):
 
         Inertia.set_root_view("app.html")
         self.assertEqual(Inertia.instance().root_view, "app.html")
+
+    def test_facade_ssr_configures_instance(self):
+        Inertia.ssr("http://localhost:13714/", timeout=3.0)
+
+        self.assertEqual(Inertia.instance().ssr_url, "http://localhost:13714")
+        self.assertEqual(Inertia.instance().ssr_timeout, 3.0)
diff --git a/fastapi_startkit/tests/inertia/test_inertia_response.py b/fastapi_startkit/tests/inertia/test_inertia_response.py
index 96015e3e..27214a5f 100644
--- a/fastapi_startkit/tests/inertia/test_inertia_response.py
+++ b/fastapi_startkit/tests/inertia/test_inertia_response.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import json
 import unittest
-from unittest.mock import MagicMock
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
 from fastapi import Request
 from fastapi_startkit.inertia.inertia import InertiaResponse, OptionalProp
 from fastapi_startkit.inertia.constant import Header
@@ -111,3 +111,60 @@ async def test_inertia_response_initial_render_raises_if_no_templates(self):
         # This should fail because we haven't mocked the application container
         with self.assertRaisesRegex(RuntimeError, "Inertia requires 'templates' to be bound"):
             await response.to_response(self.mock_request)
+
+    async def test_ssr_posts_page_to_standard_render_endpoint(self):
+        response = InertiaResponse("Dashboard", {}, {}, ssr_url="http://127.0.0.1:13714/")
+        page = {"component": "Dashboard", "url": "/", "props": {}}
+        http_response = MagicMock()
+        http_response.__enter__.return_value.read.return_value = (
+            b'{"head":["<title>Home</title>"],"body":"<main>SSR</main>"}'
+        )
+
+        with patch("fastapi_startkit.inertia.inertia.urllib.request.urlopen", return_value=http_response) as urlopen:
+            rendered = await response._render_ssr(page)
+
+        request = urlopen.call_args.args[0]
+        self.assertEqual(request.full_url, "http://127.0.0.1:13714/render")
+        self.assertEqual(json.loads(request.data), page)
+        self.assertEqual(rendered, {"head": ["<title>Home</title>"], "body": "<main>SSR</main>"})
+
+    async def test_ssr_failure_falls_back_to_client_rendering(self):
+        response = InertiaResponse("Dashboard", {}, {}, ssr_url="http://127.0.0.1:13714")
+        with patch("fastapi_startkit.inertia.inertia.urllib.request.urlopen", side_effect=OSError):
+            self.assertIsNone(await response._render_ssr({"url": "/", "component": "Dashboard"}))
+
+    async def test_ssr_without_url_returns_none(self):
+        response = InertiaResponse("Dashboard", {}, {})
+
+        self.assertIsNone(await response._render_ssr({"url": "/", "component": "Dashboard"}))
+
+    async def test_ssr_rejects_response_without_string_body(self):
+        response = InertiaResponse("Dashboard", {}, {}, ssr_url="http://127.0.0.1:13714")
+        http_response = MagicMock()
+        http_response.__enter__.return_value.read.return_value = b'{"body": null}'
+
+        with patch("fastapi_startkit.inertia.inertia.urllib.request.urlopen", return_value=http_response):
+            self.assertIsNone(await response._render_ssr({"url": "/", "component": "Dashboard"}))
+
+    async def test_initial_response_includes_successful_ssr_render(self):
+        response = InertiaResponse("Dashboard", {}, {}, ssr_url="http://127.0.0.1:13714")
+        http_response = MagicMock()
+        http_response.__enter__.return_value.read.return_value = (
+            b'{"head":["<title>Home</title>"],"body":"<main>SSR</main>"}'
+        )
+        templates = MagicMock()
+        expected_response = MagicMock()
+        templates.TemplateResponse.return_value = expected_response
+
+        with (
+            patch("fastapi_startkit.inertia.inertia.urllib.request.urlopen", return_value=http_response),
+            patch("fastapi_startkit.application.app") as container,
+        ):
+            container.return_value.has.return_value = True
+            container.return_value.make.return_value = templates
+
+            actual_response = await response.to_response(self.mock_request)
+
+        self.assertIs(actual_response, expected_response)
+        page = templates.TemplateResponse.call_args.args[2]["page"]
+        self.assertEqual(page["ssr"], {"head": ["<title>Home</title>"], "body": "<main>SSR</main>"})
diff --git a/fastapi_startkit/tests/inertia/test_provider.py b/fastapi_startkit/tests/inertia/test_provider.py
index aa1cb92a..8d9240d3 100644
--- a/fastapi_startkit/tests/inertia/test_provider.py
+++ b/fastapi_startkit/tests/inertia/test_provider.py
@@ -56,3 +56,50 @@ def test_inertia_helper_renders_page_markup(self):
         assert json.dumps(page) in html
         assert 'data-page="app"' in html
         assert 'id="app"' in html
+
+    def test_inertia_helper_renders_ssr_body(self):
+        templates = make_templates()
+        app = MagicMock()
+        app.has.return_value = True
+        app.make.side_effect = lambda key: {"templates": templates, "inertia": "INERTIA"}[key]
+
+        InertiaProvider(app).boot()
+        helper = templates.env.globals["inertia"]
+
+        html = str(helper({"component": "Dashboard", "props": {}, "ssr": {"body": "<main>SSR</main>"}}))
+
+        assert '<div id="app"><main>SSR</main></div>' in html
+
+    def test_inertia_head_renders_ssr_head_entries(self):
+        templates = make_templates()
+        app = MagicMock()
+        app.has.return_value = True
+        app.make.side_effect = lambda key: {"templates": templates, "inertia": "INERTIA"}[key]
+
+        InertiaProvider(app).boot()
+        helper = templates.env.globals["inertia_head"]
+
+        head = helper({"ssr": {"head": ["<title>Dashboard</title>", '<meta name="description" content="Home">']}})
+
+        assert str(head) == '<title>Dashboard</title><meta name="description" content="Home">'
+        assert str(helper({"ssr": {"head": "<title>Single entry</title>"}})) == "<title>Single entry</title>"
+
+    def test_inertia_helper_omits_ssr_data_from_client_page_json(self):
+        templates = make_templates()
+        app = MagicMock()
+        app.has.return_value = True
+        app.make.side_effect = lambda key: {"templates": templates, "inertia": "INERTIA"}[key]
+
+        InertiaProvider(app).boot()
+        helper = templates.env.globals["inertia"]
+
+        page = {
+            "component": "Dashboard",
+            "props": {"count": 3, "content": "<script>"},
+            "ssr": {"head": ["<title>Dashboard</title>"], "body": "<main>SSR</main>"},
+        }
+        html = str(helper(page))
+        client_json = html.split(">", 1)[1].split("</script>", 1)[0]
+
+        assert json.loads(client_json) == {"component": "Dashboard", "props": {"count": 3, "content": "<script>"}}
+        assert "\\u003cscript>" in client_json
diff --git a/packages/fastapi-vite-plugin/src/index.ts b/packages/fastapi-vite-plugin/src/index.ts
index 7e62c7bb..d7e7d2df 100644
--- a/packages/fastapi-vite-plugin/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/fastapi-vite-plugin/src/index.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ interface PluginConfig {
     publicDirectory?: string,
     buildDirectory?: string,
     hotFile?: string,
+    /** Entry point passed to `vite build --ssr`. Defaults to the client input. */
     ssr?: Rolldown.InputOption,
+    /** Output directory for the SSR bundle, relative to the project root. */
     ssrOutputDirectory?: string,
     refresh?: boolean | string | string[] | RefreshConfig | RefreshConfig[],
     transformOnServe?: (code: string, url: DevServerUrl) => string,