Strongest fit
Who it is built for
- Engineering teams building production AI agents
- Teams that need dedicated GPU inference capacity
- Organizations with on-premise or VPC deployment requirements
FriendliAI
Inference infrastructure for open-weight and custom models
FriendliAI provides API and infrastructure options for running open-weight and custom models in production. Developers can use pay-as-you-go Model APIs, deploy dedicated GPU endpoints for predictable capacity, or run its containerized offering in their own environment for greater deployment control.
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- Best for
- Engineering teams building production AI agents
- Pricing signal
- USD 0.0015 / audio minute
- Primary category
- Developer tools
- Last verified
- Jul 30, 2026
The decision
Should FriendliAI make your shortlist?
Start with the job, the team, and the constraints. Product fit becomes much clearer when those three line up.
Practical use cases
Jobs it can take on
- Call open-weight models through OpenAI-compatible chat-completion APIs
- Deploy a custom or Hugging Face model on a dedicated endpoint
- Run containerized inference in a Kubernetes environment
Before you choose
Know the tradeoffs
- Dedicated Endpoints are billed by active GPU time, with on-demand prices starting at USD 2.90 per hour for an A100 80GB GPU.
- Container pricing requires contacting FriendliAI.
- Enterprise capabilities are enabled through a custom contract rather than a fixed plan.
Inside the product
What you can actually do with it.
The core product capabilities, grouped around the work they enable.
Model APIs
Serverless Model APIs provide pay-as-you-go access to frontier open-weight models through OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic Messages-style interfaces.
Dedicated Endpoints
Dedicated Endpoints provide GPU-backed inference with autoscaling, observability, and support for custom and open-source models.
Container deployment
Friendli Container is a Kubernetes-native option for teams that need to run inference with data-protection and governance controls in their own environment.
Typical workflow
Sign up for FriendliAI, generate a personal API key, and select an available model. Send inference requests through the API or use the Suite to deploy a dedicated endpoint. Teams with stricter deployment requirements can discuss container or enterprise options with FriendliAI.
Plans and official links
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See plans- Provider
- FriendliAI Corp.
- Based in
- US
- Founded
- 2021
Official destinations
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