FriendliAI

FriendliAI is an AI inference cloud that runs generative AI models fast, affordably, and reliably at scale. Its Friendli Suite spans three products: Model APIs (serverless, pay-per-token access to popular open-weight LLMs and multimodal models), Dedicated Endpoints (any open-source or custom model on dedicated GPUs with autoscaling, versioning, multi-LoRA and speculative decoding), and Friendli Container (self-hosted inference with gRPC, quantization and policy search). The API is OpenAI-compatible, so existing OpenAI applications migrate by changing the base URL and API key, with support for chat completions, tool calling, structured outputs, reasoning, audio transcription, embeddings and image generation. FriendliAI is a portfolio company of Sierra Ventures.

FriendliAI publishes 33 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Container.Audio API, Container.Chat API, Container.Classification API, and 30 more. Tagged areas include Company, Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and LLM.

FriendliAI’s developer surface includes authentication, CLI, changelog, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, and 28 more developer resources.

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5

AccessSelf serve

33 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyInfrastructureArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningLLMInferenceGenerative AIGPUOpenAI Compatible

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Composite quality — 59.1/100 · developing

Contract Quality 15.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 17.4 / 20

Commercial Clarity 10.5 / 20

Operational Transparency 5.8 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 10.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 72/100 · agent native

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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APIs 33

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

friendliai-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

Arazzo

Arazzo

Scroll for all 7

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

CLI

CLI

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

ChangeLog

StatusPage

Deprecation

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Playground

Playground

Source (apis.yml)

aid: friendliai
name: FriendliAI
description: 'FriendliAI is an AI inference cloud that runs generative AI models fast, affordably, and reliably at scale.
  Its Friendli Suite spans three products: Model APIs (serverless, pay-per-token access to popular open-weight LLMs and multimodal
  models), Dedicated Endpoints (any open-source or custom model on dedicated GPUs with autoscaling, versioning, multi-LoRA
  and speculative decoding), and Friendli Container (self-hosted inference with gRPC, quantization and policy search). The
  API is OpenAI-compatible, so existing OpenAI applications migrate by changing the base URL and API key, with support for
  chat completions, tool calling, structured outputs, reasoning, audio transcription, embeddings and image generation. FriendliAI
  is a portfolio company of Sierra Ventures.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/friendliai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- sierra-ventures
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enriched-2026-07-19
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
image: https://friendli.ai/opengraph-image.png
tags:
- Company
- Infrastructure
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- LLM
- Inference
- Generative AI
- GPU
- OpenAI Compatible
apis:
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-container-audio-api
  name: FriendliAI Container.Audio API
  description: The Container.Audio API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for container.audio.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Container.Audio
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-container-audio-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-container-chat-api
  name: FriendliAI Container.Chat API
  description: The Container.Chat API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for container.chat.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Container.Chat
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-container-chat-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-container-classification-api
  name: FriendliAI Container.Classification API
  description: The Container.Classification API from FriendliAI — 1 operation(s) for container.classification.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Container.Classification
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-container-classification-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-container-completions-api
  name: FriendliAI Container.Completions API
  description: The Container.Completions API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for container.completions.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Container.Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-container-completions-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-container-image-api
  name: FriendliAI Container.Image API
  description: The Container.Image API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for container.image.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Container.Image
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-container-image-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-container-messages-api
  name: FriendliAI Container.Messages API
  description: The Container.Messages API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for container.messages.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Container.Messages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-container-messages-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-container-responses-api
  name: FriendliAI Container.Responses API
  description: The Container.Responses API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for container.responses.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Container.Responses
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-container-responses-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-container-token-api
  name: FriendliAI Container.Token API
  description: The Container.Token API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for container.token.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Container.Token
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-container-token-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-cost-api
  name: FriendliAI Cost API
  description: The Cost API from FriendliAI — 1 operation(s) for cost.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Cost
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-cost-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-dataset-api
  name: FriendliAI Dataset API
  description: The Dataset API from FriendliAI — 8 operation(s) for dataset.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Dataset
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-dataset-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-dedicated-audio-api
  name: FriendliAI Dedicated.Audio API
  description: The Dedicated.Audio API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for dedicated.audio.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Dedicated.Audio
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-dedicated-audio-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-dedicated-chat-api
  name: FriendliAI Dedicated.Chat API
  description: The Dedicated.Chat API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for dedicated.chat.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Dedicated.Chat
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-dedicated-chat-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-dedicated-chatrender-api
  name: FriendliAI Dedicated.ChatRender API
  description: The Dedicated.ChatRender API from FriendliAI — 1 operation(s) for dedicated.chatrender.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Dedicated.ChatRender
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-dedicated-chatrender-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-dedicated-classification-api
  name: FriendliAI Dedicated.Classification API
  description: The Dedicated.Classification API from FriendliAI — 1 operation(s) for dedicated.classification.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Dedicated.Classification
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-dedicated-classification-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-dedicated-completions-api
  name: FriendliAI Dedicated.Completions API
  description: The Dedicated.Completions API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for dedicated.completions.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Dedicated.Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-dedicated-completions-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-dedicated-embeddings-api
  name: FriendliAI Dedicated.Embeddings API
  description: The Dedicated.Embeddings API from FriendliAI — 1 operation(s) for dedicated.embeddings.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Dedicated.Embeddings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-dedicated-embeddings-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-dedicated-endpoint-api
  name: FriendliAI Dedicated.Endpoint API
  description: The Dedicated.Endpoint API from FriendliAI — 9 operation(s) for dedicated.endpoint.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Dedicated.Endpoint
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-dedicated-endpoint-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-dedicated-image-api
  name: FriendliAI Dedicated.Image API
  description: The Dedicated.Image API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for dedicated.image.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Dedicated.Image
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-dedicated-image-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-dedicated-messages-api
  name: FriendliAI Dedicated.Messages API
  description: The Dedicated.Messages API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for dedicated.messages.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Dedicated.Messages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-dedicated-messages-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-dedicated-responses-api
  name: FriendliAI Dedicated.Responses API
  description: The Dedicated.Responses API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for dedicated.responses.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Dedicated.Responses
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-dedicated-responses-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-dedicated-token-api
  name: FriendliAI Dedicated.Token API
  description: The Dedicated.Token API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for dedicated.token.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Dedicated.Token
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-dedicated-token-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-file-api
  name: FriendliAI File API
  description: The File API from FriendliAI — 3 operation(s) for file.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - File
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-file-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-serverless-audio-api
  name: FriendliAI Serverless.Audio API
  description: The Serverless.Audio API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for serverless.audio.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Serverless.Audio
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-serverless-audio-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-serverless-chat-api
  name: FriendliAI Serverless.Chat API
  description: The Serverless.Chat API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for serverless.chat.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Serverless.Chat
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-serverless-chat-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-serverless-chatrender-api
  name: FriendliAI Serverless.ChatRender API
  description: The Serverless.ChatRender API from FriendliAI — 1 operation(s) for serverless.chatrender.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Serverless.ChatRender
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-serverless-chatrender-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-serverless-completions-api
  name: FriendliAI Serverless.Completions API
  description: The Serverless.Completions API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for serverless.completions.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Serverless.Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-serverless-completions-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-serverless-knowledge-api
  name: FriendliAI Serverless.Knowledge API
  description: The Serverless.Knowledge API from FriendliAI — 1 operation(s) for serverless.knowledge.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Serverless.Knowledge
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-serverless-knowledge-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-serverless-messages-api
  name: FriendliAI Serverless.Messages API
  description: The Serverless.Messages API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for serverless.messages.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Serverless.Messages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-serverless-messages-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-serverless-model-api
  name: FriendliAI Serverless.Model API
  description: The Serverless.Model API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for serverless.model.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Serverless.Model
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-serverless-model-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-serverless-responses-api
  name: FriendliAI Serverless.Responses API
  description: The Serverless.Responses API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for serverless.responses.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Serverless.Responses
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-serverless-responses-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-serverless-token-api
  name: FriendliAI Serverless.Token API
  description: The Serverless.Token API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for serverless.token.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Serverless.Token
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-serverless-token-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-serverless-toolassistedchat-api
  name: FriendliAI Serverless.ToolAssistedChat API
  description: The Serverless.ToolAssistedChat API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for serverless.toolassistedchat.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Serverless.ToolAssistedChat
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-serverless-toolassistedchat-api-openapi.yml
- aid: friendliai:friendliai-usage-api
  name: FriendliAI Usage API
  description: The Usage API from FriendliAI — 1 operation(s) for usage.
  humanURL: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.friendli.ai
  tags:
  - Usage
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/friendliai-usage-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/friendliai-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/friendliai-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/friendliai-authentication.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/friendliai-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/friendliai-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/friendliai-cli.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/friendliai-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/friendliai-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/friendliai-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/friendliai-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/friendliai-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/friendliai-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/friendliai-data-model.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/friendliai-rate-limits.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/friendliai-changelog.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Arazzo
  name: FriendliAI chat completion
  url: arazzo/friendliai-chat-completion.yml
- type: Arazzo
  name: FriendliAI deploy a Dedicated Endpoint and infer
  url: arazzo/friendliai-deploy-and-infer.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.friendli.ai
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.friendli.ai
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://friendli.ai/docs/changelog
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://suite.friendli.ai
- type: Documentation
  url: https://friendli.ai/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://friendli.ai/docs/openapi/introduction
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://friendli.ai/docs/guides/introduction/get-started
- type: Playground
  url: https://friendli.ai/models
- type: Blog
  url: https://friendli.ai/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/friendliai
- type: Pricing
  url: https://friendli.ai/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://suite.friendli.ai
- type: Login
  url: https://friendli.ai/suite/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://friendli.ai/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://friendli.ai/privacy
- type: Support
  url: mailto:support@friendli.ai
- type: Website
  url: https://friendli.ai/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence